Scents of resin, fennel, and dark berries in the Tremblay Morey-St. You can certainly feel the abundant tannins here, but they're fine-grained, and the typical vivacity of the vintage acts like hidden springs buoying and engendering some refreshment. Cecile Tremblay scored some of the most consistent successes of any Cote d'Or Pinot domaine with her collection and those from among her bottlings that I was able to sample included a couple of wines exceptionally impressive for that vintage.
And while she didn't mention it and I didn't ask to taste it, I saw a lot of Bourgogne Rose lying around in bins at Tremblay's temporary cellar quarters in Gevrey. To convey an idea of the concentration of raw material with which she was working, Tremblay noted that most of her fermentative lots were give only a single pigeage Anywhere from one- to two-thirds of whole clusters with stems were included in the ferments, with the most striking wines tending toward the higher end. The s here save for three noted were still in barrels form which I sampled representatives when I last tasted, and were due to have been bottled in late spring.
Incidentally, Tremblay recovered more of her family's properties with the vintage, which also yielded a bumper crop per vine of irresistible ripeness and what appear to be for the vintage unusual depth and verve, so any wine lovers have trouble scoring some bottles of s might get their chance from despite the hype already surrounding that vintage.
Tremblay's Vosne Romanee Vieilles Vignes from the Aux Commune and Aux Jacheres sites exhibits the combination of juiciness and verve with richness of texture as well as the intensity of berry fruit with deep marrow-like meatiness that typifies her entire collection from this vintage. Here, sandalwood, ginger, cumin, and star anise add an allure more typical of some of the top Vosne premier crus. This classy village bottling should be worth following for at least years.
The Tremblay Chambolle-Musigny Les Feusselottes - recently bottled when I tasted it - smells of kirsch, almond extract, black tea, cardamom, and curry. Fascinatingly spicy, smoky, and brightly-fruited on its firm palate, this proves to be Pinot of immense grip, with deep, roasted meat richness in the finish offering striking counterpoint to the wine's very treble fruit. It should be especially fascinating to see how this evolves over the next years, though I expect enervation rather than harmony to remain the key to its striking virtues.
