Germany's accessible, often floral, answers to red burgundy are increasingly popular, and this one is especially keenly priced.

Round and easy. Flattering and easy with some mushroom and smokiness. Well done! Nice chalky finish.

Pungent date and prune, stewed and fragrant spice. Quite mature, fleshy fruit, spice and herbs, bite, grip and length.

Light and a little smudgy on the nose but definitely burgundy! Already broachable with some real oomph. Savoury finish – nothing gratuitously sweet about this.

Spicy, mulberry and plum fruit, rich full grippy tannins, nice ripeness, dark fruit, wood notes, good acid, decent length.

Racked two weeks before I tasted, but the malo had not yet taken place. The fruit shows pure and bright and the structure taut and vivid with a dark cherry character. Will round out after malo an br...

Dark rch fruit. Densely tannic, but a lovely feral richness and ripeness. Wine for rabbit stew!

(from a .35 ha parcel). Here the wood treatment is more discreet though not invisible with distinctly earthy aromas of dark currant, raspberry and humus. There is a terrific mouth feel to the con br...

Attractive, quite full on the palate with balance and juice, but it was a little flattened by a recent SO2 adjustment when I tasted, and I'd expect it to put on weight and distinctiveness.

50 year old vines just under Clos de la Roche. Quite a red clay-limestone soil. Focused, distinctive yet harmonious nose of red-accented fruit, with appetising brightness coming out of decent wei br...

Chevrets is an 'island' in Les Caillerets, with gravelly red soil. Dark, damson and dry black character, still with an undertow of tannin and salinity. Velvet, but the tannins are elegant and si br...

Vibrant deep colour. So sweet and winning, and yet with a profound depth of flavour and a rich tannic density. Very pure and long on cherries and cassis. Terrific flow.