Here too there is noticeable though not intrusive wood setting off the elegant and cool aromas of essence of pear, green apple and a whiff of quinine. The finer if perhaps slightly less voluminous flavors also possess good verve before culminating in an agreeably dry, focused and even chiseled finale. This youthfully austere and linear effort will need a few years to flash out and add depth.

OUTSANDING

This monopoly holding just behind the château regularly produces one of southern Burgundy's best wines and has done it again in 2018. Pale in colour and very elegant, this comes from separate parcels planted between 1929 and 1981 and is a cuvée of 3 different terroirs. Spicy, chalky, refined and complex, it's floral, long and peppery, with effortless concentration and seamlessly integrated 80% new oak.