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DOMAINE ARLAUD
Excellent domaine, that has been going from strength to strength since
2001; with the 2005 vintage being a real high-point!
A fully ORGANIC Domaine; even horse and plough are now being used! |
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6 |
75cl |
Charmes Chambertin
Grand Cru
Domaine
Arlaud
AM -
The supple, round and strikingly refined, indeed
even silky flavours possess focused power and punch while offering
outstanding length on the dusty, palate coating and mildly austere
finale. This is an exercise in harmony and refinement. |
2015 |
£144.00 |
AM94
2020-35 |
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NICOLAS POTEL DOMAINE de BELLENE
One of the best addresses for
quality Burgundy at a reasonable price.
Run by Nicholas Potel;
this is both a negociant
(Maison Roche de Bellene) and domaine (Domaine de Bellene) - the
latter now consists of some 22 hectares which are being converted to
organic farming. |
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2 |
75cl |
Gevrey Chambertin
'Les Cazetiers'
1er Cru
Maison Roche de Bellene
AM -
A fresh, cool and pure nose of
stone and ripe red pinot fruit reflects none of the bizarre character of
the prior two Gevrey 1ers nor do the detailed, intense and energetic
flavours that are not especially concentrated but they do possess fine
balance and reasonably good length. |
2009 |
£38.00 |
AM91
2018-27
BIN-END Price |
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4 |
75cl |
Nuits St Georges
'Aux Chaignots'
1er Cru
Domaine de Bellene
AM -
A lightly spiced wild red
and black berry nose is enrobed in plenty of Nuits style earth that also
suffuses the attractively textured and mouth coating flavours that
possess very firm but not hard tannins. However, they are sufficiently
robust to convey a sense of rusticity to the impressively persistent
finish. |
2010 |
£44.00 |
AM92
2019-30
BIN END
Price |
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5 |
75cl |
Volnay
'Clos des Chenes'
1er Cru
Maison Roche de Bellene. |
2009 |
£35.00 |
2016-25
BIN END
Price |
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DOMAINE CLOS FRANTIN
Excellent Domaine,
always maintains a high standard, so this assures excellent quality
to price!
(Since 1969 owned by top Beaune negociant Albert Bichot).
Highly Recommended |
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6 |
75cl
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Vosne Romanee
'Malconsorts'
1er Cru
Domaine Clos Frantin
AM -
Almost invisible wood frames subtly spiced ripe black cherry and plum
aromas that lead to powerful and mineral-driven middle weight plus
flavours that possess the usual Malconsorts taut muscularity and robust
punch on the mouth coating finish. This should be excellent but note
that 10 to 12 years will be required first. |
2010 |
£110.00 |
AM93
2020-36
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BOUCHARD Pére & Fils
Excellent negociant, with large
holdings of own domaine vineyards.
Always maintains a very high standard, so this assures excellent quality
to price!
Highly Recommended |
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6 |
75cl
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Beaune Gréves
'Vigne de L'Enfant Jesus'
1er Cru
Domaine
Bouchard
AM -
Prominent wood pushes the otherwise markedly ripe array of sombre and
earthy dark berry fruit liqueur-like aromas to the background.. There
is good energy to the detailed yet impressively rich flavours that are
shaped by firm tannins on the long, deep and complex if slightly dry
finish that flashes a hint of bitter cherry. This isn't imbalanced
per se at present but it will clearly require time to better harmonize. |
2014 |
£82.00 |
AM91
2019-28
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6 |
75cl
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Beaune Gréves
'Vigne de L'Enfant Jesus'
1er Cru
Domaine
Bouchard
AM -
There is a
trace of reduction present but not enough to materially detract from the
violet, plum and liqueur-like dark currant aromas that are trimmed in a
discreet application of wood. There is a beguiling sense of underlying
tension to the broad-shouldered, rich, intense and like the Clos de la
Mousse, relatively powerful flavours that exude a fine minerality on the
serious, balanced and saline-inflected finish. This should be excellent
in time though note that patience will be required. |
2012 |
£88.00 |
AM92
2020-35
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12 |
75cl
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Beaune Gréves
'Vigne de L'Enfant Jesus'
1er Cru
Domaine
Bouchard
AM -
Noticeable though not overt wood influence sets off a very ripe nose
composed of liqueur of plum, cassis and wild raspberry aromas. There
is excellent richness to the round and relatively powerful medium weight
flavours blessed with an abundance of dry extract that buffers the
otherwise very firm, long and serious finish. This is also notably
austere and extremely compact at present and as such it seems reasonably
clear that it will not be a good candidate for early drinking. |
2010 |
£108.00 |
AM93
2020-32
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DOMAINE CHANSON
Since 1999
Domaine Chanson has been owned by the BOLLINGER Champagne Group.
The domaine is managed by Gilles de Courcel; whose prime focus has
been quality at affordable prices.
Jean-Pierre Confuron, Chanson’s
Wine Maker, has been awarded
the title of
“Wine Grower of the Year 2014”
by the famous Magazine “La Revue du Vin de France”. |
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This Domaine has really improved since
2005 due to large-scale investment.
