A markedly more floral-suffused nose features notes of black pinot fruit, exotic tea and a whiff of oak toast. Once again I very much like the texture of the sleeker and finer medium weight flavors that exude a subtle minerality on the firm but refined fi...
The 2022 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Murgers 1er Cru, a vineyard of which two-thirds is being re-planted, has a fruit-driven bouquet: blackberry and raspberry, touches of crushed rock and hedgerow. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins. It’s a structu...
Here too the nose is completely dominated by pungent oak and reduction. The delicious and vibrant medium weight flavors possess a beguilingly supple, even velvety, texture that contrasts moderately with the dusty, firm, and youthfully austere bitter pit f...
This is also pretty aromatically raw with a similar nose of firm reduction and wood toast. On the palate though there is again good verve and freshness to the less dense but finer middle weight flavors that exude more evident minerality on the equally fir...
A similar aromatic profile to the Clos de la Servoisine adds a touch of poached plum to the blend. On the palate, the medium-bodied flavors are even more refined with a prominent bead of minerality adding a sense of lift to the youthfully austere, compact...