Toasty nose loaded with vanilla and spice - plus cool lemon juice and a tad of pithiness. Palate is brighter, good feel. Levity tension. Good ripeness to the grapefruit and pears - but super line...(read more)

Lovely expression. Fresh and black and taut and cool. Coal-black tannins give a background to the damson fruit, which also has a very fresh raspberry top-note. The tannins are fine and the balanc...(read more)

Chevrets is an 'island' in Les Caillerets, with gravelly red soil. Dark, damson and dry black character, still with an undertow of tannin and salinity. Velvet, but the tannins are elegant and sil...(read more)

Fuller and velvetier yet. Much more 'vinous' and less mineral. Round and mouthfilling while still having the pull and strictness of the others. A 'vin gourmand', the tannins are here but subsumed...(read more)

Fatter than the Poruzots, a touch more generous in feel, more filled-out, the Genevrières just gets its act together earlier. Lovely length and balance.