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Mazoyeres Chambertin 2006
Dugat-Py
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- GBP Price: £2200.00 per Case
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- Size: Bottle (75cl)
- Quantities:0 Case - 6 Bottles
- Units: 6
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| Wine Advocate | Wine Spectator | Burghound | Jancis Robinson.com | International Wine Cellar |
| 94 | - | 95 | - | 92 - 94 |
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The Dugat-Py 2006 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Mazoyeres-Chambertin displays resinous and high-toned herbal concentrate notes that tend to signal one's approach to Morey-St.-Denis. (These vines are younger than those neighboring and incorporated into Dugat's Charmes.) Concentrated, lightly-cooked plum and blackberry mingle with Szechuan pepper, sassafras, peat, and licorice on a sappy, pungent, firmly tannic palate. Where around 75% of the fruit was destemmed for the Charmes, here only half was, and that probably helps enhance the pungency this fruit exhibits, as well as perhaps the overall level of tannin. This is going to want 4-5 years in bottle before it makes sense to revisit, by I would expect at least 6-8 years of impressive performance thereafter. As usual, Bernard Dugat prided himself on having been able to harvest ahead of the ban de vendange thanks to the intensity of his vineyard labors and to yields of around 25 hectoliters per hectare. (He also credits the accumulated effects of three years on a biodynamic regimen.) Potential alcohol was for the most part in the high 12s, and only a handful of cuvees were lightly chaptalized, Dugat reports. As usual, too, he employed significant percentages of whole clusters and stems in most wines. For further details on Bernard Dugat's approach, see my report in issue 170. Perhaps it hardly requires noting, but the prices of these wines continue to rise relentlessly, sadly but perhaps inevitably putting them out of the reach of most Burgundy lovers. And unfortunately, I did not get an opportunity to taste the two red appellation Bourgogne bottlings of this estate. Score: 94 David Schildknecht, Wine Advocate Maturity: 2013-2021 |
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Deeply colored. A completely different expression compared to the Charmes as here the nose is very gamy with notes of underbrush, leather, spice, smoke and dark berry fruit that is in keeping with the intensely earthy, textured, pure and serious sleekly muscled flavors that are powerful and more obviously structured if also slightly rustic and animale in character while finishing with moderate austerity. This offers a distinctly different personality and trades the greater refinement of the Charmes for more size and weight. A qualitative choice of two wines with very different personalities. Score: 95 Allen Meadows, Burghound Maturity: 2021+ |
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Medium red-ruby. Distinctly minerally and soil-driven on the nose, with notes of blackberry, licorice, crushed rock, game, pepper and licorice. Penetrating and tactile but weightless, with enticing sweetness and an impression of strong dry extract. In fact, this features a high percentage of tiny millerande grapes. At once round and bracing, and a wonderful expression of rocky minerality. Score: 92 - 94 Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar |
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