2021 Chateau de Chamirey en Sazenay Mercurey 1er Cru, Burgundy

This delicious wine shows impressive quality and elegance for the vintage, with lush aromas of blackberry and plum, a firm mineral note and hints of earth and cedar. The texture is firm and structured, but the fruit is fully ripe, and there is no astringency. It is produced from the rocky hectare of vines at a higher elevation facing east/southeast. Proprietor Amaury Devillard notes, ‘the glory of time is to understand, and we finally understand this site’ – he used to blend grapes from here into the Mercurey rouge, but now it stands on its own.

94 points Charles Curtis MW decanter.com