Jean Pierre Charton, Mercurey Chassiere

Jean Pierre Charton, Mercurey Chassiere(a rarely seen 1er vinified using ~30% whole clusters). This is also aromatically very spicy with its liqueur like combination of a plethora of floral scents, exotic tea and cassis. The palate impression of the intense middle weight flavors flash focused power on the sneaky long finish where a touch of warmth slowly emerges. This is the class of the range in 2020 and a wine that should age gracefully if desired.

An unusually high-toned nose of red berry fruit

There is good richness and intensity to the intense and detailed medium plus weight flavors that possess excellent depth on the hugely long finish where a trace of finishing tannin surfaces

Another unique

29 ha parcel in En Orveaux where Mortet receives half of the production)

sanguine and iron notes

Long and dramatic yet wonderfully fresh

A ripe and very fresh nose combines notes of various white orchard fruit aromas with those of mineral reduction

This is a classically styled Cazetiers that should reward a decade or so of cellaring

Spanish cedar and cinnamon

cassis and dried cranberry aromas

then racked into French oak for the malolactic fermentation

The wine slides into a long-winding finish that continues to evolve for more than a minute after the wine has left the palate