2015 Domaine Trapet Gevrey-Chambertin

Bright medium red. Pure but reticent aromas of red berries, smoke, game and earth. At once firmer and sweeter in the mouth than the Marsannay, with the intense red berry flavors displaying lively acidity. Here the tannins come across as a bit less sharp than those of the Marsannay owing to the wine's greater mid-palate sweetness. A firm, persistent, honest village wine in the making.

The 2015 Gevrey-Chambertin Village has a slightly backward nose at first that demanded some encouragement from the glass, eventually offering attractive scents of blackberry, briary and cold stone. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannin. I appreciate the freshness here, and it gathers pace towards the finish with crunchy black fruit that seem to revel in their terroir. This is a well-crafted Gevrey-Chambertin from J-L Trapet.

(from Les Cercueils, Jouise, Clos Prieur Bas and Les Crais). A more complex nose features notes of fresh and relatively elegant aromas of both red and dark currant, earth and forest floor. I very much like the mouth feel of the lightly mineral-inflected medium weight flavors that are at once seductive yet precise, all wrapped in an equally complex, persistent and well-balanced finish. Worth considering. Dec 2016, www.burghound.com