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Btls Avail.	Btl Size	Wine Where available, tasting scores and notes are by Alan Meadows (AM) from www.burghound.com , Stephen Tanzer (ST) from www.wineaccess.com and the Wine Spectator (WS) from www.winespectator.com	Year	Price per Bottle including VAT	Tasting Score/Notes Best Drinking

		DOMAINE ARLAUD Excellent domaine, that has been going from strength to strength since 2001; with the 2005 vintage being a real high-point!
36	75cl	Gevery Chambertin AM - A gentle, even subtle touch of wood frames fresh and bright red berry fruit aromas nuanced by Gevrey earth notes combines with relatively fruit driven middle weight flavours that are both sweet and delicious. I like the volume and exuberant sap yet underneath the upfront fruit is a serious core of structure that will enable this to age effortlessly over the medium term. The best of these villages wines.	2005	£39.00	AM90 2009-20

		DOMAINE ADRIAN BELLAND Good estate, making well structured wines.
5	75cl	Chambertin GC	1995	£44.00	A very good vintage for drinking Now -2020 Special Offer

		DOMAINE BERTAGNA Excellent estate, wines very rare in the UK: full, round, with lots of style and structure.			All these wines are on Special Offer.
10	75cl	Clos St Denis, GC	1997	£45.00
12	75cl	Clos Vougeot, GC	1998	£43.00
9	75cl	Clos Vougeot, GC	1997	£47.00
10	75cl	Nuits St Georges Les Murgers 1er Cru	1997	£38.00
10	75cl	Vosne Romanee Les Beaux Monts 1er Cru	1998	£36.00
9	75cl	Vosne Romanee Les Beaux Monts 1er Cru	1997	£36.00
9	75cl	Vougeot Clos Perriere 1er Cru	1998	£32.00

		BOUCHARD Pére & Fils Excellent negociant, with large holdings of own domaine vineyards. Always maintains a very high standard, so this assures excellent quality to price! Highly Recommended
24	75cl	Chambertin GC AM - A cool, earthy and distinctly floral nose complements equally cool and reserved big-bodied flavours that are linear, direct, powerful and ooze minerality on the hugely long finish that displays plenty of sauvage influence. This is a classic old school Cham with impressive aging potential.	2006	£139.00	AM95 2018-32
12	75cl	Chambertin GC AM - Crushed and very spicy black, intensely pinot fruit aromas blend into intense, sweet, dusty, relatively round and elegant flavours that display plenty of ripe soil and mineral nuances, superb density and outstanding finishing complexity. This is most impressive as the finish goes on and on. In short, this is extremely classy juice that offers outstanding potential.	2002	£114.00	AM93 2012-27
12	75cl	Beaune Les Teurons 1er Cru AM - The nose is both expressive and very fresh with lovely red pinot fruit and strong earth nuances that give way to firm, dusty, somewhat linear flavours, yet the finish offers plenty of velvet and fine complexity.	2002	£34.00	AM89 Now - 2016
12	75cl	Beaune Gréves Vigne de L'Enfant Jesus 1er Cru AM - A distinctly more elegant and higher-toned nose introduces rich, full, pliant and refined flavours that possess outstanding depth on the ripe, balanced, pure and sublimely harmonious finish. A terrific Beaune and highly recommended.	2005	£68.00	AM93 2013-28
82	75cl	Beaune Gréves Vigne de L'Enfant Jesus 1er Cru AM - The nose is wonderfully expressive, rich and classy, leading to concentrated, dense, pure, textured and beautifully detailed and precise flavours that ooze minerality and sap on the wonderfully long finish. This is very powerful for a Beaune 1er and it will be capable of aging for two decades, perhaps longer.	2002	£49.00	AM92 2009 - 22
22	75cl	Beaune Gréves Vigne de L'Enfant Jesus 1er Cru ST - Good medium red colour. Strawberry and raspberry aromas complicated by notes of wood smoke, smoked meat and mint. Smooth and concentrated, with chewy cherry and spice flavours and excellent volume. Youthful, sappy and substantial wine, with excellent fruit and solid underlying structure. Finishes with dusty, even tannins and excellent persistence. A very impressive Beaune wine.	1999	£49.00	ST92 2006-20
12	75cl	Monthelie AM - Quite ripe but here the aromas are darker and blacker in character and the flavours possess better definition plus more obvious structure on the medium length finish. I particularly like the freshness.	2002	£19.00	AM87 2007-14
60	75cl	Monthelie Champs Fulliot 1er Cru AM - More subtle and better integrated wood (though it's not invisible) sets off the dark berry and cassis suffused nose that merges into richer, fuller yet finer flavours that possess the same excellent volume if perhaps a touch less power and punch, all wrapped in a firm and chewy finish. Built to age.	2005	£24.00	AM89 2013-24
18	75cl	Savigny-les-Beaune Les Lavieres AM - There is a bit more wood present than in the Savigny villages but it's not intrusive, just noticeable. Interestingly, while this is finer and more elegant it's not more complex on the red pinot and earth-infused nose that complements the rich and impressively long finish that is both suave and minerally.	2005	£25.00	AM89 2012-22
12	75cl	Vosne Romanee Les Malconsorts 1er Cru AM - A spicy, expressive, indeed almost flashy nose of intense and layered black berry fruit aromas nuanced by floral and earth hints that can also be found on the robust, powerful and well-muscled flavours that explode on the wonderfully long and penetrating backend. This is unusually demonstrative for a young Malconsorts yet I suspect it will go into an extended hibernation in due course. In short, this has huge potential. Outstanding Wine!	2005	£138.00	AM95 2017-29

