Domaine Pierre GELIN

20 octobre 2014

(FIXIN)
Pierre-Emmanuel Gelin
22, rue de la Croix Blanche
21220 Fixin
Téléphone :03 80 52 45 24
Télécopie : 03 80 51 47 80
Email : info@domaine-pierregelin.fr
Site : www.vinsdusiecle.com/gelinpierre
Site : www.domaine-pierregelin.fr

The winegrowing estate is a family property of a dozen hectares on the communes of Fixin and Gevrey-Chambertin. Created in 1925 per Pierre Gelin, it is thus exploited by Stéphen Gelin, his wife and their Pierre-Emmanuel son, who ensures the orders today.
The methods of culture are traditional, the limited outputs and the manual grape harvest. Total Éraflage, cuvaison during 15 to 20 days, follow-ups of a one period ageing from 20 to 24 months, out of barrels of oak (20% of new barrels on Premiers Crus and 80% on Great wine). There is besides the intelligence not to on sale put too early the wines here, which is increasingly rare, and allows to become aware of the evolution of such or such year.
Superb Fixin Premier Cru Field Napoleon 2011, 50 year old vines, manual grape harvest, high 22 month out of barrels of oak, intense color to the black reflections, the powerful flavors of red fruits, spices, game, with well coated and rich tannins. the 2010 is complete, of color crimson, with rich and tasty tannins, very scented (ripe, currant…), associating fatty and intensity, of beautiful guard. The 2009 are complete, associate frame and distinction, with the characteristic nose where are guessed the ripe fruits, humus and spices (grooves, pepper), all in mouth, fleshy, of beautiful evolution. The 2008 are of a great complexity, with the characteristic nose dominated by the cooked fruits and liquorice, of powerful frame, with these tannins quite present, of rich mouth (morello cherry, humus, spices). Superb 2007, an intense wine with the nose, which associates structure and distinction, with these notes of smoked quite specific. Tasty 2006, garnet-red color and reflections crimsons. Nose complexes where mix with the notes of soft spices (vanilla and grooves) and of stone-fruits, beautiful fresh attack in mouth, tannins is consistent, molten and delicately underlines the powerful and persistent kirsch flavors, with this beautiful minerality continuing on vanilla finally. The 2005, a high-class wine where intermingle with the notes of red small fruits with core quite ripe, of pepper and liquorice, cordial mouth.
Formidable Chambertin Field of Bèze Great wine 2010, of large smoothness, complex and rich person, round and fleshy at the same time, very typified as it should be, with truffle and prune notes, of supported color, a powerful but flexible, promising high-class wine. The 2009, at the same time powerful and velvety, concentrated and scented, with the typical connotations of blackberry and underwood, are of beautiful structure.
Gevrey-Chambertin Field of Meixvelle 2010, very traditional, constructed, with firm tannins, very fine with the nose, in mouth mixes structure and velvety, fat, very scented (ripe, spices…). The 2009 are of intense color, with the very characteristic nose dominated by thefruits surmûris, a very rich wine and very distinguished at the same time. With their dimensioned, Fixin Premier Cru Les Hervelets 2010, rich with the nose, with subtle cherry notes, of truffle and humus, a high-class wine complex and powerful, fatty and melted. ExcelGevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru Clos Prieur 2009, very balanced, with these connotations characteristic of the soil, powerful, full, with tasty and rich tannins at the same time, all in mouth. Fixin, of beautiful intensity, with the red spice and cooked fruit flavors, of a beautiful frame but very elegant, with tasty tannins, regularly is successful.