This cuvée doen’t usually start singing until it reaches it’s 15th birthday - the beautiful 1985 is still right in the middle of it’s drinking window. Time to open the lonely six-pack for a status report… 1995 Domaine Dujac, Morey St.Denis Medium-pale ruby-red. The nose is heavy with the musky scent of strawberry, raspberry and the smoky stems - it’s a beauty. The palate has a soft entry...

Tomorrow will kick-off the first of about 8 days of concentrated tasting; I start with a dinner with 12 super wines - all from magnum - then Tuesday will see a large Pommard tasting, Thursday and Friday I have visits at a number of domaines. Saturday sees yet-more 2004’s. I won’t have time to write up all the notes before the next report - but c’est la vie! 2001 Laurent Ponsot, Morey St.Denis...

... started our day in Fixin, had a short visit in Gevrey, moved to Morey for lunch, then there was Nuits ... by in front of the Boulangerie/Cafe in the centre of Morey - it’s where many of the locals eat at 6...

2004 Hubert Lignier, Morey St.Denis Medium, medium-plus colour still with some cherry-red colour. Deep aromatics, with dense darker cherry fruit thats not perfectly fine but has a lovely faint mocha halo. Mouth-filling, well balanced acidity and tannin that comes through on the mid-palate but has already faded before the finish. Actually the finish is rather...

Another Lignier, this time more differentiated by it’s label. I also see there’s a new website from this team. 2005 Lucie et Auguste Lignier, Morey St.Denis Deep cherry-red colour, almost a little purple. Wide aromatics with slight white-pepper spice over a deeper but reticent black cherry. Excellent intensity of black cherry fruit, super acidity to balance...

“You can please all the people, or you can make great wine” Eric Asimov Whilst that quote was in a quite different context, it could easily be applied to Domaine Ponsot; Laurent Ponsot likes to stretch the boundaries of what can be bottled to the extent that, despite the lofty ...

Virgile Lignier is the third generation of his family to work the vines of Morey St.Denis. He started to work with his father in 1988 at which time all the wine was sold in barrel to the négoce. Virgile says that his father, Maurice, was a good winemaker so he convinced him...

It was one of those relatively rare hot days in May 2008 when I visited Domaine des Lambrays. Although it is not the only vineyard represented in the cellar, the domaine takes its name from their 99% ownership of the Clos des Lambrays; a large, walled, grand cru vineyard - ...

Domaine David Clark is a relative baby, its birth was in 2004 when David saw an advertisement for two-thirds of an acre of vines - which he promptly bought. If the purchase was quick and opportunistic, the preparation was much more considered. David was born in Indianapolis of Scottish parents ...

2003 Lignier-Michelot, Morey St.Denis Vieilles Vignes Medium-plus colour. The nose is forward, maybe a hint porty and certainly very ripe but generally the fruit talks of pinot. Ripe, plenty of concentration and very well mannered tannin. The understated acidity provides good balance and just enough freshness. It’s riper than I prefer...