I have been eyeing this wine for months now as it sat on our must-sample rack. We finally popped this bottle open last Friday and it was a beauty! I am not familiar with this domaine so I didn’t know what to expect. But, this wine just oozed gorgeous aromatics straight out of the bottle– deep cherry and raspberry along with red currant pie notes. An underlying earth, spice, and undergrowth suggested maturity. Medium-bodied that gained in volume and intensity from the mid-palate. Succulent and vibrant. There was persistent finish with an interesting red apple twist.
Domaine Chezeaux controls roughly 60% of the vineyards of Griotte-Chambertin. There are no winemakers in the family so all their holdings are on sharecropping agreement with Domaine Ponsot, Phillip Leclerc, and Berthaut. When it comes to the Griotte holdings, both Ponsot and Leclerc farm, make, and bottle the wines for their individual domaines as well as Domaine Chezeaux’s. Ponsot has been in charge of the original Griotte parcel since 1982 while Leclerc oversees the newer parcel acquired by the domaine just in time for the 1994 harvest. Since 2002, the winemaker has been specified on the labels of Domaine Chezeaux Griotte Chambertin.
