Lucien Le Moine, Charmes Chambertin Vintage:2012 so drink over the next

so drink over the next five or six years

This vintage is perhaps shapelier and more saturated with rose

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There is equally good freshness and excellent tension to the slightly richer if not quite as refined flavors that possess a caressing mid-palate mouthfeel before culminating in a lengthy

The tannins are silky and long

Lucien Le Moine, Charmes Chambertin Vintage:2012 so drink over the next(from both Charmes and Mazoyres in a roughly 50 50 proportion). Firm reduction dominates the fruit today though it does appear quite ripe. Otherwise there is excellent freshness to the racy and nicely detailed flavors that possess a velvety mid palate texture that contrasts somewhat with the crunchy and slightly rustic finale.