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2016 Gevrey-Chambertin, Les Champeaux, 1er Cru, Olivier Bernstein, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
Product: 20161019777
2016 Gevrey-Chambertin, Les Champeaux, 1er Cru, Olivier Bernstein, Burgundy

Description

Deeper in colour, with more purple to the fore, here the bouquet displays a beguiling combination of spicy, red-black cherry fruit and hedonistic floral aromas, rounded out with a touch of sweet vanilla spice. There is a charming richness of spicy mulberry fruit on the entry to the palate, which fills out gradually to display succulent raspberry and redcurrant. The richness of the fruit profile is kept neatly in check by an underlying freshness and focused energy which manifests itself in the form of chalky, persistent minerality on the finish. The tannin profile is refined with just a touch of charming rusticity and earthy spice which speaks vividly of Gevrey, but the overall profile is one of energy and vibrancy, with elegant red berry fruit. Drink 2022-2030.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2016
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Olivier Bernstein

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Olivier Bernstein

Much has changed in Burgundy, both economically and climatologically, since Olivier Bernstein began his eponymous project with the 2007 vintage. Yet the aim here remains essentially the same: to produce wines of the highest possible quality and to forego nothing in a quest to create elegant, sensual and refined wines that can sit comfortably among the top wines of Burgundy. It is this quest for perfection that has seen Olivier cease production of two of his Premiers Crus in order to focus on his domaine holding in Champeaux, and the seven Grands Crus which are now well established in the range: Charmes-Chambertin; Mazis-Chambertin; Chambertin Clos de Bèze; Chambertin; Clos de la Roche; Bonnes Mares; and Clos de Vougeot.
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