		DOMAINE CASTAGNIER Good estate, although not that well known, making good wines in a more robust style.
11	75cl	Clos de la Roche, GC	1996	£54.00	A very fine Grand Cru from an excellent vintage! Special Offer

		DOMAINE CHANSON In the last 3 years the quality of this domaine has really improved, but prices are still reasonable, so well worth a try!
24	75cl	Beaune Clos des Feves RP - From a little-known monopole situated above Cent Vignes, Chanson’s 2005 Beaune Clos des Feves shares with its better-known neighbour high-toned aromas of cherry and cherry pit. In the mouth, liquorice, cherry pit, brown spices and wet stones mingle with promising dynamic against a backdrop of firm, fine tannins, and a decidedly bitter-sweet and stony concentration completes a picture that promises positive development over the next several years.	2005	£32.00	RP88 Now - 2020
12	75cl	Chambertin Clos des Beze Grand Cru RP - The Chanson 2005 Chambertin Clos de Beze displays a lovely nose of black fruits, tea, citrus zest, rose petal and roasted red meat. Impressively clear and bright in the mouth, this packs in abundant, fine-grained tannin and finishes brightly and authoritatively with blackberry, liquorice, black tea, salted, roasted meat, and chalk dust.	2005	£98.00	RP90 2011-22

