2018 Faiveley Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux St. Jacques

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  1/30/2024 - pren wrote: 91 Points

  尝。香，不淡，体量中下，微收敛的口感。

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  11/18/2023 - MN Wine Junkie Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Tasted at the Domain, wine was Coravined.
  
  Overall Impression: I am a huge fan of the 2018 vintage of Red Burgundy (with a nod to 15 too, followed by 16 and 19). I am too unsophisticated with Burgundy to comment on the 20-22 vintages, except I will say they are not bad) So far, although I have drastically limited my purchases, for the most part, they have been focussed on the 18 vintage. (Plus, 19s all seem to be gone!....I guess that says something about them!)
  
  I picked this wine to post my note because of all the wines tasted up till now, I felt this wine offered the best bang for the buck!
  
  The wine: Obviously still young, but at this stage, the wine is very fresh and vibrant, i.e. delicious even now. The wine shows plenty of red and black fruit, some cedar and spice, some black pepper and anise, with notes of earthiness and mushroom, and a touch of toasty oak. The aromatics are richly perfumed and very pleasant. You can tell this wine will improve, but the structure is near perfect with impeccable balance between fruit, acid and tannins. It will be difficult to lay this down for an extended period, but those who do (and I hope to be one of them), should be rewarded as the oak becomes more integrated and more secondary flavors either emerge or become more pronounced. Solid 93 now, but should improve even more with some bottle age!
  
  Update: After tasting many more wines, I like the 16s and 18s for earlier drinking (and very approachable now), and the 19s and 21s for laying down long term (although I think the 18s will benefit from from aging and will last a very long time).

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  6/15/2023 - bjbu Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Burgundy trip 2023; 6/14/2023-6/18/2023: 40% new oak for 16 months; fully destemmed
  
  Intensity medium. Strawberry, raspberry, spices, animal. Acidity medium. Tannins medium. Finish long. Quite fruity style.
  (tasting at Domaine Faiveley, Nuits-Saint-Georges)

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  6/15/2023 - ThijsV Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Annual wine trip; Bourgogne & Champage with Bas; 6/14/2023-6/18/2023 (France): [Tasting at Domaine Faiveley] Pale ruby in color, medium intensity on the nose. More powerful than the Clos du Roy La Favorite. Red and black fruit, wood spices, minerality, ethereal but deep. Medium acidity, medium tannins, long finish. Too young at this point, but already great. 92-93
  
  Fully destemmed, 40% new oak, 16 months
  
  They have an amazing fermentation room (rebuild in 2018) and marvelous cellars. Before the visit I had the idea that they are mainly negociant, but they have 120 ha own vineyards and nowadays only 10% is negociant business, mainly with their whites

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  12/29/2022 - docrichebourg Likes this wine: 94 Points

  There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry and black currant (cassis). The body is medium/full. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity.

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