As yet, the market has not woken-up to this fact, so you pay for the wine
NOT the label.Great value -
please try them!
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18 |
75cl |
Beaune
'Bastion'
1er Cru
Chanson
Maison Chanson -
Bright ruby
colour. Aromas of red berries and liquorice mixed with spicy nuances and a
hint of vanilla. Well-balanced, well-structured and mellow. Delicate oak
note. Fine tannins. Persistent finish.
Rudy - I
highly recommend this wine as great value-for money! |
2009 |
£22.00 |
2015-21
This cuvée is a blend of grapes sourced from the best/ selected plots
among the Premiers Crus of the domaine located on the hill of Beaune.
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24 |
75cl |
Beaune
'Clos des Mouches'
1er Cru
Chanson
AM -
This is also overtly floral with soft spice elements adding breadth to
the pretty and fresh mix of red berry fruit scents. There is a
refined mouth feel to the well-detailed and lively middle weight
flavours that possess very good mid-palate concentration before
culminating in a solidly powerful but balanced finish that is clean and
refreshing. This will certainly need a few years of bottle age but
should drink well after only 5 or 6 years if desired. |
2012 |
£35.00 |
AM91
2020-30 |
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37 |
75cl |
Beaune
'Clos des Mouches'
1er Cru
Chanson
AM -
Mild reduction hides the
nuance of the fruit but not the fact that it's quite ripe. This
ripeness extends to the rich, refined and mineral-driven middle weight
flavours that possess a relatively delicate mouth feel and excellent
length.
This is a wine of finesse, which is rare in 2009. |
2009 |
£39.00 |
AM92
2013-25 |
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15 |
75cl |
Nuits St Georges
'Les Chaines Careteaux'
1er Cru
ChansonNO
Review for this wine at present, but this is what RP had to say for the
NSG Village wine; so this wine will be a lot better!!
RP -
The 2012 Nuits Saint Georges
comes from 3.5 hectares of vine in the southern sector of under Les
Pruliers and Les Vaucrains. There is a sense of purity, playfulness and
joie-de-vivre on the nose that is very engaging, while the palate is
rounded and generous with structured red and black, quite masculine
fruit. This is a very decent village cru from Chanson. |
2012 |
£35.00 |
2017-28 |
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21 |
75cl |
Gevrey Chambertin
Chanson
AM -
I like the complexity of the menthol and floral suffused nose that also
displays fresh and ripe red and dark currant aromas. There is good
vibrancy and intensity to the mineral-inflected medium weight flavours
that contrast a supple mid-palate against a firm and mildly austere
finish and overall, this is very Gevrey in basic character. |
2012 |
£32.00 |
AM89
2018-28 |
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21 |
75cl |
Gevrey Chambertin
Chanson
AM -
Here the agreeably fresh
nose offers a notable step up in aromatic complexity with pretty aromas of
red, blue and black pinot fruit along with the expected notes of earth and
underbrush. There is plenty of tannin-buffering dry extract that
imparts a succulent character to the lightly mineral-inflected flavours
that display excellent persistence.
A quality villages. |
2010 |
£35.00 |
AM90
2015-24 |
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6 |
75cl |
Charmes Chambertin
Grand Cru
Chanson
Jancis Robinson/JH -
Cask sample. Mid crimson. Dusty and slightly meaty notes adding
complexity to the fruit, which quickly becomes more fragrant in the
glass. Savoury and fine-boned on the palate. There’s plenty of
succulent fresh fruit, all contained in an upright structure.
Not in the least flashy – or fleshy. Super-precise. |
2015 |
£275.00 |
JH18/20
2025-40 |
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10 |
75cl |
Charmes Chambertin
Grand Cru
Chanson
AM -
An elegant array blends both upper and lower register aromas of airy red
and dark berry fruit with distinct earth, humus and underbrush scents.
There is a relatively refined mouth feel to the suave and seductively
textured middle weight plus flavours that are opulent and concentrated
before terminating in a well-balanced and serious finish that displays
outstanding depth and length. This firmly structured effort will
need plenty of cellar time to arrive at its majority. |
2012 |
£150.00 |
AM94
2020-35 |
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9 |
75cl |
Charmes Chambertin
Grand Cru
Chanson
AM -
A very floral nose also
displays notes of earth, animale, red berries and a vegetal character that
adds depth. The rich, fresh and solidly well-concentrated big-bodied
flavours exude subtle spice notes on the complex and seriously long finish
where the stems are in clear evidence.
This is really very good but the presence of the stems is obvious and thus
this will not be for everyone. |
2009 |
£150.00 |
AM93
2015-27 |
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6 |
75cl |
Chambertin
'Clos des Beze'
Grand Cru
Chanson
Jancis Robinson/JH -
Cask sample. Mid dark crimson. Sweet oak spice
entwined with really ripe cherry fruit. Dark, dry finesse on the palate.
