2012 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru
France
Gevrey Chambertin
Burgundy
Red
Pinot Noir
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Sérafin harvested thoroughly ripe fruit on the late side in 2012, and has produced full, solid wines from this vintage. They were less sappy than his cooler 2013s in November but I suspect that many tasters will prefer them for their creamy richness.
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Serafin picked on the late side in 2012, beginning on September 25. He noted that he had suffered far less from short crops in recent years than his colleagues on the Cote de Beaune, with yields off about 20% in 2013, 30% in 2012, 10% in 2011 and 20% in 2010. It could have been much worse, he told me. Potential alcohol levels were in the relatively high 12.5% to 13.5% range in 2012. None of the '12s had yet been racked at the time of my November visit. Beginning with the village Gevrey, all of Serafin's wines age in 100% new barrels. This was one of several addresses where the differences between the 2012s and 2011s are more a matter of style than quality.
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Christian Sérafin's 2012s are big and massively constituted across the board. Yields are down 30-50%, so these wines will unfortunately be harder to find than they usually are. Because of the low yields, the 2012s were aged in 100% new oak as opposed to the more typical 70%. While the new oak has helped give the wines even more volume, it doesn't seem to have marked them to an excessive degree. None of the 2012s had been racked at the time of this tasting.
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