Broad and warm, featuring a mouthful of plum, black cherry and oak spice flavors, with a hint of tobacco. Solidly built and balanced, but could use a year or two to fully integrate the oak. Best from 2021 through 2033. 25 cases imported.??–BS??Region: France / Burgundy / Gevrey-Chambertin Select to Add

The 2017 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux-Saint-Jacques was dominated by its new oak when I tasted it, displaying a drying and fleeting finish.

The 2016 Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux Saint Jacques includes 35% whole bunch fruit and matured in 40% new oak for 17 months. It has a tightly wound bouquet with dark berry fruit, a touch of damp soil and dried blood with good vigor all around. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly sharp tannin and plenty of sour cherry and strawberry fruit, but it falls short on the finish. Hopefully this will find more matière with time.

The 2015 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux Saint Jacques has a fragrant bouquet with very fine Pinot Noir character, the coolness of the site really counterbalancing the precocity of the vintage and frankly, showing up the more alcoholic and powerful Vosne-Romanée Malconsorts. The palate is very well balanced with supple tannin, fleshy and harmonious in the mouth with a very elegant, quite suave finish. This comes highly recommended.

Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2014 tasting, Bichot's 2014 Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru Lavaux Saint Jacques has a ripe, rounded and satisfying bouquet with plenty of Morello cherry, crushed strawberry and subtle pressed-flower aromas. This conveys a sense of comeliness. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, quite dense in the mouth with a fine bead of acidity, veering toward darker fruit with the finish that is structured and persistent. This is a superb Gevrey-Chambertin that should give 15 to 20 years of drinking pleasure, though it needs a couple of years to absorb the oak. Tasted September 2017.