The 2015 Musigny Grand Cru offers compelling estuarine and oyster shell scents on a complex, extremely well focused nose. The palate is medium-bodied with fine, supple tannin, pure blackberry and raspberry fruit, and enthralling mineralité that seems to blossom toward the aristocratic finish. This is a fabulous wine, a Musigny flirting with perfection – and a serious contender for wine of the vintage. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.

A big, ripe, buxom, sumptuous Burgundy. The nose is exuberant with black fruit, as is the palate. Right now this wine is like a warm blackberry sorbet. The long finish and the tannic backbite foretell a long life. At this point the warm vintage dominates the vineyard, but this wine has all the ingredients for brilliant development.

Bright red-ruby. Spectacular nose combines boysenberry, blackberry, licorice and spice lifted by an alluring lavender high note. Wonderfully smooth but a bit youthfully tight, showing outstanding inner-mouth tension and a light touch to its vibrant flavors of dark fruits, minerals and spices. The slowly mounting finish features utterly suave, horizontal tannins and a whiplash of saline minerality. Really sparkles with life on the tongue.