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Burgundy 2015 – L

Saturday 7 January 2017
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See this guide to our extensive coverage of Burgundy 2015. Our picture is of winemaker Eric Rémy of Domaine Leflaive, with his thoughtful provision of laptop elevator on top of the upturned barrel. 

Now that the wines have been sorted into groups by producer, you can sort the wines within those groups by score or appellation.


DOMAINE PIERRE LABET

Cask sample. Organic. Nose-clearing freshness of zesty citrus...

Cask sample. Organic. Much more creamy and less direct on the...

Cask sample. Organic. Darker and more savoury fruit character...

Cask sample. Organic. Mid cherry. A slight stemmy note here...

Cask sample. Organic. Mid crimson. Wonderfully pure and...

DOMAINE LABRUYÈRE 

Cask sample. Organic. Deep purple crimson. Lifted Gamay fruit –...

Cask sample. Organic. Deep purple-crimson. Peppery dark fruit...

Cask sample. Organic. Monopole.
Dark purple crimson. Fresher...

Cask sample. Organic. Inky purple crimson. Very ripe-fruited –...

DOMAINE MICHEL LAFARGE and DOMAINE LAFARGE VIAL 
Fantastic wines! Michel Lafarge compares 2015 to 1929.

Some of this is oak aged.
Very rich and alluring. Lovey stuff...

Restrained nose. Tense and yet with some richness of a cough...

Two special parcels under Santenots.
Savoury nose. Lots of...

Gravelly clay limestone. Lot of little pebbles.
Quite light nose...

Belair and, even higher, Cercillon – on pink granite. About 350...

Debut vintage from a vineyard bought after the 2014 harvest...

Below Poncié. 1.3 ha surrounded by woods, granite with lots of...

15% whole bunch and very small grapes but they had to be careful...

88-year-old vines on border of Meursault. Very gravelly and very...

Vinified in the old ways on wicker etc and to be sold only in...

Between the RN74 and Volnay vineyards – an especially good strip...

Pure and super-fruited. Pure Volnay. Lovely lift. Dry finish...

Terroir selection in the centre of the appellation just below...

94-year-old vines – their oldest.
Really exciting mineral aromas...

Lowest yield of the domaine because it was so battered by hail...

Red soils for minerality above calcaire.
Rich and racy. Lots of...

Old calcaire soils and quite brown. Deep gravel on top of...

Almost 1 ha (16 ha in total). Red and much shallower soils above...

Seriously dense and haunting on the nose. Lots of tension and...

New in 2015. It was previously sold as Volnay PC. The last lieu...

In the middle of the vineyard – just 0.15 ha on dolomite...

DOMAINE FRANÇOIS LAMARCHE 

Cask sample. Lightish crimson. Sweet red fruits. Juicy, fresh...

Slightly over the top but very dramatically rich and sweet...

Mid crimson. Dark fruited and beautifully fragrant. Silky...

Powerful black-pepper aroma (unusual in Burgundy) with a drying...

Cask sample. Mid crimson. Much darker fruited than the Hautes...

DOMAINE DES LAMBRAYS 

Heady, very ripe nose. Almost too much with a hint of Band-Aid...

Cask sample. Very correct and subtle on the nose even if a...

DOMAINE HUBERT LAMY 
Olivier Lamy just gets better and better.

Glamorous and terroir-textured. Chalky and restrained. Rather an...

Clean and fresh. Quite tight and taut. Not that full on the end...

Heady and yet precise. Lots of ripe fruit well trained. Tight...

Angular and no concessions to the drinker – this is a winemaker...

Luscious floral notes. Rather arresting! Very demanding. Cool...

I think this vineyard had problems in 2015? This wine is fine...

Bit richer and easier to understand than the Derrière Chez...

DOMAINE SYLVAIN...

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