(95-100) As mentioned in the introduction, there are seven separate parcellaire cuvées of Musigny which will be blended. We tried four of them, representing different sectors. Les Petits Musigny (north): An even purple...

Silky and ethereal, the village Chambolle from Domaine Arlaud is a charming wine, presenting aromas of red and black fruit, earth, spice, and smoke. It is assembled from a hectare of vines from several lieux-dits below...

The tannins are linear and direct in this otherwise fruity wine. Along with dark tannins, it is also rich with warm red fruits. The acidity still shows strongly and suggests that the wine needs time. Drink from 2020...

This perfumed version features aromas and flavors of rose, wild strawberry, cherry, green olive, sandalwood, oak spice and incense. Offering a yin-yang of airiness and structure, this is linear, verging on racy. The silky...

This intense, serious wine still has enough elegance to ensure that this will open with time and blossom into something truly profound. There are aromas of ripe cherry, fresh flowers, and spice on the nose, and a firm...

The 2017 Chambolle-Musigny Vieilles Vignes has an attractive nose of brambly red fruit mixed with freshly tilled earth and light minty aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, brown spices infusing the red...

Exhibiting rose, cherry, wild strawberry, sandalwood and oak spice flavors, this tangy, fragrant red tightens up as it builds to the long, mineral-tinged finish, with refined tannins. Sleek and intense. Best from 2027...

Wild cherry, currant, hibiscus, sandalwood, mineral and oak spice aromas and flavors signal this supple, graceful red, which is well-delineated, complex and compelling. Shows terrific harmony and length. Best from 2028...

The de Vogüé Bonnes Mares comes from a sizeable 2.7ha on red clay soils and is always the most structured and ‘masculine’ of the domaine's wines. It's dark and intense, with violet and blueberry scents, a plush...

A ripe red, with macerated cherry, black currant, sandalwood, vanilla and stone flavors carried by a vibrant structure. Linear and fused to finely grained tannins as it lingers on the spice- and mineral-tinged finish...

This great Bonnes Mares starts cool and restrained, but expands rapidly as it moves over the palate, with delicate, spicy almond and cream character. Mouth-filling and generous yet subtle and light-footed, this is at the...

An unusually firm and structured wine that breaks the mold for this village, usually associated with finesse and delicacy. Deep forest-berry aromas, but also savory and earthy notes. Imposing body that’s brimming with...

Benoît Stehly's 0.24ha block is on the Chambolle side of the grand cru - as nearly everyone's is - but he says the iron-rich red soils have more in common with Morey-St-Denis. Fermented with 30% whole bunches, this is...

(92-95 points) A fine mid purple of medium intensity. The nose has a class that brings one back towards Vosne-Romanee. Alpine strawberries and similarly fine boned raspberries. In the mouth the proximity to Musigny is...

(93-97 points) Fine full mid purple. Gorgeous rich fruit leavened by some whole bunch effect. Dark raspberry fruit. Spicy notes, and not picked too late. The fruit swells beautifully on the palate, though still in the...

(94-97 points) 50% whole bunch vinification and 60% new wood. A denser purple here, an explosion of ripe wild dark fruits, a little chocolate note, dark fruit all the way through, just enough acidity, certainly long and...

(95 - 97 points) There's an almost unprecedented 400 bottles of Faiveley's 2018 Musigny Grand Cru this year, a tiny cuvée that was vinified with 50% whole cluster. Soaring from the glass with a profound bouquet of...