Allen Meadows - Score: 94 (2017 Jan.)

Modest but not invisible wood frames overtly spicy and fresh red and dark berry fruit aromas that exhibit plenty of Gevrey-style earth and underbrush influences. There is excellent intensity to the utterly delicious, complex and concentrated medium weight plus flavors that deliver outstanding persistence on the moderately austere and quite serious finale. This is textbook Charmes.

Vinous - Score: 93+ (2017 Mar.)

Bright, full red. A step up in ripeness on the nose from the premier crus, offering scents of raspberry, minerals and underbrush lifted by flowers. Also less strict in its texture than the foregoing samples, conveying striking purity of fruit and the crunchy character of the vintage. This wonderfully precise wine piques the taste buds on the very long, firm tannins. There's pleasure here now but this is for the cellar.