Jean-Michel Guillon Gevrey Chambertin Les Crais 2010 Big Bottle spice and a peppery lift

spice and a peppery lift on the finish

Cantina di Sorbara’s cooperative was founded in 2012 with the merger of two historic companies on the Modena wine scene

a southeast-facing slope at 275 meters where shallow gravelly soils at the top of the parcel deepen over ancient Ouche riverbed alluvium below

and citrus drive the palate

Jean-Michel Guillon Gevrey Chambertin Les Crais 2010 Big Bottle spice and a peppery liftJean Michel Guillon arrived in Gevrey Chambertin in 1980, a former military pilot with no winemaking pedigree, and built a roughly 15 hectare domaine famous for its appetite for new barrels: by trade accounts, only the Domaine de la Romane Conti and the Hospices de Beaune buy more new French oak in Burgundy. Les Crais is a village lieu dit whose gravelly limestone soils bring lift and mineral tension to Gevrey's darker register, and in the Guillon