Expansive nose of black cherry and red fruit with plenty of toasty oak. Bold and generous palate for a Grand Cru from the 2016 vintage. Keeps pumping out the red fruit at the elegant and slightly toasty finish. Drink or hold.

Laurène, named for Veronique Drouhin’s daughter, leads with notes of sassafras and smoke before revealing a plummy core of cherry flavor. It’s lifted, the fruit guided on burnished tannins, the finish elegant and a bit...

Bursting with ripe, succulent cherry, licorice, smoke and spice flavors, this is marked by oak now yet has the requisite fruit underneath. Comes together on the finish, where the black cherry fruit, oak spice element and...