2017 Faiveley Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru La Combe d'Orveau

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  4/19/2024 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Tasted blind
  
  Dark-fruited, salty-stemmy, some reductive graphite notes. With airtime this opened up and mellowed out.
  
  Liked this enough to seek it out. 17’ is a Burgundy vintage I mostly skipped for reds, but lately I find a lot of pleasure there.

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  5/12/2022 - melvinyeowq wrote: 94 Points

  Faiveley Chambolle 1er tasting by Graft8: Agree with the previous taster that this had a lot of oak, but didn't find this distracting and in fact contributed to the very sensual spicy nose. There was some argument over whether this spice came from the oak use or fruit but unfortunately I am not well-versed enough to tell. Lightest and most ethereal of the wines tonight, the wine seemed to float seamlessly to a wonderfully persistent finish. Love wines such as this without any sharp edges, best wine of the flight by a margin.

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  6/17/2020 - blank blank wrote:

  Too much oak for this vineyard, but a fine wine nonetheless. CdO is delicate and requires a surgeons touch; this gestures at the familial resemblance to Musigny not only with its red fruit but firm, lively, mineral cut that dominates the wine once you're past the initial burst of red strawberry/raspberry fruit. But there's a LOT of low-char oak here relative to the underlying material - not at the level where it shows any oak tannin, but where there's a distinct caramel note, not just on the nose but also in the mouth, and lingering along with the mineral character in its aftertaste. This would've been so much better with less new oak, even though it's still a super wine and one of the standard bearing bottles/vineyards for 'feminine' burgundy, whatever that means.

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