(92-94 points) The 2018 Savigny-lès-Beaune Aux Gravains 1er Cru comes from virtually marn soils and is matured in 50% new oak. It has superb clarity on the nose, featuring precise morello cherry and crushed strawberry fruit laced with crushed stone. The palate is supple on the entry, fleshy and generous; then the structure makes its presence felt toward the finish and tightly grips the mouth. Residues of crushed limestone on the aftertaste. This is an excellent Savigny. -- Neal Martin

The 2018 Camus-Bruchon Gravains is also a lovely wine in the making, with its nose quite expressive at the time of my visit, but the palate still a bit reserved and hunkered down. The bouquet delivers plenty of refinement in its blend of black cherries, sweet dark berries, gamebird, dark soil tones, woodsmoke, a nice touch of balsam bough, cedar and the village’s signature spice elements in the upper register. On the palate there is plenty of fruit down at the core and lovely soil signature, but this full-bodied wine is structured out of the blocks and will need a good decade to blossom. The tannins here are ripe and beautifully integrated, the wine shows lovely focus and balance and plenty of grip on the very long finish. This will be excellent in the fullness of time.