Côte de Beaune 2021: New Releases

This Bourgogne Blanc is a winner: it comes from parcels across Santenay and St-Aubin, and lovely pure fruit on the mid-palate precedes a long, saline finish. It is full of nectarine, citrus and is so refreshing. Great value.

This tiny parcel is a family treasure, handed down to Bruno from his father - Michel Colin-Deléger. Only one 105 litre wine globe will be produced in 2021. It is so elegant and soulful with power, focus and finesse. Truly grand cru.

This premier cru shares borders with two grands crus: Le Montrachet and Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet. It takes its name from the white, chalky soils found here, and it delivers everything in the glass you might expect from such a superb position and soil-type. It has astonishing concentration, and is the most mineral and complex of the premiers crus in Bruno’s cellar. It’s a tiny parcel and low yields means it is made in very small volumes. Enthralling and supremely balanced.

Planted in 1979, this tiny plot near the border with St-Aubin has produced a fragrant, powerful wine in 2021. It is inviting and pretty on the nose with notes of exotic fruit. It has a fantastic, direct energy and ripeness of fruit balanced by wonderful freshness. The finish is impressively persistent, saline and fine.

This is the most linear and acid-driven of Bruno’s premiers crus, with a zingy core of nectarine-packed acidity running through the palate. It is tightly concentrated, with great depth of fruit and a delicious, refreshing, saline finish that goes on and on. Excellent.

This is a fantastic example of village Chassagne, with extremely expressive nectarine fruit character and a bright, energetic palate. It gets its intensity from the old vines (up to 66 years old in parts) from some nine parcels scattered across the village. A little touch of new oak gives it structure and support. Perfect.

En Remilly sits at the meeting point of three villages: Chassagne-Montrachet, Puligny-Montrachet, and St-Aubin. The larger part of it falls within St-Aubin, with the tiny part on the Chassagne side enjoying a superb position - next to Chevalier-Montrachet and just above Le Montrachet. At 300m altitude, with very little topsoil, Bruno’s two parcels (one of which touches Chevalier-Montrachet) make a superb and complex wine: intensely concentrated and energetic, with a precision you only find in Chardonnay grown on limestone.