Top Vosne-Romanée & Nuits-St-Georges 2023 wines en primeur

The 2023 La Tâche is a voluptuous, sensual wine. There is an immense, fruit-forward aroma with mulberry, plum and pomegranate notes suffused with seductive floral...

The Romanée-Conti 2023 is strikingly good, as one might expect. The aromas are less forward, but an aromatic complexity develops on the palate. The full...

This is surely one of the world's pre-eminent Pinot Noirs, boasting an almost bewildering profusion of fruit aromas ranging from blackberry to cherry and pomegranate,...

The DRC Richebourg was a bit closed on the initial attack, but it opens up with time on the palate to show a darker fruit...

The 2023 Grivot Richebourg is a delightful success, with lovely supple sweet mulberry and pomegranate fruit and a hint of flinty minerals, leather, and spice....

Méo's 2023 Richebourg is a wine on another level. Although closed initially, it opens on the palate to reveal a lovely, subtle, plummy fruit with...

The 2023 DRC Romanée-Saint-Vivant stood out in the recent barrel tasting at the domaine, with notes of pomegranate and black plums touched with rose petals...

The Echézeaux from Anne Gros is among the best in the appellation in 2023, with lovely red and black fruit aromas touched with earth and...

What a generous vintage! The 2023 Echézeaux offers dark, concentrated plum fruit on the initial attack, with nuances of peonies, earth, and smoke. The texture...

The expressive plummy fruit aromas of Grands-Echézeaux 2023 are supplemented here with notes of smoke, spice and rosemary, giving a nuanced impression on the attack....

The Echézeaux from Mugneret-Gibourg is superb. There is a lovely concentration of ripe mulberry and black plum fruit with hints of peony, pepper, and earth....

The Echézeaux from Grivot is silky and rich, redolent of ripe blackberry fruit and lavender, with hints of earth and leather. The texture is dense...

The DRC Grands Echézeaux 2023 tasted out of barrel was lighter in colour and aromatically more reserved than the Echézeaux. With time on the palate,...

The second vintage of Grands Echézeaux at Liger-Belair is a triumph, with a complex red and black fruit aroma with spice accents and a strong...

The Anne Gros Richebourg boasts abundant pomegranate and black cherry aromas with hints of rose petals and a salty mineral edge. The texture is remarkably...

This wine is consistently (and unsurprisingly) the finest in the cellar; 2023 is no exception. The wine has a deceptively light colour, but profuse aromas...

Although the aromas are a bit shy at the outset, they open with time to show a well-developed plummy fruit with plenty of nuance from...

The 2023 Cros Parantoux from Méo amply demonstrates why this site is so highly regarded. Boasting dense, ripe blackberry fruit aromas with notes of rose...

The Petits Monts from Liger-Belair is thrilling wine – too bad there isn't more of it! The domaine farms 0.13 hectares, next to his parcel...

The Aux Reignots from Bruno Clair is top-quality wine, with an elegant pomegranate fruit accented with fresh flowers and spice notes. The texture is silky...

The Grivot Reignots is a marvellous wine with great ageing potential. There is a slight reduction initially, but this will disappear at bottling, as will...

Tasting this dark garnet-coloured wine, the quality of the Les Saint-Georges terroir is immediately evident. There is an abundance of purple and black fruit aromas...