The 2015 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru offers up a beautifully immediate bouquet of sweet red and black fruit and fruit preserve, licorice and flowers, with little hint of the tertiary complexity to come with bottle age. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, supple and expansive, with a lavish attack, good concentration and depth, sappy acids and velvety tannins that caress the palate. A seductive Charmes.

(racked): Bright, dark red. Inviting scents of dark raspberry, blood orange, dried flowers and musky underbrush. Sweeter, creamier and deeper than the Combottes but not yet showing quite the lift of that wine. Flavors of raspberry, chocolate and earth are joined by a bit of low-toned oak. Finishes with substantial dusty tannins and a lingering saline quality.

The 2015 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru has a tightly wound, undergrowth-tinged bouquet, one that is less outgoing than others that I have tasted, with damp moss scents and sea cave emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, quite understated for a Charmes-Chambertin, but cohesive with a pinch of pepper enlivening the finish. I might have liked a little more persistence, otherwise this is a very satisfying Charmes-Chambertin, dare I say potentially outflanked by the Gevrey Combottes this year?

A bit less distinct than the Échezeaux on the nose. Sweet and round and a bit easy with fine tannins on the end. Quite low key on the end. (JR)