Beaune Premier Cru 'Les Grèves', Domaine de Montille, 2021 Variant:DUTY PAID guided by the Honest Grapes

guided by the Honest Grapes Wine Gurus to taste up to 40 wines

Pol Couronne's Brut Rosé is light

This is a serious Beaune Premier Cru — not the showy

This is Pinot Noir at its most determined rather than its most generous

touching Grand Cru quality (a status upgrade growers requested back in 2012)

Beaune Premier Cru 'Les Grèves', Domaine de Montille, 2021 Variant:DUTY PAID guided by the Honest GrapesDomaine de Montille is one of Burgundy's most quietly authoritative estates, and Les Grves is one of the reasons why. This is a serious Beaune Premier Cru not the showy, plump kind that flatters on first pour, but the kind that earns its keep. One third whole cluster fermentation gives it a spine and a faint woodland savouriness that lifts the dark fruit without dominating it. There's a rugged quality here, something a little brooding, with tannins