A perfumed and very pretty nose features notes of various dark berries, spice, earth and a hint of violet. The rich, naturally sweet and very round medium-bodied flavors possess both excellent mid-palate volume and outstanding depth on the well-balanced finish. As it almost always does, this boxes well above its weight for a villages level Gevrey.

Score: 89-92 Allen Meadow (AM), Bourghound (BH), January 2018

The 2016 Gevrey Chambertin Vieilles Vignes was only slightly touched by the frost. It has a perfumed bouquet with black cherries, crushed strawberry, a touch of soy and undergrowth, again, quite complex, although I might prefer the vivacity and nonchalance of the Côtes de Nuits Villages. The palate is medium-bodied with silky tannin and hints of blood orange on the entry mixed with black cherries and blueberry, leading to a satin-like, utterly charming finish that leaves you begging for the next sip.

Wow. Sometimes that three-letter word is sufficient to express your sentiments toward a grower’s wines. It certainly applies here at Denis Bachelet. These are utterly sublime and, at times, peerless expressions of the 2016 vintage whose only fault is the quantity and the demand they currently attract. Long gone are the days when I used to pick up mature bottles of their Charmes-Chambertin to pour during the week. “I love the vintage,” Denis told me as we toured his diminutive cellar with some of the more perilously steep steps in Burgundy. “They are just so aromatic. They are...très pinot. Feminine wines that are less powerful than the 2015s. With regard to frost, we had only a little damage in the southern vineyard for the Côte de Nuits. But in 30 years of winemaking, I have never known such aggressive mildew. We did more than twelve treatments, when normally I do eight. Fortunately the weather changed 14 July, otherwise it might have been very different. I started picking on 24 September. I prefer 2016 to 2015. They are more masculine wines, vins de garde.” At this point, I guess as a professional wine writer I should analyze each one. Instead I will leave you to peruse my reviews and leave you with that one word floating in the air...wow.

Score: 91-93 Neal Martin (NM), The Wine Advocate (WA), December 2017

Bright, dark red. Very pure, fruit-driven scents and flavors of black cherry, blackberry, boysenberry and licorice; I visited this cellar on a fruit day on the biodynamic calendar and this wine was seriously exuberant. Offers captivating sweetness and thickness, not to mention good power and thrust, to its slightly musky dark fruit and spice flavors. A very suave village wine with supple tannins, lovely length 

Score: 89-92 Stephen Tanzer (ST), Vinous Media (VM), January 2018