Mazis Chambertin Grand Cru Cuvée Madeleine Collignon 2014 3000ml154th Hospices De Beaune Wine Auction on the 16th November 2014 Mazis Chambertin Grand Cru Cuve Madeleine Collignon Hospices de Beaune 2014 This has beautiful, purple ruby colour, with a nose which shows well ripened, powerfully rich aromas. The wine is broadly structured, with strikingly dense, compact fruitiness all the way from first impressions, through the mid palate, to a long extended farewell. This is ageing in tight grained oak barrels of the

Packaging: OWC - 6x750ml

Grape Variety: 100% Chardonnay

scorched earth

Reduction flattens the nose though there is good verve to the markedly round flavors that culminate in touches of dryness and wood

The palate is very precise and crisp

By contrast

weight and muscle to the broad-shouldered flavors that possess a lush mid-palate before tightening up on the moderately austere and slightly drying finish though in this case it seems more evident that the dryness is gas related

Robert Parker: 95+ /100

In the same vein as the Bressandes

Terroirs: Les Frolchots 0

it is compellingly earthy/minerally in the mouth with a frame of seductively silky yet very firm tannins and culminating in a very long

The 2013 Mazis-Chambertin Grand Cru that unlike the Charmes-Chambertin had finished its malolactic fermentation