Gerard Raphet Les Combottes 'Cuvee Unique', Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru, France 2019 Sonoma County and flowery incense

and flowery incense

lightly juicy acidity framing the flavors of wild strawberry

One of the furthest west of the Saint-Julien estates

24 months aging in oak casks

They didn't produce the 2017 vintage of the single-vineyard wine from some of their oldest vines

Gerard Raphet Les Combottes 'Cuvee Unique', Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru, France 2019 Sonoma County and flowery incenseA more elegant, airy and slightly fresher nose offers up cool notes of earth, spice, plum and wild red berries. The equally cool and pure middle weight flavors possess a beguiling sense of underlying tension as well as a lovely minerality on the balanced and nicely long finish. This lilting effort is also really quite pretty and has the stuffing to reward a decade of cellaring, perhaps even a bit more. 92 Pts Burghound