2014 Chambertin Grand Cru

Jeremy Seysses was a bit under the weather on the day of my November visit, so I tasted with his wife Diana Snowden, who is also responsible for the Snowden Vineyards wines made by her family in Napa Valley. Snowden described the 2014 vintage at Dujac as "like a better 2007." Yields, she said, were in the "normal" range of 35 hectoliters per hectare. In recent days, Seysses noted that the 2014s "seem quite open at this stage, but the first wines bottled seem to indicate that they will shut down a little in bottle. I see them as medium-term wines that will begin to open up for real in about ten years and that should last a comfortable 25 years in the case of the grand crus."