Domaine Arlaud Aux Combottes, Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru, France 2021 Morey-Saint-Denis Clos Baulet sweet tobacco and sandalwood are

sweet tobacco and sandalwood are tantalizing

velvety and concentrated with assertive but ripe tannins

with a very tasty palate

then white stone fruit and elderflower blossom

Domaine Arlaud Aux Combottes, Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru, France 2021 Morey-Saint-Denis Clos Baulet sweet tobacco and sandalwood areThe 2021 Gevrey Chambertin Aux Combottes 1er Cru is very convincing on the nose, a mixture of red and black fruit, forest floor, hints of crushed limestone and orange zest. So much vigour. The palate is medium bodied with beautifully integrated oak, fine grain tannins, taut and linear with a sublime, quite persistent finish that you just want to keep drinking again and again. Outstanding.