This is a wonderful wine, very ripe, the blackberry and sweet fruits all here, While the tannins are solid and concentrated, they are in the center of a lush, beautifully rich series of flavors that range from fruit to licorice to spice. The wine shows great aging potential.
— R.V.
(12/31/2010)
There is a fine balance on the nose between modern new wood aromas and pure raspberry fruits. On the palate, the wood is sweet and is nicely balanced with a helpling of chunky fruits and some elegant ripe flavors. Lovely acidity comes through toward the finish. This is a fine wine, both concentrated and yet elegant.
— R.V.
(11/1/2002)
With its fine tannic structure, plum juice sweetness and beautifully ripe fruits, this is a wine that combines structure with a rich velvet coat. The acidity gives a fine lift, bringing out strawberries and a final piercing freshness.
— R.V.
(12/31/2010)
Very firm, very straight—the severe side of Chambolle-Musigny. The tannins are dense, giving a wine that has a solid fruit structure, coffee and licorice flavors, very dark in character, concentrated.
— R.V.
(12/31/2010)
Christophe Perrot-Minot makes this wine from a parcel of the vineyard that is declassified grand cru. It’s opulent and generous, yet it’s also minerally and fresh. The sumptuous Chambolle feel is still to come as the wine rounds out and loses its youthful tannins. Age for at least seven years.
— R.V.
(11/1/2012)
For Frédéric Drouhin, whose family owns Maison Joseph Drouhin in Beaune, Les Amoureuses has the real Chambolle taste, combining style, elegance and ripe red fruits. On the palate, there is just a touch of spice to point up the sweet raspberry flavors and soft tannins.
— R.V.
(11/1/2002)
This is such an intense, seductive wine, packed with sweet fruit, rich with balancing acidity. There are certainly tannins, and it will age, but it is beautiful now.
— R.V.
(9/1/2004)
Full-bodied and deliciously supple, with layers of black cherries, plum, tea and exotic spices that gently caress the palate. Long and silky on the finish, making it approachable now, but it should only improve over the next several years. Imported by Vintus LLC.
— J.C.
(4/1/2006)