Domaine Claude Dugat - Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru 2019 (750ml)
Price: $399.99
| Producer | Domaine Claude Dugat |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Subregion | Gevrey-Chambertin |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Sku | 6880 |
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50/50 blend of Craipillot and La Perrière; the two parcels total 0.40 hectares. Since 2013, farming shifted to an organic emphasis with some adoption of biodynamic principles as well.
Domaine Claude Dugat Description
Claude Dugat has long been a respected and beloved figure in Burgundy. Working alongside him for the better part of the last decade has been his son Bertrand and daughter Laetitia, to whom Claude turned over control of the estate with the 2015 vintage. While the Dugat family traces its roots in Gevrey back to the 19th century, it was not until 1955, when Claude’s father Maurice purchased the historic landmark Grange des Dimes and converted the stone barn into a winery that the family domaine was born. Since 2013, the farming methods have shifted to an organic emphasis with the adoption of biodynamic principles as well. In the winery, a focus on purity has inspired decisions to restrict the use of sulfur, chaptalization, and acidification. With earlier harvesting, more restrained extraction, and a tempered oak influence, the new generation of Dugat wines are classic in style, striking a balance between power and finesse. The wines' clarity and precision express an element of polish rarely found in Gevrey-Chambertin.
Wine Advocate: 94 Points
The 2019 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru is showing beautifully, wafting from the glass with scents of raspberries, rose petals, cassis and sweet soil tones. Medium to full-bodied, lively and layered, it's fine-boned and elegant, with a perfumed core of fruit, bright acids and a long, mouthwatering finish. It's the usual blend chez Dugat of premiers crus Craipillot and Perrières.
Vinous: 94 Points
The 2019 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru is generous on the nose, peony and incense complementing the vibrant red fruit and a hint of cassis emerging with time. There is something joyful about these aromatics. The palate is medium-bodied with very supple, saturated tannins that lend this a fleshier, slightly more corpulent body than the Village Cru. It fans out nicely toward the flinty finish, and pure dark fruit lingers on the aftertaste. This is very promising.
Burghound: 93 Points
Outstanding
This is sufficiently reduced to render the nose difficult to read. More interesting are the sleek, intense and finer medium-bodied flavors that flash more evident minerality on the intense, powerful and chiseled finale. This will require at least moderate patience.
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