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Wine Description
The Story
Revered as the crowned monarch of the Côte de Nuits and the benchmark against which all masculine Burgundian power is measured, Joseph Drouhin Chambertin Grand Cru represents a masterful dialogue between formidable terroir density and the Drouhin house signature of purity, precision, and silk. Perched immediately adjacent to Clos de Bèze on the classic mid-slope of Gevrey-Chambertin, where thin, rocky topsoils overlie hard Jurassic crinoidal l...
Vintage 1985
1985 Burgundy by Clive Coates MW / The 1985 vintage represents a turning point in the wine history of Burgundy. Before this date, on the whole, winegrowers made wine, merchants bought it, assembled several plots, if necessary, and sold it. Subsequently, more and more estates began to mature, bottle and market the wines themselves. In the meantime, many merchants had taken the opportunity to expand their own estates, so that, particularly at th...