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)

(from Les Seuvrées and Les Murots). A much earthier and more sauvage-inflected nose exhibits nuances of underbrush and humus on the combination of red and dark currant aromas. There is once again excellent power a...(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.

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)

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)