2016 Gevrey Chambertin Les Champeaux
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Neal Martin
Jeannie Cho Lee MW
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From 60 to 100-year-old vines, not frosted, so an excellent crop, with lots of millerand grapes. Rich imperial purple, absolutely glowing nose, the fruit swarms all over the discreet whole bunch character (50%). Quite breathtaking in fact! And so it continues in the mouth: the perfume, the extra complexity of texture from the stems, a truly magical wine. Tasted Oct 2017.
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The 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Les Champeaux was not affected by frost and yielded a good quantity to the surprise of Arnaud Mortet —30 hectoliters per hectare. Matured with 50% whole bunch and up to 70% new oak, it has a generous, almost peppermint-tinged bouquet with great vigor and vivacity. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe tannin, good weight and plenty of blood orange-tinged black fruit. It is slightly attenuated right on the finish but this should flesh out once in bottle. This is how to make a great Les Champeaux. Dec 2017, www.robertparker.com
About the producer
This estate, today with Arnaud Mortet at the helm, makes some of Gevrey-Chambertin’s finest wines. Working with 16 hectares, as well as a few négociant parcels, this property makes perfumed and chiselled Pinot Noir.