Full disclosure, I’m a Trapet fan…I favor youthful wines and like me some fruit. 15’-16’? Bring it on
The mag of 15 Trapet we tried with our Canadian cousins a couple weeks ago was tight but good.
I think slower aging in a mag had a lot to do with the tightness because I tried the 15’ twice in 750cc format this Spring and loved it, adolescent though it was…
- 2015 Domaine Trapet Chambertin - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambertin Grand Cru (2/4/2024)
Opens with ripe red cherry fruit, followed by quenching, woody dryness. Reductive flint notes, mellowing med tannic grip and med acid. Seems concentrated yet balanced. 13.5% Alc.
A glass of delicious pleasure today, with all the elements to evolve into mature complexity. I’ve been lucky to sample the 15’, 16’ and 18’ this week. All were excellent, with similar profiles of red fruit, earth, iron and plenty of stuffing to improve over time. But the 15’ was the most open and pleasurable at the moment. (95 points)
In April I blinded the 15’ Trapet Chambertin against the 15’ Rossignol Chambertin. Both were good, with the Rossi more open and approachable, but the Dom. Trapet was the better wine in my opinion. It had more bright acidity and grip to balance the fruit for the long haul.
- 2015 Domaine Rossignol Trapet Chambertin - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambertin Grand Cru (4/19/2024)
Nose of baby sh*t and berries.
Ripe dark fruit, with some low-med tannic backbone and low-ish acid. This surprised me for how open and approachable it was, based on other reviews.
An easy glass of pleasure that stood out on a table of delicious wine (13 LLM Corton Renardes, 17 Faiveley Chambolle Orveaux, 12 Chezeaux Vougeot…). But it went up against its serious and structured neighbor, 15’ Dom. Trapet Chambertin, my WOTN (94 points)
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Some other recent vintage notes:
- 2018 Domaine Trapet Chambertin - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambertin Grand Cru (1/31/2024)
Rich, dense, dry. Red and black fruit meets briar/garrigue. Has that "blood and iron" thing I sometimes find in Gevrey. Med tannin, med acid. 13.5% Alc.
Wow. Just a baby, but it seems like all the parts are there. This tastes like a preview of greatness in the making. (94 points)
- 2016 Domaine Trapet Chambertin - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambertin Grand Cru (2/1/2024)
Ripe red cherry fruit, tart balanced by a touch of bitter, some woody sting (oak I assume), med+ tannic grip, med + acid, quenching, concentrated and dry.
13.5% Alc.
Delicious but young, this seems built for the long haul-I expect it to age well into greater complexity and depth. (94 points)
We tapped an 09’ Trapet Chambertin last year and it was tight as a drum. Surprising.
- 2009 Domaine Trapet Chambertin - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambertin Grand Cru (8/8/2023)
TART. Tar and red cherries. Stiff tannic grip. If there is any of that ripe sun-kissed 2009 fruit here, it’s locked away behind a wall of acid and tannin. Bodes well for the long haul but today? Fuggedaboudit.
Try in 2033 or so.
13.5% Alc
- 1979 Domaine Trapet Chambertin - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Chambertin Grand Cru (10/15/2018)
[Atlanta Tastevin Burgs and Burgers Paulee’]: Pale brown-red, tasted old, raisins, with that bit of rubber I taste (personally) in older reds. Remarkably, still had a bit of fruit there. Hard to evaluate this mellowed grand dame in the cacophony of a Paulee’ but memorably good. (92 points)
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