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Vinous - Neal Martin (96)
The 2021 Chevalier-Montrachet Clos de Chevaliers Grand Cru has the unenviable task of following Leflaive's brilliant Chevalier. It is more tight-fisted and laconic by comparison, unveiling attractive almond and hazelnut scents alongside crushed stone with aeration. The palate is very well balanced with a touch of reduction on the entry, but it has plenty of body and energy. Fresh-squeezed lime and citrus peel commingle towards the spicy finish that tingles on the tongue. It's not the complete package at the moment, but give it time. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.Inc. VAT£1,691.58 -
Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy (95-98)
A full primrose yellow. The bouquet is sturdier here, surprisingly, after the pure white fruit Bâtard. However, the chiselled elegance of Chevalier shows much more on the palate, where there is an impressive, if initially restrained, intensity and a second wave of flavour further back on the palate. This will be particularly fine and the aftertaste is notably persistent. A very long finish indeed. Drink from 2030-2040. Tasted: October 2023.Inc. VAT£3,260.00 -
Wine Advocate (92-94)
The 2016 Corton Charlemagne came from a one-year-old barrel (there will also be a new and two-year-old barrel). It has a straightforward, brioche-tinged bouquet that opens nicely in the glass, with hints of peaches and cream, later gooseberry tart. The palate is well balanced, honeyed in texture with notes of dried apricot, frangipane and a hint of honey. It does not quite deliver the length, but this is undoubtedly a well crafted Corton-Charlemagne from Jean-Michel that will give immense pleasure over the next 10 to 15 years.Inc. VAT£1,130.75 -
Vinous (93-95)
The 2019 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru comes from Charlemagne and the Pernand side of the hill, comprises two barrels from the domaine and three barrels from two other sources. It comes across surprisingly closed on the nose. Maybe just going through a dumb phase of élevage? The palate is medium-bodied and much more expressive, gorgeous yellow plum and pithy/peachy notes with a caressing finish. Once the aromatics awaken, this should be a very seductive "CC".Inc. VAT£1,014.35 -
Wine Advocate (93-95)
There's just one half-barrel of the 2019 Montrachet Grand Cru, a rich, concentrated and textural wine that evokes honeyed pears, ripe peaches, beeswax and citrus blossom. Full-bodied and muscular, it's a powerful Montrachet in the making.Inc. VAT£4,517.15 -
(1x75cl) 2020Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy (93-96)
An exchange enables Jean-Michel Chartron to offer some Montrachet. Pale colour with a light lime touch. The nose is tight and tense as yet ungiving, though on the palate the wine becomes super-sensual thereafter, rather ripe with peach and honeysuckle despite the comparative severity up front. The aftertaste delivers the persistence expected of a grand cru. Tasted: October 2021Inc. VAT£1,170.44 -
Wine Advocate (93-95)
The 2014 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Clos de la Pucelle has an attractive earthiness on the nose -- quite brilliantly defined, very focused but somehow broody and introspective compared to its peers. The palate is very fresh on the entry with brisk acidity, very focused and lively; there is a sense of energy here and disarming mineralité, leading to a long saline finish. This is just so unmistakably Puligny and simply a beautifully crafted wine with a long future ahead.Inc. VAT£204.12 -
Vinous (93-95)
The 2020 Puligny-Montrachet Clos de la Pucelle 1er Cru has a delineated bouquet with Granny Smith apples, freshly sliced pear and a touch of wet limestone. The palate is well balanced with real weight and concentration on the entry counterbalanced by a fine bead of acidity, taut and linear with the mineralité coming through on the finish. This is excellent.Inc. VAT£709.24 -
Decanter (95)
Boasts an impressive concentration of lime, passion fruit and green apple aromas, with a firm, flinty minerality. The texture is dense but not heavy and surprisingly fresh for the vintage. The complex flavours echo on an interminable finish – this is among the great successes in Puligny this year. The grapes are from the 1.16ha of old vines at the north end of the clos that the Chartron family has owned for over a century. Cellar it for three to five years and drink over the next 20.Inc. VAT£743.09 -
Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy (93-95)
