White Burgundy

This cracking Bourgogne Blanc from Damian Martin is a wonderfully unassuming linen fresh, peach and melon wonder. Just the right balance of pure fruit and bright acidity with a creamy undertow on the finish.

Young Damien Martin is making the smartest wines of his life. This Saint Veran is one of the best values you can find in Burgundy. The 2018 has a lovely suppleness, an indulgent weight that you'd expect from the long, warm season. Yet this never feels too big. Nicely checked and balanced w...(read more)

Nicely sleek and broad in feel. Fruit is tense here - deeply flavoured with pineapple - savoury ginger powder. As ever this is a pert and firm and remarkably joyful Macon. A really nice, pretty, bright lift runs through this.

Lively bright and so pure - a lemony briskness crystalline definition.

In such a warm vintage the Boudin family have done a great job here presenting a fresh and nicely clipped Chablis. As ever their trademark soft fruit and weight is in there but delivered brightly and with good verve, another very pleasing release from this house favourite.

The sample we tasted was from from one cuve - of three, that will be blended. Good feel. Yes! This is very promising! Intense, but dry and fresh too. Lovely acidity. Great bounce and ping to the citrus crusted fruit core. Limey, pithy feel on the palate. Good and delicious flow with a fine...(read more)

Massive yields of 2018 here in Chablis mean that all producers have to get rid of anything more than 60HL/HA harvested. Inevitably they get rid of the excess from the bottom up. This means the great quality filters down: - excess Grand Cru juice goes into 1er Cru, excess 1er cru goes in to...(read more)

There is good freshness here too. Brighter and also broader. This is quite chunky in the fruit feel - but nice style and good mineral lift. There is a phenolic texture, nice weight of dry extract. And then a nice cleansing sweep of minerality. Soft apple notes waft across the finish.

Picked on the 11th and 12th of September, after all of the domaine wines, this is Rémi's one wine made from bought fruit. Citrus peel phenolics, bright and pure, with nice bouncy acidity.