2005 | Domaine Denis Bachelet | Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru les Corbeaux Vieilles Vignes

Bright, deep ruby-red. Pure dark berries, tar and violet on the high-pitched nose. At once lush and juicy, with terrific definition to its flavors of black fruits, tar and mint. The substantial, strong tannins reach the front teeth. Finishes uncompromisingly dry but with the fat of the year. Bachelet tends to press early, as he's afraid of getting too much extraction of tannins in the presence of alcohol. This one needs a solid decade of bottle aging.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Bachelet’s 2005 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Corbeaux (from a tiny cru adjacent to Mazis and still palpably gassy from late malo) offers a profound nose of fresh blackberry and smoked meat. It displays a lean, sharply-focused palate of ripe and deep but tart black fruits and salted, toasted walnuts, with an undertone of bitter chocolate. The contrast of darkly-hued fruit, stony minerality, and palpably high extract with persistent fresh, tart, juiciness is striking, but this clearly outstanding wine nevertheless really needs time to knit itself and reveal its future personality.

• Wine Spectator: Like all of the '05 Bachelet wines I tasted the Corbeaux displays enough wood to notice though not so much as to dominate the distinctly sauvage and highly complex dark berry fruit and earth aromas that remain largely if not completely primary in character. There is the same excellent complexity to the utterly delicious and seductively textured medium-bodied flavors that brim with dry extract on the still firm finale that delivers outstanding length on the impeccably well-balanced finish. Thanks to the abundance sap this is not only quite drinkable now but it's enjoyable as well and thus my advice to hold for a few more years to allow the tannins to mellow is less important than usual.

Producer Information

Domaine Denis Bachelet is a small Burgundy producer in Gevrey-Chambertin that has created a following around its limited, small-production red wines made from Pinot Noir.The winery was established by Denis Bachelet in 1983, when he took over family plots totalling just under two hectares (five acres). His grandfather had tended the vines until his retirement in 1973, but his father had pursued another career, and the vineyards had suffered from the lack of attention.Bachelet doubled the estate's vineyard holdings, and acquired a small plot in the grand cru Charmes-Chambertin vineyard, and another plot in the premier cru Les Corbeaux vineyard. Both holdings cover just over 0.4 hectares (one acre) each.Denis Bachelet also makes several Gevrey-Chambertin and Côte de Nuits-Villages wines, as well as a Bourgogne Rouge and a Bourgogne Aligoté.

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