The 2016 Chambertin Clos de Beze Grand Cru Les Ouvrees Rodin is showing brilliantly from bottle, unfurling in the glass with a rich bouquet of cassis, cherries, red berries, grilled game, licorice, spices and smoky new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and expansive, with a deep and intense core of sapid fruit that cloaks its satiny but abundant structuring tannins, underpinned by succulent acids and concluding with a seriously long, penetrating finish. This special cuvee hails from a parcel of vines planted in 1966 on the Chambertin side of Clos de Beze, and its name commemorates a Faiveley family connection with the sculptor Rodin.