Latricières Chambertin, Grand Cru, 2021
Darker spicy fruits with a savoury kick, of a completely different order from Chapelle. Rippling with salty dark fruits on the palate, plenty of virility and structured intensity. This is not a big strapping wine but it is quite serious, with complex minerality, brooding tea and smoked fruit notes on the finish. One of Gevrey’s great Grand Crus, the Drouhin Laroze parcel is majorly influenced by the surrounding forest, which helps to offset the warm, stony soils. Fermented with 15% whole bunches and aged in 75% new oak. Latricières is a stonier and windier terroir than the other Grands Crus of Gevrey, producing firm, minerally wines.
critic reviews
The 2021 Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru has a perfumed floral lavender-scented bouquet with a mixture of red and black fruit. It does not quite achieve the focus of Faiveley's Mazis-Chambertin but builds nicely in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy red fruit, quite saline from the get-go with ample grip. Structured and linear, peppery with an almost feisty finish, I am sure that time will tame this. Excellent. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.