Domaine Harmand-Geoffroy Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes, Cote de Nuits, France 2021 Volpe Pasini Much firmer tannins black fruit

Much firmer tannins black fruit a little less acidity built more around the tannic structure

The palate largely delivers on all of that promise

Beautiful single vintage Champagne from a very ripe year

offering concentrated but almost shockingly lively black raspberry

The Alois Lageder 2020 Pinot Noir Krafuss has a hard-core vein of minerality that cuts straight through

Domaine Harmand-Geoffroy Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes, Cote de Nuits, France 2021 Volpe Pasini Much firmer tannins black fruitAs is the case with almost every wine that issues from the Harmand Geoffroy cellars, this cuve is the product of very old vines; in this instance, the vines were planted 55 to 85 years ago. The result is one of the most powerful wines in the cellar that shows dark, almost somber fruit, a wine that is reticent in its youth and quite profound with seven to ten years of age. The parcels for this wine (En Champs, Champerrier, Combes du Dessus) are