Lot 95
CAMILLE GIROUD CHAMBERTIN 2009 (2) WA 94
DOMAINE BRUNO CLAIR BONNES MARES 2009 (2) WA (95-97)
DOMAINE BRUNO CLAIR CHAMBERTIN-CLOS DE BÈZE 2006 (1) WA 95
Lot 95 Details
CAMILLE GIROUD CHAMBERTIN 2009 (2)
Côte de Nuits. Grand Cru Classé
The 2009 Chambertin is utterly impeccable from start to finish. Layers of fruit fill out the wine’s broad-shouldered frame, leading to a voluptuous, seamless crescendo of aromas and flavors. The 2009 possesses tons of intensity and fabulous overall balance. What a great showing. Anticipated maturity: 2019-2039. April 2012 WA 94
DOMAINE BRUNO CLAIR BONNES MARES 2009 (2)
Côte de Nuits.
2 x scuffed labels
The 2009 Bonnes Mares is a dense, powerful wine imbued with massive structure and dazzling finesse. This is one of the more imposing, inward wines of the vintage, and it will require serious patience. That notwithstanding, the wine’s balance and sense of harmony are impossible to miss. Clair’s Bonnes Mares is made from a portion of the vineyard on the Morey border, right next to Clos de Tart. The fruit was harvested on September 17, on the late side in 2009. Anticipated maturity: 2024-2039. May 2011 WA (95-97)
DOMAINE BRUNO CLAIR CHAMBERTIN-CLOS DE BÈZE 2006 (1)
Côte de Nuits. Grand Cru Classé
scuffed label
Smoky black tea, rose petals, dark berries, and licorice waft seductively (and site-typically) from the glass of Clair 2006 Chambertin Clos De Beze. Seamlessly-rich and refined in tannins, this offers a gorgeous layering of flavors anchored in clean meatiness and suggestions of stoniness and crystalline minerality that carry no sense of austerity. While missing the remarkable dynamic of the Clos St.-Jacques, in its own way this supremely elegant, intriguingly-nuanced, and memorably persistent Pinot is a model for the vintage and of its great site's potential year in, year out. WA 95