Burgundy Wine

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Chorey-lès-Beaune – Les Beaumonts
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: France
Vintage: 2022

The Wine

The Pavelot family is most closely associated with Savigny-lès-Beaune, where Jean-Marc and his son Hugues produce some of the appellation’s most consistently transparent wines. Les Beaumonts extends that approach into neighbouring Chorey-lès-Beaune, an appellation valued for supple, fruit-driven Pinot Noir that can offer excellent value beside the better-known villages surrounding Beaune.

Chorey occupies the lower, gently sloping ground between Beaune, Savigny and Aloxe-Corton. Its clay-limestone and alluvial soils generally produce softer tannins and earlier accessibility than the steeper Premier Cru vineyards of Savigny, while the freshness of the northern Côte de Beaune keeps the wines lively.

The 2022 Les Beaumonts was matured for approximately 12 to 14 months in oak, in keeping with Pavelot’s restrained handling of village wines. The generous vintage has produced an expressive, polished Pinot Noir built around red cherry and strawberry, with smooth tannins and enough savoury detail to remain distinctly Burgundian.

Cellared Says

This is the kind of village Burgundy that makes far more sense than chasing increasingly expensive appellations on name alone. Pavelot brings serious Savigny pedigree to a naturally approachable site, producing a wine with charm, polish and genuine Côte de Beaune character.

Reviews

“A lifted, red-fruited nose… smooth tannins and a sensual, persistent finish. Excellent.”

90–92 Points – Neal Martin, Vinous

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Clos de l'Arlot Monopole
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

Clos de l'Arlot is one of Burgundy's great historic monopoles and the spiritual heart of Domaine de l'Arlot. Enclosed by stone walls since the eighteenth century, the vineyard lies immediately below the domaine in Prémeaux-Prissey, where a unique combination of shallow Comblanchien limestone and limestone scree produces a style of Nuits-Saint-Georges unlike any other. While the appellation is often associated with power and structure, Clos de l'Arlot has long been admired for its perfume, silkiness and remarkable finesse.

Since AXA Millésimes acquired the estate in 1987, and particularly under Géraldine Godot's stewardship, Domaine de l'Arlot has become one of Burgundy's benchmark biodynamic producers. Organic farming commenced in 2003 before full biodynamic conversion in 2014. The emphasis today is firmly on transparency of terroir through healthier soils, gentler extraction and increasingly refined élevage.

The vineyard sits on a naturally free-draining limestone slope where the thin soils encourage deep root systems and naturally restricted yields. Fruit is hand harvested and rigorously sorted before a proportion of whole bunches—carefully judged according to the vintage—is retained for fermentation. Indigenous yeasts, gentle extraction and maturation in French oak barrels (around one-third new) preserve the vineyard's floral perfume and mineral precision without masking its identity.

Compared with the more muscular Clos des Forêts Saint Georges, Clos de l'Arlot is the more elegant and immediately seductive wine of the estate. It is often the first to reveal its charm in youth, yet possesses the balance and structure to evolve gracefully over two decades or more.

Cellared Says

If Clos des Forêts is the powerhouse of the domaine, Clos de l'Arlot is its thoroughbred. The perfume is haunting, the tannins impossibly fine, and there is a sense of effortless balance that only truly great vineyards seem able to produce. It may sit in the shadow of some more famous Côte de Nuits names, but in the right vintage, it comfortably plays in the same league. Tasted May 2026 in Hong Kong in a 10 year vertical, youthful sure, but already sublimely formed and will only get better. Excellent.

Reviews

"A beautiful purity of fruit with floral aromatics, fine tannins and exceptional precision. This is a wonderfully complete expression of Clos de l'Arlot."

94–96 Points – Neal Martin, Vinous

"Refined, elegant and beautifully proportioned, with vibrant raspberry fruit, floral lift and excellent persistence."

93–95 Points – Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Suchots
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

Les Suchots is widely regarded as one of the finest Premier Crus in Vosne-Romanée, lying directly between Romanée-Saint-Vivant and Richebourg. Given its extraordinary location and remarkable consistency, it is often spoken of as a de facto Grand Cru, producing wines that combine the perfume and exotic spice of Vosne with exceptional depth and longevity.