Excellent fresh lemon and lime colour. Relatively stern on the nose. This is backward, and very striking but not quite in place yet, very backward, all the intensity for sure. Stony white fruit as you would expect. How far does it stretch out. Youthful tension Tasted: October 2021.Inc. VAT£814.32 -
(12x75cl) 2021Vinous - Neal Martin (94)
The 2021 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru offers subtle tropical fruit on the nose: guava, passion fruit and hints of pineapple. Initially lacking a bit of mineralité and terroir expression, it comes through nicely with aeration. The palate is fresh on the entry, balanced and introverted at first, but just give it a few minutes and it reveals wonderful generosity and mineralité with a long, long finish. Don't be afraid to decant this. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.Inc. VAT£2,150.51 -
Vinous - Neal Martin (94)
The 2021 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru offers subtle tropical fruit on the nose: guava, passion fruit and hints of pineapple. Initially lacking a bit of mineralité and terroir expression, it comes through nicely with aeration. The palate is fresh on the entry, balanced and introverted at first, but just give it a few minutes and it reveals wonderful generosity and mineralité with a long, long finish. Don't be afraid to decant this. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.Inc. VAT£873.12 -
Decanter (96)
The 2022 Clos du Cailleret is a magnificent wine, showing notes of ripe pear and nectarines with a citrus edge and notes of hazelnut and fresh hay. There is a suggestion of saline minerality, although it is less pronounced than in the Folatières. The texture is powerful, with abundant extract yet enough acidity to bring it into vibrant balance to deliver a thrilling wine that makes an argument for Caillerets as among the greatest of the Puligny premier crus. According to Anne-Laure Chartron, 'Folatières is to Bâtard what Cailleret is to Chevalier'.Inc. VAT£724.84 -
Vinous - Neal Martin (93-95)
The 2023 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru has more precision and mineralité compared to the Clos de la Pucelle at this stage. It's vibrant and poised, with real drive and energy. The palate is concentrated and lightly spiced, with a keen line of acidity and plenty of energy and penetration on the finish. This represents an outstanding contribution to the vintage. I suspect it will land at the top of my banded score.Inc. VAT£819.89 -
(12x75cl) 2018Vinous (91-93)
The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet les Folatières 1er Cru has a crisp bouquet of white peach, orange pith and subtle flinty aromas that gain intensity with aeration. The palate is fresh and taut on the entry, and strict at the moment, displaying an almost Chablis-like reserve toward the finish, but you can feel the salinity lingering in the mouth long afterwards. Good potential, but it will deserve three or four years in bottle.Inc. VAT£1,590.24 -
Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy (88-91)
Jean-Michel has a contract to farm an extra five ouvrées of Puligny from the commune for five years. Mid lemon and lime. Fresh and floral, with a good fresh backbone, slight lime blossom. Quite chiselled on the one hand, yet with fair flesh on the other. Drink from 2026-2031. Tasted: October 2023.Inc. VAT£492.80 -
Vinous (91)
The 2018 Saint-Aubin Les Murgers des Dents de Chien 1er Cru displays another case of "noble reduction" on the nose (indeed, it was very reduced from barrel). Taciturn at first, it opens gradually with aeration, revealing attractive apple-blossom, petrichor and later, blackcurrant leaf scents. The palate is well balanced with lime and orange zest on the entry, a fine-boned Saint-Aubin with well-judged acidity and a lively, lightly-spiced finish. Very fine. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2018 white tasting.Inc. VAT£667.44 -
(6x75cl) 2023Vinous - Neal Martin (88-90)
The 2023 Santenay Les Pierres Sèches, from five barrels of purchased fruit, has a little more mineralité than the 2022, with hints of Clementine and lemon sherbet. The palate is fresh and vibrant. It's citrus-driven and not long in the mouth with fine tension. This already conveys a sense of joie de vivre that should make it irresistible in its youth.Expected Price Range£135 - £165 -
Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy (88-90)
Pale lime colour. The bouquet is quite refined, not too much oak showing. There is high quality fresh apple on the palate, maintain the sense of refinement, with a good fruit acid balance in the persistent finish. Drink from 2025-2028. Tasted: October 2023.Inc. VAT£216.80 -
