2023 Gevrey Chambertin Dix Climats Drouhin Laroze
£255.00 In Bond £306.00 Inc VAT (£51.00 Per Bottle)-
Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 87-89
The 2023 Gevrey-Chambertin Dix Climats comes from ten climats, funnily enough. Each is vinified separately with 20% whole bunch. It has a brisk bouquet with nicely defined blackberry and redcurrant fruit and just a touch of iris flower in the background. The palate is ripe on the entry with pastille-like purity, a little candied in style, with a dab of licorice toward the finish. Fine.
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Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 87-89
The 2023 Gevrey-Chambertin Dix Climats comes from ten climats, funnily enough. Each is vinified separately with 20% whole bunch. It has a brisk bouquet with nicely defined blackberry and redcurrant fruit and just a touch of iris flower in the background. The palate is ripe on the entry with pastille-like purity, a little candied in style, with a dab of licorice toward the finish. Fine.
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Burghound, January 2025, Score: 87-89
A brooding dark berry fruit, earth and sauvage-inflected nose leads to lighter weight flavors that possess a finer mouthfeel and particularly so on the youthfully austere and dusty finale.
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Jasper Morris MW, November 2024, Score: 90-91
A fine even fresh purple. Here the bouquet has retained a fresh vigour, confirmed on the palate. This Gevrey comes across slightly more raspberry than strawberry with a fine, evenly balanced fruit weight, and enough structure from acidity and tannin. Drink from 2028-2033.
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GWL, December 2024
Four hectares of village Gevrey Chambertin in ten different locations is a sizeable parcel and, as a result, this cuvée is a superb example of this famous Côte de Nuits appellation. An array of dark spice and cocoa bean, this is a Gevrey which exudes confidence. Sweet dark berry flavours, with a sense of structure and depth. This is broad and rich on the palate and finishes on a touch of bitter orange. Excellent appellational style.
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2023 Gevrey Chambertin En Champs Drouhin Laroze
£340.00 In Bond-
Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 91-93
The 2023 Gevrey-Chambertin En Champs has a delightful bouquet with the new oak a little more evident than the other cuvées, but that will be subsumed with age. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins and fresh, crisp acidity. The 20% whole bunch imparts pepperiness on the finish. This is another cuvée that is a step up from the 2022 vintage and comes recommended.
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Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 91-93
The 2023 Gevrey-Chambertin En Champs has a delightful bouquet with the new oak a little more evident than the other cuvées, but that will be subsumed with age. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins and fresh, crisp acidity. The 20% whole bunch imparts pepperiness on the finish. This is another cuvée that is a step up from the 2022 vintage and comes recommended.
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Burghound, January 2025, Score: 88-91
Firm reduction presently dominates the nose but there is both good verve and freshness to the succulent and delicious medium weight flavors that flash a subtle minerality that adds a sense of lift to the youthfully austere, linear and serious finale that is firm enough to need patience as this is borderline strict.
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Jasper Morris MW, November 2024, Score: 90-93
Mid purple. A classy perfumed bouquet, in dark raspberry mode, with excellent tension on the palate. Medium concentration, with a classy quality of fresh fruit that merits a little ageing. Drink from 2029-2034.
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GWL, December 2024
This is a fine vineyard, with its 60-year-old vines sitting just below Premier Cru Champeaux on the northern edge of the village. Whilst a proportion goes into the Dix Climats, Nicolas vinifies and bottles the finest plots separately and gives the wine a 30% new oak elevage to support the weight of fruit. A combination of smoky black forest fruits and whole bunch vinification scent. The initial attack is quite tight and controlled, as is so often the case with this cuvée, it evolves on the palate and shows all the potential to be a very high-class wine, with bottle age.
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2023 Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru Craipillots Drouhin Laroze
£450.00 In Bond £540.00 Inc VAT (£90.00 Per Bottle)-
Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 93-95
The 2023 Gevrey-Chambertin Craipillot 1er Cru has a tangibly mineral bouquet that seeps through the airy brambly red fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, perfectly judged acidity, a silky-smooth texture and a pixelated finish. Frankly, I was not prepared for how well this Premier Cru performs. Superb.