Domaine de l'Arlot farms a small parcel within this celebrated vineyard under the same biodynamic principles that have transformed the estate over the past two decades. The limestone-rich soils, gentle east-facing slope and old vines consistently produce fruit of remarkable precision and natural balance.

Fruit is hand harvested before partial whole-bunch fermentation using indigenous yeasts. Gentle extraction and maturation in French oak preserve the vineyard's hallmark fragrance and silky texture while allowing the distinctive mineral character of Suchots to shine through.

Production is tiny, making this one of the rarest wines in the Domaine de l'Arlot portfolio and one of the most sought-after.

Cellared Says

There are very few Premier Crus I'd choose ahead of Suchots, and this is a wonderful example of why. It delivers much of the perfume, silk and complexity collectors chase in Vosne's Grand Crus, but at a considerably more approachable price. If you're looking for one bottle to put away for a decade or two, I'd start here.

Reviews

"A magnificent Suchots with exceptional aromatic complexity and beautifully refined tannins."

96–98 Points – Jasper Morris MW

"Brilliantly detailed and effortlessly elegant, with outstanding persistence."

95–97 Points – Neal Martin, Vinous

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Clos des Forêts Saint Georges Monopole
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

If there is one wine that defines Domaine de l'Arlot, it is Clos des Forêts Saint Georges. Covering 7.2 hectares in a single walled vineyard, this historic monopole is one of the great terroirs of Nuits-Saint-Georges and has been synonymous with the estate since its foundation in 1891. Unlike many Premier Crus that comprise numerous growers and disparate parcels, Clos des Forêts is a single, uninterrupted vineyard, allowing the domaine to farm and vinify the site with extraordinary precision.

The vineyard is remarkable for its geological diversity, spanning the entire limestone slope. Ladoix limestone forms the lower section, Premeaux limestone dominates the mid-slope, while white oolitic limestone appears higher on the hill, all interspersed with pockets of ochre silt. This mosaic of soils gives the wine its unique personality: the power and depth expected of Nuits-Saint-Georges, married to an uncommon elegance, perfume and mineral precision. Biodynamically farmed since 2014, the old vines are managed with meticulous attention to soil health and biodiversity, producing naturally low yields of exceptional fruit.

Under Géraldine Godot, Domaine de l'Arlot has refined its winemaking philosophy to favour transparency over extraction. Fruit is hand harvested, carefully sorted and partially fermented with whole bunches, depending on the vintage, before indigenous yeast fermentation. Gentle extraction preserves perfume and texture, while élevage takes place in French oak barrels, around 35–40% new, for approximately 15 months. The result is a wine that captures both the authority of this celebrated monopole and the increasingly refined style that has established Domaine de l'Arlot among Burgundy's elite producers.

Produced in very limited quantities, Clos des Forêts Saint Georges is widely regarded as one of the benchmark wines of the Côte de Nuits and a reference point for what great Nuits-Saint-Georges can achieve.

Cellared Says

This is the wine I gravitate towards in the Arlot range. It has all the depth and longevity you'd expect from a great Nuits-Saint-Georges, but what continually surprises me is its perfume and finesse. There aren't many monopoles in Burgundy that consistently perform at this level, and Clos des Forêts is undoubtedly one of them. It's a serious collector's wine that will comfortably reward two decades in a good cellar.

Reviews

"Spice- and earth-driven with a lovely restrained edge, giving aromas of cherries, bark, blood oranges, charcuterie, dried rose petals and graphite. The palate is chewy and tactile, with firmly framed tannins and focused acidity, finishing with a mineral undertone. There is a lot of complexity and character to come with more time in the bottle."

97 Points – James Suckling

"The Clos des Forêts Saint Georges covers the entire geological range of the slopes of Nuits-Saint-Georges... a unique terroir in a privileged location that has, from its origin, produced one of the appellation's greatest wines."

95–97 Points – Neal Martin, Vinous

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Nuits-Saint-Georges
Variety: Chardonnay
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

Domaine de l'Arlot occupies one of Burgundy's most remarkable estates, centred around the historic Clos de l'Arlot monopole. Surrounded by stone walls since the 18th century and farmed biodynamically since 2014, the domaine has become one of the Côte de Nuits' benchmark producers under Géraldine Godot's thoughtful stewardship.

