Fine Burgundy Selection

Brighter and more perk, more poise than the Morgeot tasted just before. It is because it is so different that Laurent has started making it as a separate wine when he can. It is from right up at...(more info)

The 'younger' vines that make up this plot are now 40 years old, the older ones over 80. Clay and limestone. Expressive again, juicily aromatic 'a bit phenolic', says Olivier, going on to explain...(more info)

Trezin always makes for a mineral Puligny, and this is no exception, taut and fine, zippy even, with a lick of limestone. Joseph says that it always makes a wine like this, bursting with brightne...(more info)

One foudre and the remainder in barriques. An elegant aroma. Juicy strike to a rounded palate. There is quite some richness here too. It is fresh and lemony on the finish. It is ripe, but not too...(more info)

Powerful and massive wine from clayey soil next to grand cru Ruchottes. There is dark colour, and rich tannin as well as fruit - a bit of a brute but no shortage of character, and the fruit is ve...(more info)

A much firmer style, less expressive on the nose, tauter and harder. The tannins are firm but the fruit is there, not lush, but bracing, piquant, spicy.

Very harmonious nose with a touch of cherry-stone ('Burlat cherry stone', says Virgile, showing how the French just know more about varieties of fruit and veg than anyone), and very fine tannins...(more info)

Absolutely classic Meursault, with all the opulence one would expect from the appellation. Complex and elegant, with some nutty, honeyed notes indicative of some bottle age and creamy mid-palate...(more info)

Still in malo when I tasted, but lots of wine here, just a bit hard to discern as yet.

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.

Lovely expression. Fresh and black and taut and cool. Coal-black tannins give a background to the damson fruit, which also has a very fresh raspberry top-note. The tannins are fine and the balanc...(more info)

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 sil...(more info)