Morey-St-Denis

The Grains Fins is a cuvée of 2 parcels: Crais-Gillons & Bas Chenevery, just below Les Faconnières. On the nose you can sense some oak here - a good toasty note - but this is not as expressive as it mig...(read more)

The nose, full of black fruit, is a little confused for now, but the palate has that richness of old vines, a supple volume of superfine tannin, and an expression of black fruit that's heading into a sort of mineral dark...(read more)

70% whole bunch. Fresh blackberries just picked on the nose, the palate cool and fresh and silky with a beautiful balance of acidity and slightly saline weight, so that on the finish it is more about mineral than fruit....(read more)

3 plots in Vergy – 1 touches Clos de Tart, 1 in the middle and 1 at the top. Vines more than 55 years old. Higher – lots of minerality. Virgile thinks this will be one of the better lieu-dits in Morey with global warming...(read more)

From Gruenchers and Clos Bouley. There's a high proportion of clay, so Stéphane has been using just 10% of whole bunch (the only cuvée where he adds any) to make it a little less strict and tannic. Funnily...(read more)

45-50% whole bunch. Supple, precise, juicy and in total harmony. Fruit is very much all there but never quite sweet - very crisp, precise. This, as the first of the Morey premiers crus in the tasting, is a class up in si...(read more)

Bright crimson (like most 2023s!). Crunchy fruit and quite marked acidity. A little austere and hard on the palate. Perhaps it will fill out? Definitely needs time for those tannins to mellow. (JR)

80% Whole bunch. This has real intense power at its core. Broad fruit, deep red and some black notes - but all well ripened and full on. Pure and yet quite charmingly crowd-pleasing matter lies at the core of this - and...(read more)

A jump up the the first of the premiers crus. An intensity of tight weave, taut and mouthwatering, fine expressive juice-filled tannins. Classy and long.

Focused nose, with soft sweet fruit. Good rich body, pure with lovely depth of flavour. A super village wine which will always be a lovely drink.

Deep colour, very rich, intense fruit and savour, yet still really quite easy, flowing, graceful and classy. Really rather fabulous fruit expression, defined red and black flavours playing off each other and giving real...(read more)

A very stony and mineral vineyard. Lovely nose - bright and pure with a ruby-like clarity to the top-note, it's slimline, focused, with 'enough' concentration and weight. Very linear and pure.