2020  Aux Allots

Aux Allots ---- "Rich dense purple, Aux Allots offers a brilliant nose including fresh plums with the raspberries. There is plenty of energy here, all in red fruit, with excellent acidity. It is easier to see how well this will work, compared to some of the more opaque wines in the cellar. Very long, impressive grip behind, well worth a longer elevage. Tasted: November 2021." - 5/5 stars, Jasper Morris MW

2020  1er Cru Les Saint Georges

1er Cru Les Saint Georges

2020  Cotes d'Auxerre Blanc

Cotes d'Auxerre Blanc ---- "Lavallée's 2020 Bourgogne Côtes d'Auxerre Blanc is very promising, offering up notes of citrus, Anjou pear, green apple and white flowers. Medium-bodied, elegantly fleshy and concentrated, it's fine-boned but intensely flavored. It's produced from deep but stony soils and, in total, amounts to a mere four barrels." - 88-90pts William Kelley, Wine Advocate ---- One of my most exciting discoveries in Chablis and the Auxerrois was fledgling Domaine Clément Lavallée. Clement's father is the proprietor of a substantial, modern and mechanized domaine in Saint-Bris, but Clément's aspirations were more artisanal. He started his own label in 2019, with just 3.5 hectares supplemented by purchased fruit - a surface that's grown to 5.5 hectares today. Eschewing herbicides, he cultivates the soils with lightweight tractors and keeps chemical treatments to the minimum. Working with a variety of sites and cépages, harvest lasts a full month. In the cellar, whites see a long pressing, with Clément selling in bulk any juice that doesn't please him, and reds see long macerations with a percentage of whole bunches. Élevage takes place in used wood on the lees, and the wines are never pumped. What I tasted on this first visit indicates that Lavallée hit the ground running with his very first vintage. Textural but incisive, pure and penetrating, I was immensely impressed by these young wines - from pungently mineral Chablis, to perfumed and intense reds, to Saint-Bris that's more Auxerrois than it is Sauvignon, everything here comes warmly recommended, and I encourage importers to beat a path to this new domaine's door.

2020  

2020  

70yr old vines ---- "Bursting with aromas of red berries, peonies and orange rind, the 2020 Fixin Vieilles Vignes is medium-bodied, bright and charming, with melting tannins and a long, fragrant finish. It was vinified with some 70% whole bunches this year." - 89-91 WA ---- "An overtly floral nose combines notes of cool and nicely pure red and dark currant, newly turned earth and a hint of crushed fennel. There is both good tension and detail to the energetic middle weight flavors that also exude a lovely minerality on the youthfully austere and sneaky long finale." - BH

2020  Chablis

"The 2020 Chablis Mont de Milieu 1er Cru comes from a south-facing, warm microclimate; the vines are worked by horse, and for the first time, around half the cuvée has been in clay amphorae, which Olivier de Moor believes has lent more precision. It has a delightful bouquet with scents of yellow plum, tangerine and light honeysuckle aromas. The palate is well-balanced with very fine delineation and tension, razor-sharp (perhaps more than previous vintages) with a vibrant and, like the Vau de Vey, quite penetrating with a persistent finish. Shimmers in the glass." - 94pts Vinous

2020  

95pts Tim Atkin, 94-96 Jasper Morris MW

2020  Pommard 1er Cru

Pommard 1er Cru

2020  Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru

"The 2020 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Fonteny is also quite tightly wound after its recent bottling. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of dark berries, plums, licorice, spices and orange rind, it's framed by a touch of toasty new oak. Medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated, with an incipiently fleshy but tightly wound core of fruit, this is showing a touch more structure than I would have anticipated from barrel, so it's clear that patience will be required." - 94+pts WA

2020  Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru

"The 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Morgeot is once again one of the high points of the range, unwinding in the glass with scents of crisp yellow orchard fruit, beeswax, mint and freshly baked bread, followed by a medium to full-bodied, satiny and seamless palate that's animated by a racy spine of acidity, concluding with a long, chalky finish." - 94pts WA

2020  Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru

"The 2020 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Petite Chapelle has once again turned out especially well this year. Wafting from the glass with aromas of dark wild berries, licorice, lilac blossom and vine smoke, it's full-bodied, ample and layered, with terrific concentration, lively acids and beautifully refined tannins, concluding with a long, mouthwatering finish." - 95pts WA

2020  

"The 2020 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru opens in the glass with aromas of crisp stone fruit, white flowers, honeycomb and nutmeg, framed by a deft touch of toasty new oak. Full-bodied, ample and broad-shouldered, it's fleshy and concentrated, with an ample core of ripe fruit, lively acids and a long, chalky finish." - 94pts WA