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

Medium red. Reticent but complex nose offers high-pitched scents of raspberry, licorice, bitter chocolate and minerals. At once dense and juicy, displaying a distinctly sappy character but also a refined texture to its intense raspberry, spice, mineral and soil flavors. This very classy wine mounts slowly on the suavely tannic, vibrant finish. Beautifully balanced already but there's more to come with bottle age. From a crop level of just 26 hectoliters per hectare, according to Gregory Gouges, who noted that these 50-year-old vines always produce a light load of grapes. I'd love to taste this wine next to its 2015 sibling in about ten years.

The 2014 Nuits Saint-Georges Village offers crisp cranberry, crushed strawberry and loam-like scents on the nose, not intense but certainly well defined. The palate is a little grainy in texture on the entry, a classic Pinot Noir really, holding back the fruit but delivering fine tension on the second half. It just cuts away too swiftly on the finish but otherwise, fine. Tasted at the Gouges retrospective at La Cabotte.