2022 Gevrey Chambertin Les Champonnets
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Although Heresztyn-Mazzini normally uses four coopers for most of its wines, the team finds that this site, with its very small, concentrated berries, works particularly well with the fine grain of Chassin’s barrels, and a heavier toast. It’s a real highlight this year – with lifted blue fruit and crystallised violets, alongside sweet cherry. The palate is tight and concentrated with a grip and power, yet there’s tart acidity that cuts through the concentrated fruit. The tannins and intensity need time, but there’s a sweetness that lingers on the long finish.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
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Moderate wood influence suffuses the earthier aromas of poached plum and a plethora of attractive floral elements. The solidly concentrated and quite seductively textured medium-bodied flavors possess evident power on the sappy, dusty and robust finale where a touch of warmth slowly emerges. As is almost always true for Champonnets, this is very much built-to-age and a wine that's going to need at least some patience.
A fine deep purple, with a little white pepper infiltrating the fully laden raspberry fruit on the nose. A delightfully concentrated fruit on the palate, still with some tannins at the back and the drier style of finish from whole bunches. But all this is beginning to integrate nicely to make a stylish and complete wine. 80-90% whole bunches.
The 2022 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Champonnet 1er Cru, which suffered minor hail damage in July, includes 60% whole bunches and matured in 20% new oak. It has a slightly reductive bouquet that just misses the finesse of the Les Goulots. The palate is better, with blood orange-infused red fruit and gentle grip, growing spicy towards the finish with quite a long fig-tinged aftertaste. Excellent.
About the producer
Domaine Heresztyn-Mazzini was established in 2012 when Florence Heresztyn took over her family domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin with her husband Simon Mazzini (who originally comes from Champagne).