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2012 Chambertin, Grand Cru, Camille Giroud, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - at best (Drink 2018 - 2041)
Neal Martin
93/100
Product: 20128007443

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2012 Chambertin, Grand Cru, Camille Giroud, Burgundy

Description

This year there are only two barrels of the top wine in the cellar. It is almost too early to judge it, but the 2012 Chambertin is rich, dense and aromatically stunning. The wine combines both volume and voluptuousness, very sensual and with exceptional persistence.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director

Winemaker and general manager, David Croix, has been grumbling that he feels he has the temperament of a grower rather than the deal-making knack of a born negoçiant, so he hasn’t found it easy to fill the cellar in 2012. We also find that tasting with him feels like being in a grower’s cellar, though Camille Giroud only owns a couple of vineyards. There are, nevertheless, one or two really exciting new wines here this year, notably the Volnay Santenots, and the whole cellar is on top form.

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Maturity Ready - at best (2018 - 2041)
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Maison Camille Giroud

Critics reviews

Neal Martin 93/100
Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Chambertin Grand Cru from Camille-Giroud has the most backward nose of five Chambertins that were tasted blind: broody, sulky even, with scents of redcurrant, raspberry, gypsum and sous-bois surfacing with each swirl of the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. There is a touch of reduction that smothers the finish a little. If it can do a Taylor Swift and shake it off, then it will merit a higher score.
Neal Martin, Vinous.com (Oct 2015)

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Le Chambertin

Le Chambertin

Chambertin is a prestigious Grand Cru vineyard in Burgundy's Côte de Nuits subregion. Situated in the commune of Gevrey-Chambertin, it spans approximately 12.9 hectares (31.9 acres) and is renowned for producing some of the world's finest and most sought-after Pinot Noir wines.
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Maison Camille Giroud

Established in 1865, Maison Camille Giroud has a rich heritage rooted in Burgundy’s winemaking tradition. Initially a specialist négociant, they sourced wines from esteemed growers across the renowned Côte d’Or region, ageing them meticulously in their cellars for decades to achieve peak maturity.
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