Top Gevrey-Chambertin 2020 en primeur wines
A round-up of the best Gevrey-Chambertin 2020 wines with Charles Curtis MW finding that all of the nine grand crus in Gevrey produced delicious wines.
According to Denis Bachelet in Gevrey, 2020 ‘was a vintage where the wines resembled the Rhône more than Burgundy’.
He notes that his yield was 35-40% below an average harvest.
Scroll down for tasting notes and scores for Charles’ top-scoring Gevrey-Chambertin 2020 wines
Fellow Gevrey vigneron Loïc Dugat-Py was pleased with his results: ‘We began to pick on the 20th of August, but the old vines did not suffer too much from the dry conditions. The weather concentrated the sugars and the acidity simultaneously, and we have a similar quantity as in 2019. Potential alcohol levels were 13-13.5% at harvest, with pH levels between 3.1-3.2.’
See the score table listing Charles’ top Côte de Nuits 2020 wines all scoring 95 points or above
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Dugat-Py (whose teams pick early in the morning) attributes this partly to the fact that he did not hedge the vines or pull any leaves until one week before the harvest.
Satisfied with the quality of the fruit, he did not feel the need to adapt either the percentage of whole clusters (which remained high) or his habit of punching down to ensure extraction.
Meanwhile, Nicolas Rossignol at Domaine Rossignol-Trapet was surprised at the balance of the vines. ‘Between the 15th of June and 15th of August, there was no more than 10mm of rain,’ he recalls.
‘Fortunately, there was another 20mm on the 20th of August and again on the 27th. Despite the rather severe drought conditions, there was no “figging” of the grapes [over-ripe, cooked or jammy flavours], and the overall yield was similar to 2019.’
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Côte de Beaune | Côte de Nuits | Mâconnais | Côte Chalonnaise
Morey-St-Denis | Meursault | Chambolle-Musigny | Pommard and Volnay | Vosne-Romanée
All of the nine grand crus in Gevrey produced delicious wines, and it was a particularly good year for Ruchottes-Chambertin and for Premier Crus Cazetiers, Clos St-Jacques, Lavaux St-Jacques and Aux Combottes.
Gevrey-Chambertin 2020 top value wines:
Domaine Rossignol-Trapet, Aux Etalois, Gevrey-Chambertin, 2020
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