2016 Gevrey Chambertin
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The 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin Village has an attractive bouquet with raspberry coulis and light wild strawberry aromas that gently unfold in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannin, slightly tough in terms of texture but with decent brambly red fruit tinged with iodine on the finish. Fine. Tasted at the Domaine.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Neal Martin
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Aromas of sweet red berries, incense and spicy new oak introduce the 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin Village, a medium-bodied, ample wine with an open-knit but youthfully chewy framing of tannin, tangy acids and a chalky finish. With less flesh on its bones, this is showing its wood tannin more prominently than the higher appellations this year, but with a bit of bottle age it should round out. It's one cuvée, however, where a little less new wood might work well, without distorting the house style.
Light, easy nose. Something a little lolly about the fruit. Slightly bitter on the end. (JR)
(tasted from cuve ): Good dark red. Lovely red cherry and raspberry aromas are lifted by floral and spicy high notes. Juicy and firmly built, offering noteworthy finesse of texture. Not a fleshy wine but boasts excellent acidity and inner-mouth tension without any hardness. Finishes with very good lift and pungency. Should make a very successful village wine. Only the estate's vines in their parcel in Les Crais were affected by frost.