Côte de Nuits

Stéphane warms the cuve towards the end of the fermentation to slightly broaden this often rather slimline style. Bright, and the volume is there, and so too is the pinging bright raspberry-red f...(read more)

Silky and fresh juicy expression wrapped in smooth volume. Excellent from now.

This wine certainly stood out at the wide-ranging Drouhin tasting. Some definite class and spice. A bit of oak showing, but the finesse and succulence is there and this floats - there's some good...(read more)

Quartiers and Chaillots - a bit more old vines in it that last year. Lovely high-toned fat red fruit expressive juice. Supple and silky. Cherries and that lovely tannin.

At the bottom of a combe, but just round the corner and out of the wind, facing due south. It is on a soft, friable, 'tuffeau'-like limestone which is almost chalk. Nicely ripe and opulent. Sunny...(read more)

Ripe and grand, at once betraying it's origin 'on the Côte' (it is from Corgoloin, just south of Nuits). A underpinning of hard stone giving a brightening support and vivacity. Rich and supple, b...(read more)

Thibault's cuvée of Bourgogne includes village-level vines from Ladoix and Marsannay, which he de-classifies to make one decent-sized cuvée. Just one pigeage. Good precise fruit, but quite backwa...(read more)

Much less expressive, but silky depth of fruit, sweet and solidly constructed. Really picks up on the finish, gorgeously long on this deep red and black fruit.

On comblanchien, a hard limestone which is almost marble (and which is quarried as such, at Comblanchien, just south of Nuits). It is actually the 'youngest' stone of the region. There is a class...(read more)

As so often a paler colour here. Possibly rather on the back foot - nose is discreet, but although there is a lovely harmony in the mouth this is not fully expressive yet.

This is at the bottom of the Combe de Lavaux, and the soil is a stony mix of clay and rock, all good stuff washed down from higher up. Lots of finesse. Supple yet quite firm under the initial coa...(read more)