2017 | Cathiard | Chambolle Musigny Clos de l’Orme

Description

Red Wine: 2017 | Cathiard | Chambolle Musigny Clos de l’Orme

Glowing imperial purple in colour. The nose has a beautiful, lifted sensual strawberry fruit, Chambolle grace, plenty of volume here, this flows across the palate too, with medium intensity, very classy.

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Producer: Cathiard

Ratings: D | 94 BH | 92

Vintage: 2017

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Glowing imperial purple in colour. The nose has a beautiful, lifted sensual strawberry fruit, Chambolle grace, plenty of volume here, this flows across the palate too, with medium intensity, very classy.

Reviews:

• Decanter: Sébastien Cathiard’s only vineyard in Chambolle always produces one of his most charming, scented wines. Sourced from a 0.43ha block, this is aged in 50% new wood and is a joyous expression of youthful Pinot fruit that tasted good straight out of the barrel. It has fine tannins, aromatic oak and caressing layers of raspberry and wild strawberry fruit on the palate.

• Burghound: Here there is no reductive funk with its expressive and high-toned nose of essence of red cherry, raspberry and a whiff of herbal tea. The cool, sleek and detailed flavors possess a lacy texture before culminating in a seductive, stony and youthfully austere finale. This is, at least today, the best of the Cathiard villages level wines and a wine that should ample repay mid-term cellaring.

Producer Information

Sylvain Cathiard’s grandfather, a foundling from Savoie, came to Burgundy and found work with Domaine de la Romanée Conti (DRC) and Lamarche, subsequently buying a few parcels of vineyards for himself. His son André Cathiard began to bottle some of the crop. In due course Sylvain began work with his father but then separated to start his own small domaine, until on his father’s retirement in 1995, Sylvain could take back the family vineyards on a renting agreement. He has now been joined by his son Sébastien, and a spacious new cellar is currently under construction. The Cathiards have 5.5 hectares of vineyards in Vosne-Romanée, Nuits-St-Georges and Chambolle-Musigny, including tiny holdings in Clos de Vougeot and Romanée-St-Vivant. A recent addition (from 2006) to the range is the Nuits-St-Georges Aux Thorey. This is not a complicated domaine: the vines are looked after meticulously with the fruit being sorted on a table de tri and destalked. After fermentation the wines go into barrel, with 50 per cent new oak for the village wines and 100 per cent for premier cru and above. Most of the barrels come from one cooper, Rémond, albeit with the wood sourced from different forests. The wines in their youth have an exceptional energy and purity of fruit.