Chambolle Musigny, Les Charmes, 1er Cru, 2022

Bottled as a standalone wine for the first time in 2019 after Bruno first acquired a small plot in 2018. Having seen a full vintage under the Clair regime Charmes is now deemed ready to release as a single vineyard wine. And, wow, what a debut! So refined and classy on the nose, the 2019 mixes elegant, lacy ripe fruit with finely pitched sweet floral perfumes. Ripe red plum and apple skin combines with black raspberry and a leafy, herbal note making it an enticing wine to taste. On the palate, a little oak spice and toast is still to be subsumed but the graceful, sweet tannins and measure of the fruit with its smooth velvety texture, well-integrated alcohol and salty finish signals a great future for this new cuvee. A south easterly, stony vineyard in the heart of the Chambolle appellation.