The 2010 Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Combottes opens with freshly cut flowers, sweet spices and minerals. It shows lovely energy and plenty of verve in a medium-bodied, gracious style that is immensely appealing.
WA92February 2012
The 2010 Combottes was also just a touch reduced at the time of my visit and ready for its racking, but underneath is an absolutely stellar bottle in the making. The superb nose offers up a lovely, red fruity mélange of strawberries, cherries, coffee, beautifully complex soil tones, mustard seed, roses and a deft base of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, racy and very soil-driven, with a fine core of fruit, excellent focus and balance, suave tannins and very fine grip on the long and racy finish. There is a closing note of sappiness here that is really lovely and this wine just exudes the elegance that is the hallmark of the best wines of the 2010 vintage.
JG93November 2011