Indulge in the esteemed Pernot Pere & Fils Gevrey-Chambertin Les Jeunes Rois 2020, an exemplar of fine Burgundian craftsmanship. Crafted in France's renowned Côte de Nuits, this superb wine captivates with its intensity and balance. The Gevrey-Chambertin vineyard, revered for its limestone-rich terroir, imparts a distinct minerality in every sip.

Admired producer Pernot Pere & Fils, renowned for meticulous viticultural practices and sustainable farming, ensures only the finest grapes are chosen for this coveted cuvée. Harvested from their younger vines, Les Jeunes Rois showcases vivacity and luminosity. Post-harvest, the grapes are vinified with indigenous yeasts, contributing to the unique and complex profile. On the palate, anticipate exquisite notes of red and dark fruits, intertwining seamlessly with a striking pepperiness. Well-integrated tannins and a lengthy finish make the Pernot Pere & Fils Gevrey-Chambertin Les Jeunes Rois 2020 truly memorable. A robust expression of Burgundy, it will reward those with patience, reaching peak maturity over the next few years.

Indulge in the exquisite Pernot Pere & Fils Gevrey-Chambertin Les Jeunes Rois 2021, an award-winning Pinot Noir made in the renowned Burgundy region of France. This remarkable wine is rich with the traditional piquancy of ripe red fruits and a delicate trace of earthy undertones. Produced by the revered Pernot Pere & Fils, their meticulous attention to detail, combined with old-world tradition and cutting-edge techniques, creates an opulent and well-balanced taste experience. This vineyard uses strictly organic cultivation, providing a genuine, pure taste of serenity, distinct to the terroir of Gevrey-Chambertin.

Aged in fine French oak to enhance its complex flavours and aroma, Pernot Pere & Fils Gevrey-Chambertin Les Jeunes Rois 2021 boasts an impressive aging potential. Its refined structure and depth are truly praiseworthy, resulting in an exceptional wine, ready to grace the tables of discerning wine lovers.

Vinous (92-94)

The 2017 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru is much more reserved on the nose compared to the Charmes-Chambertin, the fruit a little darker. There is something of a crushed-pebble, almost beach-like scent, a distant tang of cockle sheds that surfaces with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grained tannin and a little more depth and grip than the Charmes-Chambertin, even if it does not quite display the same sensuality and flesh on the finish. Good potential.

Wine Advocate (90-92)

The 2016 Nuit St Georges Les Murgers des Cras is a blend of 20% Les Murgers, 20% Les Cras and 60% La Richmoine. I appreciate the energy of the aromatics here, the scents springing from the glass to offer bright Morello cherry and crushed strawberry scents, the mineralité neatly interwoven. The palate is medium-bodied with fine grain tannin, nimbler than its peers with fine delineation and poise on the finish. This will be well worth seeking out.

Vinous (90-92)

(no new oak): Bright, dark red. Deep aromas of raspberry, redcurrant, flowers and minerals. Rich, sweet and pliant; seamless and sappy, combining lovely fat and precision. Quite suave owing to its vinosity. From the northern corner of the appellation. An excellent showing today.

Jancis Robinson (18+)

This really makes you take notice! Satin texture and very savoury. Grapes have to be fresh. Very exciting, even explosive. Very cool but concentrated. Very long indeed.

Vinous (97-99)

(just one new barrel out of seven): Dark red with ruby tones. Essence-of-Burgundy perfume of raspberry, white pepper, cardamom, Cuban tobacco, coffee and underbrush. Outrageously dense and intense on entry, then brilliantly delineated, penetrating and sweet in the middle palate, with its tangy red berry and earth flavors enlivened by building notes of menthol, rose petal and Oriental spices. With its uncanny energy and complexity and its unflagging finishing thickness, this noble, electric wine has all the elements for greatness. (And I could drink it today for its perfect balance and digestibility!)

Vinous (94-97)

(Perrot-Minot lost half of the crop here to frost in 2016): Good dark red. Knockout nose combines all the major Clos de Bèze food groups: raspberry, spices, rose petal, leather and stony, smoky silex minerality. Large-scaled, silky and mouthfilling without any undue weight, conveying a higher-pH impression than most of the other '16s here--but Perrot-Minot assured me that it's not above 3.45. Boasts serious thickness of texture leavened by smoky soil tones. Superrich, palate-staining, aristocratic wine with a great future.

Vinous (92-94)

The 2017 Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze Grand Cru has a clean, precise bouquet that is focused and direct, offering red and black fruit, crushed stone and more terroir expression than the Mazoyères. The palate is medium-bodied, the sappy red fruit on the entry laced with marmalade and dried quince, and grippy in the mouth, with a touch of spiciness, although it does not fan out on the finish as I hoped. Hopefully it will fill out with bottle age.

Vinous (92-94)

The 2017 Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze Grand Cru has a clean, precise bouquet that is focused and direct, offering red and black fruit, crushed stone and more terroir expression than the Mazoyères. The palate is medium-bodied, the sappy red fruit on the entry laced with marmalade and dried quince, and grippy in the mouth, with a touch of spiciness, although it does not fan out on the finish as I hoped. Hopefully it will fill out with bottle age.

Vinous (96-98)

The 2018 Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze Grand Cru has a supremely well-defined, stony, intense bouquet that is just as detailed as the Chambertin, if not more so. This has fathomless depth. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannins, taut and linear at first then fanning out beautifully toward the finish. Immense grace and grandeur combine to make an utterly compelling Clos-de-Bèze.

Burghound (96-98)

(Don't Miss!) This is aromatically similar to the Chambertin but, as is usually the case, much spicier and this spiciness carries over to the beautifully textured and lavishly rich flavors that possess that wonderful quality of inner mouth perfume, all wrapped in a powerful and gorgeously textured and massively long finish. This beauty is at once sophisticated yet robust and a wine that should live for several decades. Brilliant and one of the wines of the vintage.

Wine Advocate (95-97)

The 2014 Chambertin Grand Cru seems to offer more fruit intensity on the nose compared to the 2014 Clos-de-Bèze, with cranberry and fresh strawberry, and a touch of damp woodland in the background. It gains intensity in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied but with great substance and depth than the Clos de Bèze; there is a keen line of acidity cutting through the intense red berry fruit, and wonderful mineralité and tension on the finish. It just gradually gains in intensity before it fans out with a sense of confidence and entitlement, as befitting a Chambertin. This is a superb wine.

Vinous (94-96)

The 2017 Chambertin Grand Cru has the most backward and surly nose of Christophe Perrot-Minot’s Grand Crus, but it just needs a few swirls to reveal enticing raspberry, cranberry, brown spice and slightly ferrous aromas. The mineralité starts to reveal itself with aeration. The medium-bodied palate offers supple tannin, gorgeous pure raspberry preserve notes mixed with blood orange, sea salt and light quince, and marmalade notes toward the succinct finish. Predictably as it might read, this is the best 2017 from Perrot-Minot.