Gevrey-Chambertin “La Justice” Reviews

The 2009 Gevrey-Chambertin La Justice is quite a bit fleshier than the villages. This is a decidedly powerful, dense wine with tons of mid-palate energy and depth. The fruit is round, inviting and vibrant. This bottling is a selection of the estate’s best parcels planted on the limestone-rich part of the vineyard. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2019. Biodynamic farming and non-interventionalist winemaking are at the heart of the approach at Domaine de la Vougeraie. The 2009s saw roughly a 25 days of maceration (including a week of cold soak) with one punch down a day. Once in barrel racking was kept to a bare minimum. A number of wines were bottled in late 2010 and early 2011. I tasted these wines with winemaker Pierre Vincent in March 2011.

(50% new wood and only the grapes from vines planted on high gravel content soil are kept as this helps to avoid rusticity and heaviness) A more deeply pitched nose offers aromas of dark berry fruit, hummus and a sauvage note that can also be found on the richer and fuller if less elegant flavors that retain a lovely sense of detail on the lingering firmer finish that is underpinned by dusty and serious tannins and the same length finale. A choice. 2016+