Red Burgundy

This has a lovely deep centre of raspberry, cherry and damson fruit chased up by a brisk crispness that makes it incredibly refreshing. One that would be delicious with a pot-roast partridge, baked aubergine or grouse.

After the Chorey this is more high-toned - more tightly packed. In fact this is really quite ‘senior’ feeling. Lovely gentle tannins - add shape and drive - but no dryness. Good fruit weight - less sweet than Chorey - an...(read more)

Here the low yields have translated into a greater density than usual - rich and with good definition, concentrated but it still has the inimitable drinkability of wines from this domaine. Finish dense with fruit and ver...(read more)

Blue-edged vivid colour. Supple, lots of volume with a lightness of touch - very attractive. Needs to open up a little aromatically, but the finish suggests good concentration of fruit. Lovely village wine.

From vines ten kilometres west of Nuits, on white marl and limestone. The vineyard has great exposition on a 40%, south facing slope. This is always ready to pick at a similar moment to the Côte wines, the first of...(read more)

This vineyard has lots of very white limestone - from where they originally got material to make white tiles. He says therefore that he does not feel the need to use whole bunch Such sweet fruit here - really pretty. Sma...(read more)

Just next to 1er Cru La Comme vineyard on the Chassagne side of the village. It is quite a high, rocky vineyard. Lots of dark fruit. A sappy and almost wild underlying weight of darkish flesh, drawn out and freshened by...(read more)

La Créole is a gem of a site, between Gevrey Chambertin Les Crais and the family's Fixin holdings. A mix of clay and small gravel stones. This is, as slways, softish and yet elegant. The lovely plump fruit is show...(read more)

Even more than the Vieilles Vignes this shows the concentration of the year from the low yields. Very dense with dark fruit expression, black cherry and blueberry - gorgeous but needs a year of two.

Again good density - slightly more serious than the Santenay in structure, so the fruit is less open for now, but more intense and longer.

Naugues is not far from François' cellar, on a south facing slope running up to the tree-line, with little depth of soil over the rock. Unsurprisingly it's a mineral style, a compact and concentrated ripe fruit in...(read more)