Lucien Le Moine, Chambolle Musigny Amoureuses

Lucien Le Moine, Chambolle Musigny AmoureusesReduction masks the underlying fruit though there is a really lovely inner mouth perfume to the punchy and gorgeously textured middle weight flavors that brim with minerality on the sappy and wonderfully complex finale that flashes first rate length. This firm effort is presently quite compact and a wine that is going to need at least some bottle aging to further flesh out, though it is already very classy.

the wine is fresh

A deft application of wood frames slightly riper aromas of spicy black raspberry

concentrated and with depth of flavor

The overtly muscular broadshouldered flavors brim with both dry extract and minerality on the firm

As is often the case with this wine

L’Arrosée’s 2005 displays elegance and finesse

The 2012 is neither the biggest nor most complex Pichon Lalande

35% Cabernet Franc

with a mineral element adding vivacity

pencil lead and tilled soil

Hints of oak toast don’t materially detract from the otherwise wonderfully fresh and cool aromas of green apple

finishing wonderfully spicy