Chambolle Musigny, Les Cras, 1er Cru [SHC], 2013

Name: Chambolle Musigny, Les Cras, 1er Cru [SHC]
Brand: Georges Roumier
Price: 1690.37 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2013

justerini & brooks tasting note

Vital, high-pitched red fruit and mineral flavours. So refined and airy, light but intense, stony and vivid. Clear-cut dark and red berry fruit, fine-boned, agile and suave. A class act. Along with Veroilles and Fuées, Cras is one of the higher Chambolle vineyards and has very poor, stony soils that producers, racy, reserved wines that blossom with age.

critic reviews

91+/100Stephen Tanzer,Vinous

Good dark red. Enticing high-pitched perfume of red berries, flowers and minerals. Juicy, spicy and sharply delineated, delivering a lovely combination of energy and ripeness to its purple fruit and mineral flavors. A distinctly vibrant wine with terrific flavor intensity if a bit less power than the Combottes. But I prefer this more mineral style of Chambolle.

DRINKING WINDOW 2021 - 2030

date of review 03/2016

91-93/100Neal Martin,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2013 Chambolle-Musigny les Cras has a very reticent, broody bouquet that does not want to come out to play. The palate is vibrant and focused with wonderful chalky tannins, citric acidity and a long, lightly spiced finish that fans out with vim and vigor. This should be very satisfying once in bottle, although I wager that it will deserve more cellaring than Roumiers other 2013s.

DRINKING WINDOW 2017 - 2036

date of review 12/2014