Extremely elegant but all hidden at the moment. Plenty of freshness like
a seam through the dark, dry youthful reticence. |
2015 |
£275.00 |
JH18/20
2025-40 |
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12 |
75cl |
Chambertin
'Clos des Beze'
Grand Cru
Chanson
AM -
A highly spiced nose offers up notes of very fresh and ripe black
cherry, cassis, earth and soft floral nuances. In the same vein as the
Charmes there is a relatively elegant mouth feel but in this case there
is both more volume as well as more evident minerality to the overtly
powerful but velvety big-bodied flavours that are backward, intense and
wonderfully long. |
2012 |
£150.00 |
AM95
2022-40 |
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12 |
75cl |
Vosne Romanee
''Les Suchots'
1er Cru
ChansonThis
wine has not been reviewed yet. |
2015 |
£125.00 |
2020-35 |
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DROUHIN, Joseph
Top Beaune negociant with a clear house style:
finesse and elegance, yet classy with plenty of richness and
flavour |
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75cl |
Chambolle
Musigny
1er Cru
J. Drouhin
RP/DS -
Drouhin’s 2008 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru boasts ripe, fresh cherry and
strawberry tinged with cinnamon and smoky black tea, suggestions of leather
and forest floor becoming more prominent as part of a satisfyingly long,
spicy, sweetly-fruited finish. I would anticipate at least 7-9 years of
interest here, but there looks to be no risk in enjoying some young, too.
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2008 |
£32.00 |
RP/DS90
2012-20
BIN-END Price
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DOMAINE FREDERIC ESMONIN
An excellent Gevrey
domaine, specialising |
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75cl |
Gevrey Chambertin
'Les Champonnets'
1er Cru
Frederic Esmonin
RUDY - This wine has not been
reviewed yet, but represents a good value introduction to quality Gevrey
Chambertin. |
2014 |
£36.00 |
2018-28 |
| 2 |
75cl |
Mazy-Chambertin
Grand Cru
Frederic Esmonin
AM -
A tight and restrained nose
grudgingly liberates notes of the sauvage, various dark berry scents and
plenty of earth and underbrush wisps. The focused, intense and muscular
medium weight flavours possess notably more size and weight though this is
by no means massive, all wrapped in a lingering, balanced and solidly
complex finale. This too should benefit significantly from at least 6 to
8 years of bottle age while being capable of rewarding 12 to 15. |
2014 |
£72.00 |
AM92
2020-35
BIN-END Price
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75cl |
Ruchottes-Chambertin
Grand Cru
Frederic Esmonin
AM -
This is also noticeably
restrained with its cool nose of truffle, spice, plum and earth, all of
which is trimmed in a deft touch of wood. There is both good volume and
intensity to the even more mineral-driven middle weight flavours that
possess a lovely sense of underlying tension before terminating in a dusty
and long if not quite as well-balanced finale due to a touch of dryness that
I ascribe to the recent bottling.
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2014 |
£69.00 |
AM91
2020-35
BIN-END Price
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JADOT, Louis
Top Beaune negociant with very good Domaine holdings. Wines are very classic with lots of body and excellent structure. |
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75cl |
Chambolle Musigny
'Les Baudes'
1er Cru
Jadot
AM -
Like the Fuées, this is
highly perfumed and very Chambolle with its restrained, complex and
ultra-pure nose of red pinot fruit but here there is a more evident taut
muscularity to the delineated, intense and equally pure medium-bodied
flavours that possess excellent energy as well as a mineral-streak that runs
to the serious, dusty and driving finish. I quite like this and the
balance and concentration should permit it to age well for at least a decade
and last several more. Impressive. |
2009 |
£64.00 |
AM93
2015-35TOP Vintage
BIN-END Price
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37.5cl |
Gevrey
Chambertin
'Clos St Jacques'
1er Cru
Jadot
AM -
Here there is a bit more wood with the associated
traces of menthol that surround the elegant floral and like the
Estournelles, airy essence of red berry fruit liqueur and spice suffused
aromas. There is a sophisticated mouth feel to the appealingly textured,
intense and focused middle weight flavours that also display plenty of
minerality that serves to add lift to the structured, serious and strikingly
long finish. This is indisputably terrific though interestingly it
doesn't seem to have quite as much separation between it and the other
Gevrey 1ers in the range as I typically find chez Jadot. Still, this should
be a really lovely effort though note well that this is a CSJ for the
patient.
Half-Bottles |
2013 |
£62.00 |
AM94
2018-30 |
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DOMAINE MONGEARD-MUGNERET
A good domaine; wines are fairly
priced and well made - so representing good value for money. |
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75cl |
Fixin
Vieilles Vignes
Mongeard-Mugneret
AM -
While there is ample wood and menthol influence here
as well, the more floral-inflected nose possesses slightly fresher fruit.
There is both more volume and a bit more energy as well to the firm but
sleek middle weight flavours that also display a touch of youthful
austerity on the longer and more complex finale. |
2015 |
£27.00 |
AM90
2018-28 |
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