Côte Chalonnais

Scented mulberry and raspberry fruit on the nose, palate is fresh and delivers lovely red fruit core, decent grip of ripe tannins good acidity and length.

More fragrant, higher toned, cherry, raspberry, aromatic and bright with some floral notes. Palate has flesh and grip, damson, cherry fruit again aromatic, good acid, ripe present tannins with oa...(read more)

Lovely but less pronounced nose with fragrant and concentrated black raspberry, cherry and wood spice. Good grip on the palate, bright acid, rich tannins, spice, black cherry, lovely and long. Th...(read more)

Touch fleshier darker, scented wood spice, cherry and damson fruit. Nice grip on the palate, tauter, but with a richness to the dark fruit that makes it balanced, good tannic structure, balanced...(read more)

Saturated black cherry, strawberry fruit nose, higher toned, fragrant some toasty oak. Palate has immediate grip and weight, taut, ripe acid, dark fruit core, more mineral with rich oak on the fi...(read more)

The biggest of the 2011s, and it is impressvely broad. Very damson fruit when young, it is rounding to an impressive richness.

Nose has a rich savoury fruit and palate too. Dense and rich and savoury and saline, it flows well. A wild woodland black fruit, blueberry and blackberry.

Deep colour and the expressive damson that seems to be the 'fruit flavour' of 2011. Easy black fruit on the palate, but never becoming soft - appetisingly bracing.

Darker more brooding backward nose, black cherry, damson, sinew and spice. Power and grip on the palate, amazing acidity, again dark and sinewy, intense and impressive.

Classy definition here, the same blackberry and currant, but something more, this wants to be drunk. Lovely and fresh - firm texture and acidity.

Rich again, but is this even more lifted that the Crausot? Certainly also superb. Juicy and appetising as well as also being deep, full of balance and supple length.

More centred tighter style, black cherry, sloe berries quite polished and bright. Palate is brisk and bright, exciting, incredible acidity, sloe and damson, pure stylish, mineral and direct.