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)

On the nose this is tautly mineral which follows to the intense palate of bright, scrubbing minerality. Energetic fruit does pop out, there's a nice citrus, pithy, limey middle with a good slick...(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)

Relatively rich middle here, slick ripe and well textured without being amazingly defined. Fruit is firm pear and some nice white fleshy peach. This is smart and proper and on par for good villag...(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 different register to the Chassagnes, surprisingly mineral again, lovely freshness. All the fat of the vintage and intensity and length too. Very attractive.

66 ares (100 of these to the hectare), in three parcels. Considerably more structured than the Charmots, but Laurent's vines are for the most part not on the hard white limestone of the top of th...(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.

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.