Tasted in Gevrey-Chambertin with Nicolas Rossignol, 01 June 2022.

Domaine Rossignol-Trapet
4 Rue de la Petite Issue
21220 Gevrey-Chambertin
Tel: +33 3 80 51 87 26
www.rossignol-trapet.com
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Nicolas on 2021:
“Our 2021 yields in Gevrey were not bad but our Côte de Beaune yields were less than half – in fact around 12 hl/ha. Generally, we’re a third down for the whole domaine.”

Nicolas on 2020:
“2020 was the 2nd earliest harvest start – ever – after 2003. We expected to be harvesting even earlier but had to wait a little longer for the best maturity. Clearly it was a hot and dry summer but, fortunately, the days before the harvest brought a little rain – so not the dryness in the grapes that we saw in 2003. All that said, the natural acidity was a good surprise. I would say still a hot vintage for the wines but the level of sugar wasn’t too high and brought wines of 12.6-13.2% alcohol. The 20s are sold but we’re not even considering allocations for 21 yet!”

The wines…

Really a fine success at this domaine – I’d be happy to have any of these wines in my cellar – some patience will be required but there’s none of the potential excesses of the vintage to be found in these wines!

All bottled:

2020 Beaune 1er Teurons
From the high slopes near Cras, ‘the wine’s more like a Cras than a Teurons!’ The vines almost touching the cuverie of JC Rateau. Planted 1982 .
A broad nose, quite floral with some stemmy hints. Nice energy, with vibrant, mobile flavour. Really vibrant and mineral finishing. I love the energy of this wine!

2020 Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles-Vignes
From 3 different parcels of 60-65 years old vines. Light soils with early maturity, gravels with good drainage – in the flood-plain of Gevrey – then some mid-village vines with more clay and the third parcel is closer to route national where there are more stones in the clay – all with separate elevage.
A more textured width of darker fruit aroma. Fuller, lovely texture though the tannin shows in a modest fashion. Vibrating with energy in the finish again – longer finishing, very slowly narrowing in that finish…

2020 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Clos Prieur
Just under Mazis, bottled in March
Also a full nose, fuller in the higher tones too whilst bringing a velvet impression to the aromas. Fresher, more electic, cool fruited a fluid style to the flavours – I love the shape of this!

2020 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Petit Chapelle
Richer, deeper soil with more clay than the last wine. Since 2003, no pigeage with this wine.
More depth, more earth, more wild, very slowly beginning to fill the high tones too. Fuller, cool fruit again, concentration with freshness, slightly saline and showing some interesting bitters in the finish. Impressive wine – simply excellent – but the wine most to wait for, so far.

2020 Chapelle-Chambertin
For us a warmer, more sunny area, closer to the rock. Only about 40cm of soil before the rock, but the vines are old – from the 1920s. We are the only domaine with vines in both Gemeaux and La Chapelle, and the soils are different – the soil is much deeper in Gemeaux and most of the vines at the domaine are indeed in Gemeaux, planted in the 1930s – though only 1/4 of the latter. The rows start with 1.1 metre spacing but by the end of the rows there is only 80 cm – that works only with a horse!
Hmm, more whole-cluster aroma, faintly almond too. Direct, cool, not the ripeness that you sometimes find in Chapelle again a wine of delicious energy and one that I would leave a little while longer in the cellar. Lip-smacking finishing flavour thats got great complexity.