2021 Mazis-Chambertin, Grand Cru, Domaine Tawse, Burgundy

10% whole bunch, 70% new wood, 7 barrels. 

Red to crimson in colour, lightly reductive. This is a wine which is sitting back in a reflective manner, but the constituent parts are all there. More in a savoury style than lush fruit. I think it will work very well, with good keeping qualities, but it is less demonstrative up front. The finish shows the class. 

Drink 2028 - 2038

The 2021 Mazis-Chambertin Grand Cru contains 10% whole bunches with 70% new oak. This is much more reduced than the Mazoyères so is difficult to read. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, good structure and symmetry, a keen thread of acidity and gently building red fruit leading to a complex and persistent finish. Great potential, this is a superb Mazis.

Drink 2026 - 2048

0.75 ha. 50- to 75-year-old vines the youngest, of seven years, go into the Dom Tawse Gevrey-Chambertin). 80% new oak. Cask sample.

Pale ruby. Red fruits – strawberry, red cherry and redcurrant. Sweet and round on the palate – although less exuberant than I expected. Quite full bodied nevertheless, and very satisfying with suave tannins. Full and substantial without being a brute. A grand cru, by definition. 

Drink 2027 - 2045

An impressively layered nose combines violets, spice, earth, plum and dark berries and more subtle wood influence. There is good size and muscle to the rich, velvety and mouth-coating medium-weight flavours that possess fine mid-palate concentration along with evident power on the lightly mineral-inflected, balanced and highly persistent finish that also reflects just a touch of warmth.

Drink from 2033 onward