Light, fresh lemon and mineral, low dosage. Excellent and youthful.

Light yellow. Light weight, moderately sweet. Golden apple, slate, and very good acidity.

Pale color, fading edge. Cool menthol aromas. Light weight, soft red fruits and soil with very good underpinning of acidity and a bit of Gamay tanginess. Resolved and very pretty.

Light red. Ripe fruit aromas without any green notes. Impressive concentration of sappy blackberry, dark red fruit, and licorice with significant remaining tannic clout. A big cru with serious depth and structure that is not yet at peak. More a wine of the vintage than the Fleurie was.

Ruby center, fading rim. Funk and fennel on the nose along with whole cluster scents. Medium weight. Very solid blue and black fruit, some brambliness, excellent acidity, lots of earth, and moderately grippy tannins. Just enough of a hint of wildness to give it more interest. Excellent now but not yet mature. Another 5 to 8 years?

Half bottle. Deep amber. Honeyed aromas. Very sweet fruit in the dried fig register. Unctuous but a little dull due to average acidity. Good length but the finish is not harmonious.

Half bottle. Tasted next to the Bischofsberg BA from the same year. Amber color with a glint of orange. Again, honeyed aromas with some high toned botrytis. Similar degree of sweetness and fig fruit as the other wine, but here there was some orange peel and better acidity which made it feel livelier. Delicious and probably immortal.