2011 Faiveley Mazis-Chambertin

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  4/1/2023 - nmmnori wrote: 91 Points

  Tasted with TH Pan. Not nearly as backwards as I was expecting, perhaps a product of the vintage. Pop and pour, bright color, not particularly extracted. Pretty red fruit but a tad clunky on the palate. Straddles between rusticity, but lacking the Gevery 'animal' somehow feels very man made.

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  7/2/2022 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted briefly. Drinking beautifully with pure, savory fruit balanced with firm tannins and mineral notes. Very accessible and delicious.

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  6/1/2022 - Mag357 wrote:

  From a 1.5ha parcels including Mazis Haut and Bas.
  Clear in color, the nose is quite muted, and the wine needed 2 hours of air to reveal aromas of toasted oak, brown earth and pungent smoke. The medium bodied palate is elegant yet powerful, it is a soil driven wine with a smokiness and earthiness at its core, black tea flavors and pungent minerals, finishing in a long aftertaste. There is a sense of purity in this wine, with loads of power, as Mazis should be. The extraction is very well judged, the fruit quality is first rate. But after 11 years there is still unresolved smoky wood flavors kicking in the back. This is where Faiveley is lacking - its wood program.
  
  In a discussion with a barrel maker, I was told that most estates in Burgundy only change their wood program when the owner retires; so here it is quite obvious that proprietor Erwan Faiveley do like a bit of richness and tar in his wine- a question of taste which has been Faiveley signature for years. There have been improvements in the wood program in the last vintages; and Faiveley in recent vntages has done a much better job than 10 years ago. So hopefully Faiveley will continue and use less new wood in the future, less toast, and less sulfur. Mazis, like Bonnes Mares, is very powerful and not very easy to drink. Its brown earth top soil provides naturally smoky and earthy flavors. So for my taste, the wood should be as neutral as possible here, instead of the choice of a barrel that intensifies the natural soil driven smokiness to the point of being over the top. The result is not a wine of great pleasure, but a peculiar wine of great power, which still manages to remain elegant. So there is very good value in this grand cru level wine, but for my palate this is not a head turmer.

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  11/21/2020 - shifter Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Decanted for 2 hours. Minimal sediment. Savory and earthy nose with a hint of stewed red fruit. More earth and herb on the palate with a touch of green. I think this will integrate better with more time.

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  9/25/2020 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

  Theme: Grand Cru: Very bright ruby. Pretty lifted on the nose and dominated with red fruits and light herbs, savouriness and wild earth. Very savoury on the palate accompanied by fresh mineral and nice acidity, Brown sugar kind of sweetness. Showing some greeny on the palate but not excessively so. Good length, showing pretty well. However the oak is still pretty much present after the mid palate and resulted a grainy mouthfeel.

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