Confuron-Cotétidot Gevrey-Chambertin Lavaut Saint Jacques 1er Cru 2019

Yves Confuron (who is also the régisseur at Domaine de Courcel in Pommard), succinctly described 2019 as he did 2018, which is to say as a "hot, dry and ripe vintage though one with more vines suffering hydric stress and as such the tannins are less ripe than they were in 2018. Because of this, I felt that it was absolutely necessary to wait to pick, and thus we didn't start until the 22nd of September. The fruit was super-clean and solidly ripe with very little sorting required. As to the wines, I found that those coming from cooler terroirs are better balanced than those coming from warmer sectors." As I always underscore, the house style is decidedly old school and there's no point buying these wines without the express intention of aging them over the longer term.