Strawberry and red raspberry offer subtle tartness and hence fascinating counterpoint with hints of creaminess in the Serafin 2007 Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes. Suggestions of peat, brown spices, and pungent herbs add interest and invigoration, although there is slight rusticity of finishing tannin. I’d be inclined to give this a couple of years in bottle but still plan to drink it within the next half dozen. “In two thousand eight, the grapes had too much acid,” states Christian Serafin, “and in 2009, perhaps too much sugar,” he adds with a smile. Serafin says he had to perform a more rigorous de-leafing, green harvesting and triage in 2008 than in 2007. “It’s an awkward vintage for restaurants,” he points out about 2008, “because most of them sell the wines to be drunk young, and these wines will still not be very approachable at that stage.”Importer: Weygandt-Metzler, Unionville, PA; tel. (610) 486-0800