Mark Haisma Gevrey Chambertin 2014
- Vintage
- 2014
- Country
- France
- Region
- Burgundy,Cote de Nuits
- Size
- 750ml
- Rating
- WA90
- Grape
- Pinot Noir
The 2014 Gevrey Chambertin Village comes mostly from Croix des Champs, but in this vintage Mark has blended in some La Justice. It has a detailed and pure bouquet with macerated red cherries, wild strawberry and rose petals. The palate is clean and fresh on the entry with blood orange and red berry fruit, fine salinity and a taut, linear finish that shows the best of these two vineyards. Eight barrels produced. - WA88-90
Was a single vineyard (Croix de Champs) but also got offered La Justice in 14. Started separate vinifications but found the blend so much more interesting than the individuals so now 8 barrels – 'About 35% whole-cluster here. More zen.' Wide and fresh with an undertow darker red fruit. Theres a round core, a more ethereal impression on the palate. This is beautifully elegant wine. Never forceful just a beauty. Burgundy Report
Mark Haisma was, for a decade, winemaker at Yarra Yerring with the late Dr Bailey Carrodus. Now he’s making his own wine, acting as one of a new breed of micronegociants in Burgundy. Mark buys grapes and makes wine from them in rented space in a cellar in Gevrey Chambertin (Pierre Naigeon’s).
It’s a model that a number of passionate young winemakers are following. In Burgundy, vineyard prices are totally crazy—and that’s when you can get your hands on decent patches of vineyard, which hardly ever come on the market. This makes it pretty much impossible to start out in the region. But if you are reasonably well connected, you might be lucky enough to purchase decent grapes, and Mark has lived in the region since 2009.
He sells direct to customers through his website.