Good deep nose, then nice bounce to the fruit. This is pretty clean cut - quite a high line of perky fruit, quite intense, quite good definition - bright, red berries. Attractive. Good gentle grip. Lovely energetic style...(read more)

From three parcels - Tres Girard, Chenevery and Cognées, all over 60 years old. Again a great, precise attack. Lovely, cleanly delineated fruit. Red and pert - then some more leafy, crunchy black-currents. A smoky...(read more)

Nose of sweet fruit, round on the palate, a lovely enveloping mouthful of satisfying black fruit which clings well with blackcurrant juice on the finish.

Deep black fruit expression on the nose - almost a touch of tar. Palate is big - a mouthfilling old-vine richness, veering towards heaviness but certainly achieving opulence, a sense of red velvet roses. 'Like having a b...(read more)

Classy nose of ripe sweet red and black little fruit. Silky, with good volume, fat and supple and easy, it just makes one want to swallow - a gourmandise. 'It carries its name well', remarks Virgile.

More limestone again here. Deep and bright nose all at once - dark plums and a high-toned mineral note too. Rich and suave and silky volume but there's lots of structure undernerath too. Deep, and long too. The underlyin...(read more)

After the charming Charmes, this has a much more serious forest floor sort of nose, a different kind of richness and very black fruit. Dark on the palate too, taut and slightly fierce, cool and coal-black, still juicy an...(read more)

Deep colour, very rich, intense fruit and savour, yet still really quite easy, flowing, graceful and classy. Really rather fabulous fruit expression, defined red and black flavours playing off each other and giving real...(read more)

Lovely deep colour. Sumptuous nose to go with it. That weighty silk feel, and then suddenly it has no weight - it just lifts and glides, effortless, graceful, a splash of colour and light, long and pure. A jewel.