An interesting nose consists of lemon-lime, petrol and spiced apple aromas. Once again there is a really lovely texture to the caressing and sappy medium weight flavors that exhibit a subtle minerality on the mildly austere and relatively dry finish. This is a very fine Meursault villages and worth a look.

Score: 89-91 Allen Meadow (AM), Bourghound (BH), June 2017

(Colin picked this fruit on the fourth day of the harvest, which he described as "possibly a bit late"): Strong white peach and nectarine aromas accented by anise and white pepper. More plump and sweet than most of the preceding wines from Chassagne and Puligny, and a bit warm in spite of the fact that its alcohol is not quite 13%. Nicely concentrated, and lifted by a peppery nuance (and some CO2), but doesn´t quite come alive today. Will this show more personality by the time it goes into bottle?

Score: 89-91 Stephen Tanzer (ST), Vinous Media (VM), September 2016

The 2015 Meursault Les Narvaux has an upfront, quite extroverted bouquet with marzipan and nutmeg-tinged citrus fruit, a little raucous but there is nothing wrong with that. The palate is well balanced with orange cordial and tangerine notes, nicely balanced, although I feel that the warmth of the growing season just shaved away a little definition on the finish.

Somebody had described Pierre-Yves Colin´s new winery on the outskirts of Chassagne-Montrachet as looking like a disco. I am not sure which discos this person has been to. Certainly I never frequented one installed with stainless steel vats and barrels, but hey, there is probably one out there somewhere. We went up to Pierre-Yves´ tasting room that enjoys a splendid vista over towards Chassagne to taste through the complete range, around half of the crus in bottle and half still in barrel (as indicated by those with banded scores). "We started the harvest on 1 September," he told me. "We planned 27 August when I saw the high temperature, but we wanted to wait for lower temperatures. We had a bit of rain on the Tuesday morning so we started with the Bourgogne Chardonnay, then started in Meursault. We picked everything by 8 or 9 September. In some terroir, it can be difficult in such a warm and dry season, which meant that sometimes there is less character in terms of mineralité. But they became more interesting after the rain at the beginning of September. Occasionally it could be challenging for the younger vines as well. The fruit was very clean with no rot at all, good ripeness but not crazily high, the highest around 13.4° alcohol. We don´t often have this quality of grapes—they were clean with good ripeness even in the lowliest of appellations. I never worried about the acidity and everything went through full malolactic. The Bourgogne and Saint Aubin were bottled in the second week of January [it used to be before the following harvest] and the others, Meursault, Chassagne-Montrachet later this spring. There is no lees-stirring." Pierre-Yves wines have been rightly praised in recent years. The only caveat is that they tend to be made in a more reductive style, so give them adequate time in a decanting to get the most from them. Whilst it is true that 2015 was not a favorable vintage for Burgundy whites, Pierre-Yves did a sterling job this year.

Score: 86-88 William Kelley (WK), The Wine Advocate (WA), April 2018