For reports and full tasting notes, go toTim Atkin MW's website.

Opening in the glass with scents of sweet berry fruit, plums, smoke and rose petals, the 2020 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Suchots is medium to full-bodied, rich and muscular, with lively acids and youthfully chewy structuring tannins.

The 2020 Vosne-Romanée Les Suchots 1er Cru is very pure on the nose with macerated small dark cherries, violet petals and light aniseed aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with finely-chiselled tannins, good depth, quite sweet in the mouth and maybe just a little confit-like towards the finish, that does not quite exude the class of their top Nuits-Saint-Georges.

Cask sample. Good pace on the nose. And sufficient interesting fruit to compensate for the (quite considerable) tannin. This should eventually provide fine drinking. (JR)