2022 Domaine Trapet Pere & Fils Chambertin Grand Cru

Domaine Trapet is Gevrey-Chambertin royalty currently undergoing a serious technical renaissance as the sixth generation, Pierre and Louis, take the lead. Building on a biodynamic pedigree established in 1995, the brothers have recently converted over 55,000 vines to the high-density échalas (single-stake) system, a massive manual undertaking that helps push phenolic maturity while naturally lowering potential alcohols by roughly 0.5%. This focus on transparency continues in the cellar through high whole-cluster fermentations where they painstakingly remove the central stems by hand to capture aromatic lift without the green or astringent tannins typically found in the stalks. By pairing this level of manual precision with modest new oak that rarely exceeds 50% even at the Grand Cru level, Trapet has successfully redefined the local style, favoring elegance and soil-driven clarity over sheer power.

Other Reviews...
This is the most floral wine in the range with a huge array of such elements adding elegance to the poached plum, dark currant, smoked game, exotic tea and moderate wood aromas. The gorgeously textured, mineral-driven and overtly muscular big-bodied flavors possess a Zen-like harmony on the superbly long, complex and built-to-age finale where the only nit is a hint of warmth. This is potentially spectacular and a wine that should amply reward 15 to 20 years of aging. Drink through 2037+.
94-97 points
Allen Meadows - Burghound

The 2022 Chambertin Grand Cru is another terrific wine from Trapet, unfurling in the glass with deep aromas of plums, cherries and sweet berries mingled with hints of warm spices, rose petals and coniferous forest floor. Full-bodied, ample and satiny, it's seamless and complete, with a layered core of fruit framed by sweet, powdery tannins. It's as impressive for its harmony as it is for its plenitude.
95-97 points
William Kelley - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2022 Chambertin Grand Cru, 100% whole bunches and 60% new oak, is blessed with a complex nose: blackberry, bilberry, light estuarine scents and hints of pain d'épices. Wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grain tannins and a firm grip - perhaps a more demonstrative Chambertin in the making with a very sustained and grippy finish. Superb, but like the Chapelle, drinkers will require patience. Drink 2030-2060.
95-97 points
Neal Martin - Vinous

Concentrated youthful purple. There is a firmly regal quality to the nose. First you think it is all there, then you have to search, thirdly an immense wave of fruit, but light on its feet, sweeps right across the palate, ethereal and with its feet on the ground. An extraordinarily long finish indeed. A breathtaking Chambertin. Drink from 2035.
96-99 points
Jasper Morris MW - Inside Burgundy

The 2022 Trapet Chambertin impresses with its luminous blackberry and fig fruit aromas shaded with hints of earth and spice. It is a wine of superb density and incredible length with a marvellous velvety texture; massive tannins can give a slightly rustic feel to the wine, but with time, these will resolve to create a wine that will last for decades to come. The grapes are from the domaine's 1.85 hectares of ideally-placed vineyards that are now trained on stakes and grown without hedging to yield this magnificent wine. Drink 2035-2075.
98 points
Charles Curtis MW - Decanter