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2009 Burgundy – By Commune

 

All the wines, by village, running north to south.


Northern Côte de Nuits

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2009

Fixin, Denis Mortet, Burgundy, France

Notes: The nose is immediately fresh and extraordinarily pure, majoring on delicious black berries, including cherries. The terroir of Fixin is cooler than many and this expresses itself in the minerals across the tongue and the fine, ripe structure presented by rich tannins.

This is going to be enjoyable quite soon, yet offer great keepability too.
2014-2020 6x75cl £156.00


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Gevrey-Chambertin

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2009

Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes, Rossignol-Trapet, Burgundy, France

Notes: Big hit this. The nose is really concentrated, offering real violet complexity to the beautifully rich, red and black cherry fruit. In the mouth, this is really quite closed, but powers along to a richly limestone-infused, crunchy finish. Long and cool; nice grip too. A touch of spiciness to this wonderful Gevrey.
2013-2019 12x75cl £246.00

2009

Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Prieur, Rossignol-Trapet, Burgundy, France

Notes: The nose here a fabulous spiced cordial of black cherry and blueberry fruit. Very rich nose and a touch spicy, too. A creamy-cool palate, both red and black. The underlying minerals come across as a touch saline. A chalky wine offering a lovely, chewy, chalky, spicy length.
2014-2020 12x75cl £420.00

2009

Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru, Rossignol-Trapet, Burgundy, France

Notes: Floral aromas: a pot pourri concentration to the ripe, tangy, red and black fruit aromas. This is loaded with spice and red cherries. The palate is very rich, fresh and concentrated, giving up cool red and blue fruit. Compact at the end, this. There's a great nutty length here and rich, nutty, integrated tannins. Long and with fine, progressive grip. Long and lovely Latricières
2016-2025 6x75cl £321.00

2009

Chambertin Grand Cru., Rossignol-Trapet, Burgundy, France

Notes: This is quite hard to taste as it's really rather reduced at the moment. What is clear is that there is freshness running right through it. And the pure red and black cherry fruit is underpinned by upright, tacky, fine tannins. Great length to this grand cru wine; great follow-through, with excellent drive and intent. Very mineral, with high grip. Superb future assured here.
2017-2028 6x75cl £450.00

2009

Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru, Drouhin-Laroze, Burgundy, France

Notes: A lovely nose of really smoky and floral, fresh cherry fruit, along with chunks of blueberry. Complex. Very cool across the palate. Delicious, too. Blueberry and tangy black sloe fruit. Very long and really mineral. Lots of extra stuff going on here. A structured and profound Chapelle.
2017-2025 6x75cl £310.00

2009

Chambertin Clos de Bèze Grand Cru, Drouhin-Laroze, Burgundy, France

Notes: Ravishing, floral, creamy nose of lightly toasted, ripe fruit: cherries, roses and nut liqueur. Then there's its silky, fresh and very pure palate. The fruit flavours are incredible. Mineral limestone and fine integrated tannins add structure. Long and with subtle grip this. The finish is rich and busy and utterly lovely.
2017-2030 6x75cl £450.00


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Chambolle-Musigny

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2009

Chambolle-Musigny La Combe d'Orveau, Jean Grivot, Burgundy, France

Notes: Beautiful floral aromas frame pure black cherry fruit and a hint of something not remotely unpleasant, yet strangely reminiscent of sticking plaster. Entry is supple, silky and there are rich, fine tannins woven through the impressive length. This is fresh and busy and offers very lovely fruit. Very long wine.
2015-2025 12x75cl £345.00

2009

Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru, Drouhin-Laroze, Burgundy, France

Notes: A lovely cordial of a nose this, offering sweet spice to the beautiful black bramble fruit. There follows a floral, black fruited palate of bramble and sloe. Medium weight and silky, with cached, fine tannins and hidden juice. Long and elegant wine. Mineral, with a fine finish. A big, busy push at the back.
2017-2028 6x75cl £390.00


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Vougeot

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2009

Clos Vougeot Grand Cru, Jean Grivot, Burgundy, France

Notes: A rich and richly meaty nose; a concentrated amalgam of wild black fruits and scents of nutty earth. Very black fruit crosses the tongue, leaving flavours of black cherry behind. This is loaded with grip and minerality. A powerful and earthy wine offering hints of dark chocolate. Rich and very fine, almost invisible tannins. Very long and complex wine.
2018-2027 6x75cl £405.00

