Desvignes Givry 1er Ozymandias 2022

Gautier’s 2022s show a talented winemaker firing on all cylinders. He has refined his cellar technique considerably, using gentler extractions, and focused his barrel work through exhaustive (some might say obsessive) experimentation and tasting. The resulting wines easily rival reds from the Côte d’Or in detail and complexity, and simply blow them away on price.

The ‘Cuvée Ozymandias’ is a blend of two of Givry’s 1er Cru parcels: ‘Le Vernoy’ and ‘Crémillons’ – both located to the southwest of the village around his hamlet of Poncey. Gautier works with small parcels of relatively young Pinot Noir vines here (aged between 7 to 11 years old) planted on clay-limestone soils. There’s brilliant clarity to this cuvée, with excellent detail and a long tense finish — think Volnay but an hour further south.