2017 Domaine Hubert Lignier Gevrey-Chambertin Les Seuvrées

The 2017 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Seuvrées contains around 20% whole bunch fruit. It has a fresh, generous bouquet, hints of brown spice infusing the red fruit. The palate is well balanced with sappy red fruit laced with orange peel, quite firm grip in the mouth and a slightly austere finish at the moment. Give this three or four years.

The 2017 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Seuvrées is showing very well, unfurling in the glass with suggestions of cassis, raspberries, sweet soil tones and spices. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, ample and nicely concentrated, with good depth at the core and fine-grained but firm, even chalky, structuring tannins. This should evolve well in bottle.

Barrel sample. They have more than 1 ha (2.5 acres) on clayey soils. Very old vines near Mazoyères. 25% whole bunch. Mid cherry red. Dark and lightly chewy, more savoury than the Reniard. Fine boned, dry, darkly scented. A little bit hard on the finish. (JH)