Score for drinking now; with some age this will turn into something very beautiful. It is, as noted by others, very dark and closed now, but with some air this showed as an intense dark fruited Pinot Noir, with dark cherry, vanilla, some earth. Keep your hands off for now!
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This bottle really surprised me for its degree of openness and youthful maturity: rose florals, complex spice, dark red fruit, but a very predominantly savoury character, animale, dank undergrowth and dark earth, complex winter meaty lentil stew-type aromas and flavours, really very masculine, reminded me somewhat of a much older Ponsot. Interesting, but sadly my only bottle of this particular wine, which I’ve usually found so feminine in a very beguiling way in other vintages.
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Quite burly for Berthaut-Gerbet, with lots of dark fruit and plenty of tannins on the back end. Feels heavy versus expectations, but not a bad wine at all, even if it is a little simplistic.
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Ripe, dark-fruited, and intense. Modest earthy notes on the nose, but those are more muted on the palate. Not as lithe and elegant as I remember some of the other BGs I've had. Somewhat burly, but good purity of fruit.
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Deep, dark, perfumed, bit of funk, on the ripe side. For lovers of a more modern, fruit-forward style. Very tasty. The crais is step up from the also good entry-level Fixin. Fixin is more and more on my radar for interesting juice.
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Need I say "too young," because that's the first thing I thought, even on the moment I smelled the aroma. It didn't 'unfurl' - it was like someone throwing a cherry-scented mallet my way. I am post-Covid and I frequently but not always have trouble with pinot noir, so I figured I'd try something young and powerful to see if I could taste it properly. Yup. I'm not massively experienced with what to expect from various Burgundy appellations, so I have no idea if this resets what you shoulud think about Fixin, but this really doesn't drink like 'just' a village wine. It's warm and enveloping and on night two it had calmed down a bit, enough to accompany some sharp cheeses like a dream. But: give it at least 5 years, i think. There are currently some complexities hiding in here.
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Sweet fragrance of ripe dark red cherries, strawberries, hip roses and mild spices. Displaying youthful and concentrated syrupy dark red cherries and berries, orange marmalade, strong mineralic ash and stones. Will be fabulous with a couple of years in the cellar.
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Gevrey 2019 with Stannary (Zoom!): Amelie has started to use whole bunch this vintage - 30% here - and there is 20% new oak. Les Crais is in the middle of Fixin.
Very ripe and aromatic. Tastes less overdone than other of her wines I've tried. Nicely concentrated and persistent blackberry fruit with a slightly sweet crumble quality, attractive bitterness to the finish. There's some nice structure underpinning all the fruit, too.
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2019 Burgundy EP Tasting with Stannary Wines - Gevrey & friends (Zoom tasting): 20% new oak, 30% whole cluster, 13.7% alc. Just a little pipeage, mainly pump overs. lots of small berries. Quite full body, dark purple and earthy, blackcurrant, ripe with a bit of spice. Some cherry on the palate but dark and quite concentrated, a touch of chocolate.
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3/13/2024 - carstenf wrote: 88 Points
Too dark and ‘solid’ for my style. Berthaut-Gerbet make good wine but I find them to ‘much’
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12/10/2023 - Peter Spijker Likes this wine: 90 Points
Score for drinking now; with some age this will turn into something very beautiful. It is, as noted by others, very dark and closed now, but with some air this showed as an intense dark fruited Pinot Noir, with dark cherry, vanilla, some earth. Keep your hands off for now!
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8/2/2023 - Pancreatitis wrote:
This bottle really surprised me for its degree of openness and youthful maturity: rose florals, complex spice, dark red fruit, but a very predominantly savoury character, animale, dank undergrowth and dark earth, complex winter meaty lentil stew-type aromas and flavours, really very masculine, reminded me somewhat of a much older Ponsot. Interesting, but sadly my only bottle of this particular wine, which I’ve usually found so feminine in a very beguiling way in other vintages.
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7/20/2023 - acyso wrote: 90 Points
Quite burly for Berthaut-Gerbet, with lots of dark fruit and plenty of tannins on the back end. Feels heavy versus expectations, but not a bad wine at all, even if it is a little simplistic.
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7/17/2023 - WEB,III Likes this wine: 88 Points
Way too ripe.
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9/7/2022 - acyso wrote: 90 Points
Ripe, dark-fruited, and intense. Modest earthy notes on the nose, but those are more muted on the palate. Not as lithe and elegant as I remember some of the other BGs I've had. Somewhat burly, but good purity of fruit.
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6/3/2022 - Pinot_Geek Likes this wine: 91 Points
Deep, dark, perfumed, bit of funk, on the ripe side. For lovers of a more modern, fruit-forward style. Very tasty. The crais is step up from the also good entry-level Fixin.
Fixin is more and more on my radar for interesting juice.
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2/23/2022 - ledocq Likes this wine:
Need I say "too young," because that's the first thing I thought, even on the moment I smelled the aroma. It didn't 'unfurl' - it was like someone throwing a cherry-scented mallet my way. I am post-Covid and I frequently but not always have trouble with pinot noir, so I figured I'd try something young and powerful to see if I could taste it properly.
Yup.
I'm not massively experienced with what to expect from various Burgundy appellations, so I have no idea if this resets what you shoulud think about Fixin, but this really doesn't drink like 'just' a village wine. It's warm and enveloping and on night two it had calmed down a bit, enough to accompany some sharp cheeses like a dream. But: give it at least 5 years, i think. There are currently some complexities hiding in here.
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12/12/2021 - Wardyn wrote: 91 Points
Sweet fragrance of ripe dark red cherries, strawberries, hip roses and mild spices. Displaying youthful and concentrated syrupy dark red cherries and berries, orange marmalade, strong mineralic ash and stones. Will be fabulous with a couple of years in the cellar.
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12/18/2020 - NickA Likes this wine: 91 Points
Gevrey 2019 with Stannary (Zoom!): Amelie has started to use whole bunch this vintage - 30% here - and there is 20% new oak. Les Crais is in the middle of Fixin.
Very ripe and aromatic. Tastes less overdone than other of her wines I've tried. Nicely concentrated and persistent blackberry fruit with a slightly sweet crumble quality, attractive bitterness to the finish. There's some nice structure underpinning all the fruit, too.
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12/15/2020 - kingkanu wrote:
2019 Burgundy EP Tasting with Stannary Wines - Gevrey & friends (Zoom tasting): 20% new oak, 30% whole cluster, 13.7% alc. Just a little pipeage, mainly pump overs. lots of small berries. Quite full body, dark purple and earthy, blackcurrant, ripe with a bit of spice. Some cherry on the palate but dark and quite concentrated, a touch of chocolate.
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