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

Offering up aromas of dark berries, cassis, burning embers, spices and licorice, the 2021 Clos Vougeot Grand Cru is medium to full-bodied, rich, layered and textural, with powdery tannins and an unusually muscular, broad-shouldered profile for the vintage.

The 2021 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru has a little reduction on the nose, though there is satisfying brambly red fruit here, sous-bois and freshly picked rose aromas. Fine delineation. The palate feels just a little muddled at first with chewy tannins and red berry fruit laced with orange rind and a bit of capsicum. Solid and a bit unyielding on the finish, this is just missing finesse and charm. Given its showing from barrel, I suspect it might be just entering a dumb phase. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.