		DOMAINE CHEVILLON One of the best growers in Nuits St George with very old vines; making rich, opulent and classy wines
32	75cl	Nuits St. George Vieilles Vignes AM - Explosively fruity with dense, sappy, earthy flavours that display no rusticity or hardness. To be sure, this is firmly structured yet beautifully balanced. An altogether lovely Nuits villages.	2001	£19.00	AM88 Now -2014
12	75cl	Nuits St George Les Chaignots 1er Cru AM - Deeper register aromas of earthy but spicy dark berry fruits and a touch of animale leads to serious, dense and relatively powerful flavours that culminate in a dusty, mouth coating and admirably persistent finish. This doesn't have the style of the Bousselots but it's appealing in its way. It's interesting how these two vineyards, which abut one another, give completely different results.	2005	£44.00	AM91 2010-22
Reserved	75cl	Nuits St George Les St George 1er Cru AM - Deep ruby. A deft touch of wood sets off the seductively enveloping aromas of cassis and black cherry extract that can also be found on the opulent, concentrated, powerful and sleekly muscled flavours that convey a real sense of volume without compromising the refined character. While not deeper or more complex, this is ever-so-slightly longer than the Les Cailles and should also be capable of a very long aging curve. Equally impressive if different.	2005	£59.00	AM94 2012-27
8	75cl	Nuits St George Les St George 1er Cru AM - This is ever so slightly finer and firmer than the Les Cailles, with more red fruits than black and wonderful finishing intensity. Refined, elegant, classy and the epitome of finesse. I like this a lot and despite the tenderness, I suspect this will age for years because it is superbly well balanced.	2000	£39.00	AM92 Now - 2018
36	75cl	Nuits St George Les Perrieres 1er Cru AM - As it usually is, this is the most elegant wine to this point and cooler as well with finely detailed red pinot fruit that proffers obvious stone notes that continue onto to the equally detailed and precise flavours that are fresh, balanced and refined on the punchy, vibrant and linear finish. I very much like the style here as it's a wine of finesse and understatement yet with character.	2005	£45.00	AM92 2011-25
8	75cl	Nuits St George Les Perrieres 1er Cru AM - Refined and pure with elegant pinot fruit and intense minerality with precise flavours and superb finesse. This is not as complex as the Chaignots but is definitely finer and offers terrific harmony from start to finish.	2000	£37.00	AM91 Now - 2015
10	75cl	Nuits St George Les Perrieres 1er Cru AM - Quite refined and almost edgy in its delivery with expressive aromas of lush pinot fruit and intense minerality (they don't call it Perrières for nothing). Despite the elegance, this is by no means light as there is solid intensity, structure and density of extract plus good length. A very fine Perrières.	1999	£39.00	AM90 Now - 2025
36	75cl	Nuits St George Les Pruliers 1er Cru AM - This is very ripe, indeed the ripest wine to this point with a gorgeous and spicy mélange of black and blue berry fruit aromas liberally laced with earth and underbrush that introduces rich, full-bodied and intense flavours of obvious sweetness and a powerful, textured and mouth coating finish. There are buckets of dry extract here that convey a seductive velvety quality to the backend. Impressive.	2005	£51.00	AM93 2010-22
9	75cl	Nuits St George Les Pruliers 1er Cru AM - Sweet black cherry, anise and earth nose with the most structure of any of the foregoing wines. The flavours are round, intense and the length here is long. Very classy juice.	1999	£37.00	AM90 Now - 2022
36	75cl	Nuits St George Les Roncières 1er Cru AM - Here the lateness of the malos is in evidence as the nose is almost raw with traces of fermentation aromas and reduction though the medium plus weight flavours are detailed, racy and offer more minerality than usual. I tried this from several different barrels, including one from a new barrel that was further developed and the material is impressive and it's possible that my score could be conservative.	2005	£44.00	AM92 2010-20
12	75cl	Nuits St George Les Roncières 1er Cru AM - The Roncières displays a more classic Nuits flavour profile with somewhat coarser flavours and firmer tannins though it also offers plenty of underlying material and should develop relatively quickly over the next 5 to 7 years but drink well for another 5 after that.	2000	£32.00	AM89 Now -2018
36	75cl	Nuits St George Les Vaucrains 1er Cru AM - This is particularly ripe yet the nose is fresh and expressive with its dark raspberry fruit, earth, violet and slightly sauvage notes but the big, robust and amply muscled flavours are brooding to the point of being intensely primary and borderline backward. This is the most structured wine of the range but there is so much extract that the tannins are almost completely buffered, which will permit a long if slow evolution. This is a dramatic effort that isn't quite as classy as the Les St. Georges or Les Cailles but it is likely to be the last wine standing as it were some decades hence.	2005	£62.00	AM94 2012-26

		DOMAINE du CLOS des LAMBRAYS A leading Morey-Saint Denis domaine, making full, rich, long lasting wines. The Clos de Lambrays wine is about the best value Grand Cru wines to be had, based on price/quality performance!
36	75cl	Morey St Denis 'Les Loups' 1er Cru AM - Here there is more aromatic elegance as well as depth with a broader spectrum of fruit aromas nuanced by spice and mineral hints that continue onto the rich, vibrant and intense medium full flavours underpinned by suave tannins and a detailed and wonderfully pure finish. Recommended.	2005	£57.00	AM91 2009-25
84	75cl	Clos de Lambrays Grand Cru AM - A deeply pitched nose of dark berry fruit, spice, earth, a hint of animale and an overlay of obvious minerality complements perfectly the rich, full and sweet broad-scaled yet elegant flavours that are solidly structured and firm on the detailed and wonderfully intense finish. This powerful, long and serious vintage of Clos des Lambrays is built for the medium plus term, which is to say out to 20 years of improvement followed by another 20 of plateau.	2005	£85.00	AM94 2014-55
6	150cl	Clos de Lambrays Grand Cru As above, but Magnums!	2005	£178.00	AM94 2014-55
58	75cl	Clos de Lambrays Grand Cru AM - Medium ruby. Aromas of wild berries, game and a subtle note of smoke lead to rich, intense, moderately fat flavours that are wonderfully well-balanced largely because of the racy, indeed bright acidity. This has tightened up considerably since it was bottled with a dusty, sweet and precise finish that is strikingly long. In short, delicious yet entirely serious and a wine that should age gracefully for two decades, perhaps longer.	2002	£65.00	AM92 2010-27