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Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 93-95
The 2023 Gevrey-Chambertin Craipillot 1er Cru has a tangibly mineral bouquet that seeps through the airy brambly red fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, perfectly judged acidity, a silky-smooth texture and a pixelated finish. Frankly, I was not prepared for how well this Premier Cru performs. Superb.
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Burghound, January 2025, Score: 89-92
This is also quite firmly reduced and revealing nothing aromatically. The succulent, suave and seductively textured flavors are unusually rich if less powerful and stony than those of the Lavaut, all wrapped in a dusty and ever-so-mildly warm finale.
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Jancis Robinson, January 2025, Score: 16.5+
Savoury, firm, emphatic but operatic in its tenor soar of fruit. Underlying walnuts. Tannins like well-worn floorboards carrying the weight of the wine. Long, crafted lines. So firm and yet so mellifluous. (TC)
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Jasper Morris MW, November 2024, Score: 90-93
Ruby to crimson. The nose is a bit discombobulated by slightly over present oak and some reduction, but the palate comes across very well, with an energy of strawberry and raspberry fruit, backed by adequate structure. Middleweight plus with an attractive texture and long finish. Drink from 2030-2036.
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GWL, December 2024
The name Craipillots is a reference to the stony soils in the vineyard, which surely have an influence on the very mineral nature of this wine. Full of brightness and energy, with characters of cranberry and wild alpine strawberry (25% whole bunch). This is very serious in nature, direct in its linear structure and the most thought provoking of the Premiers Crus, with its long, complex finish. Requires time but will be a superb classic Pinot.
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2023 Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Prieur Drouhin Laroze New Released 07/02/2025
£460.00 In Bond £552.00 Inc VAT (£92.00 Per Bottle)-
Burghound, January 2025, Score: 89-92
Enough wood to merit pointing out is present on the liqueur-like aromas of poached plum, cherry and discreet earth and spice wisps. The vibrant middle weight flavors are not as rich but they are finer and more mineral-driven as well before culminating in a refreshing, dusty and youthfully austere finale that needs to develop better depth.
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Burghound, January 2025, Score: 89-92
Enough wood to merit pointing out is present on the liqueur-like aromas of poached plum, cherry and discreet earth and spice wisps. The vibrant middle weight flavors are not as rich but they are finer and more mineral-driven as well before culminating in a refreshing, dusty and youthfully austere finale that needs to develop better depth.
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Jasper Morris MW, November 2024, Score: 90-93
Dark purple, a slightly earthy note on the nose. Quite concentrated on the cusp of red and black fruit, the structure shows a little earth too but it is clean. Not quite in place but could be of interest. Finishes clean. Drink from 2030-2035.
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GWL, December 2024
This Premier Cru owes its name to the Prior of the Abbaye de Cluny. The monastery which historically owned all the great Gevrey Chambertin vineyards, and this was a favourite plot with the Prior at that time. A sweet and generous wine with nutmeg and tarragon undertones preceding an array of wild blackberry fruit. Very long and deliciously succulent on the finish.
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2023 Chapelle Chambertin Grand Cru Drouhin Laroze
£930.00 In Bond £1,116.00 Inc VAT (£186.00 Per Bottle)-
Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 93-95
The 2023 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru, matured in around 70% new oak, has a well-defined bouquet of brambly red berry fruit, tobacco and light licorice scents. It is very focused and gains intensity with aeration. Fresh and vibrant, the medium-bodied palate is smooth in texture with pliant tannins and a judicious touch of black pepper on the finish. Very classy.
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Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 93-95
The 2023 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru, matured in around 70% new oak, has a well-defined bouquet of brambly red berry fruit, tobacco and light licorice scents. It is very focused and gains intensity with aeration. Fresh and vibrant, the medium-bodied palate is smooth in texture with pliant tannins and a judicious touch of black pepper on the finish. Very classy.
