Ghislaine Barthod, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Cras, 2012 (1.5L) gift-card-custom-template with the kind of structural

with the kind of structural backbone that will continue developing beautifully in bottle

The Catarratto del Masso comes from a single high-elevation plot of very old vines

Vecchie Viti comes off roughly 80-year-old vines and sees 24 months in large Austrian oak botte

but best 2026–2040 as it develops smoky

and this 2016 from Marchand-Tawse shows why

Ghislaine Barthod, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Cras, 2012 (1.5L) gift-card-custom-template with the kind of structuralLes Cras is the muscle of the Barthod range, and 2012 is the vintage that earns it. A cold, damp spring, ragged flowering and relentless mildew cut the Cote de Nuits crop hard, then fine weather from late August ripened what was left in a hurry, giving small yields, dense fruit and a real tannic frame. Ghislaine Barthod's 0. 86 hectare parcel sits on the upper part of the slope just above the village, on the same band of hill that carries Bonnes Mares