Benjamin Leroux Gevrey-Chambertin En Champs 2022

En Champs was folded into Leroux's Gevrey-Chambertin village wine for years; five barrels are now bottled on their own.

The vineyard lies high on the slope near the boundary with Brochon, just beneath the premier cru Champeaux at the northern end of the stretch sometimes called the Côte Saint-Jacques. Followers of Domaine Denis Mortet will know the terroir from that source. Soils are very stony over red clay, and the altitude and the cooling winds that run through the combe hold the ripening back, which is increasingly an advantage. The Leroux bottling is a deeper, more serious and distinctly ferrous wine than the main village cuvée, with high-toned fruit, plenty of spice and very fine tannin on the close. It was fermented with 40 to 50% whole bunches.

Best from three to four years and good for a decade; serve at 16-18°C with roast beef, game birds or a well-aged hard cheese.

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