After having had a flu for a couple of days I celebrated being healthy again with a .375 bottle of 2000 Chambolle Musigny by Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue. As most burg lovers know 2000 wasn't a great year but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy a lesser year. What I like about decent made 2000 burgs is that they tend to stay open all the way through. While the much better vintage 99 tends to be closed at the moment, 2000 seems to be very enjoyable to drink at the moment.
Elvira was sitting on the couch next to me and said with an evil smile... smells like you have a really bad case of cork there. And oh boy she was right. Since I only had 2 .375 bottles of Vogue Chambolle left I wasn't that pleased. Luckily the last bottle was fine.
Color is transparant red with a hint of amber and lacks the deeper tone of better vintages. Nose shows lots of fruit but also a more pronounced toasted oak / vanilla scent then I usually find in Chambolle-Musigny wines. I'm usually the type that thinks less is more when it comes to usage of toasted oak in these kind of wines but it's not that much to really bother me. Tasting the wine the first thing I really notice is it's alcoholic sharpness. While a good vintage chambolle is in every way like velvet this alcohol gives the chambolle velvet a little sting. The tannins are very soft tough and the cherry fruit is still dominating this wine. Earth tones are developing rather nicely and giving the wine a complexity I didn't expect for the 2000 vintage. I must admit the more pronounced oak toasting for this vintage now seems like a very good decision to me. The wine is excellent to drink at the moment and indeed hasn't closed like the '99s. Good vintages of Chambolle Musigny I would give a B+ / A- and would recommend to let some of them age. In this case I will give the wine a firm B with the addition that it should be drank young. I've noticed in vertical tastings that lesser vintages of Vogue (I've done '88-2000 tastings of Chambolle-Musigny 1er cru and Musigny) are more enjoyable when they're young.
Salut,
Bas
My Grade System:
A: Wines you rave about for years to come B: Excellent wine, bottle finished before you know it C: Decent wine. For your average drinking pleasure D: Not a bad wine but not very exciting E: Rip off or typical bad supermarket wine