2022  Les Creusottes

Les Creusottes ---- "A discreet application of wood can be found on the fresh, spicy and green apple-inflected nose. There is good energy to the delicious and attractively textured, though not especially dense, middleweight flavors that deliver acceptable length on the clean and dry if somewhat simple finish. To enjoy upon release." - Burghound

2022  Cote de Nuits Villages

"From three sites of vines purchased in 1930: Les Plantes du Bois, La Dominode and La Julbigne. Average vine age >70 years. 30% whole clusters, 40% new oak. Cask sample. Mid ruby. Wild strawberry and forest fruits, and just a touch denser than Les Esssards. Richness on the palate and fine tannins to fill out the back palate. Good wine, really inviting and endearing." - 16.5/20 Jancis

2022  Nuits-St-Georges

"Airy and overtly floral-suffused aromas of spiced red cherry are surrounded by more subtle oak influence. The sleek, supple and rounded middleweight flavors possess a more sophisticated mouthfeel that carries over to the graceful if youthfully austere finish where the wood telegraphed by the nose resurfaces. There is very good richness and volume and overall, this is also a very fine Nuits villages that should age gracefully." - "Top Value", Burghound

2022  Nuits-St-Georges

"Airy and overtly floral-suffused aromas of spiced red cherry are surrounded by more subtle oak influence. The sleek, supple and rounded middleweight flavors possess a more sophisticated mouthfeel that carries over to the graceful if youthfully austere finish where the wood telegraphed by the nose resurfaces. There is very good richness and volume and overall, this is also a very fine Nuits villages that should age gracefully." - "Top Value", Burghound

2022  Villages

"A much more floral-suffused nose speaks of wild red currant, spice and more subtle hints of earth and the sauvage. There is a lovely sense of underlying tension to the rich and suave medium-bodied flavors that retain good detail on the mildly austere and rustic finale." - Burghound

2022  

"Half new wood and 40% whole bunch. Bright ruby purple. Little bouquet as yet, and the samples are cold. At the moment the density of the wine shows more than the subtlety, though I think that the detail is certainly there. More in red fruit than black. This may just be at too early a stage and there could be further upside to the Echezeaux. Drink from 2032-2038. Tasted: November 2023." - 92-95pts Jasper Morris MW

2022  Cote de Nuits Villages

"50-year-old vines planted in 1972. First vintage as a single cuvée in 2021. 30% whole bunch, 40% new oak. Cask sample. Mid ruby. A touch closed on the nose. Sweet compact fruit and all very balanced. Lovely, sweet but refined tannins enveloping evidently rich, rounded fruits on the palate. Charming and just veering towards hedonistic." - 16.5/20 Jancis

2022  

"From four parcels of vines and a total of 1.4 ha (3.5 acres): Les Chambrées, Les Fleurières, Les Longecourts and Les Charbonnières. All on red, iron-rich clay. 40% whole clusters, 60% new oak. Cask sample. Dark ruby. Slightly inky nose with strawberry and a touch of cassis. A touch of gas from the fermentation, which will soon dissipate, and a quite fizzing acidity. Lots of spice and savoury character. Tannins well integrated." - 16.5/20 Jancis

2022  Bourgogne Rouge

Bourgogne Rouge ---- "A fresh and distinctly earthy dark berry fruit nose is trimmed in just enough wood to notice. The succulent and velvet-textured middleweight flavors possess fine concentration while delivering better than average depth and persistence on the balanced finale. A quality Bourgogne." - "Top Value", Burghound

2019  

The fame of Pommard in the 19th century earned it the image of a wine that is both forceful and virile. In reality, time, terroir and methods of vinification of Domaine GERMAIN have all combined to create a more subtle reality, a wine that is both richer and more sensitive. Its colour is the deep, dark red with mauve highlights. Its aromas are redolent of blackberry, bilberry, or gooseberry, cherry pit and ripe plum. Often, wild and feline notes develop with age. At full maturity, it tends towards leather, chocolate and pepper. It needs to be given time to open up to its fullest extent and to display its mouth-filling texture, its firm but delicate structure, its fruit-filled mouth, and its chewy tannins, which by then will be properly smoothed down.

2013  

2012  Nuits-Saint-Georges

Nuits-Saint-Georges