Clos de l'Arlot Blanc is one of Burgundy's rare white wines from Nuits-Saint-Georges. Planted on Comblanchien limestone immediately below the château, the vineyard combines shallow limestone soils with excellent drainage, producing Chardonnay of remarkable tension and mineral drive.

Fruit is hand harvested before whole-bunch pressing and fermentation with indigenous yeasts in French oak. Extended élevage and restrained oak handling allow the vineyard's chalky character and natural energy to shine.

Production is tiny, making this one of Burgundy's most sought-after white wines each vintage.

Cellared Says

White Nuits-Saint-Georges is rare enough. When it's made by Domaine de l'Arlot from the Clos itself, it becomes something genuinely special. This is one of Burgundy's hidden treasures. Tasted in Hong Kong May 2026, exceptional and even better than the ‘22.

Reviews

"A wonderfully complete wine with superb precision, minerality and remarkable persistence."

95–97 Points – Jasper Morris MW

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Pouilly-Loché
Variety: Chardonnay
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

Pouilly-Loché remains one of Burgundy's hidden gems. Covering barely 30 hectares, this tiny appellation sits adjacent to Pouilly-Fuissé and shares many of the same limestone-rich soils that make its more famous neighbour so sought after.

Le Bourg is sourced from old-vine parcels surrounding the village itself. The site combines deep limestone soils with a cooler exposition that naturally preserves acidity and freshness. Marcel Couturier farms these vineyards biodynamically, seeking maximum site expression and vineyard health.

Fermentation occurs with indigenous yeasts and élevage takes place in a combination of older barrels and tank. The emphasis is always on texture, precision and transparency rather than winemaking influence.

Cellared Says

This is one of those wines that quietly converts people into Mâconnais believers. It has all the limestone tension and white Burgundy character you'd hope for, but without the increasingly painful price tag. Yes, its sunny and bright, but also charming, fine, surprisingly complex and excellent drinking.

Reviews

"Complex, layered and beautifully mineral, with impressive depth and length."
93 Points – Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy

"A compelling expression of Pouilly-Loché, combining richness with freshness and energy."
92 Points – Vinous

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Mâcon-Loché
Variety: Chardonnay
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

Marcel Couturier has become one of the benchmark growers of southern Burgundy, farming organically and biodynamically across some of the finest limestone terroirs in the Mâconnais. The domaine is based in Loché, a small village immediately south of Fuissé, where old vines and limestone-rich soils consistently produce wines that outperform their appellation.

Les Longues Terres is sourced from a single vineyard planted on limestone and clay soils with a strong calcareous influence. The vines average over 50 years of age, naturally limiting yields and producing fruit with concentration and site character. Farming is meticulous, with all vineyard work carried out according to biodynamic principles.

In the cellar, fermentation takes place with indigenous yeasts and the wine is matured predominantly in older oak barrels, allowing the vineyard character to remain front and centre. There is no excessive oak influence here—just texture, mineral drive and remarkable purity.

Cellared Says

The best Mâcon wines increasingly offer some of Burgundy's greatest value, and Marcel Couturier sits firmly in that conversation. This is the sort of bottle that routinely embarrasses village-level Côte de Beaune wines at twice the price.

Reviews

"A wine of wonderful purity and precision, with bright citrus fruit, chalky minerality and impressive persistence."
92 Points – Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy

"Beautifully balanced with freshness, energy and a long mineral finish."
91 Points – Vinous

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Morgeot
Variety: Chardonnay
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

Morgeot is one of Chassagne’s largest and most historically important Premier Cru sites, known for producing wines with greater breadth, texture and power than the higher, rockier vineyards closer to Puligny. PYCM’s holdings are planted on clay-limestone soils that naturally give more weight through the palate while still retaining freshness thanks to Colin-Morey’s low-yield approach and carefully timed harvesting.

