Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru 2021 - "Lavaux Saint Jacques"
- Red
- 75 cl
Superb vintage for this Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru "Lavaux St Jacques" from Domaine Tortocervot: a 2021 Premier Cru that is opening fully, powerful but delicate. Organic wine
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Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru 2021 - "Lavaux Saint Jacques"
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Complex
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Powerful
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Mineral
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Fruity
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Woody
Although recent, the 2021 vintage is one of the years that can open quite quickly. This Gevrey Chambertin Premier Cru to flourish in a very beautiful way, bringing a balance and power worthy of the greatest red wines of Burgundy.
The 2 plots that make up this wine are complementary. Find the satellite visualization of the plot, and an aerial photo of the vines below.
This garnet cherry wine has a spicy rib and has a strong structure embellished with very delicate tannins. Strength but also finesse and elegance, with a good structure.
Both firm and powerful, it offers a complex bouquet that will mix red and black fruits, undergrowth, spices and flowers.
Operating temperature: 15 to 16°
Visualization of the 2 parcels of vines in a place called "Lavaux St Jacques" in Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru:
mets & vins
Red wine of tannic Burgundy - Corsé: grilled or roasted pork, steaks or ribs of beef, cobblestones and beef steaks, braised beef in sauce, furry game, couscous and tagines, Epoisse
caractéristiques
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Appellation
Premier Cru -
Type of Wine
Still -
Wine Making
Oak casks -
Grape Variety
Pinot Noir -
Harvest
Manual -
Burgundy Region
Côte de Nuits -
Vintage
2021 -
Service
14 to 16 degrees -
Custody potential
2028
appellation
Gevrey Chambertin
Wine Characteristics
In the first flush of youth their color is a bright ruby, turning to deep carmine or dark cerise with age. Strawberry, mulberry, violet, mignonette, and rose all help to make up their bouquet of spontaneous aromas. More maturity brings out liquorices, leather and fur, with gamey notes and hints of underbrush. On the palate, they impress by their firm structure, velvety tannins and delicate texture. These wines are everything a great Bourgogne should be: fullbodied, powerful, rich, and meaty. They have both body and spirit. Pleasant when drunk young “on the fruit”, they are nevertheless first and foremost wines for aging, often for long periods. As such, they make an excellent basis for comparing different vintages.
Wine Steward’s Tip
Massive, yet velvet-smooth, the tannins of Gevrey-Chambertin confer power and solidity to the build and contribute to its great longevity. This is a wine for meat-eater, its gamey notes giving it a particular affinity for game, whether furred or feathered, especially when the wine is more fully evolved.
It also goes superbly with rib steak, lamb (braised or in brown sauce), and all musky, solidly fibrous meats, that need time in the mouth to extract all their savour. Some gourmets will even serve it with a fillet of pikeperch or tuna in red-wine sauce. It is at ease with all strong cow-milk cheeses, in particular Époisses, Ami du Chambertin (a local specialty) or Cîteaux (a near neighbour).
Serving temperature: 15 to 16°C.
Situation
For travellers coming from Dijon, Gevrey-Chambertin is where Bourgogne’s Elysian Fields begin. At the entrance to the hollowed hill of Lavaux, a château - once a property of the monks of Cluny - resembles a fortified wine-cellar.
The canons of Langres, too, were for a long time guardians of these vineyards which can be dated back to the year 640 AD, evidence of a long and intimate involvement in the history of Bourgogne’s wine industry. Gevrey-Chambertin forms a kind of guard of honour to a set of fabulous Grands Crus whose crown jewels are Chambertin and Clos de Bèze. The appellation dates from September 1936. The village of Brochon is an extension of Gevrey-Chambertin, sharing the same characteristics. The Pinot Noir is at its peak performance here.
Terroirs
The Premiers Crus occupy the upper portion of the Côte at heights of between 280 and 380 metres (brown limestone soils, rather shallow). Below are the appellation Village vines on brown calcic or limey soils. The vines also reap the benefit of marls covered with screes and red silt washed down from the plateau.
These stony mixtures confer elegance and delicacy on the wine while the clayey marls, which contain rich deposits of fossil shell-fish, add body and firmness.
Exposures vary from east to south-east.
Source : https://www.bourgogne-wines.com
domaine
Domaine Tortochot
Chantal Tortochot is part of a new generation of producers of great Burgundy wines who wish to respect the terroir and the vines as much as possible while leaving as much as possible the wines to express themselves.
Adepts of less interventionism, the Tortochot domain is in organic farming since several years.
In addition, the wines are neither filtered nor glued.
Domaine Tortochot offers for sale several red wines from the Côte de Nuits, village appellations, Premiers Crus and Grands Crus:
- Gevrey Chambertin "The Young Kings"
- Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru "Lavaux St Jacques"
- Mazis Chambertin Grand Cru
- Charmes Chambertin Grand Cru
- Chambertin Grand Cru
- Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
- Morey Saint Denis.
For more information on the Tortochot estate, click here: Domaine Tortochot
