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

The 2016 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru is refined and delineated on the nose with perfumed red and black fruit interlaced with iris and rose petals, a hint of orange pith in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with rounded and very pliant tannins. This is a luxurious Clos de Vougeot from winemaker Charles Van Canneyt. Quite tender and yet delivers the intensity and depth that you expect on the finish. It needs another couple of years in bottle but it has the structure to merit long-term cellaring. Superb. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting.

(40% of the crop was lost to frost): Good dark red. Slightly medicinal aromas and flavors of black cherry, menthol, licorice, minerals and spices. Tactile, concentrated and a bit youthfully tough, showing surprising sweetness leavened by strong savory minerality. This rather powerful, saline Clos Vougeot will need bottle aging to harmonize its tannins and acids. Charles van Canneyt noted that he needs to be careful about extraction with this cuvée in order to avoid making a heavy wine; and it routinely has a relatively high pH.

Edgy, walnut-skin nose but with good round fruit underneath. Not the most refined red burgundy but offers lots of delivery. Very bright fruit. (JR)