Domaine Ponsot Gevrey-Chambertin Cuvée de l’Abeille 2021

L’Abeille means honeybee. This wine comes from half a hectare in Les Epointures, a well-placed site under Clos-Prieur and near Chapelle-Chambertin. The 2021 is the second release since the vineyard was replanted following the 2012 vintage, using mass-selection cuttings at 11,000 vines per hectare. For now, only the best fruit from the site is used to make this cuvée, with the rest declassified into Ponsot’s Bourgogne rouge. It is a fleshy, refined Gevrey that displays Ponsot’s deep, pure-fruited (low-yield, late-picked) style—lovely purity and class on offer here.