Gevrey-Chambertin

2002 Rousseau Armand Gevrey-Chambertin

By on October 31, 2005 #asides

Medium cherry-red colour. The nose soars, high-toned and fresh, with violets and cherry-skinned fruit over toast from the creamy oak base. Some fat, fresh red-shaded fruit on the palate with a creamy texture. This is, at best, only medium weight, but there’s super purity and detail, the fruit is really quite punchy on the mid-palate. I prefer the finish on the 2001 but this presents itself really well – I’ll also buy a couple more of these. One negative from the last drops, the nose becomes quite estery and not that pleasant – quite a contrast to the 2001.

2002 Mugneret Dr Georges Gevrey-Chambertin

By on June 30, 2005 #asides

From the young vines of their Ruchottes-Chambertin. Medium, medium-plus cherry-red. The ebullient nose still has an extra edge of oak derived vanilla, but behind, swirling releases truffley, high-toned, red fruit. The palate has lovely acidity that pushes the vanilla-tinged finish ever longer – in fact very long. Lovely fruit, this is a nicely textured, medium bodied wine and one that I’m very pleased to have (a few) in the celler.

2002 Patriarche Gevrey-Chambertin

By on February 28, 2005 #asides

Medium cherry-red colour. The nose is very high-toned and has more than a hint of the medicinal about it – improves a little with time. Once in the mouth the impression is of medium concentration fruit, slightly forward acidity and quite nice tannins. No obvious Gevrey character though it’s an okay wine without real faults. On reflection I suspect a number of Bourgognes might give it a close run for quality, if not price.

2002 Chézeaux Gevrey-Chambertin

By on February 28, 2005 #asides

Medium cherry-red. The nose shows more than a little depth and a nice high-toned fruit top-note. The palate has a nice fresh complexion with fruit concentration that’s higher than expected for this cuvée, and nice sneaky length too! There’s just a little fat and mild-mannered tannins. This is never a very extracted wine so is perhaps close to it’s zenith in a year like 2002. Really super value, but I think they may have sold-out!

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