Gerard Raphet Les Combottes 'Cuvee Unique', Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru, France 2019 Les Marrans This multi-vintage cuvée is a

This multi-vintage cuvée is a blend of Sangiovese and a handful of other red grapes that has notes of black fruit

Considered the “queen” of the Carso viticulture

Then it turns to subtle

This release is based on 2019 and 40% a perpetual reserve that goes back to 2004

Gerard Raphet Les Combottes 'Cuvee Unique', Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru, France 2019 Les Marrans This multi-vintage cuvée is aA more elegant, airy and slightly fresher nose offers up cool notes of earth, spice, plum and wild red berries. The equally cool and pure middle weight flavors possess a beguiling sense of underlying tension as well as a lovely minerality on the balanced and nicely long finish. This lilting effort is also really quite pretty and has the stuffing to reward a decade of cellaring, perhaps even a bit more. 92 Pts Burghound