2011 Domaine Taupenot-Merme Charmes-Chambertin

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  6/17/2023 - Shanta wrote:

  Paul S's description below is excellent and still applies. All I can add is that on opening the nose was immediately good but the palate lacked flavour saturation. This changed with breathing, the palate retaining its fine texture and grace but developing penetrating flavours of smoke, black tea, crushed fennel bulb and other sappy elements. Overall earthy, minerally, smokey, sappy and serious, rather than floral or pretty. Fantastic.

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  9/9/2022 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 93 Points

  TM Mazoyeres vs Charmes Dinner.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of decayed forest floor sous bois, high pitched florals, red cherries, minerals. Developed.
  On the palate, dry, very high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), supple medium tannins, medium body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of lovely red cherries, crunchy earth minerality, sweet red spice, edges of savoury forest floor + brambles. Long savoury earthy finish.
  Very good quality. Really like the nose. Nothing green about this 2011. Drinking in a good place already.

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  1/26/2022 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points

  Dinner at Yang Ming (Yang Ming, Ubi): The better of the two Charmes Chambertin tonight, this was a very pleasing drink. I liked the nose on this. Another classic Gevrey, if perhaps striking a more masculine tone than the other Charmes on its flight. Here, we got slightly darker berries, even plums, along with notes of earth, spice and just a little of meatiness, again garlanded by a little perfume of wilting flowers. The palate was drinking quite nicely. Still youthful in its freshness and verve, with a little rustle of velvet tannins brushing against yummy flavours of dark cherries, red berries, earth and just that tiny hint of meatiness. There was a really nice sense of transparency to this, and no lack of depth either. The finish ended with a kiss of orange peel and a twist of bittersweet bramble and mineral. Unlike the nose, the palate was definitely in the feminine territory, with a nice delicacy to it. Like its flight-mate though, it felt just a tad shorter than I would have liked, but otherwise a very pleasing bottle.

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  5/2/2020 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points

  Zoom blind tasting #1 (At home): Not bad, but not brilliant. This had a pleasant nose - still influenced by quite a shade of toasty, new oak, but also with nice notes of sweet cherries and berries, a touch of meatiness and some brambly forest floor notes, all seasoned with a nice smoky, spiciness. The palate had a nice freshness to it, with fairly bright acidity and just a light touch of fine-boned tannins, riding alongside a round mouthful dark cherries and blueberries - these lined with a nice kiss of wood spice and peppercorns leading into a nicely fresh finish. This was a very pleasing wine just starting to come into its window, but it lack both the completeness and effortless strength of the 2010 in the next flight..

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  5/9/2014 - PC73 wrote: 91 Points

  This is delicious.
  Great balance. Good acidity
  Fruity.
  Very elegant.

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