Côte de Nuits

From two separate parcels with differing soils, each brings its own personality with a fresh fruitness undercut with some complexing oak and a certain earthiness. Lovely mouthful of dark cherry and raspberry fruit that i...(read more)

This has a more mineral underbelly than the village wine. I like the energy and the more lifted feel. Quite poised, light on its feet. Good bright red fruits. Balance of freshness is excellent with the nicely ripe red be...(read more)

A gravel of broken limestone on the rubble washed down the combe. Little real soil makes this an early-ripening spot. Supple and silky, the limestone gives a surprising mineral brightness and energy. The freshness means...(read more)

Deep colour, good concentration on the nose, dark fruit, a touch of sweetness, fine tannins already so well melted into the wine. Beautifully balanced. ' Millerandage saved us', said Thierry at the time - the sm...(read more)

All from a lieu-dit called les Athés, vines planted in 1902/3. Fine Chambolle floral fruit nose, and then the surprisingly dense powerful old vines palate. Full of juicy Pinot fruit and lightening length.

Not the density of Virgile Lignier's wine, for example, but this is its own thing, richer than his village wines, still with a lovely delicacy, and there is intensity too, but expressed in precision, with a lovely depth...(read more)

Great delicacy of raspberry and cherry-stone fruit, but the overwhelming impression is a wine of place, of a firm chalky soil which gives it a character all of its own, more about mineral and light and airy scent than fr...(read more)

Very harmonious nose with a touch of cherry-stone ('Burlat cherry stone', says Virgile, showing how the French just know more about varieties of fruit and veg than anyone), and very fine tannins which give a certain body...(read more)

Attractive, quite full on the palate with balance and juice, but it was a little flattened by a recent SO2 adjustment when I tasted, and I'd expect it to put on weight and distinctiveness.

Also bottled after the 2015 harvest. After the Rue de Vergy, this has more obvious depth of Gevrey black fruit, a suave round ball of fruit and satisfyingly mouthfilling body.

Deep black fruit expression on the nose - almost a touch of tar. Palate is big - a mouthfilling old-vine richness, veering towards heaviness but certainly achieving opulence, a sense of red velvet roses. 'Like having a b...(read more)

More limestone again here. Deep and bright nose all at once - dark plums and a high-toned mineral note too. Rich and suave and silky volume but there's lots of structure undernerath too. Deep, and long too. The underlyin...(read more)