2022 Domaine C?cile Tremblay Bourgogne C?te d'Or
The Wine Advocate
RP (88-90)
Reviewed by:William Kelley
Release Price:NA
Drink Date:N/A
The 2022 Bourgogne C?te d'Or offers up lovely aromas of red cherries, wild berries and vine smoke. Medium to full-bodied, supple and enveloping, with a fleshy core of fruit and sweet, melting tannins, it's especially charming this year.
In the June 9, 2022 issue of The Wine Advocate, I devoted an extensive article to C?cile Tremblay's Chapelle-Chambertin?and her domaine's past, present and future?so readers looking for more depth are directed there. The 2022 vintage, reviewed here, marks a point of departure for Tremblay, as she regained control over appreciable additional holdings in Beaux Monts and Morey-Saint-Denis Tr?s Girard?family vineyards which had been leased out in a sharecropping agreement to another grower. That necessitated an extended winery and cellar, and Tremblay took the opportunity to add a cold room to facilitate the reception of fruit in warm conditions, a more and more common occurrence on the C?te d'Or. It's testimony to her exacting standards that she's elected to bottle her new Beaux Monts separately as a generic Vosne-Roman?e premier cru, since she felt they didn't have the cut and energy of the wine produced from her historic parcel.