100% Pinot Noir. 12 months in oak. Very fresh and floral nose, very pretty. Fine and ripe tannins, nice spritzy crushed raspberries. Great lift and freshness. Lovely.

50% whole bunches. Bright pure nose, there's decent depth here, the palate crunchy and with lift - it's a terrific Bourgogne

Very expressive nose, almost exotic, one you want to dive straight in to! All destemmed this year - as Virgile wanted a true view of the juice from here as it is his first vintage. He sensibly wants to understand the pla...(read more)

Quite firm and straight, this is on a red fruit expression, cherry and redcurrant, taut and bright.

The nose, full of black fruit, is a little confused for now, but the palate has that richness of old vines, a supple volume of superfine tannin, and an expression of black fruit that's heading into a sort of mineral dark...(read more)

70% whole bunch. Fresh blackberries just picked on the nose, the palate cool and fresh and silky with a beautiful balance of acidity and slightly saline weight, so that on the finish it is more about mineral than fruit....(read more)

100% whole bunch.
Serious, brooding nose. Quite inky and dark but finesse is here. Tannins are tight but lovely and ripe; this’ll be fabulous in a few years. Power and intensity of the vintage present again, much...(read more)

More perk here than the Charmes. It is more intense, with less of a shadow of mineral drive - this is more direct, more clean-cut, but a good weight too. Very appetising, very succulent.

80% Whole bunch. This has real intense power at its core. Broad fruit, deep red and some black notes - but all well ripened and full on. Pure and yet quite charmingly crowd-pleasing matter lies at the core of this - and...(read more)

Second vintage for Virgile of this plot of vines inherited from Hubert Lignier which he took over in 2019. It's between Chaffots and Monts Luisants, above Clos de la Roche. It was the last malo to finish (in August 2021)...(read more)

All whole bunch. A mix of Chabiots, Chatelots and Sentiers. Sweet fruit, silky and intense. The sweetness is a little ahead of the aromatics at the entry, then the mineral undertow picks up to give a firmness to the fini...(read more)

This similar profile to Cheseaux, but more minerality starts popping out in the palate. good, stony clean peps punctuate the mid palate. A touch saline - working hand in hand with the nicely shaped red and black fruit, t...(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)

All silk and elegance, this initially somes across as less punchily concentrated than the Faconnieres, but it is fabulously balanced and sleek, and all in supple length. Dark fruit expression, long, long finish.

There's lots to like here, but it needs to time to settle into place.A big mouthful, definitely round and rich, blond tobacco notes from whole bunch fermentation, the class evident on the very long finish even if the fla...(read more)

An even darker colour than the Clos de la Roche. A great mass of dark ripe black fruit, big and supple, but this too has energy and something to say, and says it with some force - Charmes Chambertin with attitude. A real...(read more)

(100% vendange entier; these 70-year-old vines in Mazoyères were sold after the 2016 harvest): Full, deep red. Dark aromas of blueberry, blackberry, licorice and violet. Juicy and tight; invigorating for a 2015, c...(read more)

100% whole bunches. This has a mass of fruit and ripe sweetness, juicily balanced and there's mineral too. Plots in Murots, Seuvrées and Creux Brouillard.

80% whole bunches. A more rounded but slightly less open nose compared to the Rue de Vergy. By contrast the palate is richer in fruit, even with a whisper of sweetness, which is balanced by juicy freshness. Relatively fu...(read more)

'Floral' says Virgile, and it is - that deep dark fruit floral. Supple texture edging toward Chambolle, but such a depth to it too. Very gourmand but exciting and mouth-watering too. More mineral on this.

80% whole bunch. Plush ripe aromatics and a silk plush texture too - sophisticated - a sort of Chambolle texture with a more Gevrey black fruit expression. 'Lots of clay', says Virgile, 'deep roots, makes soothing wines'...(read more)

80% whole bunch. Immensely grown-up style which leaves simple fruit flavours behind for something else entirely - not that there in't fruit, but it's minerals and pot-pourri and a firmness of purpose, more cerebral and l...(read more)