Top Côte de Nuits 2020 en primeur wines

Despite being marked by the cask at this point, the wine is absolute perfection. Less forward than Roumier's Amoureuses, the wine reveals itself more complex...

The 2020 La Tâche incarnates everything wonderful about this vintage – it is ripe, exuberant, and approachable, yet packed with potential and the substance for...

A great Richebourg, without a doubt, it is also a wine that needs time. This is firmly extracted and reveals itself only on the palate...

The mature vines in the domaine’s immense holding (5.56ha of old vines) have given us a wine with the youthful, plummy exuberance of Chambolle but...

This is a genuinely epic wine: concentrated, tannic and impressively persistent on the palate. Delightful complexity, with lush, approachable red and black fruit, superb minerality...

A stunningly beautiful wine from two small plots that total 0.13ha. The grapes are fermented as 50% whole clusters and since there is so little...

One expects a rich wine, with a profusion of floral and red fruit aromas, and Roumier certainly delivers. 'The surprise of the vintage is the...

This is wine of another order. Hudelot-Noëllat farms 0.28ha of Richebourg in the heart of the appellation, next to DRC. His is a Richebourg of...

A 'grand cru-plus', this is truly extraordinary wine, with expressive red and black fruits which show a saline minerality and floral notes. The texture is...

Simply spectacular. Profuse aromas of blackberry and plum, scented with rose petals, peonies, liquorice, spice and salty mineral notes. The texture is opulently rich on...

The 2020 Chambertin from Trapet is sublime. It owns 1.85ha over three parcels in a variety of soils and 15% of the vines are trained...

A super-dense wine, with rich plummy fruit, showing notes of smoke, mineral and earth. The texture is dense and concentrated, yet there is an elegance...

This is a wine of immense potential, yet one that is far from ready to drink. It is made as always from the bunches nearest...

The Richebourg is noticeably darker in colour than the other wines. There is an inky black concentration of plum and mulberry fruit with abundant...

There is an intense black plum aroma, with hints of ginger, liquorice, violets and earth. The concentration of old vines allied with the freshness brought...

Before the recent expansion of his holdings, Comte Liger-Belair produced this wine from a blend of Les Cruots and Les Champs Traversins. The grapes are...

The ripe, plummy fruit bears the mark of the robustly warm and dry vintage, but there is immense complexity, with notes of spice, smoke and...

Dugat-Py used almost 90% whole clusters in the fermentation in 2020, but the wine has no rustic edges, and the focus remains on the finesse...

After fermenting as whole clusters and ageing in 70% new casks, the wine has an exotic perfume, with a pronounced pomegranate and black cherry fruit,...

A vibrant and fresh wine, with bright red cherry fruit, a hint of rose petal and liquorice. The texture is silky yet dense, and the...

A spectacular result - nuanced and spicy, with a slight reduction that gives the lush blackberry fruit an exotic, slightly animal edge to it. There...

This is a tremendous wine, with a ripe, spicy plum and blackberry fruit, touched with notes of mineral and earth. The complexity and depth of...

The structure is massive, yet the wine still shows accessible aromas of raspberry, mulberry and blackberry liqueur, with a mineral undercurrent and a profusion of...

Ripe plummy fruit of exceptional purity, suggestions of mineral, smoke and wild roses. Despite the perfumed, ethereal aromas, the wine is broad-shouldered, tannic and powerful....

A stunning wine. One sees the richness of the year in the ripe, dense, plummy fruit, yet it avoids over-concentration and has a lovely freshness...

Inky dark in colour, showing a ripe, brambly, blackberry fruit, with sweet spice and a marked mineral note. The wine is dense and concentrated, more...

Must be tasted to be believed. Copious, forward red and black fruit aromas of great purity are given nuance by a mineral depth from the...

The dark plum and blackberry fruit is accented with notes of smoke, spice and rose petals. The texture is velvety and very fine. It is...

This is perhaps a bit closed initially, but it opens with time to show an elegant, restrained black plum fruit, with hints of mineral, mint...

A concentrated wine, with a powerful black plum and blueberry fruit, replete with notes of mineral, rose petal, smoke and spice. The texture is very...