Dujac's 2018 Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru is showing especially well, unwinding in the glass with scents of rose petals, sweet red berries, raw cocoa, spices and blood orange. Full-bodied, layered and lively, with an ample core of beautifully pure fruit and velvety structuring tannins, it's a concentrated but precise Clos Saint-Denis that's built for the long haul.

The 2018 Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru has a wonderful bouquet of blackberry, wild strawberry, crushed rocks/sandstone and touches of dried blood. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, brown spices and a slight charcoal-like note. Moderate depth, quite masculine in style, a little austerity on the finish... but that is what you want from a Clos Saint-Denis.

The 2018 Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru builds on the promise that it showed in bottle. it has a sublime bouquet with blackberry and wild strawberry, ground gravel and orange rind. The palate is medium-bodied with smooth and very supple tannins, a touch of brown spice infusing the fleshy red fruit with a long and tender finish that has shaken off the austerity it showed out of barrel. Superb. - Neal Martin

1 ha (2.5 acres) in Calouère and 0.4 (1 acre) into Les Chaffots. Young vines included this year. Barrel samples. Sample 1 Black cherry, sweetly dark and pure if not expressive on the nose. A touch charry on the palate. Quite a tight wine, not as rich and broad as the Clos de la Roche. Juicy and with more obvious acidity than any other grands crus so far, the whole less integrated. Sample 2 Freshness tucked in here so that it is more of a whole. Particularly hard to assess this from these two barrel samples but it seems to have all the right components. (JH)