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Vinous (91-93)
The 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Bousselots 1er Cru veers much more toward red fruit on the nose, hints of meat juice and garrigue emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, quite saline and cohesive, leading to an energetic, peppery finish that lingers. Another promising NSG from Chauvenet.Inc. VAT£270.72 -
Burghound (90-93)
(from a parcel on the northern end). Firm reduction masks the fruit though there is again a beguiling sense of underlying tension suffusing the detailed and stony medium-bodied flavors that flash good power on the moderately austere and lingering if mildly warm finish that is supported by relatively fine-grained tannins. In contrast to the Damodes that could reasonably be enjoyed young, this compact effort is clearly in need of at least moderate to longer-term cellaring.Inc. VAT£450.35 -
(12x75cl) 2017Burghound (91-94)
(from a .41 ha parcel). A fresh, cool and brooding nose only grudgingly reveals its aromas of dark currant, game, violet and plenty of earth that are trimmed in more discreet though not invisible wood. The dense and sappy big-bodied flavors possess evident power and muscle before concluding in a driving finish that is expressly built to age. This is potentially outstanding but once again, it’s a classically youthful, compact and austere Vaucrains that will need every bit of 15 years to reveal all it has to offer.Inc. VAT£868.01 -
Jancis Robinson (17+)
Deep cherry red. Intense black fruit and savoury/stony restraint combined. All in embryo, like the Perrières but here the tannins are even firmer. The core is serious dark fruit and some oak spice but it is not intrusive even if it adds a note of dark chocolate to the aroma as it opens in the glass. Fine tannins slightly thickened by the oak but smooth and in harmony with the fruit. Long, savoury finish. (JH)Inc. VAT£564.72 -
Burghound (91-94)
Outstanding - This is aromatically quite similar to the Perrières if perhaps just a bit earthier. The slightly larger scaled flavors are surprisingly supple on the mid-palate that contrasts materially with the firm tannins on the compact and youthfully austere finish. This is less powerful and forbidding than normal, though with that said, it's still sufficiently structured to reward 12 to 15 years of aging.Inc. VAT£151.32 -
Burghound (91-94)
Outstanding - This is aromatically quite similar to the Perrières if perhaps just a bit earthier. The slightly larger scaled flavors are surprisingly supple on the mid-palate that contrasts materially with the firm tannins on the compact and youthfully austere finish. This is less powerful and forbidding than normal, though with that said, it's still sufficiently structured to reward 12 to 15 years of aging.Inc. VAT£435.12 -
Burghound (91-93)
Ripe yet cool aromas include those of cassis, poached plum, an array of spice elements plus a whiff of the sauvage. The very rich and even bigger and more voluminous large-scaled flavors also brim with sappy dry extract before culminating in a balanced, powerful and lingering finish where a touch of bitter chocolate slowly emerges. This isn’t massive in the way that it usually is though it is borderline opulent, which is a descriptor I use very rarely with respect to the 2021 reds.Inc. VAT£164.52 -
Burghound (91-93)
Ripe yet cool aromas include those of cassis, poached plum, an array of spice elements plus a whiff of the sauvage. The very rich and even bigger and more voluminous large-scaled flavors also brim with sappy dry extract before culminating in a balanced, powerful and lingering finish where a touch of bitter chocolate slowly emerges. This isn’t massive in the way that it usually is though it is borderline opulent, which is a descriptor I use very rarely with respect to the 2021 reds.Inc. VAT£472.32 -
Burghound (91-94)
(from a .41 ha parcel). Reduction. The much bigger broad-shouldered flavors also possess outstanding density and power while exuding evident minerality on the precise, firm and very serious finale that delivers excellent length where the only nit is a hint of warmth. This is usually the undisputed best wine in the range but in 2022, the Perrières may well give it a run for its money.Inc. VAT£504.80
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Vinous - Neal Martin (96)
