Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2014 tasting, the 2014 Gevrey Chambertin 1Er Cru Cazetiers from Denis Berthaut was darker in color compared to its peers; likewise, the fruit is black instead of red, although at the moment it is obscured by a bit of oak that clearly needs time to be fully assimilated. The palate is well balanced with supple black fruit, grippy in the mouth, but it comes across as a little charmless at the moment. Hopefully it will gain more terroir expression and regain the stylishness that it exuded from barrel. Tasted September 2017.

Strong reduction renders the slightly woody nose unreadable. Like the Arvelets there is a terrific sense of underlying tension to the beautifully well-delineated, powerful and stony medium weight flavors that culminate in a tautly muscular, moderately austere, dusty and mouth coating finish. This is textbook Cazetiers with its combination of power, minerality and touch of Gevrey animale.