Chambertin Clos de Bèze, Grand Cru, 2023
This has a very sophisticated attack, fine seamless fruit that is both reserved and intense, with a very gently handled power, a sense of poise and symmetry that is impeccable. I love the briary hedgerow fruit that’s so savoury and so masculine yet also so finely structured below. There’s more in reserve here than with any of the previous wines. Burgundian nobility in a bottle. Patience, patience. From a 110-year-old parcel of vines that spans the entire slope from east to west. Being a small cuvée, it is aged exclusively in new wooden barrels.
critic reviews
The 2023 Chambertin Clos-de-Beze Grand Cru is the richest, fullest wine in the cellar, offering up aromas of dark berries, orange zest, exotic spices and petals, followed by a full-bodied, ample and fleshy palate framed by sweet, powdery tannins that assert themselves on the chalky finish. Groffier is now bottling the upper part of his Clos de Beze, located on a geological fault and less ripe in style, as a tiny cuvee of Chambertin.