2016 Gevrey Chambertin Cazetiers
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Dark red. Highly perfumed nose combines purple fruits, animal fur, spices and musky coffee. Enters the mouth broader and sweeter than the Champeaux, then tightens up in the middle palate, showing terrific mineral spine to its flavors of medicinal red cherry, spicy oak and flowers. This seriously sappy premier cru is tough going today, with its tannins more obvious than those of the Champeaux. The yield here was just 30 hectoliters per hectare, as these vines are in the Combe Lavaux and were thus touched by the frost.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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100% new oak. Barrel sample. Very rich nose – intense and concentrated. Headily perfumed with crystallised black fruits. Very dramatic and marked. Ambitious but sleek and chewy on the end. (JR)
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.