2014 Patrice & Maxime Rion, Chambolle Musigny, Les Amoureuses, 1er Cru 750ml (Pre-Arrival)

BH91-94

Quite a pale pink-purple, this is discreet at first, but then it suddenly begins to sing. It continues through the mid-palate to a very clean, long, perfumed finish. An Amoureuses of finesse more than exuberance.

Patrice Rion compares 2014 to a mix of 1979 and 1989 for the aromatics and delighted to have been able to pick a more or less normal-sized crop. He began on 12th September with healthy grapes, reinforced by his system of two sorting tables, one before and one after de-stemming. The amount of new oak has been reduced here, now just 30 percent on most cuvées.