2019 Humbert Freres Gevrey-Chambertin ‘Vieilles Vignes’ Pinot Noir
Allan Meadows, Burghound.com
I have said this repeatedly, but I will say it again: if you're not familiar with the Humbert wines then you are in for a treat as the wines are flat-out terrific. There is a purity to the wines that is really lovely and, while there is a nod towards the modern, the wines are also made with a significant percentage of stems. Overall, the wines are at once stylish and beautifully rendered with outstanding transparency. Take a look at the Humbert wines: you'll thank me.
Magnumdevin.com
The Humbert brothers, Frédéric and Emmanuel, have wine in their blood and land in their hearts. Men of few words, but always fair and profound, they alone embody good peasant sense, or rather winegrower.
The vinification are traditional, destemmed grapes, punching down and regular pumping over rather long vatting. The wines are made for laying down and express themselves marvellously after a few years of ageing.
93 points, Tim Atkin MW, Decanter
The Les Marchais lieu-dit at the bottom of the Combe de Lavaux supplies half of the fruit for this excellent Gevrey village, with the rest coming from 14 other parcels. Ambitiously concentrated, with 70% new oak, serious tannins, ample concentration and crunchy acidity, this is a wine with more gas in the tank, as it were.
89 points, Allen Meadows, Burghound
Here there is subtle new wood influence surrounding the very fresh and ripe aromas of poached plum, violet and forest floor. There is good energy to the well-detailed and lightly stony flavors that are not super-dense but I very much like the texture thanks mainly to the fine-grained tannins on the ever-so-mildly rustic finale.
Allan Meadows, Burghound.com
I have said this repeatedly, but I will say it again: if you're not familiar with the Humbert wines then you are in for a treat as the wines are flat-out terrific. There is a purity to the wines that is really lovely and, while there is a nod towards the modern, the wines are also made with a significant percentage of stems. Overall, the wines are at once stylish and beautifully rendered with outstanding transparency. Take a look at the Humbert wines: you'll thank me.
Magnumdevin.com
The Humbert brothers, Frédéric and Emmanuel, have wine in their blood and land in their hearts. Men of few words, but always fair and profound, they alone embody good peasant sense, or rather winegrower.
The vinification are traditional, destemmed grapes, punching down and regular pumping over rather long vatting. The wines are made for laying down and express themselves marvellously after a few years of ageing.
93 points, Tim Atkin MW, Decanter
The Les Marchais lieu-dit at the bottom of the Combe de Lavaux supplies half of the fruit for this excellent Gevrey village, with the rest coming from 14 other parcels. Ambitiously concentrated, with 70% new oak, serious tannins, ample concentration and crunchy acidity, this is a wine with more gas in the tank, as it were.
89 points, Allen Meadows, Burghound
Here there is subtle new wood influence surrounding the very fresh and ripe aromas of poached plum, violet and forest floor. There is good energy to the well-detailed and lightly stony flavors that are not super-dense but I very much like the texture thanks mainly to the fine-grained tannins on the ever-so-mildly rustic finale.
Allan Meadows, Burghound.com
I have said this repeatedly, but I will say it again: if you're not familiar with the Humbert wines then you are in for a treat as the wines are flat-out terrific. There is a purity to the wines that is really lovely and, while there is a nod towards the modern, the wines are also made with a significant percentage of stems. Overall, the wines are at once stylish and beautifully rendered with outstanding transparency. Take a look at the Humbert wines: you'll thank me.
Magnumdevin.com
The Humbert brothers, Frédéric and Emmanuel, have wine in their blood and land in their hearts. Men of few words, but always fair and profound, they alone embody good peasant sense, or rather winegrower.
The vinification are traditional, destemmed grapes, punching down and regular pumping over rather long vatting. The wines are made for laying down and express themselves marvellously after a few years of ageing.
93 points, Tim Atkin MW, Decanter
The Les Marchais lieu-dit at the bottom of the Combe de Lavaux supplies half of the fruit for this excellent Gevrey village, with the rest coming from 14 other parcels. Ambitiously concentrated, with 70% new oak, serious tannins, ample concentration and crunchy acidity, this is a wine with more gas in the tank, as it were.
89 points, Allen Meadows, Burghound
Here there is subtle new wood influence surrounding the very fresh and ripe aromas of poached plum, violet and forest floor. There is good energy to the well-detailed and lightly stony flavors that are not super-dense but I very much like the texture thanks mainly to the fine-grained tannins on the ever-so-mildly rustic finale.
DETAILS
VINTAGE - 2019
VARIETAL - Chardonnay
COUNTRY - France
REGION - Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy
BOTTLE SIZE - 750ml
ENCLOSURE - Cork
