Good feel. Fresh, but not tart. Pretty fruit. floral too. Nice soft red summer fruits. Acidity is nice and lifts the whole well. A pretty, joyful and bright Bourgogne Rouge.

From Petits Puits. Mostly on hard limestone - 'calcaire d'entroques'. Really quite expressive, the limestone seems to reflect a brightness of tone in the fruit, a good level of richness and a cer...(read more)

Deep nose with more black fruit in the depths. This vineyard faces due south, on limestone, so it has a good combination of a very sunny expostion and always ripens well. A sunny black fruit aspe...(read more)

Unquestionably Philippe's finest terroir in Marsannay, on the border with Fixin, very hard limestone known as 'calcaire de Comblanchien' - named after the village just south of Nuits where it is...(read more)

On comblanchien, a hard limestone which is almost marble (and which is quarried as such, at Comblanchien, just south of Nuits). It is actually the 'youngest' stone of the region. There is a class...(read more)

As so often a paler colour here. Possibly rather on the back foot - nose is discreet, but although there is a lovely harmony in the mouth this is not fully expressive yet.

At the edge of the bottom of a combe, this is on a mostly clay soil with calcareous rubble washed down from the valley. Wines on these deeper soils can be more structured, take longer to 'get the...(read more)

On the alluvial fan at the base of a combe, there is limestone underneath but this is mostly clay and little stones and alluvium. It ripens well and is harvested before the premiers crus. The poo...(read more)

As so often this year the step up the Premier Cru sis marked. A deep richness. Dark fruit, sweetness and mass, a really pretty excitying premier Cru. Big with black fruit but good tension too.

Powerful and massive wine from clayey soil next to grand cru Ruchottes. There is dark colour, and rich tannin as well as fruit - a bit of a brute but no shortage of character, and the fruit is ve...(read more)

Clay soils, so a style a bit like the Fixin, square and powerful, very rich with a fine weave, gives a sense of opulence and a chocolatey richness.

Philippe's vines in Charmes are right up under Griotte Chambertin, where there is more stone ('calcaire d'entroques' or crinoidal limestone) and this gives wines with more elegance - the topsoil...(read more)

Really quite nervy again, still open but quite clenched and serious for a Charmes. Positive and forceful rather than sunny and relaxed.

This on crinoidal limestone like the Marsannay. All in finesse with elegant tannins. 2/3 new wood, which it absorbs without a problem. Rich and full, silky feel, but still with a tension and driv...(read more)