2016 Domaine Claude Dugat Gevrey-Chambertin Villages
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 5th Jan 2019
Source Interim January 2019 Week 1, The Wine Advocate
Rating 91 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2024 - 2048
The 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin Villages is superb, unfurling in the glass with a youthful bouquet of sweet cassis, wild berries and peony that mingles with subtle hints of candied peel, grilled meat and rich forest floor. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, pure and velvety, structured around a chassis of fine-grained tannins that will demand some bottle age, underpinned by bright acids and concluding with a strikingly fragrant finish. It's a beautiful wine that exemplifies the fragrant, precise style that Bertrand Dugat and his siblings are coaxing from their family's enviable patrimony of old and meticulously farmed vines.