Description
Gevrey-Chambertin is the King of Burgundy. Delicate sweet strawberry fruit, fresh acidity and a clean, vibrant palate. A restrained style, with elegance and a savoury, autumnal finish. The wine is left in an open top fermenters for ambient yeast until the cap sinks, the decanted into 20-30% well toasted new oak (a small percentage compared to most).
Advancements in the vineyards have been purposely limited at this very traditional Burgundy producer. Since yeasts are an expression of the individual vintage and vineyard, no artificial yeasts are used. 3-4 times a day the pulp is trodden by foot to further extract colour and flavour. Louis is passionate in his belief that wines vinified with stalks are better; in blind tastings destalked wines start with more colour which rapidly degenerates after 2-3 years in bottle. Wines are not filtered but checked by candlelight, then bottled directly from barrel by hand on a cask by cask basis. According to Louis “Burgundy must not be fruity – this is no good for great wine …. Short cask ageing and early bottling are the denaturing of real Burgundy … only a long period in wood, followed by a long period in bottle will produce finesse, breed and elegance”.
| GRAPE | Pinot Noir | CLOSURE | Cork |
| REGION | Burgundy | VEGETARIAN | Yes |
| VINTAGE | 2017 | VEGAN | Yes |
| ABV | 13% | ORGANIC | No |
DRY *________|________|________|________| SWEET
LIGHT |________|________*________|________| FULL BODIED
NO OAK |________*________|________|________| OAKY
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