2023 Domaine Cécile Tremblay Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Feusselottes
The Wine Advocate
RP (93-95)
Reviewed by: William Kelley
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: N/A
One of the high points of the range is the 2023 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Feusselottes, a beautifully complete, satiny wine redolent of raspberries, plums, spices and burning embers. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered, it's pure, harmonious and penetrating.
In 2022, Cécile Tremblay regained control over appreciable additional holdings in Beaux Monts and Morey-Saint-Denis Très Girard—family vineyards that 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 Côte d'Or. In 2023, she has added Clos de Vougeot, in addition to discovering that a notarial error had relegated to "mere" Beaux Monts a parcel in fact entitled to the Echézeaux appellation. In 2024, what's more, a small holding of Griotte-Chambertin enters production. All this expansion hasn't come at the expense of quality—far from it, as the 2023 vintage is one of Tremblay's most accomplished to date, continuing an uninterrupted series of home runs for one of contemporary Burgundy's greatest vigneronnes that began in 2019. In the June 2022 Week 1 issue of The Wine Advocate (published June 9), I devoted an extensive article to Cécile Tremblay's Chapelle-Chambertin—and her domaine's past, present and future—so readers looking for more in-depth information regarding her methods are directed there.
Published: Jan 31, 2025