2006 CHAMBOLLE MUSIGNY 1ER CRU LES CRAS GHISLAINE BARTHOD - 6x75cl

Tasting Notes

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  Burghound, January 2009,
  Score: 92

  The most elegant wine in the range with its superbly expressive and perfumed nose of airy red berry fruit that serves as the perfect introduction to the strikingly detailed, understated and pure flavors that seemed chiseled directly from liquid limestone on the linear finish. This is like rolling rocks around in your mouth with Zen like harmony as a kicker. An exceptionally impressive wine with driving energy and this should be a 20+ year wine.

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  Sarah Marsh, December 2015

  Rich and full and dark, some more evolved note, but with richer, heavier spicy notes and a touch of mushroom. Full and rounded and juicy. It is really juicy and fleshy. There is weight to the palate, underscored with the minerality of the terroir. There is more precision at the end of the palate. This is showing well now, you could leave it though to slim down a bit or it might be better to decant this and then it would be great with a meal. The nose begins to open out and is so inviting. “I remember at the beginning there were small wild berries,” says Ghislaine. The minerality and freshness is there to undercut the richness…it has the Cras bite at the end of the palate.

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Producer

Domaine Ghislaine Barthod

Exquisitely pure, ethereal, and terroir-driven, Ghislaine’s wines also have wonderful mineral raciness. The domaine was originally created by Marcel Noëllat, Ghislaine’s maternal grandfather. After attending viticultural college in Beaune in the 1980s, she began assisting her father, Gaston Barthod, at the family domaine. Her straightforward, no-nonsense approach helped introduce a sorting table, extended lees contact, a gentle cold soak before fermentation, and domaine bottling. All this enabled greater control over the quality of fruit, texture of tannins, and purity of flavours. The results have been year upon year of magical masterpieces from Chambolle Musigny. Along with her partner Louis Boillot, today she is joined in the vineyard and cellar by their son, Clément.