Offered JUL 13th, 2017

“The resulting [2015] wines are amongst the finest I have yet tasted from the domaine!… each and every year here since I have been visiting regularly (starting with the 2008 vintage) has been full of outstanding wines that perfectly captured the character and potential of each successive vintage, and in particular, the 2014s here are equally impressive. But, my gut feeling is that Philippe Harmand and his father Gerard have one of the greatest vintages of the last quarter century here on their hands with these stellar 2015s, and this is a domaine that should be on every Burgundy lovers’ short list of ‘must have’ Gevrey-Chambertins!” John Gilman, View From the Cellar

Harmand-Geoffroy Gevrey Chambertin VV 2015
3 bottles available
$65 per bottle

91+ points View From the Cellar: “The Harmand-Geoffroy Vieilles Vignes bottling all hails from their parcels on the northern side of the commune and was raised in forty percent new oak this year. The wine was showing beautifully at the time of my visit and seems likely to drink just a tad sooner than the Clos Prieur. The bouquet delivers a fine mélange of sappy black cherries and sweet dark berries, raw cocoa, grilled meats, a touch of bonfire and a lovely base of smoky new wood. On the palate the wine is plush, full-bodied and sappy at the core, with suave tannins and really lovely acidity adding vibrancy and bounce on the long and complex finish. Fine juice.” 

 

Harmand-Geoffroy Gevrey Chambertin La Perriere 2015
6 bottles available
$85 per bottle

93 points View From the Cellar: “The 2015 Perrière from Philippe Harmand is excellent, and interestingly, this was raised in less new wood than the Vieilles Vignes this year (thirty percent). The wine is pure and refined on both the nose and palate, with the excellent bouquet wafting from the glass in a lovely combination of cassis, dark berries, black minerality, dark chocolate, incipient notes of grilled meats and a deft framing of cedary wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and utterly classic in profile, with a fine core of fruit, great backend mineral drive, fine-grained tannins and a long, poised and tangy finish. This is a superb example of this underrated and beautiful Gevrey premier cru.”

 

Harmand-Geoffroy Gevrey Chambertin Lavaux St. Jacques 2015
1 bottle available
$95 per bottle

94 points View From the Cellar: “One of the very finest examples of Lavaux St. Jacques is unequivocally the bottling from Domaine Harmand-Geoffroy and the 2015 will be a stellar wine with a bit of bottle age. The bouquet is deep, pure and very precise, wafting from the glass in a mix of black cherries, sweet dark berries, espresso, raw cocoa, grilled meats, black minerality and a well-judged base of cedary wood. On the palate the palate the wine is full-bodied, intense and impeccably balanced, with outstanding depth at the sappy core, great soil signature, suave tannins and a very long, tangy and still quite primary finish. Just add time in the cellar!”

 

Harmand-Geoffroy Mazis Chambertin 2015
6 bottles available
$150 per bottle

96+ points View From the Cellar: “The only thing I might have done differently from Philippe Harmand with this magnificent Mazis-Chambertin is I might have used a bit less new wood, just to allow the terroir here to shine through even brighter, as Philippe raised this wine in ninety percent new wood this year. It is not that the oak is in the way at all, as it is seamlessly integrated into this beautiful wine, but I would just be curious to see what this great wine might have looked like with less new wood. In any case, this wine is utterly stunning, as it offers up a truly superb aromatic constellation of red and black plums, sappy black cherries, roasted meats, raw cocoa, a very complex base of minerality, a touch of hazelnut and a base of smoky new wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and simply rippling with energy, with tangy acids, ripe tannins, a very sappy core and laser-like focus on the pure and very complex finish. This will be a very, very elegant and sappy example of Mazis at its apogee.”