Dark fruit and forest floor depth - a tiny touch of sweetness, but above all, round, supple. Just a touch more plummy richness than usual, and lovely length.

Fine and airy, a strawberry character to the fruit which is sweet and persistent.

Spicy, mulberry and plum fruit, rich full grippy tannins, nice ripeness, dark fruit, wood notes, good acid, decent length.

Lovely ripe succulent strawberry and red cherry fruit, some wood. palate has grip and bite, core of ripe red fruits, toasty oak, elegant and balanced.

As one might expect, this is fatter and rounder than the Volnay, with a touch more sweetness and more structure and tannin too - but all fine in texture - the clay that this is on gives a Pommard...(read more)

(no Chenes this year - all in this village wine, as pre 2015.) Tasted from barrel. The weight strikes you immediately in the mouth. Good caramelly, nicely oaky feel, smartly judged. Quite broad f...(read more)

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)

A light caramelly sweet softness to the red fruit expression, supple, round and easy, yet with character and fresh lift.

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)

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)

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)

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)

Quite young vines here, a vibrant wine with a greenish tint and fresh sappy feel. Pure and limpid with a subtle herbal notes.

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)

Old vines here, and as the first of the series of Premiers Crus, a distinct leap up in class. A bit of salinity giving a freshness underneath, and giving the whole mouthful a vibrant buzz - hard...(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)

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)