Beautiful wine; focused and elegant with bright citrus and pear fruit at the core, and layers of hazelnut, smoke, mint/other herbal notes, and chalky minerality emerging with more air to add complexity around the ripe fruit. There's impeccable balance here with plenty of acidity keeping it very light on its feet, and an impressively long finish.

An incredible showing, one of the best I can remember for this wine. I cannot imagine it getting much better. There's intense red fruit, peach, red apple, and tarter citrus fruit flavours accented with lemon cream, smoke, and an intense stony minerality beneath. It comes across just off dry, with the now moderate sweetness buffered by the powerful '01 acidity, and there's amazing length to the finish.

Intensely bright and exotic in its flavour profile, though also very large scaled - this will definitely need some years in the cellar to calm down, as it's all about youthful richness right now. It's packed with ripe orchard fruit, and all sorts of bright floral notes - lilac, lavender, and other sweet scents, with a gentle minerality beneath. There's bright acidity underneath and impressive balance, but right now it's more about potential.

Not especially complex, but a fun wine with lots of bright red fruited flavours accented by vanilla cream and light biscuit/yeasty notes.

New producer for me - apparently this was the (former?) mayor of Chambolle. Lots of bright red fruit and some savoury earthiness here, but it also has a high toned, almost spirity note on the nose that makes me wonder about a bit of VA. It's better integrated with air, but overall suffered in comparison to the other red Burgs on the table.

Fantastic wine - powerful yet very elegant, with an intensely ripe, rich core of red and dark berried fruit augmented by more developed earthy, mushroom, leathery, and other savoury notes. It's certainly a big wine that seems rather large scaled when poured alongside the Jouan, but it has great balance with enough acidity to keep it focused, and a beautiful, silky texture with the tannins mostly resolved.

The aromatics here are absolutely stunning and quite evocative of some of those amazing Burgs I had from Truchot. Such an array of fragrances here, with gentle red fruits, spices, leather, bright floral notes, and more low toned earthiness all coming together into an amazing scent that's hard to move away from. The palate doesn't quite live up to the (admittedly very, very high) expectations from the aromatics - there's good complexity here, but it shows a bit of the vintage's astringency on the back end where there's still some grainy tannin apparent and some acidic tartness.

Very pretty - a lovely fragrance with lots of high toned spicy and floral notes, and more savoury/bass notes of earth and mushrooms framing a core of red fruit that's still very fresh and lively. Medium weight on the palate and drinking very nicely with the tannins mostly integrated, and a long, savoury finish.

Probably the most powerful and structured of all the red Burgs on the table - there's impressive intensity to the array of red and dark fruited flavours, earth, and the other rusty and leathery notes that emerge with more air. It doesn't show the same textural finesse of the other wines on the table with some noticeable grainy tannin on the finish, and I get the impression this still needs a bit more time, even though it's very enjoyable now after a decant.

The same bottle that Adrian posted a note on back in October, and Prof B. was kind enough to bring the remaining half bottle to dinner. All that air, shockingly enough, has not turned this into an acetaldehyde-laden mess of flaws. Very complex and layered, with figgy, raisiny fruit at the core, and layers of butterscotch, toffee, caramel, and more oxidative nutty notes adding depth. Certainly quite sweet, but also very well balanced with bright acids beneath that give it good lift.