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The grand Cru of Musigny is oriented to the East ; its subsoil is composed with limestone and al great deal of stones, allowing the wine to be very supple.

Absolutely bursting with blue and red fruits, the concentration is deceptive here, as it starts out juicy and full of air, but after a few minutes in the glass you start to feel the weight and the texture, and this turns into an extremely serious wine with real tannic hold. Gorgeous savoury finish

"The 2018 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru is also showing very well, exhibiting aromas of sweet wild berries, dried flowers, woodsmoke, blood orange and rich soil tones. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, concentrated and muscular, with an ample chassis of fine tannins, good tension at the core and a long, youthfully chewy finish.

This is almost as elegant as the Charmes with its airy and cool yet markedly ripe nose of lavender, black raspberry, truffle and spiced plum scents. The beautifully well-delineated, intense and mineral-driven medium weight plus flavors possess fine mid-palate concentration before terminating in an attractively vibrant, harmonious and strikingly persistent finale. Lovely stuff that should also age brilliantly well.”

Alluring of blackberry, black cherry, violets, game meat and forest floor, ample and supple mouthfeel with dense texture, excellent concentration and great depth, lush layers of succulent flavours of ripe dark berry fruits, plum, exotic spices, balsamic notes and minerals coated in refreshing acidity and polished tannins, fresh and lingering finish. Though not having the ethereal beauty of its chambolle-musigny stablemates, this is an utterly graceful wine with tremendous character and elegance.

Our Romanée-Saint-vivant Grand Cru "Les Quatre Journaux" 2016 shows a garnet colour. This wine offers an aromatic bouquet of red fruits (blackberry, raspberry) and subtle hints of pepper and nutmeg. The mouth, long and suave, reveals aromas of chlorophyll, morelly cherry and clove. Beautiful length in the mouth.

The lone grand cru in the Bachelet cellar, which hails from vines planted before 1920, is extraordinary in 2016, offering up a brooding nose of black cherry, blueberry, coniferous forest floor, rich soil and a framing of well-integrated new oak.

The lone grand cru in the Bachelet cellar, which hails from vines planted before 1920, is extraordinary in 2016, offering up a brooding nose of black cherry, blueberry, coniferous forest floor, rich soil and a framing of well-integrated new oak.

Intense ruby red hue and complex nose offering fruity and roasted notes. The palate is powerful, elegant and distinctive with smooth yet direct tannins and a remarkably long and elegant finish. Partridge with morel mushrooms, scrambled eggs with truffles, game stew

The wine has a rich, full, balanced flavor that reveals fruit notes on the background of ripe tannins. The finish is long and complex, with hints of cocoa and spices. The wine has a complex aroma with notes of ripe red fruit, cherries, nuances of cocoa, tobacco and spicy notes of spices and mint. The wine goes well with roast beef, stew, lamb, game and cheeses.

Your first impression of "les Perrières” is that of a typical Corton, as it is so frequently described: austere, slow to mature, tannic. But that impression should be moderated because the wine is apparently multifaceted: frankness, certainly, but also an underlying structure that lines the palate and a finish marked by minerality. There's no heaviness, which facilitates the expression of this complexity. A long ageing period is certainly beneficial.

The Bart Grands Crus have been made with 40% whole bunch vinification and 50% new wood. Pierre Bart thinks that the Clos de Bèze tends to taste almost too ready to drink at bottling, so now at the end of fermentation he brings the temperature back up and gives the wine a couple of powerful punchdowns to fix a bit more tannin. The colour is less deep than Bonnes Mares, the nose a little firmer and it is true that the tannins at the end bring a little more youthful bitterness. But the quality of the fruit all round is super sensual, really fine and exceptionally long.

The Chambertin "Cuvée Héritiers Latour" is a complex wine with delicious fruit flavors including ripe cherry. Concentrated fruit on the pallet and well-balanced acidity. A completely different nose of wild red berries, underbrush, pungent Gevrey-style earth and hints of game leads to rich, detailed and intensely mineral-suffused medium-bodied flavors that evidence excellent length where both a touch of wood and stone surface. This supple effort is really quite stylish and should age well.

It has a perfumed bouquet with dark plum, mulberry and orange blossom scents that gain vigor with aeration. The palate is well-balanced with a succulent opening, a touch of spice at the front of the mouth with the smooth, plush raspberry and wild strawberry fruit at the back. There is a pleasing long spicy aftertaste.

Aristocratic' is how winemaker Jérôme Flous describes this superb Grand Cru bottling, which combines understated power and concentration with some tannic grip and refreshing acidity. It's a wine that needs more time in barrel and bottle to integrated its 50% new wood, but has all the elements to be age with distinction. Rich and serious. 

The 2017 Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru has a tight-lipped bouquet, reticent at the moment, though it reluctantly opens with blackberry, bilberry and light graphite aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannin and a supremely well judged line of acidity that makes this Grand Cru feel so natural and refined. This is a rare case of a sensual Latricières in the making. 

Macerated cherry, wild strawberry and mineral aromas and flavors highlight this taut, racy red. As this builds to a long conclusion, the intensity, fat and silky texture emerge, only to be challenged by solid grip on the very long, spice-tinged finish.