2005 Gevrey Chambertin En Champs

(these vines are now 103 years old, notes Emilie Geantet) Full ruby-red. Very pure, vibrant aromas of musky minerals, crushed stone and flowers. Densely packed but a bit imploded today, with superb intensity and precision to its red berry and mineral flavors. With its sound balancing acids, this is all spine at the moment, but the back end is dry, sophisticated and very long, leaving behind a sappy, tactile impression of extract. I'd wait six or seven years on this one.