Savigny-lès-Beaune ROUGE

Caroline and Benjamin pick all their grapes by hand. The extraction is clearly gentle, with the two of them preferring “remontages” and “pigages” by far. And the wines are given time here; there is no rush at Guilbert Gillet. That's a good thing, because the time factor cannot be tricked with any technique without something falling by the wayside. So, patience! This wine is, so to speak, the journeyman piece of this highly talented and massively ambitious couple, from whom we will be able to enjoy countless great wines in the future, that much is clear to me. This not-so-small little wine smells seductively of red fruits, or rather red berries, small, ripe and, with a little more contact with the air, also develops wonderful black tea notes. Complex graphite aromas sometimes wink through the dense berry fruit and give the perfume depth. On the palate, the wine feels like thick satin, silky on the one hand and a bit scratchy on the other, just as it should be. The wine has quite a bit of weight (for a pinot), but also a structure that is wonderfully grouped around a wonderfully fruity core. All in all, it is an extremely charming wine that you will never get tired of.