Côte Chalonnais

If you're after Burgundy with plenty of 'juice' then this is the bottle for you. It's full of joyous, fresh fromboise fruit and bright acidity. Far from being one dimensional, there is impressive mid-palate...(read more)

More wood spice on the nose, cherry, mulberry, scented. Richer and broader with greater fruit concentration, ripe, damson, plum, darker with oak notes on the finish.

Marie bought this parcel in January 2016 - it lies just next door to the Les Cloux vineyard. The vines have been really well worked 'just like a garden' she says and is very happy. Clay and Limestone he...(read more)

Touch more perfumed cherries and mulberry, sappier fruit skins, sweeter, rich tannins, dense fruit weight, cherries, plum grip and then some complexing oak notes.

It's very hard to believe these vines are just 15 years old. This has such impressive concentration and length. With seven years of bottle age, the 2011 has rounded out into an utterly delicious m&eacut...(read more)

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.

Darker spicier attack on the nose, black cherry, dark chocolate, plum notes. Palate is more centred taut concentrated and serious, tannins fuller fatter more intense, dark chocolate, black cherry...(read more)

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.

Very deep colour. Rich and harmonious. Rich smooth velvet texture, and pure fruit, pure Pinot, fresh blackberry.

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.

Very different fruit is plumper, dark berry, fragrant and generous, touch floral (rose hip). On the palate the wine is also more generous, sappy, black fruit, juicy balancing acidity, elegant and...(read more)