2014 Nuits-St Georges Clos des Argillières 1er Cru Domaine Michèle ...

A beautiful, bright purple, this has lifted fruit on the nose. Full of energy, there is a beautiful density to the dark, raspberry fruit; very good intensity of flavour through the middle and a lovely finish with a bevy of little red berries lingering on the palate. Very classy this year.

Patrice Rion compares 2014 to a mix of 1979 and 1989 for the aromatics and delighted to have been able to pick a more or less normal-sized crop. He began on 12th September with healthy grapes, reinforced by his system of two sorting tables, one before and one after de-stemming. The amount of new oak has been reduced here, now just 30 percent on most cuvées.