Côte de Nuits

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.

From Petits Puits. Mostly on hard limestone - 'calcaire d'entroques'. Really quite expressive, the limestone seems to reflect a brightness of tone in the fruit, a good level of richness and a cer...(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, a...(read more)

This is made from vines from Thibault's own domaine and some bought fruit - all from village level vineyards in Marsannay, Ladoix and Cotes de Nuits Villages. The nose is straight and firm, mediu...(read more)

Deep nose with more black fruit in the depths. This vineyard faces due south, on limestone, so it has a good combination of a very sunny expostion and always ripens well. A sunny black fruit aspe...(read more)

From vines ten kilometres west of Nuits, on white marl and limestone. Quite a rich and fleshy nose, with more weight than the other Hautes Côtes cuvées. Vines that face straight south, and it is harves...(read more)

Unquestionably Philippe's finest terroir in Marsannay, on the border with Fixin, very hard limestone known as 'calcaire de Comblanchien' - named after the village just south of Nuits where it is...(read more)

Tasting superbly at the Lea & Sandeman Summer party. Pretty, floral, blueberry and petals. Ever so slightly chilled the volume and structure here are perfectly countered by the fine lines and a c...(read more)

The vines here are now 15 years old. Pale and bright and precise - very much in the style of Anne's wines. Saline, sappy, with good juice and flow, good harmony and length. Pretty.

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.