Burgundy 2014 – S-V

Sylvain Pataille advises this domaine, now in the hands of Chantal Tortochot, who says her production of domaine bottled-wine has increased sixfold since she stopped selling her Gevrey to négociant Joseph Drouhin – a familiar Burgundy story. 

At least two T domaines are run by women, Tortochot in Gevrey-Chambertin and Cécile Tremblay in Morey-St-Denis. Cécile’s 2014s (imported into the UK by Justerini and Brooks and Vine Trail and into the US by Peter Weygandt) were dramatic and sumptuous. It seemed amazing that she covered so many intricate flavours from ‘just’...