Outstanding. Heavy reduction makes the nose almost impossible to accurately read but it's clear that beneath all the reductive funk lies notably ripe fruit. The flavors however are classic Chambolle with both generosity and serious dry extract conferring a textured and dense character to the otherwise concentrated but fine flavors underpinned by firm tannins that will require the better part of a decade to fully resolve. Terrific quality here. Drink 2015+
– Burghound.com, Issue 25. Tasted Jan 2007

A 2005 Chambolle-Musigny Les Charmes (from the upper reaches of that large vineyard) smells of bitter chocolate-covered black cherries and pralines, fills the mouth with ripe rich fruit but also with salty, stony minerality, engenders a sense of doughy richness and substantiality, and finishes with long, consistent black cherry, toasted nuts, chocolate and chalk. This is not a Charmes of particular elegance, much less delicacy, but neither does so much fatness and sweetness of fruit become heavy or tiring.
– David Schildknecht (Wine Advocate #170, April 2007