While many reds from this vintage can be a little austere today (2014 showed better than 2013 from barrel, but from bottle, 2013s are often outperforming 2014s), Roumier's 2014 Chambolle-Musigny Village is a fine success, offering up pretty aromas of berry fruits, peonies and spices, discreetly framed by oak, followed by a medium-bodied, lively palate with a good core of fruit and present but not austere structuring tannins. It will enter its drinking window in earnest in a few more years.

The 2014 Chambolle Musigny Villages has a refined bouquet with touches of hints of rose petal infusing the red berry fruit, fine minerality coming through. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and nicely structured. This displays good backbone for a village cru with fine precision on the slightly curtailed finish. Very fine.

Medium red. Musky aromas of raspberry, strawberry and violet. Juicy, spicy and quite dry, even a bit youthfully imploded; a lovely sophisticated village Chambolle with saline soil tones carrying through to a subtly long finish featuring substantial dusty tannins.

Light and fresh on the nose. Masses of red cherry fruit. Very charming. So open! (JR)