2016 Gevrey Chambertin Les Combottes
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The 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Combottes 1er Cru is packed with plenty of brambly red fruit mixed with rose petals and sous-bois on the nose. This is vibrant and ambitious. The palate is medium-bodied with fine bone, slightly chalky tannins, tightening up towards the finish, suggesting that this has long-term plans. I appreciate the freshness and focus here, and it has great potential. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting.
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The 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Aux Combottes had been recently bottled. Matured in 20% new oak with 30% whole bunch, it has an impressive, energetic, animated bouquet that leaps from the glass with red cherries and crushed strawberry infused with mineral/flint. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine, supple tannin. There is a candied element to this Combottes, pretty and almost sorbet fresh with hints of blood orange and brown spice lending complexity and charm on the finish. This is one of Cyprien Arlaud’s finest Combottes to date. Tasted at Flint Wines’ Arlaud retrospective.
Bright, dark red. Captivating nose melds high-pitched aromas of raspberry, redcurrant and flowers and a sexy earthy perfume. Stylish and deep on the palate, displaying a slightly medicinal quality to its flavors of red fruits, spices and menthol and finishes with sneaky length. There's a saline minerality here that saturates the taste buds and leaves them quivering. Arlaud told me that at the outset he compared the '16s to the '12s for their ripeness and sucrosité but that he now feels that the '16s possess more energy.