Gevrey-Chambertin 2022 - "Old Vines"
- Red
- 75 cl
Gevrey Chambertin 2022 from Vieilles Vignes: strength and sweetness meet for a great Burgundy red wine of exceptional quality.
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tasting
Gevrey-Chambertin 2022 - "Old Vines"
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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
The 2022 vintage expresses concentration and refinement here. The Mazilly estate offers a magnificent wine, to be ranked among the best of the Gevrey Chambertin appellation.
Character of the wine:
- The brilliance of youth colours it with a bright ruby which with age takes on a dark carmine, black cherry hue. Strawberry, blackberry, violet, reseda and rose are part of their spontaneous aromas, while maturity gives it a bouquet of liquorice, leather and fur, with accents of game and undergrowth. On the palate, a great Burgundy expresses itself. Whole and powerful, rich, full-bodied, with a body and a mind, it asserts itself on a firm structure, tannins that play on velvet, expressing itself on a very fine grain, without harshness. Pleasant young and to drink on its fruit, it is also a wine for laying down.
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Visualization of the Gevrey Chambertin vineyard, Mazilly estate:
food pairing
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
features
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Appellation
Village -
Type of Wine
Still -
Wine Making
Oak casks -
Grape Variety
Pinot Noir -
Harvest
Manual -
Burgundy Region
Côte de Nuits -
Vintage
2022 -
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
Estate
Domaine Mazilly
Burgundy has been the cradle of the Mazilly family for several generations.
In the early 1950s, Pierre Mazilly succeeded his grandfather. His son Frédéric and grandson Aymeric have taken up the torch and continue the family tradition. The Mazilly family takes care of all stages of production itself, from the work in the vineyard to bottling, in order to always offer high quality wines.
The premises are located in Meloisey, a small village in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune region with a winemaking tradition for centuries, and it is even said that Meloisey wine was served at the coronation of Philippe-Auguste in 1179.
Since 2001, most of the wines have been aged and aged in the cellars located in Meursault.The estate's vineyards, 18 hectares in total, are mainly located in the Hautes Côtes de Beaune, but also in renowned appellations such as Gevrey-Chambertin, Pommard, Volnay or Meursault...
