Best ever for Jasper Morris – and better than the $2200 Chambolle “Amoureuses”:
Deeper denser colour than the Chambolle. This is somewhat headier also, darker fruit, perhaps a little higher in alcohol, black cherries, slightly dry tannins, though not exaggerated.
And Vinous:
The 2022 NSG Marechale has an open and expressive bouquet, quite pure in style, with brambly red fruit, loam and light iris flower scents. The palate is fresh with a slightly chalky-textured opening. It offers black plum and raspberry fruit with a very saline, quite feisty finish that manages to retain composure. Long Finish. This is a fine Clos de la Marechale.
And for Jancis Robinson:
Deep crimson, one of the most deeply coloured wines of the day. This reeks of class and sophistication in its lovely dark-fruited restraint. The fruit is ripe but still fully alive. Fuller and deeper than I expected on the palate. Embryonic, the tannins compact and fine-grained. A complete baby even with the depth of fruit that shows now. Very long with a savoury, dark-fruited finish and something more mineral in its overall restraint.
And for Burghound:
This is the ripest wine in the range yet the dark berry fruit and earth-suffused nose remains nicely fresh. The succulent, round and caressing but punchy medium-bodied flavors deliver solid length on the mildly warm and rustic finale that is both firm and complex. Some patience will be necessary.
Again, for serious premier cru red Burgundy from a true cult producer, this one is borderline insane!
