DOMAINE DOMINIQUE GALLOIS GEVREY CHAMBERTIN 2005 A fresh and notably ripe and pure nose features earthy red and black pinot fruit and underbrush hints that introduce rich, full and robust flavors that possess punchy and real volume on the delicious and serious finish. There is good dry extract that buffers the firm structure. This is an... Burghound Rating: 89 more details >

DOMAINE HUGUENOT PERE & FILS GEVREY CHAMBERTIN FONTENYS 2005 A classic Fontenys nose of animale and deeply pitched, ripe, earthy and concentrated fruit that runs toward the dark berry side of the spectrum leads to rich, full, sweet and serious medium-weight plus flavors underpinned by ample but integrated structure and excellent length. This is clearly at... Wine Spectator Rating: 91 Burghound Rating: 91 more details >

DOMAINE MICHEL LAFARGE COTE DE BEAUNE VILLIAGES 2005 The parcels that inform the Lafarge 2005 Cote de Beaune-Villages are situated in Meursault. Tart, refreshing sour cherry and red currant fruit accented by cherry pit bitterness with chalky mineral manifestations make for an unusually bright, treble performance, particularly by the standards of... Wine Advocate Rating: 87 to 88 more details >

DOMAINE ROSSIGNOL-TRAPET BEAUNE TEURONS 2005 This too is presently somber, ripe and earthy with rich, round and very generous, even fleshy flavors that are very Beaune in underlying character, all wrapped in plenty of sap and punch. This too offers very good quality for its level and should repay 6 to 8 years of cellar time. -- The Burghound. Tanzer Rating: 87 Burghound Rating: 89 to 91 more details >

DOMAINE ROSSIGNOL-TRAPET GEVREY CHAMBERTIN CORBEAUX 2005 This is also on the elegant side aromatically but ultimately more serious as there is more depth and a hint of the expected Corbeaux sauvage character though the fresh and nicely detailed flavors are on the light side and though they possess a bit more structure, ultimately this too is a wine of... Tanzer Rating: 89 Burghound Rating: 88 more details >

DOMAINE ROSSIGNOL-TRAPET GEVREY CHAMBERTIN PETIT CHAPELLE 2005 The reserve the nose displayed from barrel has been replaced by an earthy yet very fresh and broad set of aromas of blue and red fruit plus violet and spice hints that introduce velvety and full flavors that are at once generous and delicious with good detail and plenty of mouth coating sap.... Tanzer Rating: 88 Burghound Rating: 89 more details >

DOMAINE VOUGERAIE GEVREY CHAMBERTIN EVOCELLES 2005 A complex bouquet of red and black berries with a touch of leather. A well-defined structure in the mouth with a certain mellowness and pronounced tannins. more details >

DOMINIQUE LAURENT GEVREY CHAMBERTIN 'VIEILLES VIGNES' 2005 more details >

DOMINIQUE LAURENT GEVREY CHAMBERTIN CAZETIERS VIEILLES VIGNES' 2005 A 2005 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Cazetiers Vieilles Vignes offers a briny, smoky aroma, abundant tannin, a firm mouth feel, tart cherry and rhubarb fruit character, and a positively stony as well as smoky, meaty finish. Palate-staining in intensity, this is as austere as this year’s Laurent... Wine Advocate Rating: 90 to 92 more details >

DOMINIQUE MUGNERET ROMANEE ST VIVANT 2005 A more subtle and better integrated touch of wood adds a bit of nuance to the elegant and high-toned anise, clove, cinnamon and hoisin-infused black berry fruit nose and this spiciness continues onto the rich, ripe and strikingly intense flavors that are sweet and suave yet manage to retain a... Burghound Rating: 91 to 93 more details >