The 2014 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru has an exquisite bouquet with blackberry, bilberry and cassis fruit. This is very elegant and linear, great precision here. The palate is very well balanced, structured with citrus-infused blackcurrant fruit. There is that titillating prickle of salinity on the finish, a Mazoyères-like Charmes that should age well over the next 15-20 years.

Domaine Dujac is one of the most visible and well-known domaines in the world. By that I mean that Dujac has never born the parochialism of Burgundy -- willing to travel to overseas markets, engage with consumers whether that is face-to-face at tastings or in recent years via social media. (In this respect, Burgundy is still far behind Bordeaux, though to be fair it’s not like Burgundy domaines can host a marketing department of full-time social media managers like they do there.) Certainly traveling around the New World, every winemaker is aware of Dujac and has experience of their wines. Fortunately, Domaine Dujac has a tendency to create splendid wines and not in a predictable way. They don’t play it safe year after year and seem always open to ideas, whether that is in their use of whole bunch fruit (a central and abiding tenet), the use of concrete eggs for maturation of the whites, or on this(more...)

There is just enough reduction present to mask the fruit though it does seem ripe. Otherwise there is excellent freshness and vivacity to the sleek and silky middle weight flavors that are focused and mildly austere on the linear finish. This is going to require a few years of bottle age to flesh out and add depth.

Bright, dark red. A touch of leathery reduction to the aromas of raspberry, rose petal and smoky, truffley earth. Currently showing its darker Mazoyères side (which compromises roughly one-third of the blend) in the mouth, along with complex soil tones. This firmly built wine finishes with serious spreading tannins and lingering notes of leather and smoke. (ST) 91+