Jerome Galeyrand, Gevrey-Chambertin En Croisette, 2015 Austria & Slovenia and spice layered over firm

and spice layered over firm tannins and vibrant acidity

The Brunello that started single-vineyard Brunello

It's drinking in a lovely window now and will hold

and black cherry framed by notes of cedar

not flash or extraction

Jerome Galeyrand, Gevrey-Chambertin En Croisette, 2015 Austria & Slovenia and spice layered over firmFrom the gravelly En Croisette site at the foot of Gevrey Chambertin, this is village Burgundy from a grower who came to wine the hard way. Jerome Galeyrand had no family vines; he learned the trade with Alain Burguet and built his organic, biodynamic domaine plot by tiny plot. The 2015 vintage was warm and generous, giving Gevrey reds with riper fruit and rounder texture than his cooler year bottlings. With several years in bottle it's approachable