Higher toned touch more sinew, wood spice, mulberry, bilberry fruit, palate is again generous, touch darker, grippier, mulberry, damson, then wood spice on the finish.

Fleshy red fruit on the nose, then the palate is surprisingly four-square, straight, rich, ripe and with a certain spice to it too. Well done.

Bright and lively, green fruit freshness. From a vineyard with very white limestone soils filled with clam shell fossils. Strikingly bright and vivid.

From a vineyard which was extensively hailed. Racked but not ready for bottling. Bright, with a good brambly sweet-flavoured depth to the fruit. Supple and still well-defined.

Bright full aromatics of toast, citrus, peach fruit, touch floral. Lovely weight of fruit, ripe citrusy, decent flesh, mineral, rich full acid, but plenty of richness, great length.

Four barrels this year, off half a hectare! Round, velvet, 'gourmand'. Produced from lower down the slope than Laurent's whites. Old vines. 2015-2023.

Darker spicier, sinewy fruit on the nose, plum, macerated cherries, damson, wood notes, mineral, stones. Gorgeous grip and bite, deep black fruit, plum, cherries, complexing wood spice, mineral d...(read more)

Almost as 'gourmand' as the Morgeot. Slightly smokier. Good drive. Tiny touch of bitterness defines the finish. Very good Beaune.

Ripe with a good feel of texture - nicely dry and broad in flavour, picked up by freshness on the finish.

Clay and lots of limestone, but is the soft yellow limestone, and this makes for the wine's classy yet easy charming appeal vintage after vintage. It is above Épenots and Argillieres, very much o...(read more)

More closed on the nose than the Champgains or Morgeot, there is a mineral force to this, linear and quite intense, a firmer more driven style.

Touch of pink grapefruit, peach flesh, toasty, creamy oak, good concentration. Lovely creamy concentration on the palate undercut by fine acidity, peach, citrus, with balance then some toasty oak...(read more)

Very Puligny, that line of hard stone, somehow mouthwatering freshness making a straight line through the palate and energising the quite opulent ripe fruit texture, and making it nicely long. Mo...(read more)

Thirteen year ago the Pinot vines here were pulled up, and after five years lying fallow under a crop of Lucerne, it was replanted with Chardonnay. Laurent is really happy with it now. Very open...(read more)

If possible even more mineral than the Grandes Ruchottes. Straight as a ruler. Not so much fat as ample, weighty. So firm and so straight. Terrific.

(from a .35 ha parcel). Here the wood treatment is more discreet though not invisible with distinctly earthy aromas of dark currant, raspberry and humus. There is a terrific mouth feel to the con...(read more)

While still in the 'line' of the wines of Laurent's cellar, this betrays it's Meursault origins with a broad density. Is that a hint of beeswax or honey? Quite an appetising touch of sweetness in...(read more)

Creamier richer style, peach, fig and sweet melon, the palate is generous, toasty creamy, rich peach and fig, generous and with good acidity, nice length.

As seamless as the Vide Bourse, but with more volume and the slightly 'harder' mineral drive to complement the concentration. Grand Vin from an exciting terroir.

After the Charmots this has a much blacker fruit style, an almost carbon blackness. Structural and solid, but still with good fruit all the way through, this needs a touch longer to come out prop...(read more)

Less open and obvious than the Vide Bourse for now, but the volume and mineral is here. As so often this is less sunny and smiling at this stage, but full of coiled energy. Very long.

Laurent makes two cuvées in Morgeot, this one is mostly Petit Clos and little bit from further down the slope - Guerchères. Fat and round, it is classic Morgeot: glossy, easy, relaxed, a very pur...(read more)

After the Charmots, the Rugiens immediately shows much more structured, masculine, beefy concentration and powerful black fruit power. Very deep colour, black fruit flavours and very concentrated earthy...(read more)

66 ares (100 of these to the hectare), in three parcels. Considerably more structured than the Charmots, but Laurent's vines are for the most part not on the hard white limestone of the top of th...(read more)

Tauter lemon citrus nose, mineral, toasty oak refined and elegant. Palate is taut, mineral, smoky oak, tight citrus fruit core, elegant and with great length.

Darker spicier, sinewy fruit on the nose, plum, macerated cherries, damson, wood notes, mineral, stones. Gorgeous grip and bite, deep black fruit, plum, cherries, complexing wood spice, mineral d...(read more)

Laurent makes two cuvées in Morgeot, this one is mostly Petit Clos and little bit from further down the slope - Guerchères. Fat and round, it is classic Morgeot: glossy, easy, relaxed, a very pur...(read more)

As seamless as the Vide Bourse, but with more volume and the slightly 'harder' mineral drive to complement the concentration. Grand Vin from an exciting terroir.

Unlike the others, which were bottled in November after a year in barrel, Laurent's top three whites will be bottled in January, as Laurent's son Adrien wants to experiment with an extended 'élev...(read more)

Tasted from one new and one older barrel, the Grandes Ruchottes showed its class. Saline and taut it vibrates with energy, willing one to swallow. Terrific.