Winemaker Notes
This wine is expressive, full-bodied and well-balanced, with complex notes of raspberry, red currant, spice and toasted oak.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin was all destemmed (as are all the wines here) and spent 17 months in 35% new French oak. Red cherries, blueberries, scorched earth, and spring flowers dominate the bouquet. It's another seamless wine from this estate that has terrific balance, notable purity and elegance, ultra-fine tannins, and a great finish.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Perched up in the northernmost position in the Côte de Nuits, Marsannay is the only appellation village of Burgundy to produce classified wines of all three colors: red, white— and rosé. The official Rosé de Marsannay earned its high reputation in the early 1900s.
Its reds, made of Pinot Noir, burst with red and black fruit and are consistently long on the palate. Chardonnays from Marsannay are charming, floral and full of citrus fruit and mineral. Top Marsannay vineyards include Clos du Roy and Les Longeroies.