Lucien Le Moine Charmes Chambertin Grand Cru 2022

Lucien Le Moine Charmes Chambertin Grand Cru 2022

(The soils are treated with compost to darken them and to keep them balanced

An overtly floral and markedly earthy nose is quite restrained if exceptionally pretty with its cool array of red and blue pinot fruit scents laced with hints of leather and herbal tea

It is immediately clear that this is a bigger and more powerful wine that possesses outstanding mid-palate density and a huge reserve of dry extract that imparts a seductive mouth feel and mostly buffers the exceptionally firm tannic spine on the massively long finish

26% Merlot

all wrapped in a mouth coating finish that offers very good but not truly special length

A wonderfully spicy

sappy and punchy finish

with gobs of glycerin

showing good backbone

Massive and rich

but it is not overly drying and it is a lot more approachable than newly-released Nacionals can be

Lovely and understated