2019 Domaine des Beaumont, Gevrey-Chambertin, Les Cherbaudes, Premier Cru Red Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, France.
Don’t let the dated, old school label and packaging fool you, this is a lovely estate grown Burgundy from a top Premier Cru in Gevrey-Chambertin, with wonderfully pure satiny dark Pinot fruit, mineral tones, subtle florals, delicately earthy and with a sleek framing of oak. This 2019 Les Cherbaudes is a deep ruby/garnet in the glass and has a seamless flow of silky black cherry, red berry and currant fruits, along with an underlying richness, depth and power that elevates the medium, almost full bodied and ripe palate. Mouth filling and with refined tannins, plus some good acidity, there’s a sense of pedigree here and it could not be anything other than a well put together terroir driven Gevrey, with potential to age at least tens years more, even delicious now, it looks to be fully evolved in another 3 to 5 years. The Premier Cru Les Cherbaudes, with 100% Pinot Noir, and which sits right next to the Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru vines, on ancient limestone and clay soils is a prime parcel and delivers on that in the bottle. This, very clean and luxurious wine, was all de-stemmed, saw a temperature controlled maceration and fermentation and was matured in oak, with 65% new wood, for 12 months, which all feels pretty spot on with the level of fruit here.
Domaine des Beaumont has a long history in the Côte D’Or where the Beaumont family has farmed vineyards and sold grapes for seven generations, but the winery itself is pretty new, having only selling bottles since 1999. Now run by the brothers Thierry, winemaker and Vincent Beaumont, commercial director, the Domaine des Beaumont label was Thierry’s vision, and who created the winery as it exists today. Their importer, Massanois says that Thierry, in 1991 fully took charge over the property and sold the entirety of each year’s harvest to négociants from ’91 through ’98, as the family had done previously for six generations. Continuing on, In 1996, Thierry was able to compile resources to build their first winemaking facility, adding thermo-regulation tanks in 1997 and finally putting labels on their own wine with that 1999 vintage. Now about 20 years on I’m tasting the Beaumont’s wine for the first time, with this Gevrey-Chambertin, and I’m quite impressed with what was in glass and look forward to following these wines into the future. They say this vineyard Les Chebaudes, very close to two Grand Crus, maybe lacks a bit of concentration and can be a more finessed Premier Cru, but this wine is not lacking dimension and not shy at 14.5%, even in a more classic year, so I’d be very interested in what the 2020 and 2022 are like, as they certainly were bigger in terms of viscosity and intensity of fruit in my experience.
($115 Est.) 93 Points, grapelive