Buisson-Charles En Primeur

Generous and golden nose, showing ripe fruit, some honey and buttery notes in a mellow style. Bright on the palate with a lively frame, excellent intensity and some bite. Finely textured, really quite deft and vinous ? there is great weight and ?oomph? but it remains so well balanced. Flavourful, complex flavour and texture. Superb. 2-9 years.

Stewed apple fruit with a creamy note of pastry, rich but also more mineral than some. This is big and rich yet has a mouth-watering saline character too, as well as a long finish. 3-9+ years.

A very pleasing wine this year with plenty of weight of sweet apples and pears with a lovely note of honey. The palate remains juicy with good freshness and has good weight and structure for a Bourgogne Blanc. 0-5 years.

A pure nose, some tropical hints of pineapple with more ginger and soft spices with a chalky, stony mineral feel. Rich attack with sparkling acidity, very good clarity and a tonic-like edge. Great mineral grip, the palate grows in weight to a ripe fruit character and a pleasing salinity. 5-15 years.

Les Cras has the same chalky soils as Corton, and Buisson-Charles is one of just three growers here. An immediate sense of tension on the nose, very fresh and direct, with notes of pressed white flowers and delicate oily citrus. Powerful and rich, almost creamy but very bright and tense with some lemon citrus, taut mineral bite, opening out to something more textured, with a warming gingery note and long flavours of meal, toast and honey. 5-15 years.

Very attractive ripe nose, some oily richness and good volume with plenty of freshness, showing a touch of flint. The mouth shows a sweet edge and super acidity giving a certain poise. Creamy core with plenty of base, animated and energetic and flavours of white fruit and rich lime citrus. Ample and very Meursault, long and finely textured with apple fruits and flowers on the long, nutty and mealy finish. 0-7 years.

From 50-to-70 year old vines, this was a little less exuberant than some of its compatriots, still rich and concentrated but with soursop fruit, plenty of sweetness, a spicy note and honey on the long finish. 3-9+ years.

Pretty and peachy with a nice lick of tropical freshness from some pineapple fruit. A little more subdued on the palate showing a good backbone, plenty of weight and a fine mineral finish. Another vineyard that lost some crop to hail early in the season.

Appealing, ripe, red fruit character with some herb and spice too, perhaps from the whole bunches used here. The fruit is fresh and juicy with a nice salty mineral twist on the finish. 0-5 years.

Brambly on the nose with some pleasant red fruit. Succulent on the palate which is full of raspberry fruit and a more savoury note of tobacco, with a hint of tangerine zest on the finish. 3-9+ years.

A creamy nose, floral and gently spicy but understated. The palate follows suit and feels fairly compact and really quite seamless though there is a sense of firm minerality. There is a lot here and it drinks beautifully, but it whispers not shouts, hence the scant tasting note! 3-15 years.

Les Teurons is an especially ripe south-east facing and stony site with some deposits of clay which help combat the warmer vintages like 2022. Great aromatic intensity, rich in sweet raspberry and pressed rose, a certain plumpness. The palate shows a cool structure and great mineral intensity, overlaid with wonderfully concentrated red fruits, a touch of plum and spice, finishing long, clean and precise.

Gorgeous nose! Lots of fresh raspberry fruit and a great floral perfume, some spice and leaf, a little crunch ? all very flattering. Sweet attack then a delicate and fine tension, with a perfumed leafy frame. This is super fine and feels grand, beautifully knit with lovely acidity and a long finish with a moreish, savoury vein. Serious but delicious! 2-9 years.

Lovely freshness on the nose, showing warmer orange-like citrus and notes of ginger. Ripe with that 2022 finesse and poise, notes of pressed flowers, creamed nut and soft red fruits. Good freshness and lift. Brilliant acidity and some tension on the palate, showing a little viscosity and an undulating feel - nicely balanced with good richness and mineral depth. 2-9 years.

From two low-yielding plots, one in Meursault in front of Volnay and one in Puligny near Chassagne. A lovely complex nose offering some mulch and Pinot leaf, then a flourish of fine red fruits, notes of the forest floor and a little wood. Medium-bodied with excellent purity and a little spicy stem, with juicy red fruits that bleed into something darker. Supple, tasty and mineral with a long, fresh finish. Very complete. 0-7 years.