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.

Attractive freshness along with the weight of fruit of the ripe 2018 vintage. Quite tight lines in fact. Good pep - gentle grip and a piquant feel. Not fat - not too glossy. Good drive, lovely fresh feel. Pure, intense a...(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 i...(read more)

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 oth...(read more)

Lovely balance - 'just so'. Aromatically no that developed, but the weight is perfectly judged and the tannin to match it is spot on. As Eric says, this is 'one of the best Bourgogne Chaillots we've made'.

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)

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.

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)

Serious feel here - smart sleek and polished nose. Loaded with dark, brambling, sweeter fruit. But with a sophisticated smart Burgundian Pinot feel. Palate has lift and energy. Delightful textured and with really good fl...(read more)

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.