2009

Clos Vougeot Grand Cru, François Lamarche, Burgundy, France

Notes: Lovely depth of colour here. Then the nose is creamy-rich, showing lovely, black, bramble, slightly spicy fruit. This is dense and pure and smoky. The palate is very cool and fresh. A medium weight wine and a compact one, full of integrated, chalky, fine and chunky tannins. Very long. Needs time. Fabulous CV!
2017-2027 6x75cl £309.00


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Vosne-Romanée

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2009

Vosne-Romanée, François Lamarche, Burgundy, France

Notes: A delightful nose of red, black and blue fruits, currants and blueberries. In the mouth, this is both cool and concentrated and underpinned by rich, very fine, chalky tannins. Very long wine and one with a lovely tension about it. Juicy grip. Very cool and pretty, with medium acidity.
2013-2019 12x75cl £276.00

2009

Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Rouges, Jean Grivot, Burgundy, France

Notes: A really lovely nose. Let's look at this one holistically. This is dominated by an absolutely divine concentration of pure red fruit. Lovely freshness on both nose and palate. Such a long and complete wine. And that fruit! Highly desirable!
2015-2021 6x75cl £282.00

2009

Echézeaux Grand Cru, François Lamarche, Burgundy, France

Notes: Lovely nose: black, floral, deep and liqueur-like. The fruit is of damson and sloe and blacker than one would expect in an Echézeaux. This is one fabulous, rich and structured wine in the mouth. Tannins are upright and tacky, the impression smoky, black, tangy and very long. Very properly grand cru this.
2016-2025 6x75cl £309.00

2009

La Grande Rue Grand Cru, François Lamarche, Burgundy, France

Notes: Floral: a pot pourri density of creamy red and black fruit. Pure and tangy and ripe; a touch smoky. Blueberry with a hint of strawberry. Very rich, concentrated palate. This is rather closed for the time being. There are very rich and a touch peppery-but- tacky, integrated tannins. This has all the hallmarks of something truly fine.
2018-2027 6x75cl £720.00


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Nuits St Georges

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2009

Nuits-St-Georges 1er Cru Les Poulettes, Jean Chauvenet, Burgundy, France

Notes:

The nose here is a bit shy for the time being, yet I did manage to locate red and black fruit of currants and plums, crunchy and a touch smoky. It's the lovely shape in the mouth that made me sit up and pay attention. This is medium weight, parallel, fresh and integrated, with crisp, juicy acidity and lovely grip at the back. Persistent, elegant and really fine Nuits. A lovely newcomer.

2016-2025 12x75cl £333.00

2009

Nuits-St-Georges 1er Cru Le Rue de Chaux, Jean Chauvenet, Burgundy, France

Notes:

N.B. This cuvée is always classic Nuits, but can be quite austere; not in '09!

It seemed a touch woody to me at this stage, but it offers wild red fruits, a touch creamy. Really spicy nose to this. A very tangy palate: fresh and crunchy. This is backward and compact and offers lovely full Nuits tannins. A very mineral wine as always. Long and intensely juicy. High grip. Lots going on here. Very Nuits and very age-worthy.

2017-2026 12x75cl £333.00

2009

Nuits-St-Georges 1er Cru Les Roncières, Jean Grivot, Burgundy, France

Notes: There are distinct floral notes here: a whisper of dried petals amongst the red and black, slightly creamy fruit aromas. Take a sip and and this offers a sumptuous, creamy entry, quickly becoming crisper and gaining in tacky, fine tannins. This is both long and mineral; delicious and with real Pinot delicacy, combined with the complexity of the terroir.
2015-2022 6x75cl £321.00


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Beaune and Her Satellites

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2009

Chorey-lès-Beaune Pièce du Chapître., Tollot-Beaut, Burgundy, France

Notes: Utterly beguiling nose of limestone and airy red fruits. This is a delightful, crunchy, floral nose. Across the tongue it offers a cool and supple entry, followed by fine and rich tannins and intensity that builds throughout. A very long wine, with fine freshness right through it. Controlled and lovely liquid, a touch peppery at the end. A very fine Chorey.
2013-2020 6x75cl £84.00

2009

Savigny-lès-Beaune Aux Grands Liards, Camus-Bruchon, Burgundy, France

Notes: A floral nose offering hints of pot pourri, as well as smoky, complex red and black fruit. Entry is of supple fruit and there's an arrow of freshness throughout the palate. Supportive tannins are tacky, rich, upright and beautifully ripe. This is very long, grippy and ultimately delicious!
2013-2020 12x75cl £180.00

2009

Savigny-lès-Beaune Aux Grands Liards, Remi Rollin, Burgundy, France

Notes: N.B. The vines here are a minimum of 60 years old.
Really classy nose here: a touch earthy, but with a lovely purity of black fruits. I found plum, bramble and a sort of ginger spiciness.. The palate is rich, brambly and concentrated and the fruit is supported by big, rich tannins that have that Savigny agricultural quality (that's a good thing, by the way). A long, fresh and highly structured wine.
2014-2020 12x75cl £156.00

