Fine Burgundy Selection

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 rich. Jolly nice indeed.

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 very much equal to the structure, it just needs time to harmonise.

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 which give a certain body and fleshiness, and still the insistent pointed fruit enlivens it all...(read more)

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.

Thierry says this is fuller, but in a way it is more discreet, even tauter than the village Chambolle. Very directed and a sense of hard, slatey mineral. 'Surprises by delicacy', says Thierry.

Ripe , almost spicy nose and palate is round and fat - all very attractive, and softer and seemingly readier than the Referts when we tasted. The streamlined length builds on the acidity - powerful finish

Three different parcels which he characterises as being 'finesse, flesh and structure'. He works to accentuate these characters, and then blends it back to a harmonious whole. The result is a wine that has real depth and complexity, and a surprising complete harmony too. This is a terroir...(read more)

A great classic of a vineyard, and as it sounds, a rocky, white soil, very mineral. Discreet nose, very pure and straight. Rock crystal elegance here, very fine - there's thickness of body yet total purity. Magical site-specific combination of ripeness and brightness.

Philippe's vines in Charmes are right up under Griotte Chambertin, where there is more stone ('calcaire d'entroques' or crinoidal limestone) and this gives wines with more elegance - the topsoil soil is very shallow here. An immediately appealing florally fruity nose, and the palate shows...(read more)

Properly rich. A huge sensual weight of deep black fruit and succulent juiciness. Damson and blackberry fruit, but so much else besides - saline and intense too.

Seems quite oaky, but it's really just that the fruit is a little on the back foot. In need of a racking? No doubting the volume; it's as rich and full as it could be. Rich and tense and relaxed and velvety all the the same time.