Top 2017 Côte de Nuits en primeur wines

Just when you think the Dugat-Py range can't get any better, you have a taste of this mind-blowing Chambertin, which gets my vote as the...

Loïc Dugat-Py makes a pure Mazoyères alongside his Charmes-Chambertin, sourced from two 0.3ha blocks of 40 and 70 years old on stony soils. This is...

Romanée-Conti is, as ever, a unique expression of the vineyard. It is both more approachable and more powerful than La Tâche. There is a similar...

This 0.29ha parcel was planted (or replanted) in two stages - the 1930s and 1978 - so it has a high average age but plenty...

Three parcels aged between 50 and 90 years old provide the fruit for this exceptional grand cru red. Fresh, chalky and very complex, it's focussed,...

It's a close-run thing, but this is even better than the Mazis in 2017, made with what Arnaud Mortet says are some of the most...

It's only 0.0996 hectares,' says Christophe Roumier of his parcel of Musigny, 'but I'm lucky to have some at all.' We are fortunate too because...

The domaine's two parcels, covering 0.44ha in all, are both in what is known locally as Charmes-Charmes, right on the edge of Mazoyères. Denis Bachelet's...

The Fourriers are one of only five owners of this superb premier cru, with a 0.89ha parcel that was planted in 1910. This is a...

The average age of the Seysses' 1.95ha holdings in the Clos de la Roche are slightly older than those of neighbouring Clos St-Denis. Using fruit...

Although the colour is deceptively light, aromas pour from the glass. Aubert de Villaine finds it 'joyous, pleasant and gay', yet comments on its 'monastic...

The La Tâche marks a departure from the wines in this tasting. It is noticeably darker, a bit less forward aromatically and much richer. There...

For the third vintage in a row, this 0.32ha plot, ranging in age between 60 and 80 years, has produced the best wine at the...

If you own one of only five monopole grands crus in Burgundy, with vines that are more than 100 years old in some cases, you'd...

This 1920 parcel is situated in the northern part of the Romanée-St-Vivant grand cru, very close to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti's holdings - and it's...

This excellent Premeaux-based family domaine is not as famous as it should be. The Meuniers' old-vine parcel of 0.5ha is one of the very best...

Sand, clay and limestone soils make up the terroir of this 1ha parcel on the Chambolle side of the grand cru. The vines may be...

Back to normal yields in 2017, after a 50%, frost-related drop in 2016. This is a hauntingly aromatic expression of Les Amoureuses, sourced from a...

One of the best Chambolle premiers crus of the vintage, this is another brilliant 2017 from François Millet. It's intensely coloured, with remarkable purity, focus,...

The de Vogüé Bonnes Mares comes from a sizeable 2.7ha on red clay soils and is always the most structured and ‘masculine’ of the domaine's...

This excellent parcel of Musigny extends to 0.2ha and is planted with 5 to 60-year-old vines. Effortlessly handling its 100% new wood, it's a precise,...

Its name may or may not have something to do with the fact that this was (allegedly) once a field of cherries, but there's no...

It may have something to do with the cooler site, or the high percentage of limestone in the soils, but this is the freshest and...

The cooler slope of Latricières, close to the forest and receiving 20 minutes less sunshine a day than Charmes-Chambertin, has produced one of Jean-Marie Fourrier's...

Like his négociant Latricières-Chambertin, Jean-Marie Fourrier's Chambertin is aged in 20% new wood. It's another superb old-vine bottling that's everything a Chambertin should be, even...

Pithy, zesty and refined, this is a classically elegant Ruchottes from one of the Côte d'Or's greatest winemakers, sourced from a 0.53ha block that was...

From a cool, stony parcel that's influenced by the Combe Grisard, this is the pick of the Faiveley grands crus in 2017, making the best...

Now a well-established part of the Dujac range, this was first made in 2005 and comes from a single parcel of 0.29ha. If you're a...

All the hundreds apply here: whole bunches, new wood and the age of the parcel. Built to last, this is a brilliant wine from Nicolas...

The Dugat-Py family have nearly 1ha of Charmes-Chambertin, divided two-thirds to one between Charmes itself and Mazoyères. Picked early, this is a serious, textured, wild-herb-scented...

Latricières is one of the outstanding sites of the 2017 vintage, and this is my pick of the Drouhins' grands crus this year, partly because...

Tiny, tiny, tiny. This parcel runs to all of 0.019ha and produced just 84 litres of wine in 2017, which means there's not a lot...

Like the domaine's Bonnes Mares parcel, this 0.25ha block used to belong to Domaine Newman, but has hit even greater heights under the hand of...

Olivier Bernstein uses 80% whole bunches as well as more customary 100% new oak on this fine Clos de Bèze from a 0.3ha parcel. Big,...