(92-95 points) An ultra-fresh and attractively spicy nose blends the essence of red cherry and raspberry with those of earth and floral wisps. The cool, intense and almost crisp middleweight flavors possess terrific...

A well-spiced and broad-based nose freely offers up notes of forest floor, red and dark currant and evident sauvage character. The tautly muscular and vibrant medium-bodied flavors exude a subtle minerality while offering...

Ripe strawberries, fresh flowers and baking spices on the nose. Lots of fruit in this full-bodied wine, but also tannins that provide frame and form. Juicy and flavorful. Hard not to drink now, but it will age...

Moderate wood surrounds the brooding liqueur-like aromas of red and dark currant, plum and a whiff of the sauvage. However, unlike the prior wines the wood can also be found on the mid-palate of the round, succulent and...

This has an attractive nose of wild raspberries, red currants, flowers, nutmeg and a hint of cinnamon stick. Excellent flavor concentration on the palate with rich fruit and spices combined with very fine and precise...

The 2021 Clos de Tart Grand Cru was bottled in July 2023. It has much more intensity than the La Forge, though there remains a bit of new oak to be subsumed at the moment. The medium-bodied palate has fine depth and...

Here too there is just enough wood surrounding the pretty aromas of red currant, cherry and violet to merit mentioning. Once again, the middle weight flavors aren't especially dense but they are attractively, even...

A restrained, spicy and broad-ranging liqueur-like nose features a plenitude of spice elements on the ripe, fresh and layered nose of both red and dark currant, earth and a whiff of the sauvage. Once again there is a...

With a heart of stone, this red features black cherry, blackberry, black currant and violet flavors framed by mint and oak spice notes. Densely wound and feels a bit chunky and compact today yet remains long, echoing the...

(90-93 points) Notes of dark berries, cherries, licorice, smoked meats and spices introduce the 2022 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru La Riotte, a medium to full-bodied, supple and sapid wine with a sweet core of fruit that's...

Cyprian Arlaud farms a hectare of vines in the Morey-Saint-Denis heartland of En Seurvrées (near the Gevrey border) and the Clos Solon on the plain below the village in the heart of the village appellation. The old vines...

(92-95 points) Here too the nose is sufficiently reduced as to mask the fruit. On the palate though there is both good verve and freshness to the highly seductive and rich larger-scaled flavors that brim with sappy dry...

(92-94 points) Another charming, sensual wine from Arlaud, the 2021 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru delivers aromas of orange rind, rose petals, sweet spices and plums. Medium to full-bodied, supple and fleshy, with melting...

(92-94 points) The 2021 Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru is beautiful, bursting with aromas of red berries, orange zest, rose petals and smoke. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and seamless, it's vibrant, fleshy and perfumed...

(90-93 points) This is also very firmly reduced and unreadable today. The delicious and intense middle weight flavors that do possess an appealing mouthfeel despite not being particularly concentrated that continues onto...