The 2022 Marsannay “les Champsalomon” from Domaine Collotte is another outstanding wine made from vines in excess of fifty years of age. It sees a quarter new oak and like all of the family’s wines, is fermented with indigenous yeasts. The 2022 version comes in at 13.5 percent octane and delivers a beautifully complex and black fruity nose of cassis, black plums, smoked meats, a gorgeous base of soil tones, coffee bean, woodsmoke and a gentle framing of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, complex and fairly tightly-knit out of the blocks, with beautiful depth of fruit and soil signature, ripe, buried tannins, good acids and grip and a long, impeccably balanced and very classy finish. This is going to be a terrific bottle of Marsannay, but it is not quite as forward as a few of these other bottlings from the Collotte family and I would plan to tuck the les Champsalomon away in the cellar for five or six years, while drinking wines like the les Grasses Têtes and letting this superb bottle blossom properly. This is a stunning value!
92 points, John Gilman, View From The Cellar
Collotte’s 2022 Les Champsalomon is a beautifully crafted example of modern Marsannay that makes a convincing case that this appellation deserves more attention from Burgundy fans. Immediately bright and floral on the nose, it quickly reveals cool red fruits and clean, iron-rich minerality as its signature elements. After some time in the glass, white pepper emerges with hints of darker fruits and rhubarb, while the minerality grows more prominent among subtle, well-integrated wood notes. The palate is likewise built on wonderful precision and tension. More mineral than the nose, its medium weight and lithe texture support a ferrous terroir signature at the core that eventually gives way to subdued red fruits, which become rounder and fleshier with air. The very fine tannins, bright acidity, and excellent balance carry to a refreshing, stony, mineral finish. I honestly expected this wine to be more rustic, but it shows a surprising level of craftsmanship that should have you rethinking what Marsannay is all about.
92 points, Andrew Kitz, B-21 Burgundy Buyer (Jul 2025)
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