Red Burgundy

This has a lovely deep centre of raspberry, cherry and damson and a brisk, crispness that makes it incredibly refreshing. One for pot roast partridge or grouse.

The vines are now 65 years old. Good pretty and enticing nose. Pinot with a sense of weight and plush edge. Palate starts fresh and clean. Good mineral edge to the core, then a brightness - a red edge to the fruit. Silky touch. Gets better and better on the palate. Really rather delicious....(read more)

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 is supported by a juicy acid and some delicious sappy tannins.

Faces due south and so the bright and peppy attack is surprising at first - but then more weight and ripeness builds quite quickly. This is nicely done. An energy and bounce here that is more pronounced than with the other Reds tasted here. It flows on with great momentum and silky edged j...(read more)

Three parcels. Sweetly soft, cushiony on the palate, gentle and pure, on soils with more clay than the Bourgogne, so less structure, but a lot of volume. Long, long finish.

Darker spicier attack on the nose, black cherry, dark chocolate, plum notes. Palate is more centred taut concentrated and serious, tannins fuller fatter more intense, dark chocolate, black cherry, sexy, ripe and long.

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 berries. The vines here are facing due south. The vineyard is heavilly l...(read more)

Very little soil here, getting quite high up the slope and on pink granite. Still rich, it avoids heaviness, with a tension and lively sense of minerals and movement. 'it's one of the highest in alcohol, but one of the freshest', says Thibault.

Philippe explains that he must be very gentle with the wine-making to avoid over extraction or you get hard tannins and too much heft here. In 2016 he has been successful! It is more burley for sure. Quite broad and big. More shoulders than the Marsannay - but there is a really good level...(read more)

This is finer, more 'edged' than the Aloxe Corton. Very tightly furled for now. Puckering acidity and tannins. In a good way. Dense, ripe, powerful fruit. This vineyard is situated at the top of the hill and shaded by the trees there, from the sun and the frost. Good stuff. Deep red fruits...(read more)

Nice feel. Tastes quite ripe reds fruit, but well checked, good grip too - and just enough darkness and seriousness underlying, but essentially this is ample and fleshy yet firmish. Remarkably good considering the very recent racking and sulphuring.

The deep colour of 2012. Rich velvety body and ripe dark red fruit, all in balance and purity. This has a linen texture, firm but soft at the same time, and a well-developed dark spicy fruit with just a hint of classy oak. Drinking brilliantly now.