Tart concentration of sour cherry contrasts with suggestions of vanilla cream in Geantet-Pansiot’s 2008 Chambolle-Musigny Vieilles Vignes, while soy-like and deep underlying meaty savor lend lip-smacking extension to its finish. More refined in tannin and managing to avoid the sort of “memoir of malic acidity” that seems to cling to the estate’s Bourgogne and Marsannay, this should be interesting to follow for a few years but I would want to monitor it by then for signs of disharmony or thinning. Vincent Geantet bottled his 2007s and 2008s already early in the second November following their harvest, a bit sooner even than in some other recent vintages (and one reason, no doubt, why he reported his 2007s as having been entirely wiped out by the time I got around to visiting him last year). Malos are generally over by early spring in the relatively warm Geantet cellars, and even 2008 was no exception, reports Vincent’s son Fabien. Importer: Kysela Pere et Fils, Winchester, VA; tel. (540) 722-9228