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Burgundy 2015 – Ma-Me

Saturday 7 January 2017
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See this guide to our extensive coverage of Burgundy 2015. Our picture shows the village of Meursault seen from the fine vineyards to the south. 

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


DOMAINE MICHEL MAGNIEN
 

Cask sample. Lovely richness and boldness to this fruit on the...

Vivid red cherry fruit. Firm tannin and quite dark, compressed...

DOMAINE SÉBASTIEN MAGNIEN 
Very dramatic wines, A petit Drouhin-Laroze?!

Light and fresh but fully ripe and very flattering. Pure and...

Big-boned and attention-grabbing. Hint of coffee. Lots of drama...

Leaner than the St-Romain (funnily enough) and with lots of...

Heady and sweet. Firm finish but very pretty on the way there...

DOMAINE STÉPHANE MAGNIEN 

Cask sample. Strong medicine element to the nose here, and...

Light, tight and pretty simple. Even a bit pinched. (JR)

Cask sample. Mid cherry. Ripe damson and cherry fruit, sweetly...

Quite late-picked nose and then tight palate. (JR)

Cask sample. Crisp, vibrant, tart. Certainly refreshing, and...

Cask sample. Much more finely fragrant than the straight Morey...

Some headiness on the nose – quite rewarding! Smooth, useful...

Cask sample. Has the ripeness of fruit that is missing from...

Cask sample. Glossy black fruit, liquorice and fennel, with a...

Quite grainy and tight – much less opulent that Ben Leroux's...

DOMAINE DES MALANDES 

From 8 plots, 40-60 years vine age.
Subtle and stony on the nose...

60-year-old vines, near Vaudésir.
A hint of vanilla sweetness on...

30% oak. More stones and cedar here combined with a leesy...

Unoaked. More expressive than the Vau de Vey. Dusty citrus aroma...

30% oaked, various ages of barrel.
Cedary green fruits. Creamy...

Expressive with wet stones and green fruits. A steely intensity...

This shows a little more oak on the nose (50% but not much new)...

100% oaked but not much new.
This is really site more than fruit...

100% oaked but not much new.
Dusty and restrained but...

DOMAINE JEAN-PIERRE MALDANT

Lightish cherry. More savoury and spicy than the Fontaine...

Lightish crimson. Savoury, slightly smokily reductive in the...

Mid crimson. Peppery, dry, all in harmony in a lightish style...

Mid crimson. An attractive smokily reductive note of youth, like...

MARCHAND-TAWSE 

Mid cherry. Dusty, mineral dark-red fruit and the freshness of...

A bit demanding with high acid and not quite enough fruit...

Mid cherry. More scented than the Marsannay. Dusty fragrance...

Cask sample. Light to mid cherry. Aromatic sweetness of fruit...

Cask sample. Lightish cherry red. Gently scented with red fruits...

Very sweet and rather tough. Hard work. (JR)

Cask sample. Light to mid cherry. Again a lovely flirtatious...

Cask sample. Mid crimson. More savoury than the Échezeaux but...

DOMAINE DES MARRANS 

Deep cherry red. A little smoky and with oak sweetness but...

Cask sample. Deep cherry red. Smoky and dark fruited. Lovely...

Higher site than Côte de Py and a less robust style, according...

Cask sample. Deep crimson. Dark and savoury, almost leathery on...

CHÂTEAU DE MARSANNAY 

Sweet, simple but fragrant red fruits. Just a slight herbal...

Mid cherry. Sweet and ripe with some oak spice. Dry and a bit...

Deep cherry red. Gently chewy and still rich in juicy dark-red...

Mid cherry. More red-fruited and pure in aroma than the Clos du...

DOMAINE THIERRY ET PASCALE MATROT 

Organic. Delicate slightly woody/cedary (not oaky) nose. Real...

Flinty and sleek with ripe apple and apricot fruit, creamy and...

Organic. Intense citrus with only a light oak overlay of spice...

Organic. A blend of Garenne and Chalumaux with a percentage of...

Nutty, crab apple, white peach and a touch of slate on the...

Organic. Mid crimson. Gentle red fruit. Lively, juicy and fresh...

Organic. Light to mid crimson. Light notes of smoke and pepper...

Fragrant clove and cinnamon spice, light black cherry fruit –...

DOMAINE MAUME 

Cask sample. Destemmed. Mid crimson. Inviting fragrance of dark...

Cask sample. 40% fermented with the stems (usually destemmed but...

Cask sample. 40% stems. Much riper on the nose than the...

DOMAINE DU MEIX-FOULOT 

Rounded, smooth texture with apple fruit that is lacking enough...

Snappy black fruit and sweet spice. Very open-knit with pleasant...

DOMAINE MÉO-CAMUZET and MÉO-CAMUZET FRÈRE ET SOEURS 

Bright cherry red. Really interesting combination of ripe fruit...

Dense and deep-flavoured. Lots of ripe, sweet, rather sultry...

Heady nose. Pretty firm and structured but not painful, just...

Dusty, dark-fruited. Definite oak notes giving a savoury rather...

Pure pleasure on the nose. Masses of ripe fruit. Lots of polish...

Fairly light nose – unexpectedly. Broad, sweet, ripe fruit...

DOMAINE OLIVIER MERLIN 

Not yet bottled. Rich and lemony. Lots to chew on. Made for the...

Not yet bottled. Very aggressive acidity. Bright fruit with a...

CHÂTEAU DE MEURSAULT 

Monopole. Gentle, mealy, creamy aroma. Then more power than I...

More power than the Clos des Grands Charrons. Deeper and longer...

Half a hectare. Intense, zesty aroma – piercingly fresh with...

Quarter hectare. Oatmeal and lemon fruit combined with a light...

Mid to light crimson. Slightly leafy red fruits. And dry, light...

Mid cherry red. Lifted, dark-red fruit with a fine rocky cast...

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