Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy

Fractionally denser in colour than Clos St-Denis with a meatier bouquet, some blood orange as well as the traditional blueberry of this vineyard. A little white pepper comes up. This is brilliantly complete, no feeling of a lighter vintage, with superb grace at the finish. Ripe alpine strawberries.

A fine glowing purple. Bright mid purple, with a very lively nose, very obviously whole bunch. Actually, a really gorgeous nose, more floral in the top notes but a wealth of come-hither fruit below. A wonderful wealth of fruit right across the palate. Later picking paid off. This is a delight but the Clos de la Roche has significantly more intensity Drink from 2030-2038

55% whole bunch. Dark crimson purple. The bouquet shows a little reduction, with dark raspberry and strawberry fruit. Powerful and backward, a very crunchy finish with a few more tannins, definitely a darker fruit. A little new oak behind. This needs more elevage. Drink from 2027-2034. 

Darkish purple colour. The nose is too reduced to speak at first, but the red fruit powers on through. The palate has everything it really should, with a level of energy and waves of fruit over and above the delightful Beaux Monts. Just the right acidity to finish. Drink from 2027-2035.

Mid yellow. Quite an interesting complex nose, though still at a backward stage. A little bit of wood showing. The wines will stay in barrel until December at least, for probable bottling around Easter, so there is time for this to develop. A light butteriness from the barrel with a saline note afterwards. Some promise but early days yet.

Same as Bonnes Mares with 40% new wood, 20% whole bunch vinification and 20% stems added back. This vineyard has a higher pH, so Pierre likes to keep the temperature up and punch down strongly at the back end to give the tension it doesn’t have naturally. Robust full mid purple. Burst of fruit up front, raspberry plus a bit of bilberry, there is more structure right at the back, a crunch in the tannins, but is this perhaps at the expense of the natural flow of Clos de Bèze? The fruit quality is certainly fine and think I shall be tasting this in the car on my way home. 

40% new wood, 20% whole bunch vinification and 20% stems added back. A succulent full and charming bouquet with the robust but androgynous fruit of Bonnes Mares. Partly a burst of full lush floral character, partly the more savoury side of Morey. A fine full mouthful behind, quite easy to read but certainly delicious. The structure is there behind the fruit. Very pleasing finish 

Some whole bunch vinification and some stems added back, 30% together. Mid to dark purple. The bouquet here is brilliantly expressive, a deep dark red fruit, slightly crushed strawberry too, with a raft of tannins well integrated then a fine long finish.

Fine rich purple, heady Vosne side bouquet, with plenty of gas inside helping to keep it fresh. This is beautifully stylish with exceptional length of flavour as well as the classy heady quality of this end of the appellation. Nice oak balance.

Glowing imperial purple, a touch more ethereal, could almost imagine there was some whole bunches here. Medium bodied within the context of the vintage, but properly noble Chambolle with a seamless lingering aftertaste.