EN PRIMEUR
This product is currently en primeur status. Effectively, it's a pre-order with payment
required now and stock will be delivered up to 18 months later.
For more detailed arrival times please contact the store.
Benjamin Leroux Gevrey Chambertin 2018
DOZEN: $3,240.00 or $270.00 each
A markedly earthy nose exhibits aromas of both red and black wild berries along with a whiff of underbrush. The supple, round and relatively easy-going middle weight flavors terminate in a grippy finish BURGHOUND
FIVE STARS - What he has made is excellent. Mid purple colour, with a very elegant attractively ripe deep red fruit nose. Excellent fresh mineral touch at the back, the savoury detail for which Gevrey is noted, fine boned and very persistent. JASPER MORRIS MW
WORTH A SPECIAL SEARCH - This has a wonderful nose - open, fine fruit and at the same time perfumed - bravo. In the mouth a little less fine focus, generous yet still fresh over the palate. It's delicious and smells gorgeous - the finish reflecting the nose. If the first palate tightens up then grand, grand villages. BILL NANSON, The Burgundy Report
The 2018 Gevrey-Chambertin Village is mostly from Les Seuvrées, aged half in 600-liter and half in 225-liter barrels, and has a fragrant bouquet of blackberry, briar and light chalky aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit and quite saline in the mouth, with plenty of energy on the refined finish, which really benefits from the stem addition. This comes highly recommended given its prospective price tag. NEAL MARTIN
The lieux-dits Les Seuvrées, La Justice, Billard, and Le Fourneau all contribute grapes for this cuvée. 10% fermented as whole clusters give just a touch of well-integrated menthol character, but there is a perfect purity of rose-scented cherry fruit here and a texture that balances elegance and traditional Gevrey backbone. The tannins are firm, and the wine retains admirable freshness for the vintage. This is a marvelous village-level Gevrey. DECANTER