GEVREY CHAMBERTIN

2015 1er Cru Craipillot Domaine J. Confuron Cotetidot

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Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Nuits
Village Gevrey Chambertin
Classification 1er Cru
ABV 13%
Vineyard Craipillot

A little more expressive than the village wine and even more of the rich texture, lifted by a light touch of liveliness. Incredibly impressive and the same sense of much more to come that is in all the village wines. Drinking range: 2023 - L&S (Nov 2016)

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The combination of breezes from the Combe de Lavaux and the warmth of the soils in this stony site have produced a wine that is ripe, yet refreshing. Blackberry and black olive flavours are complemented by notes of iodine and incense and a long, complex finish. Drinking range: 2025 - 2030 Rating: 94 Tim Atkin MW, www.timatkin.com (Feb 2017)

Cask sample. Tremendous fruit clarity - combines plum and cherry with a gorgeous stemmy note. Expressive, fragrant, open-knit. Long aromatic finish with eucalyptus and chocolate. Wonderful. Drinking range: 2018 - 2038 Rating: 17.5 Richard Hemming MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2017)

(from a .50 ha parcel). The expressive nose is much more floral though there are also background notes of the sauvage and forest floor on the various wild dark berry and earth scents. The sleek, cool and energetic middle weight flavors are delicious and complex if a bit less concentrated and structured on the brooding finish where the supported tannins arrive just as the persistence begins to fade away. Drinking range: 2023 - Rating: 89-91 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2017)

Domaine J. Confuron Cotetidot

Vignerons since the seventeenth century, the Confuron family has always selected and propagated vines to ensure that their plant material produces the highest quality, and they even have a clone of Pinot named after them - 'Pinot Confuron'.

The domaine has several Grands Cru vineyards as well as two hectares of the great Vosne Romanée Premier Cru 'Les Suchots'. There are around 12 hectares in all. The vines have never seen chemical weedkillers, and are ploughed and managed organically.

The Confurons have always used whole-bunch fermentation, picking very late, which really is a necessity if the stems are to be properly ripe and not give green flavours to the wine. A bit like the Thévenets with their whites in the Mâconnais, they pick so much later that they can seem to have different vintages to everyone else. Yves thinks that 2007 was their great vintage of the first decade of this millennium, and he'd probably be the only grower in the Côte de Nuits who would say that. Yves also makes the wines at Domaine de Courcelin Pommard, in the same way.

Yves, opinionated and laconical as ever, dismisses those who make pale wines by 'infusion' and says that failing to get the whole bunches properly ripe - and using all the bunch - is failing to get everything the terroir can offer. The wines he makes are dark, richly concentrated, and often hard to taste in their development, but experience shows that they age brilliantly. Defending his decision to pick late, he once said 'you miss the differentiation between vintages' if you don't - making 'cut-and-paste' wines which are the same every year... if you pay for a seat at the opera, you don't want to hear a variety singer'.

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