Eden Rift Reserve Pinot Noir The Reserve Pinot Noir represents the winemaker’s hand-picked selection of Eden Rift estate’s ten standout barrels. The palate expresses dark fruits, earthy notes, cherry liqueur, chocolate and mineral notes. Layered flavours of bright blackberries, orange, and subtle tannin are framed with delicate underbrush notes and toasted wood.

The 2023 Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Vergelesses 1er Cru has an elegant bouquet of fresh black cherries and wild strawberry fruit, quite floral in style. The palate is medium-bodied with sapid black fruit. It is very well balanced and refined, with a long and pure finish that beckons you back for another sip. This is an outstanding Savigny from Leroux.

DOMAINE MICHELE & PATRICE RION Vielles Vignes, Chambolle-Musigny

La Fussière is the largest climat of Maranges (at the very south of the Côte de Beaune, next to Santenay), covering an area of almost 35 hectares. It faces south, directly towards the start of the Côte Chalonnaise, on a slope between 290 and 400 metres. Alongside a cracking red from these marly, crinoidal limestone soils, Bachelet-Monnot has long crafted an exceptionally pure and taut white Burgundy from a small parcel of 40-year-old vines occupying the vineyard's highest reaches. This site lost almost 70% of its crop due to the frost this year. Raised with 20% new oak, it’s a beautifully pitched, chalky white with crisp apple and white peach fruit, finishing with a tangy, citric snap.

Les Tuvilains joined the Domaine des Croix portfolio in the 2016 harvest, taking the tally of Beaune terroirs to 10 (including the village parcels). It’s in the southern part of Beaune on the lower slope, and Croix’s 0.36 hectares of very old vines are spread over two parcels planted in the 1930s. Destemmed and matured for 15 months (with 20% new oak), this is a denser expression of Beaune that reflects the clay soils of the terroir. By the way, Jasper Morris’s macabre description of the origins of the vineyard’s name in Inside Burgundy is worth a read. A great expression of a clay-rich terroir: dense and layered yet very polished.