Burghound.com 88-90 An expressive nose of wonderfully fresh and bright red fruit nuanced by touches of underbrush, earth and wet stone leads to rich, sweet and full-bodied flavors that are obviously concentrated though supple and I like the detail and texture of the finish. This is very Gevrey in character with good ripeness to the structural elements. Worth a look.、
From a parcel just outside Brochon, the Geantet-Pansiot 2005 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Jeunes Rois offers aromas of bright cherry fruit with sauteed mushrooms and chalk dust. Concentrated and compact on the palate, with persistently tart, fresh cherry, impressively mouth-coating if a bit marked for now by both its acidity and slightly austere tannins, this seems to ask for at least 3-4 years in bottle.
Vincent Geantet as usual bottled well before year’s end, and his wines seemed to be having a particularly expressive, fruit-filled day when I tasted. Interestingly, much as he bottles all of his wines together, so, Geantet’s barrel regimen is the same regardless of appellation: one-third each of new, one-year and two-year wood. He prolonged the pre-fermentative maceration to eight days, which seems to have enhanced the brightness of fruit exhibited by these wines. I must say I did not come prepared for quite such an impressive collection as that which Geantet delivered.