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Burghound, January 2025, Score: 90-93
Once again a deft application of wood envelops pretty and layered aromas of violet, black cherry and crushed anise. There is good if not exceptional volume to the caressing and rounded medium weight flavors that conclude in a compact, moderately austere and clearly built-to-age finale where a touch of bitter bit fruit character eventually surfaces.
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Jasper Morris MW, November 2024, Score: 93-96
Fresh ruby colour. The bouquet is attractive, floral, lighter than the Lavaut-St-Jacques. There is an attractive light but fine red fruit across the palate, with more tensile strength than one would expect given the lighter concentration of fruit. Nicely put together in an understated fashion. Drink from 2031-2038.
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GWL, December 2024
The Drouhin Laroze plot is one of the very best in this appellation, named after the place of worship, just below Chambertin Clos de Bèze. A proportion of whole bunch vinification with the substance to cope with 80% new oak gives both extravagance and personality to the wine. The lifting “croquant” cranberry characters combine seamlessly with the mocha and freshly roasted coffee bean perfume. On the palate this is both full and compact thanks to the high proportion of clay in the soil which gives the wine a seriousness and sense of aristocratic confidence. Very long, with a lasting sensation of sweetness and alpine fruits. A rising star in the Grand Cru hierarchy.
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2023 Latricières Chambertin Grand Cru Drouhin Laroze
£930.00 In Bond £1,116.00 Inc VAT (£186.00 Per Bottle)-
Burghound, January 2025, Score: 91-93
An interesting nose is at once quite cool but also markedly ripe as there is a touch of bitter chocolate character to the nose of airy red berry and wet stone aromas. The finer but not richer or more voluminous flavors are definitely more mineral-driven while delivering slightly better depth and persistence on the balanced, youthfully austere and balanced finale.
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Burghound, January 2025, Score: 91-93
An interesting nose is at once quite cool but also markedly ripe as there is a touch of bitter chocolate character to the nose of airy red berry and wet stone aromas. The finer but not richer or more voluminous flavors are definitely more mineral-driven while delivering slightly better depth and persistence on the balanced, youthfully austere and balanced finale.
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Jasper Morris MW, November 2024, Score: 93-95
A darker colour with a richer riper nose, Latricières has caught the sun more than Chapelle. It was picked later as coming from a cooler site, but with more clay, especially in the lower part of the plot. This is not too heavy though, nor too cooked – it is just the contrast which is interesting. Drink from 2031-2038.
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GWL, December 2024
A very old vine parcel, planted by Nicolas and Caroline’s grandfather in the 1960’s. In 2023 they only used 10% whole cluster as these aged vines naturally give fruit with small berries that are high in concentration. Aromatics of elderberry, Morello cherry and wood fire scent. An easy warmth and generosity of fruit, densely concentrated and a fine, long lingering finish.
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2023 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru Drouhin Laroze
£970.00 In Bond £1,185.54 Inc VAT (£197.59 Per Bottle)-
Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 95-97
The 2023 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru has an intense bouquet with black cherry, raspberry and violet scents that burst from the glass. The palate is medium-bodied, fleshy and very pure, with saturated tannins, impressive depth and plenty of blue fruit on the finish that makes it seem like a Bonnes-Mares. Superb.
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Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 95-97
The 2023 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru has an intense bouquet with black cherry, raspberry and violet scents that burst from the glass. The palate is medium-bodied, fleshy and very pure, with saturated tannins, impressive depth and plenty of blue fruit on the finish that makes it seem like a Bonnes-Mares. Superb.
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Burghound, January 2025, Score: 90-92
Here too firm reduction overshadows the underlying fruit. There is even better volume and slightly better mid-palate density to the sappy broad-shouldered flavors that also conclude in a dusty, very austere and compact finale where a prominent bitter pit fruit character, as well as a touch of warmth, appear. This is difficult to accurately read as the bitterness concerns me though at this early stage, it could well age out if given a chance.
