Côte de Nuits

163 Bourgogne Rouge AC 2008
Thierry Mortet

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (12.5% alc.)

A working man’s Gevrey-Chambertin from vines of the same village, displaying much of the same quality and breed of its illustrious neighbour. Silky soft and perfumed, this is what good burgundy is all about. For drinking now to 2012.

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164 Gevrey-Chambertin AC 2008
Thierry Mortet

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (13% alc.)

Thierry has six hectares of vines in some of Gevrey-Chambertin’s prime sites. This is fine pinot noir – it has a wonderfully pure definition of raspberry/strawberry pinot fruit with that typical hint of game and touch of oak to add to its complexity. For drinking now to 2014.

* Half bottles are available

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165 Gevrey-Chambertin AC 2006 Vigne Belle
Thierry Mortet

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (13% alc.)

This is a very well placed lieu-dit, alongside (east) the 1er cru of Petite Chapelle, renowned for providing the most feminine and elegant of the Gevrey 1er crus. Thierry’s Vigne Belle, from 20 year old vines, is of a similar style, with enchanting pinot aromas, real finesse and silky tannins. For drinking late 2011 to 2016.

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166 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Prieur AC 2006
Thierry Mortet

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (13% alc.)

This was the best wine we tasted from both barrel and bottle from Thierry’s 2006 range. It is rich, dense, complex, with a nice old viney character, mixing red and black fruits. For drinking late 2011 to 2016.

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167 Bourgogne Rouge AC 2009
Domaine Amiot-Servelle

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (12% alc.)

This comes from one and a half hectares near the RN74 east of Chambolle-Musigny. Using just 10% new oak (with the balance up to four years old), this wine has a nose of earthy, dark berry fruit and a silky quality on the palate. Serious wine at this level. Available November. For drinking now to 2015.

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*New* 168 Chambolle-Musigny AC 2008
Domaine Amiot-Servelle

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (13% alc.)

This wine comes from eight parcels of vines around the village ranging from 15-70 years old. It offers very clear cut red fruit flavours, a refreshing acidity, a notable mineral influence and finishes ripe with good tannins. For drinking now to 2015.

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169 Chambolle-Musigny AC 2007 Les Bas Doix
Domaine Amiot-Servelle

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (13% alc.)

Les Bas Doix is a very well placed lieu-dit on the hillside next to Vougeot and the 1er cru of Les Hauts Doix at the south end of the village.The vines here are two thirds 15 years old and one third 40 years old. Slightly riper and with a touch more density of fruit and structure than Amiot’s village Chambolle. For drinking now to 2014.

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*New* 170 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Charmes AC 2008
Domaine Amiot-Servelle

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (13% alc.)

Clear, mid colour, shows a gentle touch with extraction. The vines here are 30 to 40 years old. The wine has an extra depth and complexity, intense red fruit flavours, and is stylishly fashioned with real allure. For drinking late 2012 to 2017.

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171 Morey Saint-Denis AC 2008 Très Girard
Domaine Cécile Tremblay

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (13% alc.)

This comes from a half hectare of 40-45 year old vines situated just below the 1er Cru of Clos des Sorbets. The vines are sited on an easterly facing 25° slope to the west of the main road (where all the best village sites are found). Cécile doesn’t like rustic MSD, and this wine has superb balance, a well-defined blackberry and cherry fruit, well-integrated fine tannins and mineral note. Very limited quantity. For drinking 2012 to 2016.

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172 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Feusselottes AC 2008
Domaine Cécile Tremblay

Grape:100% Pinot Noir (13% alc.)

Cécile’s small holding of 50 year old vines lie on the upper slope of this 1er cru just to the east of the village. There is little soil here and the vines are very close to the limestone rock. She produces just three barrels, ageing the wine for a year before racking and transferring to stainless steel cuve for another four months prior to bottling. Quintessential Chambolle (60% destalked), it has a beautiful nose of crushed, fresh cherries and the sylish fruit has both delicacy and intensity on the palate with a mineral undertone. Will make a beautiful bottle in 4 years per Cécile. Very limited quantity. For drinking 2012 to 2018.

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Côte de Nuits

Cécile Tremblay continues to receive plaudits for her alluring, startlingly pure wines, (bio-dynamic viticulture, unfined and unfiltered) which offer both a succulence and incredible depth of flavour. David Schildknecht (for Robert Parker) writes “This grand niece of Henri Jayer makes from fewer than [8 acres]/4 hectares some of the most exciting new wines in the Côte de Nuits, pure and full of finesse. So run rather than walk to get in as close as is still possible to the ground floor at a domaine that is sure to become one of Burgundy’s elite, but sadly, almost as surely, to remain tiny.”

2008 marked the first year that Cécile has vinified and raised her wines in her new deep, spacious cellar in Gevrey-Chambertin, having split from her partner Pascal Roblet at the start of the year. Cécile is well-known amongst other vignerons for the time, care and energy she applies in her vineyards – she works with an incredible dynamism and it is clear that her efforts have been more than rewarded with a fabulous range of wines. All Cécile’s wines have a very pure, sculpted fruit quality due to very low yields from lovingly tended vines. She is so fanatically committed to quality that in poor vintages she prefers to declassify her top wines to the generic appellation level. Very few of her Burgundian colleagues seem inclined to follow suit!

We have been working with Thierry Mortet since the 1993 vintage, and with every year we have seen an improvement in his wines, to the point where all of his wines are now amongst the best. They demand a little bottle age – four years from vintage date for the Bourgogne Rouge, five for the village wines and at least six for the 1er crus.

Amiot-Servelle are a close family concern with just six hectares in and around Chambolle-Musigny. Quality has always been very good here, but the wines have stepped up to the highest level after conversion to organic viticulture back in 2003. Their wines have a succulent quality, great purity and right across the range you never notice any oak. Due to the tiny quantities produced, they will always be something of a hidden secret, though they are very highly rated by wine writers like Allen Meadows.