Only one at home this weekend:

2022 Jane Eyre, Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Aux Vergelesses
There’s some density to this red-fruited aroma, but it’s a compact, not-so-open style today. It sits well in the mouth, with slightly generous, cushioned red fruit – and clearly I’m drinking this too young, as, apart from some middle stony minerality, there’s a little too much creamy-caramel oak. The effect today is delicious, but I still prefer my wine to taste more of wine! I’d wait another couple of years before returning – but completely delicious, if a touch more ‘easy’ than I remember from tasting at the domaine.
Rebuy – Yes

A wine that I tasted blind, loved, and later bought. It was this wine that brought me to the young domaine of Alexandra de Vazeilles in Fleurie.

Now under new ownership, Bachelards became, for a short time, the pinnacle of the gamay grape, and the year I tasted their 2019s it was the greatest estate that I visited – including all the other visits in the Côte d’Or!

2014 Château des Bachelards, St.Amour
Exemplifying what DIAM can bring, 10 years in the bottle and not 1mm of colour ingress on the ‘cork.’ Also, a satisfying ‘pop’ as it exits the bottle.
What an impressively dark, young colour! The first aromas arediscrete but silky, dark fruit, even a little graphite, before hints of flowers. Fine width over the palate and an expanding flavour that is gently supported by a little creaminess. Very slowly, elegantly finishing – narrow but long – almost linear. Ageless !!
Rebuy – Yes

Weekend drinking…

2012 des Croix, Beaune 1er Les Grèves
A cork that easily snaps in 2 with the waiter’s friend, but the centimetre that remains on the neck is well enough lodged that the ah-so doesn’t move it down – it was easily removed.
Ooh! Deep, dark and a little, attractively, dirty – it does get cleaner and tedder – cushioned even – but those first notes were still very attractive. Mouth-filling, cushioned, enveloping flavour – and the hallmark of the vintage: clarity and delineation of the flavours – just as I hoped. And, today it’s quite open too – time to start testing some other 2012s!! Really super…
Rebuy – Yes