2016 Bernard Dugat-Py Gevrey Chambertin Vieilles Vignes, Burgundy

Reduction presently masks the underlying fruit but the nose seems ripe. Otherwise the dense and energetic medium-bodied flavours possess lovely detail while offering fine length on the balanced and impressively complex finish. This is an excellent Gevrey villages.Drink 2023+.

89-92 points, Allen Meadows, www.burghound.com

The 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes, which comes from vines between 30 and 50 years old and matured in 30% to 40% new oak with a small amount of whole cluster, has a crisp stony, blackberry and bilberry-scented bouquet, not powerful but precise. The palate is marked by slight chalky tannin, linear and strict, full of energy with a smudge of raspberry preserve hanging around on the aftertaste. Give this Vieilles Vignes three or four years in bottle just to abrade those tannins. Drink 2020-2031