80+ year-old vines on quartz and white sand soils, on a south-facing slope. Crunchy red berry nose with some richness. Medium-weight, it has all the acidity in needs to remain fresh to the finish. Classy Beaujolais which...(read more)

80+ year-old vines on quartz and white sand soils, on a south-facing slope. Crunchy red berry nose with some richness. Medium-weight, it has all the acidity in needs to remain fresh to the finish. Classy Beaujolais which...(read more)

Tasted after the Vieilles Vignes cuvée, which showed richly concentrated fruit, and the 'La Roche' which was tauter and crunchier, really tasting like it's on rock, the 'Champ du Cour' is almost like a synthesis o...(read more)

The clue is in the name - this is very granitic in character - the fruit given energy and tension, but it's rich enough to balance the acidity. A joy.

80+ year-old vines on quartz and white sand soils, on a south-facing slope. Crunchy red berry nose with some richness. Medium-weight, it has all the acidity in needs to remain fresh to the finish. Classy Beaujolais which...(read more)

Once again there is a whiff of animale character but in this case it is sufficiently subtle that I note its presence on the earthy dark berry fruit nose only in the interest of completeness. There is fine richness to the...(read more)

Dense purple to bright crimson edge, dark fruit, more extract and tannin that the 'Vieilles Vignes' cuvée, but there's more of everything, so balance is maintained and this will still repay keeping even if very ap...(read more)