2023, Domaine Bruno Clavelier, VOSNE-ROMANÉE, 'La Combe Brulée'Toasty reduction dominates the fruit though there is by contrast very good intensity and freshness to the slightly bigger, though still not particularly dense, flavours that flash equally good minerality on the youthfully austere finish that could also use better depth. 87 90 Burghound. Planted with 85 year old vines on calcaire Chailles geology. Luminous ruby purple. Here the quality comes at the back of the palate. The fruit is a bit more austere up

some herbaceous and inviting fruitiness

Gloriously jewel-like in colour

overseen by Ets Moueix

before moving to concrete tanks for four months

97 Georgina Hindle

all very seductive

chocolate box and cracked black pepper

leading to hints of forest floor and pencil shavings with a hint of soil

made entirely from Savagnin

While the 2018 vintage got plenty of buzz

New bottle shape also since the (excellent quality) 2019 vintage

sensual Saint-Émilion