Avec un taux d’alcool de 12,5 %, ce vin n’est pas particulièrement corsé. Et c’est précisément là tout l’intérêt. Le millésime 2014 en Bourgogne a démarré sur les chapeaux de roue. Un hiver doux, un mois de mars chaud, un débourrement précoce et une vague de chaleur soudaine vers la Pentecôte ont entraîné une floraison rapide. L’été a été relativement frais, avec une baisse significative des températures à partir de la mi-août. Les vendanges ont eu lieu relativement tôt. La tempête de grêle du 28 juin a le plus durement touché la Côte de Beaune, bien que la Côte de Nuits ait également subi quelques dégâts.
En conséquence, le Les Amoureuses 2014 est un vin qui se caractérise davantage par sa tension que par son corps, avec des arômes floraux et de fruits rouges distincts, typiques de Chambolle-Musigny. Les vins du Comte de Vogüé demandent de la patience. Ce vin se dégustera idéalement entre 2020 et 2045.
Robert Parker (96)
The 2014 Chambolle Musigny 1er Cru Amoureuses is very different from the Chambolle Premier Cru, This explodes with blueberry and blackberry, wilted violets and then later, a touch of boysenberry jam. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent ripe dark cherry fruit, a vein of white pepper, fine structured and very pure with superb tension and mineralité bursting through on the finish. This is a divine Amoureuses, probably more approachable when young compared to recent vintages, but with the substance to age as this cuvée has an inclination to do.
Jancis Robinson (17.5)
Dark crimson. A little inexpressive today on the nose. Savoury and ambitious. Lots tucked in there but not the full amplitude yet. A tiny bit stringy on the end. It’s telling us to go away and come back another day. Jancis Robinson
Vinous (94)
Bright, full, deep red. Dark berries, crushed black cherry, licorice, bitter chocolate and wild herbs on the nose. Sappy and imploded, with blackberry, blueberry and mineral flavors lifted by a strong floral element. Still a bit stunted from being racked ten days before my visit. Finishes with substantial tongue-dusting tannins and repeating floral lift.
Burghound (95)
Here the elegant and cool nose is spicier still though less evidentially floral in character with its extract of red and black currant, plum and sandalwood-scented aromas. The mouth feel of the middle weight and beautifully well-delineated flavors is silky and markedly refined, all wrapped in a firm and youthfully austere finish that is also sneaky long because as soon as it appears to have disappears, it reappears. A classic Amoureuses.
Jasper Morris (91)
Full dark colour, quite sombre. A note of evolution. Thick dark fruit, quite high acidity, disjointed today though there is impressive weight, but at the moment it is showing a slight lack of freshness.
