Arnaud Mortet - Gevrey Chambertin Ma Cuvee 2019 (1.5L)
Price: $205.00
| Producer | Arnaud Mortet |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Subregion | Gevrey-chambertin |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Sku | 2308812 |
| Size | 1.5L |
Burghound: 89-92 Points
Discreet wood once again sets off super-fresh cool and quite floral-scented aromas of various red berries underbrush earth and whiff of leather. Here too there is a lovely underlying tension to the bigger and equally mineral-driven flavors that conclude in a youthfully austere focused and beautifully defined finish. This is an excellent Gevrey villages that should reward up to a decade of cellaring. One to consider.
Jasper Morris: 90-92 Points
Made from vineyards to the south and east of Gevrey: Epointures Champs Chenys and La Justice. It is a gentler wine than the Denis Mortet ?Mes Cinq Terroirs? and is described by Arnaud as being more for gastronomy. It is certainly more in a classical Gevrey strawberry style with a little oak to provide the cream.
vWine Advocate: 90 Points
Supple and charming Mortet's 2019 Gevrey-Chambertin Ma Cuvée wafts from the glass with notes of red berries plums and exotic spices framed by a deft application of classy new oak. Medium to full-bodied ample and enveloping with melting tannins and succulent acids it's already drinking well. Arnaud Mortet it must be said doesn't number among Burgundy's most alacritous correspondents. So when my request to visit last year went unanswered I didn't take it personally. This year we caught up on some bottled 2019s and barrel samples of 2020s while Arnaud recovered from the arduous La Paulée de Meursault the day before. Everything seems to be in place at this address: thoughtful viticulture with cultivated soils high hedging (at 1.50 meters more or less the limit of an over-row tractor) and thoughtful rather than systematic deleafing is followed by winemaking that increasingly emphasizes manually processed grapes with the rachis of each cluster cut out by hand leaving berries on their pedicels intact. In the cellar François Frères is ceding ground to Cavin?but without any concomitant shift in style in the direction of the overtly meretricious. In profile the wines are supple and perfumed with plenty of depth and flesh at the core without any structural asperity. They're wines that could be drunk young?as no doubt they are drunk by many consumers today?but which will age with grace too. In short Mortet is at the top of his game today and settled into his contemporary style and everything reviewed here comes recommended.
Vinous: 88-90 Points
The 2019 Gevrey-Chambertin "Ma Cuvée" is quite high-toned on the nose with boysenberry and black cherry fruit violet top notes emerging with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with juicy tannins a mixture of blackberry and blueberry laced with citrus peel hints of orange rind towards the finish. This will be difficult to resist in its youth but it possesses the substance to suggest that it will give 10-12 years of drinking pleasure. (Drink between 2023-2032)
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