Simple, bright and clean. The nose showed little notes of cream, white fruit and mineral. On the palate, too was rather too light for a Meursault, with more citrusy notes speared through a linear mouthful of white fruit and chalky mineral. Short finish. Simple, bright and energetic, but this was decent rather than great.

Still fairly youthful for something past it’s 20th year, but this was very good. I liked the nose, with its wafts of dark berries, sweet black cherries and wood spice backed against a more savoury base of earth and meat, ferrous mineral and olive tapenade. The palate had a nice backbone of fine, firm tannins and bright acidity framing a solid mouthful of dark berry fruit, again lined with ferrous, gravelly mineral and olive tapenade, all this leading into a spicy, slightly earthy finish. Very solid and nicely energetic and lively, with a nice transparency and purity to the fruit, yet with enough structure to suggest it can age gracefully over the next decade or more. A good, solid wine.

A touch rich and modern, but this was well-made. The nose had a nice lift of dark cherries, berries and violets, along with an undermining of ferrous mineral and some new oak. Very sweet and perfumed. The palate was extremely primary, even after a couple of hours in the decanter, with ripe flavours of dark cherries and berries, dried earth and mineral, along with a blast of juicy citrus acidity and some wood tannins. A touch too woody and drying at the finish, otherwise a pleasing enough wine with quite a bit of charm. Will get a lot better over the next decade or more.