Volnay

This is 1/3 Premier Cru (Brouillards and Ronceret). Refined style with a cooler, fresher fruit, even though still lots of volume, with very fine but present tannins. Another lovely village wine in the vintage.

4 parcels, two of which (Ronceret and Brouillard) are premiers crus. So silky - juicy fruit, red and blue, a cool fresh expression.

Tasted when racked but not yet bottled. Not as dark or rich as the Pommard Tavannes but yet again this is a big wine with plenty of red & black fruits. Sweet spice. Lots of tannic structure. Ripe, rich but well balanced.

Not much wine here - what there is elegant, floral, airier than the Auxeys.

Fragrant nose of thyme, licorice, currants and mulberries. Some orange peel. Very fresh acidity and bright fruit, with a medium body and fine-grained tannins. Precise and lengthy finish. Drink or hold.

Smoky nose, a faintly singed fruit coal-black expression (they always say Fremiets is a hot corner). Lots going on, pure and quite 'masculine', as Guillaume calls it.

80% whole bunch fermentation, The sheer minerality in this means that it is not yet as showy on the nose as it was in 2019, but otherwise it's a very similar style, with a bright but not all that dark colour, a slow move...(read more)

This has the Santenots muscular side, but not to excess. In Guillaume's style of being compact and pure and crunchy. Lovely length of seamless juice and texture.

Nose quite compact with black cherry, palate supple, then with fine tannins building - good weight and concentration. Tannic finale, but this is all in harmony, and it is very long.

All de-stemmed. The vines grow on the gently sloping face of Santenots du Bas where the soils are red and iron rich. There is weight on the palate. Silky and dense, the wine has a voluptuous feel which is kept in check b...(read more)