Côte de Nuits

Bourgogne Rouge of a superior kind, made like a village wine and in need of a few years to round out, this has intense fruit in a structured frame.

Riche volume on the attack, and then the freshness of the vintage comes behind, tightening the tannins on the finish.

Real burgundy on the nose. Pure, very slightly rustic fruit (in a good way) with quite a bit of acidity and tannin. No hurry to drink this!

Still in barrel. Medium deep purple. This is more discreet than Vignes Marie but will have additional finesse. Currently backward, because not yet racked. Stylish and with both weight and length. I am impressed with this...(read more)

Transparent crimson. Really quite a rich nose with real structure and fruit in the middle. Reminds me of Gypsy Cream biscuits which probably don’t exist any more – or have certainly been renamed. Long, subtle and, in the...(read more)

Quite young vines here (12/13 years old), but well-chosen plants. elegant from its mineral soil - it's on the Gevrey side, but with lots of limestone, and it's very light and lifted, beautifully fine, with really nice gr...(read more)

From the north side of the village. The amplitude of a deep clay soil, which retained water well in this dry vintage. Solidly-built, it has the freshness of the vintage giving good drive.

Broad flavours. Quite dry. There's good depth of dark berry fruit here but for now it is firm and needs a little time to soften up.

Riper yet than the Champs Perdrix, there's depth and harmony to the nose, and the palate is rich and full with fine tannins and excellent volume and length.

There's clay here, and it's near the centre of the village, in Clos Solon and Cognées, both with 55 year-old vines. Full-bodied and structured, a concentrated old-vine black fruit expression, broad in the shoulder.

Here too the nose is mildly reduced though the underlying herbal tea-inflected fruit seems fresh. The palate impression of the lighter weight flavors is sleek and bright along with ample minerality that emerges on the sl...(read more)