Domaine Anne Gros Chambolle-Musigny La Combe d'Orveau, Cote de Nuits, France 2023

Chambolle-Musigny La Combe d’Orveau 2023 is a beautifully expressive Pinot Noir from a coveted lieu-dit in the southern Côte de Nuits, where limestone-rich soils and gentle elevation produce wines of elegance and energy. This wine opens with fragrant notes of wild red berries, rose petal, spice and a hint of crushed stone, leading to a palate that is silk-textured yet focused, with bright acidity, finely grained tannins and vibrant fruit framed by subtle earthiness. The 2023 vintage brings purity and precision, allowing the site’s nuance to shine through, and the wine’s graceful structure makes it approachable now with careful decanting while rewarding several years of cellaring with deeper complexity and refinement.

The 2023 Chambolle-Musigny la Combe d'Orveaux, which comes from a parcel surrounded by woodland, has a light bouquet with brambly red fruit and wild hedgerow, perhaps needing a little more fruit concentration like the 2022. The palate is medium-bodied with rounded tannins on the entry. Lightly spiced, a dash of black pepper toward the finish, this is an understated Chambolle with a sense of coolness about it. Vinous 91