Tasting Notes
The 3.42-hectare Premier Cru Les Baudes sits just below the Grand Cru Les Bonnes Mares but has slightly richer, rockier red soil. The vines are now over 45 years old. It’s always Barthod’s most muscular wine and typically requires the most time in the cellar (although see below for the notes specific to 2023). Jasper Morris references Morey when discussing this wine, but I think it is more accurate to reference Bonnes Mares (which might be another way of saying the same thing!) Barthod farms just 0.19 hectares in the climat, making it one of the Domaine’s rarest wines. Having said all this, the 2023 is clearly the most hedonistic and seductive example of this wine we have ever shipped, which obviously reflects the vintage but also Clement Barthod’s more gentle extraction techniques.
“The 2023 Chambolle-Musigny Les Baudes 1er Cru is more taciturn on the nose and offers a little more in the way of black fruit that commingles with the red. It has fine precision and focus, with touches of truffle and chalk that emerge with time. The palate is where the action is. It has wonderful symmetry and tension from start to finish, where the terroir and mineralité come through strongly. This is excellent.” 93-95 points, Neal Martin, Vinous
| Product Type | Wine Red Pinot Noir |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Sub Region | Chambolle Musigny |
| Winemaking Practices | Minimal Intervention |
| Vineyard Practices | Organic/Biodynamic |