The 2021 Chevalier-Montrachet Clos de Chevaliers Grand Cru has the unenviable task of following Leflaive's brilliant Chevalier. It is more tight-fisted and laconic by comparison, unveiling attractive almond and hazelnut scents alongside crushed stone with aeration. The palate is very well balanced with a touch of reduction on the entry, but it has plenty of body and energy. Fresh-squeezed lime and citrus peel commingle towards the spicy finish that tingles on the tongue. It's not the complete package at the moment, but give it time. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.In Bond£1,400.00 -
Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy (95-98)
A full primrose yellow. The bouquet is sturdier here, surprisingly, after the pure white fruit Bâtard. However, the chiselled elegance of Chevalier shows much more on the palate, where there is an impressive, if initially restrained, intensity and a second wave of flavour further back on the palate. This will be particularly fine and the aftertaste is notably persistent. A very long finish indeed. Drink from 2030-2040. Tasted: October 2023.In Bond£2,696.00 -
Wine Advocate (92-94)
The 2016 Corton Charlemagne came from a one-year-old barrel (there will also be a new and two-year-old barrel). It has a straightforward, brioche-tinged bouquet that opens nicely in the glass, with hints of peaches and cream, later gooseberry tart. The palate is well balanced, honeyed in texture with notes of dried apricot, frangipane and a hint of honey. It does not quite deliver the length, but this is undoubtedly a well crafted Corton-Charlemagne from Jean-Michel that will give immense pleasure over the next 10 to 15 years.In Bond£923.00 -
Vinous (93-95)
The 2019 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru comes from Charlemagne and the Pernand side of the hill, comprises two barrels from the domaine and three barrels from two other sources. It comes across surprisingly closed on the nose. Maybe just going through a dumb phase of élevage? The palate is medium-bodied and much more expressive, gorgeous yellow plum and pithy/peachy notes with a caressing finish. Once the aromatics awaken, this should be a very seductive "CC".In Bond£826.00 -
Wine Advocate (93-95)
There's just one half-barrel of the 2019 Montrachet Grand Cru, a rich, concentrated and textural wine that evokes honeyed pears, ripe peaches, beeswax and citrus blossom. Full-bodied and muscular, it's a powerful Montrachet in the making.In Bond£3,745.00 -
(1x75cl) 2020
Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy (93-96)
An exchange enables Jean-Michel Chartron to offer some Montrachet. Pale colour with a light lime touch. The nose is tight and tense as yet ungiving, though on the palate the wine becomes super-sensual thereafter, rather ripe with peach and honeysuckle despite the comparative severity up front. The aftertaste delivers the persistence expected of a grand cru. Tasted: October 2021In Bond£972.16 -
Wine Advocate (93-95)
The 2014 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Clos de la Pucelle has an attractive earthiness on the nose -- quite brilliantly defined, very focused but somehow broody and introspective compared to its peers. The palate is very fresh on the entry with brisk acidity, very focused and lively; there is a sense of energy here and disarming mineralité, leading to a long saline finish. This is just so unmistakably Puligny and simply a beautifully crafted wine with a long future ahead.In Bond£167.00 -
Vinous (93-95)
The 2020 Puligny-Montrachet Clos de la Pucelle 1er Cru has a delineated bouquet with Granny Smith apples, freshly sliced pear and a touch of wet limestone. The palate is well balanced with real weight and concentration on the entry counterbalanced by a fine bead of acidity, taut and linear with the mineralité coming through on the finish. This is excellent.In Bond£575.00 -
Decanter (95)
Boasts an impressive concentration of lime, passion fruit and green apple aromas, with a firm, flinty minerality. The texture is dense but not heavy and surprisingly fresh for the vintage. The complex flavours echo on an interminable finish – this is among the great successes in Puligny this year. The grapes are from the 1.16ha of old vines at the north end of the clos that the Chartron family has owned for over a century. Cellar it for three to five years and drink over the next 20.In Bond£600.00 -
Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy (93-95)
Excellent fresh lemon and lime colour. Relatively stern on the nose. This is backward, and very striking but not quite in place yet, very backward, all the intensity for sure. Stony white fruit as you would expect. How far does it stretch out. Youthful tension Tasted: October 2021.In Bond£660.00 -
