Domaine Duroche Gevrey-Chambertin Champ 2023 [NET]

Name: Domaine Duroche Gevrey-Chambertin Champ 2023 [NET]
Brand: Beaune Imports [BEI]
SKU: SF-1-BEI--021326-52
Price: 139.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$139⁹⁹

Pierre Duroché has quietly become one of the most coveted names in Gevrey-Chambertin, and Champ is a perfect introduction to his classical style. The cuvée comes from two parcels at the northern edge of the village, planted in 1969 and 1973 on crinoidal limestone and sandy marl. Of his lieux-dits, this is the high-toned, mineral one. The 2023 dials up the fruit intensity compared to a normal village bottling: finely drawn raspberry and wild strawberry, crushed stone, taut and focused on the palate, lacy tannins, a long saline finish. Native yeasts, almost no new oak, no fining or filtration. Drink over the next decade.

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Antonio Galloni

92 points

"The 2023 Gevrey-Chambertin Champ clearly has more fruit intensity than the regular village cuvée. It contains finely delineated raspberry, wild strawberry and crushed stone aromas. The palate is medium-bodied, taut and focused with lace-like tannins, plenty of salinity and an airy yet lengthy finish. This is one of Duroché's best entry-level cuvées." —Neal Martin

More about Domaine Duroche

Pierre Duroché's family has been bottling their own wines since the 1930s, when all but a handful of Burgundy growers — families like Duroché's neighbors, the Rousseaus—sold their produce to negociants. But the pioneering American wine importers, Colonel Wildman and Frank Schoonmaker, who made international stars of the Rousseaus (et al.) skipped his address. The Duroché wines remained a French-only phenom.

That's beginning to change. Just a few years ago a member of the contemporary club of elite importers (thank you Doug Polaner) started importing the wines. Daniel Johnnes introduced the Duroché name at his La Paulée events. American Burgundy-lovers have caught up fast.

Whatever it is that drives Pierre up the faces of sheer cliffs, also drives him to work obsessively in the vineyard and in the cellar. The fastidiousness that keeps him alive when climbing translates to elegant wines with gorgeous fruit and pure terroir expressions. They hit a stylistic bullseye for today's Burgundy drinkers: subtle oak; just a touch reductive; red and blue fruited, with maybe a touch of orange; and always, the terroir. No wonder Duroché is suddenly one of the most talked-about “new” producers on the market.

Duroché has tiny plots in Premier and Grand Crus, but you don't have to shell out for the big bottles to see what all the fuss is about. His ability to make village Gevrey-Chambertin taste so extraordinary and distinct really sets him apart. Of course, this wouldn't be possible without his fantastic terroir: this is not across-the-road Gevrey, but good sites in Brochon, with plenty of old vines.