Vosne Romanée Les Beauxmonts, Domaine des Lambrays 2022

Slightly vertical but ethereal and transparent on the nose, with dark berries, fine sweet spices and forest floor. Fine tannins and sweet spices in its lengthy, delineated finish. A bit darker and spicier than the Morey-Saint-Denis offerings. Drink from 2026.

The Beaux Monts from Lambrays 0.45 hectares in Beaux Monts Haut has produced a complex, enchanting wine in 2022. Tasted from barrel, the deeply-coloured wine shows a bit of reduction and impressively complex aromas of blackberry and rose petals, all with a saline, savoury, almost animal edge. The texture is dense and firmly tannic but not unapproachable. However, wine lovers able to wait a decade after release should be richly rewarded by this wine's complex beauty. (Drink between 2035-2075)