Bruno Clair Gevrey Chambertin Petite Chapelle 1er Cru 2016 (750ML)

93 JM / 91-93 BH / 90-92 VM

Rich mid purple, salivating ripe fruit here, with plums and a little peachiness. Very suave, with a real kick of ripe cherries behind and the invaluable freshness. Excellent persistence. Tasted: October 2017—Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy

Note: from a .25 ha parcel that is located on the southern side of the vineyard near En Ergot
Tasting note: A very fresh, pure, ripe and high-toned red berry fruit nose is also trimmed in just enough wood to mention. The tension-filled and delicious middle weight flavors possess fine mid-palate concentration, vibrancy and excellent length on the mineral-driven finish. This is textbook and very much worth your attention. Sweet Spot, Outstanding. –Allen Meadows, Burghound

(36 hectoliters per hectare produced): Bright medium red. Darker on the nose than the Clos du Fontenys, offering scents of black cherry, blackberry and licorice. Then juicier, more minerally and higher-pitched in the mouth; a step up in energy from the Clos du Fontenys, despite the fact that this vineyard is situated lower on the hillside. "Not geologically logical," noted Bruno Clair--in much the same way that frost damage was often worse on the hillsides than on flat land and bewilderingly haphazard in general. Finishes with a positive medicinal reserve and firm but ripe tannins. -- Stephen Tanzer, Vinous Media