(12x75cl) 2021
Vinous - Neal Martin (94)
The 2021 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru offers subtle tropical fruit on the nose: guava, passion fruit and hints of pineapple. Initially lacking a bit of mineralité and terroir expression, it comes through nicely with aeration. The palate is fresh on the entry, balanced and introverted at first, but just give it a few minutes and it reveals wonderful generosity and mineralité with a long, long finish. Don't be afraid to decant this. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.In Bond£1,753.61 -
Vinous - Neal Martin (94)
The 2021 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru offers subtle tropical fruit on the nose: guava, passion fruit and hints of pineapple. Initially lacking a bit of mineralité and terroir expression, it comes through nicely with aeration. The palate is fresh on the entry, balanced and introverted at first, but just give it a few minutes and it reveals wonderful generosity and mineralité with a long, long finish. Don't be afraid to decant this. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.In Bond£709.00 -
Decanter (96)
The 2022 Clos du Cailleret is a magnificent wine, showing notes of ripe pear and nectarines with a citrus edge and notes of hazelnut and fresh hay. There is a suggestion of saline minerality, although it is less pronounced than in the Folatières. The texture is powerful, with abundant extract yet enough acidity to bring it into vibrant balance to deliver a thrilling wine that makes an argument for Caillerets as among the greatest of the Puligny premier crus. According to Anne-Laure Chartron, 'Folatières is to Bâtard what Cailleret is to Chevalier'.In Bond£588.00 -
Vinous - Neal Martin (93-95)
The 2023 Puligny-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret 1er Cru has more precision and mineralité compared to the Clos de la Pucelle at this stage. It's vibrant and poised, with real drive and energy. The palate is concentrated and lightly spiced, with a keen line of acidity and plenty of energy and penetration on the finish. This represents an outstanding contribution to the vintage. I suspect it will land at the top of my banded score.In Bond£664.00 -
(12x75cl) 2018
Vinous (91-93)
The 2018 Puligny-Montrachet les Folatières 1er Cru has a crisp bouquet of white peach, orange pith and subtle flinty aromas that gain intensity with aeration. The palate is fresh and taut on the entry, and strict at the moment, displaying an almost Chablis-like reserve toward the finish, but you can feel the salinity lingering in the mouth long afterwards. Good potential, but it will deserve three or four years in bottle.In Bond£1,288.00 -
Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy (88-91)
Jean-Michel has a contract to farm an extra five ouvrées of Puligny from the commune for five years. Mid lemon and lime. Fresh and floral, with a good fresh backbone, slight lime blossom. Quite chiselled on the one hand, yet with fair flesh on the other. Drink from 2026-2031. Tasted: October 2023.In Bond£390.00 -
Vinous (91)
The 2018 Saint-Aubin Les Murgers des Dents de Chien 1er Cru displays another case of "noble reduction" on the nose (indeed, it was very reduced from barrel). Taciturn at first, it opens gradually with aeration, revealing attractive apple-blossom, petrichor and later, blackcurrant leaf scents. The palate is well balanced with lime and orange zest on the entry, a fine-boned Saint-Aubin with well-judged acidity and a lively, lightly-spiced finish. Very fine. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2018 white tasting.In Bond£519.00 -
(6x75cl) 2023
Vinous - Neal Martin (88-90)
The 2023 Santenay Les Pierres Sèches, from five barrels of purchased fruit, has a little more mineralité than the 2022, with hints of Clementine and lemon sherbet. The palate is fresh and vibrant. It's citrus-driven and not long in the mouth with fine tension. This already conveys a sense of joie de vivre that should make it irresistible in its youth.Expected Price Range£135 - £165 -
Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy (88-90)
Pale lime colour. The bouquet is quite refined, not too much oak showing. There is high quality fresh apple on the palate, maintain the sense of refinement, with a good fruit acid balance in the persistent finish. Drink from 2025-2028. Tasted: October 2023.In Bond£160.00 -
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Vinous (91-93)
