Tasting Notes
Vinous 90/100
The 2019 Gevrey-Chambertin Clos Prieur 1er Cru offers brambly red fruit on the nose, which is not quite as cohesive as Amelie Berthaut’s Fixin Les Arvelets that precedes it. It has lighter extraction in evidence, coming across as earthy with touches of rolled tobacco. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit. A little chewy in texture with fine weight, it seems comparatively rustic toward the finish. Time will meliorate this Premier Cru, but it just misses a bit of pedigree. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2038
Burghound 91
An aromatically ripe but cool nose offers up an elegant, even perfumed, array of red cherry, violet and soft earth wisps. There is a beguiling texture to the super-sleek middle weight flavors that possess a lovely sense of underlying tension that builds on the intensely saline-inflected, youthfully austere and firm finale where a touch of warmth slowly emerges. This is pretty much textbook Clos Prieur.
