From vines planted in the 1950s, the 2015 Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Les Lavières is a one of the highlights of the range this year, wafting from the glass with a fragrant and projected bouquet of orange rind, potpourri, plum, raspberry and incipient forest floor. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, velvety and sapid, with a rich attack, succulent acids, an ample chassis of fine-grained tannins and a long, saline finish. A superb Lavières that has yet to shut down. -William Kelley

Discreet wood and menthol notes frame the very ripe aromas of cassis, violet, earth and spice. There is once again excellent richness, volume and sappy dry extract to the middle weight plus flavors that exude a subtle minerality on the refined and impressively long finish. This is certainly quite ripe but there is good tension and this should amply repay extended cellaring.

(90-92+) The 2015 les Lavières included forty percent whole clusters and this too is a ripe, but seemingly nicely soil-driven wine at the same time. Again, it is just not totally in focus after its racking. The bouquet is youthful, ripe and quite deep, offering up scents of black cherries, venison, a hint of currant, stony soil tones, smoke, a bit of chalk dust and a floral topnote redolent of both violets and an exotic touch of lavender. On the palate the wine is deep and plush, with its full-bodied format offering up plenty of mid-palate stuffing, suave tannins and lovely length and grip on the finish. If this wine snaps into focus (which I would fully expect once it has recovered), it will be lovely. (Drink between 2021-2055)