Côte Chalonnaise

Usually this wine spends 12 months in barrel, but they decided to go earlier in 2022 as they were so short in 2021. Erell said they could get away with this because fortunately it is a delightfully forward vintage. On th...(read more)

The style of the domaine is for dark wines with good richness, and this is all here, but it's fresher and tauter than the 2020, with a fruit given a higher tone and length by the fresher acidity.

Bottled last week and no dimming the lovely nose. Very inviting waft of flower blooms and Pinot fruit. Warm red berries. Fresh attack with cool acid and lovely push. Fruit is quite broad in the middle - but still quite p...(read more)

Very inky and ripe, dark fruit bursting through on the nose. Mulchy black cherries and hedgerow fruit, but with a definite pinoté lift, with a touch of violet on the end. Really quite juicy, but elegant too, and w...(read more)

Smells more loaded, more full on than the Chaponniere. Much broader, deep with fruit - again that acidity though. Really impressive. Nicely ripe - but perfectly lifted. Acid not really from the early harvest - as everyth...(read more)

Mid crimson. Deliciously scented with non-sweet dark-red fruit. Such fine tannins but they really frame the fresh fruit to a T. Vibrant, fresh and rounded on the finish.

Mid crimson. Riper and darker-fruited than the Clos des Grands Voyens. The fruit is rich but fresh, deep, generous, framed by firm, youthful tannins. Needs more time.

Cask sample. Mid crimson. Darker fruited than the Rully Marissou but still so fragrant and just a touch, nicely, stemmy. Dry, gently chewy tannins. Modulated, long

Bigger, riper and richer than the Les Crets. Not sweet though - not overly done. The fruit is pert with red accent and some nice baked plum. Some toast too and nice spicy notes. Polished core. Some savoury edges too - ge...(read more)

Vines approx. 35 years old. Francois ripped up all the older vines of big, productive grapes and planted after doing a massal selection. Much darker nose, blacker, mulchier fruit, with some rosehips. Great concentration...(read more)