(92-94) Good dark red. Complex nose melds plum, black raspberry, spicy oak and violet, plus a hint of purple fruits. Suave, silky, highly concentrated wine with captivating soil-driven flavors of black raspberry, violet and mocha. Finishes spicy and very long, with a superb spine of acids and fine-grained tannins. Really spreads out to saturate the palate, with lingering floral and spicy notes providing lift. This cru is usually picked toward the end, along with the estate's Bourgogne.- ST

(91-93) Here there is no reductive funk to the wonderfully fresh nose that offers up notes of red currant, earth and wood along with an abundance of sauvage and humus elements. The sleek and almost painfully intense flavors possess imposing size, muscle and power while delivering first-rate persistence and depth on the well-balanced and youthfully austere finish. This isn't quite as dense as Charmes or the Baudes but I very much like the sense of proportion and harmony. Excellent.

Not the deepest in colour, with a rich plummy nose. The plump ripe fruit is more apparent at the front than the back while there is good length. There is a touch of reduction here. The tannins are quite firm, this needs time. Tasted: September 2019.

From bottle, the 2016 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Les Cazetiers is showing very well, unwinding in the glass with aromas of cassis, cherries, black truffle, rich loamy soil and toasty new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, velvety and generous, with a lavish core of succulent fruit cloaking its fine tannic chassis, its balance and energy alike promising long evolution in bottle. As is usually the case chez Sérafin, this will demand a bit of bottle age to integrate its new wood, so purchasers should count on the better part of a decade's patience.- WK