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. 

The 2012 Gevrey-Chambertin La Justice is a little more textured and savory than the straight villages, with firmer tannins and a greater sense of structure. Dark red and black cherries, rosemary, sage and dried flowers linger on the finish. Veins of under

A beautifully perfumed nose of very pretty red currant, pinot, spice and subtle floral scents serve as an elegant intro to the mouth coating middle weight flavors that display a hint of minerality on the delicious and lingering finish where a trace of wood is in evidence. This is nicely balanced if only moderately complex though there is enough underlying material that it may very well succeed in adding depth with time in bottle.

The 2010 Gevrey-Chambertin La Justice comes across as delicate and fleeting in this vintage. Dried red cherries, crushed flowers and spices are some of the notes that waft from the glass. Overall, this comes across as a bit fragile and most likely best suited for drinking over the next few years. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2030. This is stunning set of wines from Pierre Vincent and Domaine de la Vougeraie. It is impossible to miss the attention to detail at this impeccably run domaine. No expense is spared. It takes 80 people to work the vineyards during harvest and another 20 in the cellar to take it from there. Production in 2010 was of course down significantly as it was everywhere else. Yields came in at 24 hectoliters per hectare for the Pinot and 29 for the Chardonnay. Vincent used between 30-80% whole bunches, depending on the wine. Readers who want to learn more might want to check out my video interview with Pierre Vincent on www.erobertparker.com. I will report on the domaine’s 2009s in the April issue. For now let me just say the 2009 Musigny is one of the wines of the vintage.

Here the nose is a bit more elegant and high-toned than the straight villages cuvée with a very pinot nose that also evidences hints of wet stone and Gevrey style earth. The cool, detailed and racy middle weight flavors culminate in a linear and mildly austere finish that displays excellent precision.

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+