Lovely expressive nose, almonds, white flowers. Taste creamy, sweet, lots of verve, fullbodied. Limited complexity in the taste, on the basis of my experience with older Venus bottles I think this just needs more time in bottle.

Wine of the night. Typical slightly minty nose, very broad, floral, gorgeous. Taste also wonderful, crisp acidity, sweetness, layers of fruit and enormous length of many minutes. This is what Montrachet is. Later on the wine developed lovely buttery Meursault like tones further broadening the palate. Drinking and smelling this wine is a journey.

Mineral, citric nose, very deep, a bit salty. Later on more stone fruit. Taste lots of concentration, at first a bit tight showing mostly minerals, in time it opens up showing multi-dimensional tones. Very fresh and clear wine, typical perrieres.

Directly after opening this was so closed in nose, giving almost nothing, like smelling water. Taste is different, very fresh, lots of volume, citrus, minerals, crisp acidic backbone. In time nose and taste open showing the enormous potential of this wine: beautiful stone fruit, apple, orange. Very good corton charlemagne!

Impressive red fruit, velvety, lovely spices, round soft tannins in the back. Absolutely wonderful Vosne. Seductive pinot from Maxim.

Lovely Ruchottes, aromatically red fruit nose with spices and herbs. Taste red fruit, very pure wine, cool and mineral, great structure, clearly grand cru. Round integrated tannins. The mouthfeel with a long finish is what makes this wine very special. Classy, sophisticated.

Fruity red fruit nose and taste. Lots of material and concentration, good backbone, spicy, very well made Volnay. This is very approachable at the moment, but will further develop in time in bottle. Amazing how this Volnay was on the same level as the two 2016 Clos Vougeot’s we were drinking.

Lovely red fruit in nose and taste, good structured body with great mouthfeel, still young but showing huge potential.

Rich red fruited wine, spicy, slight sweetness, drinking already very well at this moment, good body and length. Excellent Clos Vougeot, I wonder how this will develop in future.

Directly after opening a big brooding wine with still quite some tannins. After contact with air the wine smoothed out. Lovely Vosne spices, balanced dark fruit, great body and length. This is the best Suchots there is and this 2009 version is excellent now.

Drank next to the 2009 Arnoux Suchots. Lots of similarities, however this is less spicier, but more mineral. Dark fruit, very good body and length.

This was a difficult wine. Completely wound up after opening. Decanted for three hours, after this it became more accessible but still very tight. Lots of extract, great acidity, but also lots of wood tones. Needs time to integrate.

Very elegant wine, melon, white flowers, sweetness and acidity that are completely in balance. Great pairing with dessert.

Nose of red fruit, dried red fruit and rose leavelets. Taste red fruit, balanced acidity and nice oxidative tones. Pleasant way to end an evening filled with beautiful wines.