Mâconnais

Damien has produced a 2017 which is more immediate than the 2016 was at the same stage, with open defined nose of classic Maconnais white flowers, easy fruit in the mouth and a nice fresh length.

A long time favourite at L&S. Unwooded for clean lifted refreshment but with a nice weight of pear and solid peach fruit to keep it very food friendly.

2017 was more complicated than the perfect 2016 season here - but we are delighted with the latest release of our own-label Burgundy. As ever, it comes from the same single vineyard source near S...(read more)

This is more serious than the Macon Villages. Fuller weight, yet remains bright and clear. Some pretty yellow fruit, less grip at the outset, but this does grow. Nice firm citrus notes and some h...(read more)

Fresh, with nice tension. The flavours are ripe, verging on exotic but with a natural restraint. Almost passion fruit, then pears and peaches - all held together in a juicy expressive brightness...(read more)

Christophe and Dominique Lafon share the fruit of this fabulous vineyard in the heart of the Maconnais. On the nose a lovely and intense, firm, yellow fruit hit jumps out. There is a lovely tensi...(read more)

Good clean sweeping attack. This is clean cut yet broad and enveloping. Weighted but bright. Interesting. I really like the spice hit of ginger, the soft 'pain d'epice' note. This does does fan o...(read more)

The 2016 Viré-Clessé Quintaine is showing very well, offering up a pretty bouquet of orange blossom, honeycomb and white flowers. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, supple and expressive,...(read more)

As usual the class if this vineyard on the slopes of the rock of Vergisson itself shows through in a concentrated and mineral wine. There's a core of creamy almond, lovely richness and freshness...(read more)

Planted in 2005. A 30% slope and poor soil, thin at the top. Originally planted with Gamay, it was abandoned after phylloxera, then brought back from being scrubland by a forester who was passion...(read more)

Aged in a 50-50 mix of foudres and demi-muids. Prelude is an assemblage of four plots in the communes of Prissé and Chasselas, with vines up to fifty years old. All these are the first to be picked in...(read more)