Chappelle-Chambertin

Showing a touch more colour and a slightly firmer nose than Latricières, this is very complete, with greater density, dark red cherries, excellent structure and a very fine finish.
Jasper Morris MW, Berrys' Burgundy Director The early growing season in 2011 was beneficial to ripening the stems, so Nicolas and David Rossignol opted to use more this year, as they also did in 2009. The wines below were made with 25% stems in general and up to 50% for the Grand Crus. This will have influenced the structure of the wines, but it does not show in the fruit profile. The Rossignols continue to develop their style towards finesse, especially in the finish of their wines and these show very good result this year.

This is extremely backward and needs more time in barrel. Tiny berries have yielded intense concentration of flavour which will unfold over the years ahead. A terrific burst of fruit comes back at the very end. Put away for 10 years.

Although very backward at this early stage in its life, this shows signs of depth and concentration with an explosion of black cherry fruit on the palate kept fresh by a core of crystalline minerality. I suspect this wine may need up to two decades for all the complexities on the palate to be fully revealed. 

This has a touch more colour than the Latricires and with a more perfumed richer bouquet. There is impressive density here, with a glorious volume of deeply concentrated red cherry fruit.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director

Quantities were down a further 15% on the previous two vintages. However Nicolas Rossignol reports that there were no problems in vinification, and they have added a further refinement this year with a new state-of-theart de-stemmer, which leaves the individual berries whole as it takes them off their stems. Given the natural concentration of the fruit in 2012, there was no need to seek much extraction. Once again this domaine offers superb quality at reasonable prices.

Noticeably a fuller purple colour than other wines from the Rossignol-Trapet stable, this Chapelle-Chambertin has a really stylish and graceful nose. The fruit coats the mouth, without massive density, and the stems have been used to provide freshness - as this wine always produces soft ripe fruit. This is a great success in 2010.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Director

Several years down the road since they switched to biodynamic farming, the Rossignol brothers are looking at ways to fine-tune the finished product with a few tweaks in their cellar work. They have been careful to aerate their excellent 2010s throughout the vinification process to avoid any problems of reduction and to soften the end palate of the wines. Some stems were used again this year, albeit less than in 2009.

Compared to the evident charm of Rossignol-Trape's Latricières, his Chapelle-Chambertin is much more intense and tightly coiled but, don’t be deceived – there is at least as much fruit just waiting for the moment to express itself.

A rich purple colour, this has a fabulous, heady nose, very appealing. There are some glorious layers of velvet here, displaying more flesh at this stage than Latricires; really long and lovely. There is a nice touch of refreshing acidity behind.