2016 Serafin Pere et Fils, Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru, Les Baudes

(production was barely half of a normal crop): Bright, dark red; these 2016s all have inviting limpid colors. Slightly reduced aromas of red berries, mocha and soil. Fleshier and more concentrated than the Morey-Saint-Denis Les Millandes, with its sweet dark fruit and spice flavors cut by musky minerality. At once silkier and more backward than the Millandes, finishing with substantial ripe tannins. With its rocky complexity, this wine reminded me of a mini-Bonnes Mares.

The 2016 Chambolle-Musigny Les Baudes 1er Cru offers both red and black fruit on the nose: wild strawberry, blackcurrant and touches of pressed iris flowers. It just needs a little more delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannin, quite bold and assertive with tarry black fruit towards the oaky finish. Hopefully it will absorb the new oak with bottle age - at the moment, this is rather unapproachable. Tasted at the Domaine.