This is another site that shares its name with a vineyard elsewhere—in this case, Corton’s Bressandes Grand Cru. Both sites are named after the historic landholder of these vineyards, Jean Bressand, a 13th-century Canon of Beaune. High on the slopes above Beaune, Beaune Bressandes isn’t too far from Corton either. Germain has mature vines here, planted between 1960 and 1965, in a parcel high on the slope, right next to David Croix’s vines. It’s the deepest wine in the range, yet remains true to the ‘new’ style here, being a tightly wound, sappy wine of great finesse. A fabulous example of Beaune.

A very high, cold, rocky, late-ripening site, Montrevenots is at the top of the hill on the Pommard boundary above Clos des Mouches. It’s a south-facing slope, which mitigates the altitude to some extent. The white clay and limestone soils tend to deliver bright, red fruit notes, raciness and fine, powdery structure. It’s a tiny cuvée at this stage, cropped from just one-tenth of the domaine’s 1.4 hectares. This is because Jobard is replanting most of this site with mass-selection cuttings. Joabrd’s parcel was historically known as the Clos des Montrevenots. The vines that produced the wine are 45 years old and, again, all the bunches were destemmed and given a one-week cold soak before fermentation. There was very little new oak, and the wine was bottled after 12 months on lees. It’s a wonderfully sexy, flowing Beaune with crushed red and blue fruits and striking purity. A bargain!