2009

Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru les Gravains, Camus-Bruchon, Burgundy, France

Notes: A sweetly ripe nose of red and blue fruits welcomes the taster. The palate is crunchy right from the off. I found a touch of sweet spice and richly tacky tannins. This is both long and intense at the back. Pure, juicy wine. Lovely stuff.
2015-2022 12x75cl £198.00

2009

Pernand-Vergelesses Blanc., Remi Rollin, Burgundy, France

Notes: This is just a bit shy on the nose at the moment, but some pure lemon aromas emerge if one insists on it. The palate is another matter. There's rich, ripe fruit right from the off. Delicious, nutty, peary flavours are underscored by fine, chalky, slightly tacky minerals. This is very long and peary, with a juicy lemoon finish. Lots of stuffing here; indeed there's soemthing almost meaty about it. Fab white for drinking soon.
2012-2015 12x75cl £138.00

2009

Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Ile de Vergelesses., Remi Rollin, Burgundy, France

Notes: A touch reserved this, but I did find aromas of smoky sloes and damson, with a wisp of mint on top. There are tannins right from the front of this wine, starting in the supple, blackcurrant and cherry entry. Lovely rich, upright tannins and the acidity is juicy-fresh. A daarkly fruited wine and a ripe and structured one, too. Mineral and fabulous.
2015-2022 12x75cl £210.00

2009

Beaune 1er Cru Les Grèves, Tollot-Beaut, Burgundy, France

Notes: A lovely nose majoring on a spiced red fruit blend, principally raspberry and cherry, with hints of almond. There's a gorgeous silken texture to this cool and fine palate. A wine already knit and shot through with very fine, velvet tannins. Long and juicy, with lovely, elegant persistence. Delightful Beaune.
2015-2022 6x75cl £162.00

2009

Corton Bressandes Grand Cru., Tollot-Beaut, Burgundy, France

Notes: This is a touch closed, but spend some time agitating it and scents of smoked bacon emerge, along with fruits red and black and some dry spice. This is very tangy in the mouth and there is something animal lurking. The very fine tannins are utterly integrated. A long wine and one with a crunchy freshness and spice at the back of the palate. A wine of immense potential.
2015-2023 6x75cl £252.00

2009

Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru., Remi Rollin, Burgundy, France

Notes: A reserved, cool and really classy nose that includes scents of ripe lemons and apples and, less so, pears. There's a saline minerality adding interest. The palate is rich and offers a great deal of spice. There are masses of grippy, crushed rock minerals and a hint of the oak on the tongue. Medium acidity. This will come forward relatively soon for a CC, but will always be delicious.
2015-2021 6x75cl £276.00


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Pommard

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2009

Pommard Vieilles Vignes, Joseph Voillot, Burgundy, France

Notes: This is a touch shy at the moment, but after the village Volnay, it comes across as blacker and spicier. I noted the fruit as black cherry and damson. The palate, conversely, is not at all shy. Very rich and brambly and there are proper Pommard tannins within. This is very straight and very long, the juicy acidity well cached within the fruit. Really solid finish here. Real Pommard, oh yes.
2015-2021 12x75cl £234.00

2009

Pommard 1er Cru Les Pezerolles., Joseph Voillot, Burgundy, France

Notes: A tangy nose, this, and a lovely one, of ripe black cherries. Real freshness here, despite an almost cordial-like concentration. The palate backs up the nose, coming across as rich and cool and cordial-esque. Really black fruit in a very fine profile. There are fine, integrated, upright, tacky tannins, then a red cherry crunch of freshness. Long, and vital at the full finish. Fabulous wine.
2017-2024 12x75cl £438.00

2009

Pommard 1er Cru Les Rugiens., Joseph Voillot, Burgundy, France

Notes: A scented nose of red fruit, very ripe apples, new leather, blueberry, almond, ink and pot pourri. The palate is both rich and compact. Profound and beautiful red and black fruit combine with a slightly saline minerality. This is knit, although young. Fine and very, very long; fresh and complex. Just wonderful Pommard
2017-2025 12x75cl £462.00


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Volnay

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2009

Passetoutgrains L'Exception, Michel Lafarge, Burgundy, France

Notes: Slightly closed at the time of my visit, although I did locate cranberry and raspberry aromas on the nose, followed by a palate both tight and nutty. Really nice grip here, real intent. Very fine mild tannins lend support. As ever, this is shockingly good for its label.
2013-2017 12x75cl £108.00

