2020 Gevrey Chambertin Les Champeaux
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Tasting notes
The 2020 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Les Champeaux is young and unevolved, with a primary style in its black and blue fruits as well as ripe stems, ground herbs, and sappy flower-like nuances. It's big, concentrated, and burly on the palate, with serious ripeness and opulence. It needs a solid 3-4 years to shed some baby fat at which point it will be clearer where this is going.
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Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
Neal Martin, Vinous
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65% whole clusters, five-day cold maceration; cask sample. Deep ruby colour; deeper colour and higher tannin profile mark a very different, authoritative style. Not aggressive. Salty finish. (MH)
The 2020 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Champeaux 1er Cru offers ripe red cherries and blueberry fruit on the nose. Plump and quite pure, though it needs a little more Gevrey DNA. The palate is sweet on the entry with ripe tannins, fine acidity, but it feels a little static compared to its peers. That said, there is decent precision on the finish even if at the moment it feels driven by wood tannins.
Massive dense purple black with a pure purple rim. The bouquet has deep dark cherry notes, and luxury rich raspberry. Acidity starts quietly but is definitely and usefully present at the back. On the palate the fruit shows more red than black with this trenchant thread of acidity.
About the producer
Olivier Bernstein is among the most successful producers in Burgundy, setting the bar high for the growing number of micro-négociants in the region by producing wines that compete with those of the Côte d’Or’s finest domaines.