This flirts with reduction though if you let it sit for 15 minutes or so, aromas of dried flowers, red currant, underbrush and discreet earth nuances eventually appear. There is an elegant and refined mouth feel to the middle weight flavors that possess good verve, detail and minerality on the saline-inflected, clean and appealingly dry finish that displays just a hint of warmth. What this hasn’t done since I first reviewed it from barrel is to have developed much in the way of additional complexity and while it is still of course possible that it will in time, it’s typical to see at least some by this point. To be sure this is still an entirely lovely Gevrey villages but it’s not quite at the level that I originally foresaw.
This flirts with reduction though if you let it sit for 15 minutes or so, aromas of dried flowers, red currant, underbrush and discreet earth nuances eventually appear. There is an elegant and refined mouth feel to the middle weight flavors that possess good verve, detail and minerality on the saline-inflected, clean and appealingly dry finish that displays just a hint of warmth. What this hasn’t done since I first reviewed it from barrel is to have developed much in the way of additional complexity and while it is still of course possible that it will in time, it’s typical to see at least some by this point. To be sure this is still an entirely lovely Gevrey villages but it’s not quite at the level that I originally foresaw.
This flirts with reduction though if you let it sit for 15 minutes or so, aromas of dried flowers, red currant, underbrush and discreet earth nuances eventually appear. There is an elegant and refined mouth feel to the middle weight flavors that possess good verve, detail and minerality on the saline-inflected, clean and appealingly dry finish that displays just a hint of warmth. What this hasn’t done since I first reviewed it from barrel is to have developed much in the way of additional complexity and while it is still of course possible that it will in time, it’s typical to see at least some by this point. To be sure this is still an entirely lovely Gevrey villages but it’s not quite at the level that I originally foresaw.
This flirts with reduction though if you let it sit for 15 minutes or so, aromas of dried flowers, red currant, underbrush and discreet earth nuances eventually appear. There is an elegant and refined mouth feel to the middle weight flavors that possess good verve, detail and minerality on the saline-inflected, clean and appealingly dry finish that displays just a hint of warmth. What this hasn’t done since I first reviewed it from barrel is to have developed much in the way of additional complexity and while it is still of course possible that it will in time, it’s typical to see at least some by this point. To be sure this is still an entirely lovely Gevrey villages but it’s not quite at the level that I originally foresaw.