Morey-St-Denis

A cuvée of quite young vines (15 years old), but good plants on a good limestone-rich soil. It's lifted, juicy, then with a certain complexity and a touch of liquorice as well as the fine red fruit profile. 'almos...(read more)

Really good village wine, sappy and fat. In Beaune restaurants they'd be drinking this now, and why not? - such immediate pleasure.

90% whole bunch. There's more aromatic lift in the red fruit spectrum here. Very silky - a lovely sleek texture with a salty lift on the finish.

Cognets and Clos Solon, both higher up the slope than the 'grains fins' but more typical Morey terroir with deep clay making broader-shouldered wines. Greater fruit density, darker berries, greater tannic density, even s...(read more)

40-45 year-old vines in 'les Crais', next to the white. There is some very white soil and some that's redder in the same parcel, this is from the redder part. A really good village wine, sappy and bright and there's sali...(read more)

Stéphane is a talented winemaker and this year he is really finding more confidence and his experimenting is clear here with his first time use of whole bunches. He includes 15% here to try and tame the richly wei...(read more)

Almost more Chambolle in style than the Chambolle - it's floral, supple, generous, with fatly ripe tannins giving supple volume. Dark red rose petal freshness, black cherry fruit - it's lovely.

(Just below Clos de la Roche Grand Cru Vineyard). Riper nose than Sentiers. More sweet black and red plummy fruits in play. Nice palate. Serious. Broad shouldered but not tough, just good pinning in from mineral, smoky f...(read more)

Colour is very dark. Nose of black fruit, palate mineral, lifted, airy, floating. One would never tire of this - it seems to be bottled energy and light. A sort of blackberry jelly fruit on the finish which is still dry...(read more)

Bottled before the harvest. From the rocky strip above Clos de Tart and Clos des Lambrays. As in all the recent vintages a wine that presents a lovely mineral aspect as well as 'enough' body and fruit depth. Restrained o...(read more)

Good intensity on the nose, well ripened strawberries and red berries, follows to the palate. Sleek powerful flow. Pretty tannins, really quite sophisticated. Powerful yet not hefty - this just drives on through the pala...(read more)

45-50% whole bunch. Supple, mprecise, juicy and in total harmony. Fruit is very much all there but never quite sweet - very crisp, precise. This, as the first of the Morey premiers crus in the tasting, is a class up in s...(read more)