Perrot-Minot Chapelle Chambertin Grand Cru

This grand cru, located on a gently sloping area, is one of the sunniest and earliest-ripening parts of the Gevrey-Chambertin terroir. As a result, this plot often reaches optimal ripeness a few days before the Chambertin climat. The soil of this terroir is distinguished by a composition of immaculately white limestone scree, offering exceptional permeability and ensuring optimal drainage for the vines. Beneath this layer, a marl-limestone substratum reveals its treasures, with rock outcrops in certain areas, especially at the top of the finage. This terroir, rich in mineral nuances and sunshine, produces wines of great complexity, with an exceptional blend of aromas. The wines from this plot are defined by their vibrant, seductive flavour, combining density and volume on the palate.

Winemaker notes

2022: This elegant and refined wine reveals a crystal-clear brightness of fruit, elevated by silky, delicate tannins. A subtle, savoury touch of iron adds a particularly mouth-watering finish.

2018

Burghound 91-93: This is cooler and spicier with a riper yet more elegant array of dark currant, cassis, rose petal and plum scents. The suave, round and seductively textured lagerscaled flavors possess a sleek muscularity and good minerality while delivering outstanding depth and length on the velvety and sappy finish. While clearly built to age over the mid to even longer-term, it's not so imposing as to be impossible to enjoy young.

Vinous 93-95: The 2018 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru has a much bolder and more expressive nose compared to the Charmes-Chambertin, offering copious blackberry, raspberry and crushed chalk aromas that burst from the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin and a fine bead of acidity. Harmonious right to the end, delivering more depth and substance than the Charmes-Chambertin. Excellent.

2019

Burghound 92-94: This is cooler and spicier with a riper yet more elegant array of dark currant, cassis, rose petal and plum scents. The suave, round and seductively textured lager-scaled flavors possess a sleek muscularity and good minerality while delivering outstanding depth and length on the velvety and sappy finish. While clearly built to age over the mid to even longer-term, it's not so imposing as to be impossible to enjoy young.

Wine Advocate 93-95: The 2019 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru is more expressive, unwinding in the glass with aromas of cassis, orange rind, potpourri and sweet soil tones. Medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, with its elegantly chalky structuring tannins largely concealed in an enveloping core of fruit, it's long and perfumed.

Vinous 94-96: The 2019 Chapelle-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru has an attractive nose with blackberry, hints of melted tar and crushed violet. Wonderful focus here, more than the Charmes-Chambertin at the moment. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, spicy and full of vim and vigour. There is a lot of coiled-up energy on the finish, the tension palpable long after the wine has departed. This oozes class.

2020

Vinous 95-97: The 2020 Chapelle-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru has a beautifully defined bouquet, touches of basalt/crushed rock permeating the red fruit, gaining intensity with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, a lilting and silky smooth Chapelle-Chambertin that expands and exerts more grip towards the finish, a touch of white pepper lingering on the aftertaste. Great potential.

2021

Vinous 93-95: The 2021 Chapelle-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru is aged in barrel until malo and then 30% in Wineglobe. The fruit is slightly darker than the Griottes and Charmes, again, well-defined with palpable mineralité. The oak is seamlessly integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, taut and crisp, very tensile with a surfeit of energy enlivening the finish. Not enormously long, but this will have much to offer.

2022

Burghound 93-96: Firm reduction. The round, delicious and seductively textured larger-bodied flavors possess excellent tension as well as outstanding concentration thanks to the abundant dry exact that imparts a sappy character to the strikingly complex, youthfully austere and hugely long finale. This is a knockout.