Jerome Galeyrand, Gevrey-Chambertin En Croisette, 2015 so040926 grosse pierre Hand-destemmed

Hand-destemmed

not mindless consumption alongside dessert

white-pepper lift and savory grip

and the 2013 vintage is a textbook expression of its classical

zero malolactic fermentation

Jerome Galeyrand, Gevrey-Chambertin En Croisette, 2015 so040926 grosse pierre Hand-destemmedFrom 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