July 29, 2022 - Burgundy Wimps (La Trompette, Chiswick): 2/3. Medium ruby/garnet, purple fruits, meaty notes, soil. Medium bodied, juicy purple fruits at the core, meaty notes, soil, vibrant acidity, long slightly grippy finish. This is excellent and now drinking well.
February 25, 2022 - From 75cl, optically perfect cork, decanted 1 hour. Quite dark-coloured. Some mustiness—don't trust that cork, but also some redeeming forest floor and fresh earth. Medium-bodied entry; coarse-textured mid-palate; raw-tannic, unrefined finish. Miserable value for the 57 EUR paid back in 2012, obscenely overpriced at current market value. Please avoid, re-sell if possible, and buy something nice instead (Au Bon Climat? Felton Road? A good Assmanshauser? Oregon?) 87–88P
February 23, 2022 - Cloudy color. Very medicinal nose here, iodine, peat, sour cherry. Dense and tannic but the tannins are not drying. Good, definitely a food wine.
July 14, 2021 - Wanted to love this. Definitely in an awkward spot. Not super expressive. Just shut down and tannic. Tons of muscle but not enought grace. Revisit in a few years. Red cherry, mulberry, damp earth. Good but not worth the money at this time.
July 4, 2021 - Slow-oxed for two hours, then decanted. Deep ruby colour. Rather tight at the beginning, but opening up decisively after an hour or so, showing raspberries, strawberries, but also red cherries, herbs and damp leaves. Quite complex on the palate, with layers of red fruit, black cherries, underbrush and mushrooms around a core of fine tannins and minerals. Good length.
Overall a beautiful, light footed Gevrey, good to be enjoyed now, but with the potential to become even more delicate within the next three years.
January 1, 2021 - While I absolutely adore the 2006 Bachelet Charmes, the Corbeaux is nowhere close to that. It possesses an earthy and mineral undertone yet the sweetness is muted, which is consistent to my experience 5 years ago. Perhaps only his Charmes Chambertin is worth seeking out for in 2006.
October 14, 2019 - Some wines at Thierry's place (June 2019): Andrew served this wine and the Clair side-by-side as a pair, double blind. More clear Gevrey typicity here. The bouquet more red fruited - wild raspberries and red cherries - with tilled earth, dry brushwood and a little farmyard funk. On palate, showing real matière and structure with precise, crystalline 2006-typical fruit and acidity. Earthy and savoury. There is still a real firmness to the tannins - an austerity or sternness - but the wine is presently surprisingly approachable. As is typical for this particular Bachelet cuvée, it is likely to be quite long-lived. Drink over the next 20+ years. I preferred the Fonteny over the Corbeaux.
April 25, 2019 - Nice nose. Very heavy and tannic. I can't image how this wine felt when it was younger.
April 5, 2019 - 2006
May 14, 2018 - Wonderfully drinkable, in the sense that had there been another bottle you better believe it would have been opened...