2015 Domaine Hudelot-Baillet, Chambolle-Musigny, Vieilles Vignes

The 2015 Chambolle-Musigny Vieilles Vignes offers a slightly more complex fruit profile over the regular Chambolle, black and red mixed together, blackberry, raspberry coulis, hints of marmalade and orange rind. There's more going on here and the aromatics are more involving. The palate is medium-bodied with a sorbet-fresh opening, lively and tensile with vivid red cherries and blackberry towards the energetic finish. This year, there would seem to be quite a gap between the older and younger vines. This is excellent.

(13.2% alcohol, with a pH of 3.45; winemaker Dominique Le Guen did not chaptalize in 2015): Full red-ruby. Dark fruits, spices and dark chocolate on the nose; not particularly exotic following the 2016s at this address. Very rich, broad and deep, displaying a chocolatey ripeness. Big, slightly drying tannins build with air. A big boy with a slight rusticity.

Rich and lively with excellent drive and structure. Just a little stolid on the end but pretty good and nicely edgy. (JR)