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Jasper Morris MW, November 2024, Score: 93-95
All destemmed because of millerand grapes. A dense black colour, this shows some concentration in bouquet, dark black fruit, which continues on the palate, solid, though in this vintage not too muscular, with an attractive dark berry aftertaste. Drink from 2032-2040.
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GWL, December 2024
Lying at the top of the Clos just below the Château, in a parcel called “des Papes” reputedly reserved for the Popes of Avignon, the Drouhin Laroze hectare of vines is one of the very best positioned in Clos de Vougeot. The quality found here supports 80% new oak élevage, but with the Clos’ abundant natural power, Nicolas prefers to destalk the fruit 100%. An array of spice, cinnamon and clove intermingles with some juicy dark Morello cherry flavours. The initial impression is of sweetness and openness, highlighting the vintage’s warmth, but then the Clos’ brooding muscle builds and takes control. A very serious wine supporting the Clos’ reputation for making one of the Côte d’Or’s most powerful and longest-ageing Grands Crus.
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2023 Bonnes Mares Grand Cru Drouhin Laroze
£1,170.00 In Bond £1,425.54 Inc VAT (£237.59 Per Bottle)2023 Chambertin Clos de Bèze Grand Cru Drouhin Laroze
£1,195.00 In Bond £1,434.00 Inc VAT (£239.00 Per Bottle)-
Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 95-97
The 2023 Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze Grand Cru has an exquisite bouquet with vivacious brambly red fruit. It is very refined and poised with great transparency, yet there is power here (unusual in this vintage). A little edgier and more tensile than the Clos de Vougeot, the palate is medium-bodied with finely spun tannins and a sapid finish. Long and tender, this is deeply impressive.
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Neal Martin, November 2024, Score: 95-97
The 2023 Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze Grand Cru has an exquisite bouquet with vivacious brambly red fruit. It is very refined and poised with great transparency, yet there is power here (unusual in this vintage). A little edgier and more tensile than the Clos de Vougeot, the palate is medium-bodied with finely spun tannins and a sapid finish. Long and tender, this is deeply impressive.
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Burghound, January 2025, Score: 89-92
Once again the nose is sufficiently firmly reduced to preclude an assessment. By contrast there is a lovely sense of freshness and verve to the medium-bodied and caressing flavors that exude a subtle bead of minerality that adds a sense of punch to the dusty, compact and somewhat grippy finale. This may well come together but today it's less harmonious than its grand cru brethren.
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Jancis Robinson, January 2025, Score: 17++
Like the Drouhin-Laroze Clos de Vougeot, this grand cru also has a distinctive balsamic tang. Red earth, rusty nail, beetroot and then this intense, concentrated sweetness that is almost like raisins. Persistent, urgent, strong. Tannins that feel like they’re encircling the wine. Lots of pepper and sumac and even chipotle. Smoky finish. Big and concentrated but the Clos de Bèze is carrying it off better than the Clos de Vougeot. (TC)
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Jasper Morris MW, November 2024, Score: 94-97
A vigorous ruby purple. The bouquet is well structured. The fruit appears to be picked at the perfect moment. Their plot is along the route des grands crus which gives extra weight. A silky texture, alongside undoubted weight of fruit, this has everything in ideal balance, red and black fruit together, fine tannins and adequate acidity. Drink from 2032-2040.
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GWL, December 2024
This great Grand Cru was a favourite of the monks of Cluny in the early days of classification. The Drouhin Laroze 1.5 hectares are particularly important; planted in 1949 they are over 70 years old and produce fruit of exceptional quality and intensity. This beautiful 2023 highlights why for many this is their favourite Grand Cru, with its silky grace and delicious volume. A multitude of dark berry and Black Forest gateau flavours, laced with violet and allspice. Such a graceful wine, with instant appeal. It will require huge will power not to drink too early, before its absolute prime. A total joy!
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