{"product_id":"2023-benjamin-leroux-en-champs-gevrey-chambertin-burgundy-france","title":"2023 Benjamin Leroux Gevrey-Chambertin \"En Champs\", Burgundy, France","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THIS WINE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis vineyard has historically been blended into Leroux’s Gevrey villages, yet it had been so good for the last three vintages that Leroux was tempted to bottle it separately. Finally, he succumbed, bottling five barrels as their own cuvée. Close to the Brochon borderline, En Champs is located high up on the slope, just beneath the 1er Cru Champeaux at the northern end of what is sometimes called the ‘Côte Saint-Jacques’. The soils here are very stony with red clays, and the cooling winds and altitude moderate the climate. The Leroux is deeper, more serious and ferrous wine than the main village bottling. There’s lovely, high-toned fruit, loads of spice, and very fine tannins on the finish. It was fermented with 40 to 50% bunches.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THIS PRODUCER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBen was born in 1975 in Beaune, not to a vigneron family, yet decided in his teens that wine was what he wanted to do. After his enology studies, he worked at Cos d'Estournel in Bordeaux, Domaine Drouhin in Oregon, Louis Jadot in Beaune, and Comte Armand in Pommard, where he was named technical director and manager at the age of 24. In 2007, he founded his own domaine and négoce. All estate fruit is certified organic. with Biodynamic practices. Purchased fruit is, at the least, sustainably farmed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBen stayed at Comte Armand for fifteen vintages and started his own side project in 2007. Though there are no family vineyards, he now vinifies approximately 30 hectares, 8 of which are domaine holdings that are farmed organically and biodynamically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis range of appellations is astounding. It spans the Côte from Chassagne-Montrachet to Gevrey-Chambertin, and includes all levels in Burgundy’s hierarchy. Particular favorites are his collection of premier crus, not only because many of them are the most prized, but sometimes precisely because of the opposite. Take Blagny. Right? Yet, with its high altitude and white marl soils, it produces reds and whites with such rebellious minerality and freshness they regularly steal the show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Benjamin Leroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53189184913697,"sku":"210000022236","price":132.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0804\/6785\/3601\/files\/SSWINEBOTTLEPHOTOTEMPLATE_a556072a-4a42-4ead-b148-5899a94a9a2c.png?v=1785946919","url":"https:\/\/perrineswine.com\/products\/2023-benjamin-leroux-en-champs-gevrey-chambertin-burgundy-france","provider":"PERRINE's WINE SHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}