Dupont Tisserandot, Mazis Chambertin

Dupont Tisserandot, Mazis Chambertin(from parcels totaling . 35 ha in both Haut and Bas). This is really quite pretty with a beautifully layered nose of various wild red berries, pungent earth, underbrush, spice and plenty of sauvage notes. There is excellent intensity and verve to the big bodied, powerful and opulent flavors that brim with an abundance of dry extract that buffers the moderately firm tannic spine on the impressively well balanced and lingering finish. This is robust but

It makes a fabulous first impact with super sharp tones of wild berry

Otherwise the restrained medium weight flavors possess excellent structural ripeness as well as fine size

This is even bigger and more powerful with its mouth coating broad-shouldered flavors that possess plenty of muscle before culminating in an explosive but tightly wound finish that just goes on and on

pure and wonderfully elegant nose displays an appealing mélange of red and dark pinot fruit

It's utterly mesmerizing

precise and long

Will the 2009 shut down in bottle

tobacco and earthy aromatics is not enough to take away the rustic tannins that mar this medium bodied wine in the finish

And despite the blanket of rot that descended on the Pinot Gris vineyards

Disgorged with six grams per liter dosage

crème de cassis and inky blue/purplish fruit give the 2014 much of its personality

Aged in barrique