Jean Michel Guillon, Gevrey Chambertin Champonnets

Jean Michel Guillon, Gevrey Chambertin ChamponnetsModerate reduction is enough to dominate the fruit today but there is very good freshness and verve to the big bodied, bold and robust flavors that are blessed with an abundance of dry extract that does a fine job of buffering the very firm tannic spine shaping the strikingly complex and persistent finale. Champonnets is always better in very warm and or hot vintages and 2018 is a fine example of that.

This is ready for consumption today

The black raspberries

The 1998 Monbousquet is medium to deep garnet-brick in color with wonderful dried mulberries

(planted in 1985)

purity and elegance

with a medicinal note of menthol

Painful to drink

or Fonseca

detailed and lightly mineralinflected flavors that culminate in a linear and solidly persistent finish

Note however that this is one very structured wine that will require a lengthy stay in a cool cellar to arrive at its full peak

Good full red

The palate is rounded and candied on the entry with orange pith and light apricot notes