Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Friday, April 17, 2015 - 2001 Gevrey-Chambertin Grand Cru Dinner (Kheam Hock Road): Very enjoyable. This played the pretty teenage girl to the Clos St Jacques’ rather adult, more masculine reserve and strength. It had such an attractive nose, pure Gevrey, with a little touch of wet earth and then lots of pretty notes of red-fruit flecked by a nice dash of spice and just a little twist of herb. Rather lighter scents than on the rich nose of the CSJ, but this was really quite gorgeous. The palate had a lovely deliciousness to it. It was soft and silky, with wonderfully pure flavours of red fruit and spice and a tiny touch of earth wrapped together with fresh acidity and the very finest tannins in a wonderfully integrated package. While showing a nice sappiness on the attack, the wine did lighten up quite a bit past the midpalate, where I thought it lacked a bit of Grand Cru punch. However, it certainly made up for that with its lovely openness and clarity, which made it such a fun and delicious wine to drink. I have had this three times now. The first bottle in 2008 was tight and grumpy, the second in 2012 really lovely – I am glad to say that this bottle shared more in common with the later than the former. For all its forwardness here, there was just a little chew of tannins at the back-palate, which suggested that the wine can go on for sometime yet. I would not delay if you have a few bottles of this though – it is showing well and drinking ridiculously yummily.

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