Joseph Colin Chassagne Montrachet Rouge Chassagne Montrachet 2018 750 ML

Colin's 2018 Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge bursts from the glass with an expressive bouquet of spicy berries, licorice and burning embers. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, velvety and succulent, with a fleshy core of fruit and refined structuring tannins. This is an immensely charming red Chassagne that will be hard to resist young.\n Producer Information\n Joseph Colin is one of the four children of Marc Colin (the others being Pierre-Yves, Damien and Caroline), who had a large domaine with vines in Saint Aubin, Santenay, Chassagne and Puligny. Pierre-Yves left the family domaine in 2005 and since then Joseph was an important member of the team there. Now he has decided to leave, making a token 1800 or so bottles in 2016, before starting in earnest with 2017, with seven hectares of vines, from which he makes an astonishing nineteen different cuvées. Most of the vines he has in Saint Aubin are young, but by limiting bunches to six or seven per vine, he manages to control the yields. With plenty of time to learn his craft at Domaine Marc Colin, he has developed into a confident winemaker. Joseph is a very bright new prospect for lovers of precise, pure white Burgundies with fresh acidity for crystalline definition.