Georges Roumier

Chambolle Musigny, Les Cras, 1er Cru, 2023

Name: Chambolle Musigny, Les Cras, 1er Cru
Brand: Georges Roumier

92-95/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

95-97/100

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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.

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Critic Reviews

92-95/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2023 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Cras wafts from the glass with a rich bouquet of wild berries, violets, exotic spices and baking chocolate. Medium to full-bodied, suave and layered, it's ripe but balanced, with sweet structuring tannins and a mineral finish.

date of review 01/2025

95-97/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2023 Chambolle-Musigny Les Cras 1er Cru has a mineral-laden bouquet that suffuses its effervescent black fruit. There is plenty of energy here. The palate is very harmonious on the entry, a little crunchy in texture and more saline than the Les Combottes with a long, slightly peppery finish courtesy of the 70% whole bunch. Excellent.

drinking window 2028 - 2052

date of review 01/2025

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