Morey-St-Denis 2024: Winemaking talent shines amid challenges

The delicious 2024 Clos St-Denis from Amiot-Servelle is a very strong effort in a difficult year, with ripe aromas of black plums and raspberry and...

Although the 2024 Rousseau Clos de la Roche is a bit less pointedly aromatic than its stablemate Charmes-Chambertin, it offers a lovely, silky fruit aroma...

Bruno Clair’s Bonnes-Mares is a rarity since it is on the Morey side of the vineyard, while most of the climat lies in Chambolle. It...

There is admirable complexity and depth to this, showing ripe mulberry fruit and notes of violets, liquorice and earth. The texture is less opulent than...

The Clos Sorbè is less forward than the other Morey premiers crus in this cellar, but it is a bigger wine with more structure, firm...

The delicious 2024 Clos St-Denis from Dujac is an interesting contrast to the Clos de la Roche. The colour is bright, and the aromas are...

Laurent Lignier has crafted a delicious wine from his holdings in Clos de la Roche, with dark plummy fruit and notes of ground coffee, earth...

This impressive old-vine Morey premier cru has a lovely sweet cherry fruit aroma with an edge of exotic Asian spice and hints of earth and...

The lovely, ripe blackberry fruit, with a bit of earth and spice, enlivens the initial attack of this classic vintage of Clos de la Roche...

The 2024 grand vin from Clos de Tart was firm at first, and somewhat unyielding. On a second look, the wine was more forgiving, with...

There is a dark blackberry fruit aroma with hints of spice and smoke on the initial attack. On the palate, there is an invigoratingly fresh...

There is a hint of reduction initially, but this resolves over time into a lovely, lilting raspberry fruit aroma with an edge of peony and...

Lovely, spicy, ripe and round, this is an exemplary bottling in a difficult year, with expressive aromas of raspberry and blackberry fruit and hints of...

The 2024 Premier Cru Les Loups delivers ripe aromas of strawberry and black plums with a floral edge. The texture is silky, approachable and supple,...

The blended Morey premier cru from Dujac represents the domaine's customary cofermentation of Les Charrières, Les Millandes, Les Ruchots and Clos Sorbè (0.82ha in total)....

Supple and forward, the Morey Premier Cru La Riotte is the opposite of the Chaffots – this is lush, almost decadent, with aromas of ripe...

In the thin soils at the top of the slope above grand cru Clos St-Denis, Ligner’s parcel of premier cru Chaffots has produced a lively,...

With its deep colour and fragrant aromas of black plum and mulberry, the Morey Trilogie is a delicious wine, albeit one made at a cost,...

This delightful wine from Ponsot is unusually robust for the vintage, with ripe mulberry fruit aromas and notes of peony, earth and spice. Firm tannins...