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)

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)

Rich strawberry, cherry coulis, perfumed with some notes of wild flowers, dusting of cocoa powder. Palate has lively sappy acidity, rich fruit, cherries and strawberries, concentrated with oak wr...(read more)

Much more on the red fruit spectrum, cherries, raspberry, palate has nice weight, richer tannins, structured with a good balance of acid.

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

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.

Nice constitution, juicy and mineral. Fun summer pudding brightness goes through to the finish. Could wait two or three years, but it's a lovely defined fruit right now.

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)

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

Great aromatics of cherry, damson and mulberry, primary scented and open with some wood notes. Palate is filled with sour cherry, mulberry fruit, lively acidity, nice tannic grip, good weight and...(read more)

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

Slightly more macerated fruit on nose, plum and creme de mure thicker almost flatter. Sweeter, thicker fruit delivery, ripe cherry and plum, still good acid but overlaid by richer fruit weight, a...(read more)