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Griotte Chambertin, Domaine Claude Dugat 2010

Tasting Notes

One of the high points of this tasting, Dugat's 2010 Griotte-Chambertin Grand Cru is a magical wine that remains an infant at age 12. Unwinding in the glass with a complex bouquet of red berries, plums, sweet rose petals, exotic spices and orange rind, it's full-bodied, pure and vibrant, with a deep and layered core of fruit, satiny tannins and lively acids, concluding with a long, perfumed finish. More complex than the brilliant 2009, the 2010 was likely more tightly wound out of the gates, but now it is beginning to show all its cards its benchmark quality is apparent.

98
William Kelley, RobertParker.com, February 2023

**Note: from a .16 ha parcel of 45+ year old vines**
Here the nose is completely clean and impressively broad with a beguiling combination of ripe red currant, plum and violet aromas. There is excellent volume and outstanding phenolic ripeness to the earthy, pure and beautifully well-detailed medium-bodied flavors that exude a fine dry extract that imparts a silky mouth feel to the dense, cool, dry and impeccably well-balanced finish that delivers nothing short of stunning length. This is a knock-out and while the Dugat Griotte is almost always quite fine, like the Charmes, this is even finer than usual. A remarkable effort that should amply repay long-term aging.

93/96
Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (45), January 2012

Saturated dark red. Purple fruit aromas are complicated by coffee and lifted by a violet topnote; less gamey than the Charmes. Very rich and concentrated but less showy than the Charmes, displaying powerful but subdued flavors of black cherry and licorice. Dense, dark grand cru with a strong spine of dusty tannins and a tangy peppery note on the back. Also more imploded than the Charmes and probably built for a longer life in bottle. The 2011 Griottes is a more feminine wine than the '11 Charmes, but this 2010 is distinctly more powerful.

94+
Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar, March 2013

The 2010 Griotte-Chambertin is cool, inward and also marvelously transparent. It is a texturally breathtaking wine graced with extraordinary finesse and class. Black cherries, mint, menthol and violets are some of the notes that emerge from the glass, but the Griotte is first and foremost a wine of superb tactile finesse and harmony. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2040.

95/97
Antonio Galloni, RobertParker.com (199), December 2011
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