2021 Méo-Camuzet, Nuits St.Georges 1er Aux Murgers
Only a modest depth of colour. Very red fruit, which is accented with a ripe gooseberry – but boy is that attractive! Hmm, flavour that spreads very nicely over the palate – subtly grained with tannin but without dryness. Not a powerful wine, but most definitely long-lasting and delicious wine – ooh, and that’s a properly great finish too – it just goes on and on…
Rebuy – Yes No doubt about it !!

2021 JC Ramonet, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Morgeot
Hmm, lucid, floral elegantly aromatic wine – I don’t know what I expected, but this wasn’t it. The experince is similar when tasting: Ethereal wine that’s so full of delicious details. Wow wine! And a that you can drink and drink – and drink… A gorgeous Morgeot…
Rebuy – Yes

*And just for info, it’s cheaper in Chassagne’s very own ‘Papi’ restaurant, than it is in Chassagne’s very own Caveau de Chassagne, wine shop!

2022 Henri Gouges, Nuits St.Georges 1er Les St.Georges
Powdery red fruit – there’s clearly both (aromatic) scale and power, these notes are going deep, even showing some orange-zest and floral complexity. Texturally, this starts in very silky fashion, but the flavours grow and grow so that, for a while, texture is forgotten! Here’s a finish that vibrates with energy – lots of very fine bitters without ‘bitterness’. Clearly plenty of sophistication here despite the concentration of this wine. And surprisingly delicious and open today !!
Rebuy – Yes if I ignore the price…

2022 Michel Rebourgeon, Beaune 1er Chuacheaux
Depth of colour. This nose shows scale and an implied silk to it’s subtly spiced red fruit. Concentrated red fruit melts attractively over the palate. The finish goes wide and even more intense. Just a delicious wine, and one with plenty of concentration. Yum !!
Rebuy – Yes

2022 William Kelley, Beaune 1er Les Chouacheux
Airy, a different perfume — but perfume. Fluid but rounder, fuller in the middle flavours, still with a certain perfume and creaminess of barrel — I assume barrel. Super – and completely delicious. Just don’t look at the price !!
Rebuy – Yes (If I can afford it…)

1999 Remoriquet, Vosne-Romanée 1er Au-Dessus des Malconsorts
A cork that narrowly avoids breaking in half.
The nose is forward and deep – a little meaty but with an excellent depth of complex, aged spicy Vosne fruit – that’s a good start. In the mouth it’s clearly no meagre 99 – wide, starting silky and with strength and depth of flavour. Slowly fading with a little licorice. The second glass suggests a subtle band-aid (Brett) so I’m less confident about the day-2 performance – but I needn’t have been! Day two, still a little cold from the fridge, this is all the more incisive and seemingly clean – both the aromas and flavours. There’s certainly some finishing rusticity but not dryness – everybody makes better wines now, but I still love this vintage – fortunately, I don’t think that this is my last one of these…
Rebuy – Yes

2020 Jean-Yves & Annick Sonnery, Clos Baluce
Magnum. Beaujolais from the Pierre’s Dorées
Plenty of colour. The nose already shows a small suggestion of development – but lots of fruit too. In the mouth, easy, very fruity. Wide, mobile flavour – a little juicy at the end too. I’m loving the extra strictness of the Vosne today, but this is also delicious despite its easy style…
Rebuy – Maybe

A short and sweet note – quite the opposite of this wine 🙂

2011 Trapet, Chambertin
Here’s a good width of complex, slightly musky aroma. Bright energetic – really complex – lighter style, luncheon Chambertin, but with delicious, attention holding complexity. I love it – and this is very representative of the lighter elegance without losing complexity that good 2011s deliver…
Rebuy – Yes

“I was brought up as an engineer so I like to try to understand things – but with wine I’ve given up!”

I was passing and had the chance to taste some wines from bottle, so…

2023 Chambolle-Musigny
Quite airy and fresh. Scale. Modest structure, but growing and moving with finesse over the palate – faintly grained and saline towards the finish. To keep 5 years, but this is showing well enough to drink today.

2023 Nuits St.Georges Clos des Fourches
Last made in 2008 – made from the young vines in the Clos de la Maréchale.
Subtly spiced both the aroma and flavours – nicely vibrant finishing flavours, hardly more tannin but more in a velvet style.

2023 Nuits St.Georges 1er Clos de la Maréchale
More floral and perfumed. The flavours too, here’s a lovely flavour energy with more bitters. Long, already impressive to drink…

1999 Musigny
This to be released with 24s
Ooh. This is so open, and enveloping, almost seductive. Mouth-filling, still with a structural architecture and with a little more graphite-style impression. Then a flavour that holds and holds – and then holds some more… Maybe it’s time for me to open a 1998 at home? 🙂

2023 Joseph Colin, Chassagne-Montrachet Hereditas
Wow – diam30 – no messing about here!
Not too deep lemon yellow colour. Pretty top notes with a richer depth of subtly fresh creamy-lemon pie. Super scale in the mouth – super-wide before moving on with a more chalky-textured middle section, then a long, relaxed fade-out that’s subtly accented with a small salinity. Detailed, pure – one worth buying – oh, I did 🙂
Rebuy – Yes

2015 Daniel Bouland, Morgon Corcelette Vielles Vignes
Of course, plenty of colour – I can’t see through it. Fresh, subtly smoked and spiced nose. Ooh – really a mouthful, but with quite some fluidity – already starting to fade with older notes and some caramelised dark sugar. The finish is actually linear and hardly fading. I only have this one bottle, as the vintage was rather warm (stated 14.3%), but this gets better and better in the glass – it could turn out to be excellent – indeed it is even better on day 2…
Rebuy – Maybe

A name that should be on more lips – I have consistently found outstanding wines at this domaine…

2017 Yves Boyer-Martenot, Meursault-Perrières
A bottle from the cellar that has long ‘winked’ at me – today is its day…
Midway between lemon-yellow and gold coloured – plenty of colour. A fresh and intense nose, starting a little chalky, slowly filling the glass with weight and a little lemon pie and much more subtle crême-brulee. Hmm, taut, direct and, yes, mineral! This finish is beautifully long, accented with more secondary notes from the barrel. Racy when first from the fridge, more layered and ‘larger’ with air and warmth in the glass. Beautifully long wine, even the final glass on day 2 !!
Rebuy – Yes

2012 David Clark, Vosne-Romanée
The last bottle of this had a great-looking cork but was indeed corked! This has an equally great-looking cork – but isn’t corked – hooray!
Plenty of colour and not with any overt age. The nose is not so large but has fine, dark, Vosne-spiced depth – a lovely invitation. Ooh – here is scale and velvet texture – a big, layered wine that’s still showing some baby-structure. Full of flavour, lightly smoked, a more traditional level of sweetness versus just about every vintage since 2015. I’m drinking it at least 5 years too soon – luckily I bought a case of 12 – David’s last vintage, and he did the bottling earlier than usual as he was selling up. We lost a talented winemaker. A properly excellent, young wine …
Rebuy – Yes