Cellar Selection. Toasty aromas are not enough to smother the intense, rich and concentrated fruitiness of this powerful wine. Structured and with a firm backbone, it is slow in developing. its brooding dark character still very obvious. However, the fruit is all there, waiting to release the burst of red-berry flavors. Drink from 2022.

The 2013 Clos Vougeot from Domaine Méo-Camuzet is also quite black fruity in personality this year, but this may well be the finest young example of this grand cru that I have ever had the pleasure to taste in the cellars here, with the style of the wine again harkening back to the very strong 1993 version, but at even a higher quality level in 2013. The superb nose jumps from the glass in a serious blend of black cherries, sweet dark berries, cocoa, a touch of black raspberry, gamebird, a very complex base of soil tones, spicy oak and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and strikingly transparent, with a rock solid core, great focus and balance, ripe, perfectly-integrated acids and stunning length and grip on the tangy finish. This is stellar Clos Vougeot. (Drink between 2025-2075)

(BH91-93 points) This is both more elegant and cooler than the Boudots with its restrained nose that is composed of assorted red berries, violets and discreet hints of wood spice. The palate is more refined than usual as the medium-bodied flavors glide across the palate though the dusty finish is quite tight and youthfully austere. This is a Clos de Vougeot of refinement but it can't match the underlying material or the complexity of the Boudots.

Pure, featuring rose, cherry, strawberry and mineral aromas and flavors. Though light-weight, this is concentrated, lingering with an aftertaste of cherry and stone. Just on the austere side now. Best from 2019 through 2033. — B.S.