Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru 2020 - Domaine Trapet

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(95 - 97) /100 Parker

When to drink this wine : To be drunk after at least 5 years in the cellar and can evolve for decades.  

Tasted by William Kelley on 20 January 2022: "The 2020 Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru is striking, unfolding in the glass with aromas of dark berries, exotic spices, sweet soil nuances, orange crust, smoked duck and peony. Velvety and layered, it is concentrated and multidimensional, with a lively backbone of acidity, superb core depth and a long, perfumed finish.."

The 2020 vintage

It has proved brilliant here: as elsewhere along the Côte, the wines are more primary than their 2019 counterparts at the same stage, and tighter, displaying deep, saturated hues, vibrant fruit cores and ripe tannins. While not in the least austere, they will require some patience to realise their potential - but what potential! Boosted by the growing involvement of his sons, Pierre and Louis, Jean-Louis Trapet has initiated a viticultural revolution: in 2020, seven whole hectares of the estate's vineyards were converted to both trellises and higher posts and wires, depending on the steepness of the slope. Since then, the changes have been rolled out to other plots. And given the extent of Trapet's operation in the best climates, this means that the walk from Morey-Saint-Denis to Gevrey-Chambertin suddenly has a different face. In the winery, the vinification remains very classical, with large percentages of whole bunches. There are also more small vintages, including a Gevrey-Chambertin 1859, made from old vines in a place called Champerrier, and a bottling of Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Aux Combottes. 

 The estate tells you about it: 

Let's go through the history of this Grand Cru, a close cousin of Chambertin. So close that it was only mentioned for the first time in 1508. At that time, the Latricières were certainly confused with their royal neighbour: the Chambertin. The etymology is rather mysterious: for some, undoubtedly poets, the origin is Frankish and means "little marvel", for others, more realistic and undoubtedly more observant, it is the very nature of the soil which is used to name it: "the Tricière", poor earth.

This poor soil can be observed during the scratches in summer: the clay-limestone substratum leaves a thin layer of silica on the surface. This thin layer comes from the scree of the nearby Combe Grissard.

What pride and emotion to work on this terroir of which we have the honour to be the custodians since 1904.

That year was particularly rich in happy events: first of all there was the birth of Louis on January 1st, then the acquisition of 35 ouvrées of Latricières from the Savot family by Pierre Arthur Trapet and finally the announcement of a superb vintage of which we still have a living testimony.

• This 1904 Latricières, the lifeblood of our family's work, is so dense, so powerful, but also so fragile that it makes us believe in immortality!
• Latricières-Chambertin domaine TRAPET
• 75 ares, 1 parcel
• the oldest planted in 1938

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