2023 Joseph Drouhin, Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru, Les Amoureuses

The 2023 Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses 1er Cru is a more tightly wound Les Petit-Monts, but it unfolds with touches of dark berry fruit, cola and wilted rose petal, with more blue fruit surfacing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent ripe tannins. Some wood tannins are evident but will be subsumed with time. This is a Les Amoureuses that will require time, with light peppery notes toward the rounded, quite persistent finish.

The 2023 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Amoureuses is terrific, wafting from the glass with aromas of raspberries and cherries mingled with rose petals and blood orange. Medium to full-bodied, with a deep, cool core of fruit, suave tannins and a long, perfumed finish, this is well worth seeking out.

Cask sample. Real sweetness on the nose and front – flowers and nougat and Turkish delight, dried rose petals and hibiscus. A jigsaw puzzle of flavours and soft yet emphatic, curl-curve-cut tannins. This has real glow. Persistent glow and sweetness hazing into ethereal, fine-haze bitterness. Lovely stemmy savouriness and herb stems woven into the tannins. The weave of tannins is superb. A beauty. Lift and soar on the finish. (TC)