Medium-deep red. Very ripe aromas of cherry, red licorice, graphite and sweet oak. Dense, creamy and deep, showing a seamless texture and terrific sappy verve to the flavors of red fruits and pungent minerals. A grand cru of compelling suavity, with a powerful mounting finish displaying chewy, noble tannins, saline minerality and a lovely light touch. Again, this is a domain wine.

Tasted blind at the annual "Burgfest" tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Chapelle Chambertin Grand Cru from Louis Jadot has a very perfumed and floral nose with dried violet petals infusing the mixture or red and black fruit. This gains intensity in the glass, hints of winegum developing with time. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and well judged acidity, the oak beautifully interwoven. It is still very backward, more so than the say Cécile Tremblay's Chapelle-Chambertin, but there is a pleasing sense of tension and race on the long, truffle tinged finish that has just the right amount of bitterness. This could be a wine that will continue to improve, the longer it is left in bottle. Do not underestimate this exemplary Grand Cru.