		DOMAINE du CLOS de TART This a Top domaine in Morey-Saint Denis, which is owned by Mommesin and run by Sylvain Pithiot. The wines are rich, full and substantial with excellent fruit/tannin balance and will age very well.
30	75cl	Clos de Tart Grand Cru AM - An expressive and very ripe black berry fruit, spice, mocha, fresh coffee and earthy nose is surrounded by a generous blast of new oak that continues onto the rich, full, concentrated, powerful and sweet flavours that possess superb mid-palate density and huge length. This is an extremely rich wine and because of the influence of the wood, the detail that will very likely come with time in bottle has not yet developed but this is so concentrated yet balanced that it's only a matter of time. This will live for ages and somewhat surprisingly, this is actually approachable now simply because it is so concentrated yet I suspect that when this finally shuts down, it will stay there for the better part of a decade. In a word, fantastic.	2005	£219.00	AM96 2012-30
60	75cl	Clos de Tart Grand Cru AM - A discreetly oaky overlay frames ripe spicy blackberry, dark cherry and a hint of forest floor aromas that lead to rich, full, sweet, thick and powerful flavours that culminate in a linear and penetrating finish. This is a relatively big and concentrated effort that offers a really attractive sense of underlying tension and energy	2004	£108.00	AM91 2014-26
24	75cl	Clos de Tart Grand Cru AM - This is enormously ripe and explodes from the glass with warm wood-framed aromas of coffee, tobacco, plum, prune, smoked meat and dried herbs that introduce massively constituted though not incredibly structured flavours of serious size, weight and depth and blessed with buckets of extract that completely buffer the firm and ripe, firmly tannic backbone. This is not my style but it's not imbalanced or unduly warm and it's a wine that will live for 50 years.	2003	£169.00	AM91 2015-60
12	75cl	Clos de Tart Grand Cru AM - An expressive, extremely ripe black fruit nose nuanced by hints of torrefaction, earth and coffee are followed by soft, delicious, round and textured flavours underpinned with completely buffered tannins and loads of ripe extract. This is a powerful yet supple wine that does seem to carry its alcohol well with only a trace of finishing warmth. This is a delicious and unbelievably long wine, though less elegant than several previous vintages.	2002	£228.00	AM91 2012-28
30	75cl	Clos de Tart Grand Cru AM - Extremely ripe aromas of roasted earth, coffee, spice and intensely perfumed black cherries combine with very structured, robust, remarkably complex and precise, full-bodied, sweet, chewy flavours that seem to go on and on. But the quality that impresses me the most is with all of this muscle and power, there is near perfect harmony and balance. This should be capable of aging well for at least two decades. A great wine.	2001	£159.00	AM93 Now - 2022
9	150cl	Clos de Tart Grand Cru As above, but Magnums!	2001	£337.00	AM93 2010-30
6	150cl	Clos de Tart Grand Cru AM - Despite the high alcohol, the wine does not taste hot though there is a trace of finishing warmth and the tannins are almost hidden by the sappy extract. The style of the 2000 is much more forward than in either '98 or the '99 though it will take the better part of a decade to reveal its full potential. Delicious yet very serious.	2000	£214.00	AM91 2008-20
12	75cl	Clos de Tart Grand Cru AM - Beautifully fresh pinot nose cut with ripe, crushed black fruit (though not nearly as ripe as the '99) followed by extremely rich, gloriously complex flavours that ooze extract. The tannic structure is a good deal more evident here and the length is phenomenal. If this continues to put on weight, which is clearly has since I tasted it in barrel, this will ultimately surpass the more seductive '99. Classically structured and proportioned, I admire this enormously for its rigor and purity.	1998	£134.00	AM93 2010-20

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