2014 Domaine Taupenot-Merme Gevrey-Chambertin

Medium red. Smoky, wild aromas of raspberry, strawberry, game and earth. Then juicy and sappy but edge-free in the mouth, with firm underlying minerality giving a penetrating quality to its red fruit flavors. Another very successful village wine with enticing inner-mouth perfume and noteworthy persistence.

(from four parcels planted at a variety of altitudes): Healthy medium red. Aromas of strawberry, raspberry, flowers, spices and minerals, plus a subtle note of honey. Sappy, smooth and sweet but with excellent acidity and mineral grip to frame the inviting red fruit flavors.

The 2014 Gevrey-Chambertin Villages has an elegant, quite mineral-led bouquet considering it is a village cru. This is a complex bouquet that deserves a light round of applause and there is appreciable transparency here. The palate is sorbet-fresh on the entry with orange zest infusing the red cherry fruit, slightly chalky in texture with a dash of spice on the linear finish. Very fine.