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.

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)

Slightly higher toned, quite polished with fragrant mulberry and sour cherry. Palate is nicely taut, juicy, crisp acid, dark fruitiness, mulberry and cherries once more, nice delivery with rich t...(read more)

Very pretty, perfumed, crème de mure, violet/roses floral tones with some wood notes. Palate is tauter, nice flesh ripe black fruit, good ripe tannins, perfumed, complex, delicious acidity, real...(read more)

The Naugues is the 'Monsieur de la Cave' says Francois and you can immeditaly sense the swagger and the impressive weight to the wine. The 1er Cru Naugues vineyard gives smaller grapes which are...(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.

On pure limestone, a much harder soil. Seems more open, a sunnier softness. Supple and round. Fine tannins build, fully supported by the harmonious fruit. Good length.

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.