The 2016 Vosne-Romanée Aux Brûlées 1er Cru is blessed with a very complex and engaging bouquet: blackberry, raspberry, hints of black tea and kelp. It is mercurial in the glass, constantly evolving. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, yet there is certainly ample backbone to this Vosne-Romanée. There is a wonderful crescendo from start to finish that fans out. Great depth and impressive in terms of complexity, this is an intellectual and captivating wine that will give 25-40 years of drinking pleasure. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting.

Bright, dark red. Reduced nose dominated by flinty minerality. A pungent, energetic midweight with excellent inner-mouth tension to its flavors of wild strawberry and saline minerality. Some unabsorbed CO2 currently accentuates the impression of sappiness. This very firmly built wine finishes ripe but dry, with sneaky mounting length. The estate is beginning to replant vines in all of its vineyards and will need to drill into the rock under the shallow layer of topsoil in this site.