A more elegant and airier nose reflects aromas of various red berries, spice and a floral top note. The much more refined if not especially dense flavors also possess good energy as well as very good detail on the dusty, youthfully austere and harmonious finale. Lovely and a wine that could be enjoyed young if desired.
Gevrey-Chambertin “La Justice” Reviews
The 2020 Gevrey-Chambertin La Justice was completely-destemmed this year. It offers brambly red berry fruit laced with rose petals and peony on the nose. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, lithe in the mouth, no hard edges here with a lightly peppered, quite finessed finish. Worth seeking out.
Catch this as a young wine, while the tension in its structure elevates the delicate dried herb notes, and Brett adds detail to the tannins, a little dry, but spicy and delicious. Packed with a sweet cherry fruit, this is solidly built Gevrey, ready to drink with a steak.
Well-marked by new oak, this leads off with vanilla and toast aromas, followed by cherry and black currant flavors lurking under-neath, marshaled by vivid acidity and embedded, chalky tannins. Hangs together through the lingering aftertaste of fruit and spice. – B.S.
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.
Here too there is enough wood to notice on the more elegant and slightly higher-toned aromas of assorted red berries that
evidence background nuances of earth, game and spice. There is plenty of verve to the delicious and appealingly detailed middle
weight flavors that possess a linear and tightly coiled finale. This will need a few years to unwind but this too has the potential
to be a lovely Gevrey villages.
Good full red. Aromas of redcurrant, raspberry, red licorice and coffee are complicated by a whiff of animal fur. Suave red fruit and spice flavors show a lovely balance of sweet and salty elements. With ripe balancing acidity, this sappy wine spreads out to saturate the palate and leaves the mouth refreshed on the saline finish.