2009

Volnay Vendange Sélectionée, Michel Lafarge, Burgundy, France

Notes: A wealth of divine fruit on both nose and palate of this. The aromas suggest ripe bramble, a cream of sloes and a hint of dark chocolate. Great suppleness to the entry, super tang. Backward, very cool and straight wine; very long and controlled. Grippy and both blue and black. This will be quite unashamedly delicious.
2014-2020 12x75cl £306.00

2009

Volnay 1er Cru les Champans., Joseph Voillot, Burgundy, France

Notes: Nose is rather closed at this sitting. The oak is apparent. Yet I did coax scents of cranberry, raspberry and cherry eventually, boding well for things to come. The palate offers a peppery spice and really concentrated red and black fruit. The tannins and grip grow throughout the very straight palate. This needs lots of time, but just wait...then be rewarded!
2015-2022 12x75cl £372.00

2009

Volnay 1er Cru Clos du Château des Ducs, Michel Lafarge, Burgundy, France

Notes: This, too, is quite closed. I found a clove-lilke spice and darkly floral aromas. There's a rich weal of dark fruit once in the mouth. The fruit is plum and tangy damsons. This leaves a beautiful extract on the tongue. Tannins are super-fine and utterly integrated. Very long wine, with peppery spice at the finish. Serious stuff.
2016-2025 6x75cl £318.00


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Meursault

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2009

Meursault Vieilles Vignes., Domaine Buisson-Charles, Burgundy, France

Notes: Lovely colour in the glass: a bright, pale, buttercup yellow. Beak in, one finds a pure, rich and lovely nose. It's a touch wheaten, but mainly nutty and mineral. Fruit is of crisp pears and angelica. Palate is fine and intense. There's a lovely clarity of message here. Crunchy lemon and pear fruit, the whole very fresh. This is very, very long, fresh and crisp. There are hints of herbs and nut. Just fabulous white wine.
2013-2018 12x75cl £240.00

2009

Meursault Les Tillets., François et Antoine Jobard, Burgundy, France

Notes: Nose a cordial of lime and sweet, ripe grapefruit dotted through with stony, mineral aromas. An immediate flavour of pink grapefruit! This is very straight in the mouth; grippy and intense; very long and juicy. There is a wealth of fine, chalky minerals. A long and serious lieu dit.
2014-2020 6x75cl £177.00

2009

Meursault 1er Cru Les Bouchères., Domaine Buisson-Charles, Burgundy, France

Notes: Individual nose of toasted nuts, smoke, dried flowers and spice i.e. there's quite a lot going on! A compact and backward wine at the moment; a touch closed, even. It offers a fine shape, however, as well as delightful lemon and pear fruit. Very concentrated. Very straight and long. Comes right back on the finish. Brilliant.
2015-2021 12x75cl £396.00

2009

Meursault 1er Cru Les Charmes., Domaine Buisson-Charles, Burgundy, France

Notes: N.B. This is very dry wine, with less than 2gm/litre of sugar Lovely nose of dried white flowers, candied lemons and ripe pears. Across the tongue this is very rich and dense. I found an almost peppery spice. A very concentrated, nutty palate, with a core of lemony, incisive acidity. Very long...and what intensity at the finish! Mouthcoating, but charming and very lovely.
2015-2021 12x75cl £396.00


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St Aubin

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2009

St Aubin 1er Cru En Montceau., Marc Colin, Burgundy, France

Notes: For me this is the most exciting white St Aubin in the cellar and this year is transparently the most age-worthy, too. I found lots of crushed rock scents to the nose and fruit of sweetly ripe pears. This is one rich and concentrated wine, through the middle of which runs a spine of profound minerality. A busy, complex wine and a very long one.
2013-2017 12x75cl £201.00


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Puligny-Montrachet

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2009

Bourgogne Blanc., Bachelet-Monnot, Burgundy, France

Notes: N.B. Vines here are 29-35 years of age. A lovely nose, sweetly ripe, showing fruit of pear and crisp green apple. The palate finds a wine rich and really juicy-crisp; mouthfilling, with spice and rich mineral expression. Very long, crunchy, layered wine. This is like a Puligny-Montrachet that one won't have to wait to long for...
2012-2014 12x75cl £99.00

2009

Bourgogne Blanc La Tufera, Etienne Sauzet, Burgundy, France

Notes: A clean, complex and ripe nose of chalky grapefruit and pear. Very inviting! A rich palate and a nutty one, becoming compact, peary and grippy, with chalky minerals and lovely juicy grip. There are hints of spice on the palate. Both serious and delicious. Persistent. Good stuff.
2012-2015 12x75cl £150.00

2009

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Hameau de Blagny, Etienne Sauzet, Burgundy, France

Notes:

N.B. vines here are 55 years old

Nose is toasty and very lemony; a cordial of spiced pear fruit. Palate is very cool, with a subtle entry. Thereafter, this is one dense wine; controlled and very, very mineral. Spicy, long and elegant. This is brilliantly lively. Long, with lime-y acidity. A class act.

