Again good density - slightly more serious than the Santenay in structure, so the fruit is less open for now, but more intense and longer.

The 'village' Volnay has a brisk red fruit feel to it. Medium bodied, the wine has a mineral edge to it. Red cherry and cranberry. Stones and pebbles. A well made, balanced Volnay that will put a smile on your face. From...(read more)

Plenty of dark fruit on the nose. Sweet dark fruit on the palate. Welcoming prickle of tannin. A good slick, plump feel. The acidity dances alongside the glossy fruit. No big oak. This is one of the best Tavannes I have...(read more)

The Boucherottes is, as one would expect, more generous and charming than the red Chassagnes, revealing an open bouquet of sweet red and black cherry, spice and raw cocoa. On the palate the wine is supple and medium-full...(read more)

2 hectares in 6 parcels. Quite a rounded nose and sweet fruit entry, lovely open fruit middle, stays fresh - there's a good chewy concentration to this.

Old vines, low yield, and again this is very ripe and the fruit is round and sweetly rich, with firm tannins under the surface.

Boucherottes is just below Clos des Mouches. Dark colour. Scented nose of floral and juicy Pinot along with blackberry fruit. The juice is slick and glossy. Sweet dark fruit. Lively in the mouth, silky and fresh and roun...(read more)

Les Chênes is an excellent parcel of village Chassagne just below 1er Cru la Maltroie in the centre of the village. There's excellent juice and sap and energy here - the acidity is fresh and gives a greater focus a...(read more)

More guts and matter here than the Chassagne Morgeot tasted before. Denser, more serious. More masculine. Grippier too. I like this feel and tauter tension. Nice ripeness, nice balance as is becoming a hallmark for the b...(read more)

This is a very well-placed 1er Cru, just below Bâtard and on the same soil - small stones so it drains well. So rich and so balanced and fine - a floral nose with a big wine behind it.

Lovely bright blackberry and damson fruit, some wood spice, touch mocha, grippier fuller tannins, rich, sinewy grippy dark fruit core, dark chocolate, toasty rich oak, full & long.

Charmots returns, having been obliterated by hail in both 2013 and 2014, and returns in triumph, in it's usual style, which is like its name, charming. Fine-textured, supple, silky-velvet, Laurent has used 50% whole bunc...(read more)

2 hectares in 6 parcels. Quite a rounded nose and sweet fruit entry, lovely open fruit middle, stays fresh - there's a good chewy concentration to this.

They have not made a separate cuvée of Fairendes this year - they were among the few to put frost-protection 'candles' out and saved themselves from considerable losses, but they did not put any in Fairendes as it...(read more)