2020 Domaine Denis Bachelet Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes

Generously concentrated, mineral and seductive, this is an incredible Gevrey-Chambertin and one to get your hands on. Very limited allocations.

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This is a seriously smooth Gevrey Chambertin and it's the type of wine where one glass just isn't enough.

Layers and layers of smooth, seductive flavours - dark cherries, plums, bramble, herbs, seamlessly integrated oaky notes. Everything sits in harmonious balance with one another, and has a wonderfully long finish without being weighty.

Silky and impressive. A real treat.

Denis Bachelet described the 2020 growing season as beginning with a very dry spring so we knew early on that we were likely to have a lot of hydric stress in the vines and that's exactly what happened. Moreover, with the warm early season temperatures, the vegetative cycle started exceptionally early so we also knew that absent a really cool summer that we would have an early start to the harvest. This in the end is exactly what happened as we chose to begin picking on the 27th of August and harvested through to the 31st. The fruit was clean, ripe and required very little sorting.

90 Points - "Here the beautifully layered nose combines notes of black cherry liqueur with hints of earth, game, underbrush and humus. There is once again excellent energy and precision to the sleek and delicious medium weight flavors that possess a seductive texture before terminating in an impressively persistent and well-balanced finale. Villages-level wines rarely are as good as this and it's one to buy if you can find it." - 90-93 points, Alan Meadows (Burghound)

93 Points - "Definitely worth discovering. Piercingly focused ripe cassis fruit, with an edge of mineral and spice. The texture is generous, concentrated and surprisingly dense at the village level. This wine is definitely suited to at least mid-term ageing and should open well with time. Bachelet has 1.2ha spread over six lieux-dits where the vines were planted in the 1930s. Yield is pitifully low: 50% of a normal crop in 2020. The fruit is destemmed and fermented on native yeasts prior to ageing in cask (20% new)." - Charles Curtis MW (Decanter.com)

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