As is typically the case this is slightly riper and more deeply pitched with its more complex collection of dark berries, game, warm earth and lilac nuances. The sleek, intense and tautly muscular medium weight flavors that possess excellent mid-palate density thanks to the copious amounts of dry extract, all wrapped in a vibrant mineral-driven and powerful finish. This impressive effort is clearly built-to-age and is going to need it. In a word, excellent.

Score: 91-94 Allen Meadow (AM), Bourghound (BH), April 2017

(these 94-year-old vines are the domain´s oldest; from a yield of 20 hectoliters per hectare, according to Frédéric Lafarge): Medium red. Youthfully brooding aromas of medicinal red cherry, spices and menthol. Rich, tactile and savory, offering a captivating combination of fruits, spices and soil without any leathery rusticity. Boasts lovely racy lift for such a ripe wine and finishes with rising, palate-saturating length. The tannins here are riper than those of the Aigrots. Should make an exceptional Beaune wine. One-quarter of these vines were finished off by hail damage in 2013 and 2014 and were pulled up after the 2014 harvest for replanting in 2017.

Score: 91-93 Stephen Tanzer (ST), Vinous Media (VM), January 2017