2013-2018 6x75cl £225.00

2009

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Champ Canet, Etienne Sauzet, Burgundy, France

Notes: This just looks dense in the glass. Nose is very scented, ripe, of beautiful pear fruit. There are hints of liquorice and limestone. Across the palate, powerful and very rich, of crisp lemon fruit and spice. Great drive here through to a very long finish, drily mineral. Very long and intense wine. Supercharged!
2014-2019 6x75cl £282.00

2009

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Le Champ Gain, Etienne Sauzet, Burgundy, France

Notes: Very floral aromas on the nose of this wine and the flowers are both fresh and dried. Ripe grapefruit, pear and mineral chalk. In the mouth, this is rich and dense and sweetly peary; straight and exceedingly rich and mineral. Spicy grip is overwhelmed by the ripe fruit. Fabulous finish and beautiful fruit is what this is about.
2014-2018 6x75cl £240.00

2009

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Perrières, Etienne Sauzet, Burgundy, France

Notes: A lovely pure nose of citrus fruit, along with touches of toasty lemon and lime. The merest hint of fresh ginger. The palate finds a wine cool and rich and dense and quickly gaining a very fine dusty minerality like fine chalk. Then the grip arrives. This is drily earthy and supremely classy, subtly incisive. Excellent, with smoky length.
2014-2018 6x75cl £246.00

2009

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières., Bachelet-Monnot, Burgundy, France

Notes: A cool and pure nose of Comice pears nuanced by spice and powdered rock. There are hitns of smoke and dried white flowers (typical of this vineyard). A very cool wine, really compact at the moment. That Comice fruit comes back densely across the tongue. This is really very mineral, with smoky notes and peppery grip. In fact, it is very grippy: full of intent. Very fresh. Acidity is medium-high and well cached within the fruit. Electrifying P-M.
2014-2019 6x75cl £216.00


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Chassagne-Montrachet

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2009

Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos St Jean Rouge., Paul Pillot, Burgundy, France

Notes: Nose a touch shy for the time being, but what is showing is a wealth of delicious domestic red fruits. The palate is just so ravishing, I absolutely love it. The wine goes in the mouth plush and easy; a ripe red entry of cherries and apples. Minerals add a touch of salinity and the tannins are subtle, integrated and very fine and grippy. Long, fresh and lovely wine.
2013-2017 12x75cl £240.00

2009

Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Caillerets., Paul Pillot, Burgundy, France

Notes: A subtle nose, a touch wheaten and lemony. There are some floral aromas, as well as a high-pitched lemon freshness. Mouthwards, this is rich and controlled and full of lively freshness. A really intense white wine. Concentrated. Lemony. Very, very long. Really busy wine this. Gripping stuff.
2014-2019 6x75cl £180.00

2009

Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru les Fairendes., Morey-Coffinet, Burgundy, France

Notes: There perceptible density to the nose of this wine, although it is much more reserved than the other 1er Crus in the cellar. Suggestions of wheat and dried lemon come through, but it's is more the impression of latent power that one is left with. There's spice and citrus fruit and apple. Palate is concentrated, compact, with really spicy length and subtle grip powering through to an earthy, mouthcoating ending. Slightly awe inspiring at this stage!
2014-2019 12x75cl £378.00


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Southern Côte de Beaune

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2009

Santenay Vieilles Vignes Champ Claude., Marc Colin, Burgundy, France

Notes: A rich nose and a rather briary one; geranium. A rich palate, albeit one a touch introverted. It offers nutty, rich and very fine tannins. Lovely shape here. Structured, lovely wine that needs time, yet the effects of 100 + year old vines is quite evident.
2013-2019 12x75cl £150.00

2009

Maranges 1er Cru La Fussière., Bachelet-Monnot, Burgundy, France

Notes: N.B. Vines here are 70 yeats old. There are hints of violet and spice to the rich, black, tangy fruit of sloe and bramble. Take a sip and it is instantly silky and elegant, dotted with minerals  and that lovely black fruit. There's mild grip and medium, tacky-but-fine tannins. Really very classy Pinot Noir.
2013-2017 12x75cl £144.00


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