The 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Bousselots 1er Cru veers much more toward red fruit on the nose, hints of meat juice and garrigue emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, quite saline and cohesive, leading to an energetic, peppery finish that lingers. Another promising NSG from Chauvenet.In Bond£207.00 -
Burghound (90-93)
(from a parcel on the northern end). Firm reduction masks the fruit though there is again a beguiling sense of underlying tension suffusing the detailed and stony medium-bodied flavors that flash good power on the moderately austere and lingering if mildly warm finish that is supported by relatively fine-grained tannins. In contrast to the Damodes that could reasonably be enjoyed young, this compact effort is clearly in need of at least moderate to longer-term cellaring.In Bond£356.00 -
(12x75cl) 2017
Burghound (91-94)
(from a .41 ha parcel). A fresh, cool and brooding nose only grudgingly reveals its aromas of dark currant, game, violet and plenty of earth that are trimmed in more discreet though not invisible wood. The dense and sappy big-bodied flavors possess evident power and muscle before concluding in a driving finish that is expressly built to age. This is potentially outstanding but once again, it’s a classically youthful, compact and austere Vaucrains that will need every bit of 15 years to reveal all it has to offer.In Bond£682.00 -
Jancis Robinson (17+)
Deep cherry red. Intense black fruit and savoury/stony restraint combined. All in embryo, like the Perrières but here the tannins are even firmer. The core is serious dark fruit and some oak spice but it is not intrusive even if it adds a note of dark chocolate to the aroma as it opens in the glass. Fine tannins slightly thickened by the oak but smooth and in harmony with the fruit. Long, savoury finish. (JH)In Bond£452.00 -
Burghound (91-94)
Outstanding - This is aromatically quite similar to the Perrières if perhaps just a bit earthier. The slightly larger scaled flavors are surprisingly supple on the mid-palate that contrasts materially with the firm tannins on the compact and youthfully austere finish. This is less powerful and forbidding than normal, though with that said, it's still sufficiently structured to reward 12 to 15 years of aging.In Bond£123.00 -
Burghound (91-94)
Outstanding - This is aromatically quite similar to the Perrières if perhaps just a bit earthier. The slightly larger scaled flavors are surprisingly supple on the mid-palate that contrasts materially with the firm tannins on the compact and youthfully austere finish. This is less powerful and forbidding than normal, though with that said, it's still sufficiently structured to reward 12 to 15 years of aging.In Bond£344.00 -
Burghound (91-93)
Ripe yet cool aromas include those of cassis, poached plum, an array of spice elements plus a whiff of the sauvage. The very rich and even bigger and more voluminous large-scaled flavors also brim with sappy dry extract before culminating in a balanced, powerful and lingering finish where a touch of bitter chocolate slowly emerges. This isn’t massive in the way that it usually is though it is borderline opulent, which is a descriptor I use very rarely with respect to the 2021 reds.In Bond£134.00 -
Burghound (91-93)
Ripe yet cool aromas include those of cassis, poached plum, an array of spice elements plus a whiff of the sauvage. The very rich and even bigger and more voluminous large-scaled flavors also brim with sappy dry extract before culminating in a balanced, powerful and lingering finish where a touch of bitter chocolate slowly emerges. This isn’t massive in the way that it usually is though it is borderline opulent, which is a descriptor I use very rarely with respect to the 2021 reds.In Bond£375.00 -
Burghound (91-94)
(from a .41 ha parcel). Reduction. The much bigger broad-shouldered flavors also possess outstanding density and power while exuding evident minerality on the precise, firm and very serious finale that delivers excellent length where the only nit is a hint of warmth. This is usually the undisputed best wine in the range but in 2022, the Perrières may well give it a run for its money.In Bond£400.00
The variations among Burgundy's many appellations and the importance of individual winemakers philosophy's make vintage guides complex. Vintage advantages can also differ slightly for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Nonetheless we have put together a selection of some of our favourite vintages from Burgundy.
