Côte de Nuits 2018

Beautiful cherry fruit. Delicate, fresh, lovely purity and also plenty of juicy berries on the finish. Very saline and defined.

This monopole in the heart of Vosne is now undoubtedly back where it should be: among the appellation’s very finest wines. The vines average 50 years old thinks Nicole. Spicy and elegant, finesse yet power on the nose. It grows, with citrus fruit, cinnamon spice, pomegranate, grapefruit and fresh almonds. Such salinity on the palate, very fine and juicy, with unfurling notes of cherry, darker fruit, and spice. Complexity, volume, and length.

Nicole always shows this after the Vosne premiers crus at the estate, such is its power and intensity. This is textured and grippy, with lovely savoury top notes, and just a hint of iron oxide on the finish.

From a parcel in Concoer-et-Courboin, just up the hill from Vosne. This is fresh, savoury, with wild flowers and plenty of fresh berry fruit. A beautiful Hautes-Côtes.

Almost a marzipan cherry character on the nose: like a refined cherry bakewell! Lovely fruit, so pure and almost blood orange on the finish. Focus and finesse, intensity in the core, delicacy and purity on the palate. Brilliant.

Drawn from three plots across the grand cru. Nice nose, more closed but there’s an opulence and depth here, with soaring spice and plenty of vibrancy, too. A lot of intensity in the palate. Such volume and focus, with such beautiful tannins.

Les Suchots is one of Burgundy’s most prized terroirs. Wonderful, soaring fruit, with citrus, a touch of opulence, but also plenty of restraint here. Suchots could have been overblown in 2018, but it’s been brilliantly managed by Nicole.