(89-92 points) It's possible to appreciate the proximity of this vineyard to Vosne as it's quite spicy yet the sauvage and underbrush characters of a fine Nuits are in evidence too on the mostly dark berry fruit aromas. The sleek, intense and lightly stony flavors are even more tautly muscular while offering the same fine depth and length on the tightly wound finale. This too is a terrific and ageworthy villages.

(89-91 points) Bright ruby-red. High-pitched scents of blueberry, blackberry and violet. Quite dark and mineral-driven, conveying lovely purity and energy (the yield here was just 14 hectoliters per hectare, according to Confuron). Very intensely flavored, minerally wine with a broad, spreading finish featuring dusty, fully ripe tannins and lingering black fruits and violet. -- Stephen Tanzer