Fruit is hand-picked and whole-bunch pressed before fermentation with indigenous yeasts in 350L barrels. New oak is used sparingly and there is no lees stirring, preserving the tension and mineral line that define the PYCM style. Elevage is extended and controlled, with part of the maturation completed in tank before bottling to maintain freshness and precision.

The result is a Morgeot that carries the appellation’s expected depth and texture, but without heaviness — more focused and saline than many examples from the site.

Cellared Says

Morgeot can sometimes lean broad and obvious. PYCM’s version doesn’t. It still has the scale and authority you want from Chassagne, but with the cut and precision that make it genuinely compelling.

Reviews

Notes of pear, clear honey, white flowers and freshly baked bread introduce the 2023 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Abbaye de Morgeot, a medium to full-bodied, satiny and seamless wine that will offer a broad drinking window.

William Kelley, The Wine Advocate 91-93 Points

Smoky aromas of various white-fleshed fruit, petrol and candied citrus give way to supple, delicious and caressing, if not especially dense, flavors that still manage to possess focused power on the agreeable dry, rustic and balanced finale. ♥ Outstanding
Allen Meadows, Burghound 90-93 Points

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Meursault 1er Cru Poruzots
Variety: Chardonnay
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

Poruzots is one of Meursault’s great structured Premier Crus and a site Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey handles exceptionally well. The domaine works with parcels in the upper section of Poruzots-Dessus, beneath the Narvaux vineyards, where thinner limestone soils and cooler exposition produce wines with more tension and longevity than the broader style often associated with Meursault.

The vines range from plantings in the early 1970s through to the 1990s, with low yields and careful vineyard management focused on preserving acidity and phenolic balance. As with all PYCM wines, the fruit is hand-picked and whole-bunch pressed before fermentation in 350-litre barrels using indigenous yeasts.

Winemaking is highly precise and reductive in style: no bâtonnage, restrained new oak and long élevage on fine lees, followed by time in tank before bottling to refine texture and manage dissolved oxygen. It is often one of the most mineral, saline and long-lived wines in the PYCM Meursault range.

Cellared Says

This is Meursault for people who value structure and minerality over easy richness. Poruzots nearly always rewards patience, and PYCM’s version has become one of the benchmark examples of the vineyard. 1 bottle.

Reviews

From a site that consistently delivers breadth and structure, this shows excellent concentration allied to freshness, with notes of pear, citrus oil and lightly toasted almond.

95 Points — Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy

The 2023 Meursault Les Poruzots 1er Cru has a delightful bouquet with yellow plum, orchard fruit and light limestone aromas that gain intensity in the glass. The palate is very well balanced with impressive weight and density, yet it retains admirable precision and tension. What a superb Meursault—highly recommended.

94 Points — Neal Martin, Vinous

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Chenevottes
Variety: Chardonnay
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

Chenevottes sits mid-slope in Chassagne, close to the northern border and not far from Le Montrachet itself. The site is notable for its extremely shallow soils — often just 15cm before hitting bedrock — which drives concentration, minerality and naturally low yields.

The domaine farms around 0.62 hectares of vines planted in the 1960s. This is a site that, with age, can show a profile approaching grand cru level in complexity.

As always at PYCM, fruit is whole-bunch pressed, fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in 350L barrels with minimal new oak. Elevage is long and controlled, with a portion of time in tank to refine the wine before bottling. No bâtonnage, no filtration.

Cellared Says

This is a serious site, and PYCM treats it that way. It has the bones of a long-term wine, and it’s one of those bottles that will look cheap in hindsight. One for the cellar.

Reviews

Three plots, one which Pierre-Yves purchased in 2002, and two from his father-in-law, Jean-Marc-Morey. Pale colour, steely nose. Very evenly balanced across the palate between the fruit with its greener edge, though still ripe, the tannins and just a little bit of wood to back them up. A wine which grows towards the back of the palate. Drink from 2028-2034. Tasted Oct 2024.

(92-95) Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy

The 2023 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Chenevottes has also turned out beautifully, offering up a gently reductive bouquet of crisp orchard fruit, toasted almonds, white flowers and smoke. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and seamless, it's racy and pure, with a layered, complete profile. Pierre-Yves Colin has delivered another successful 2023 vintage, and almost everything I tasted remained un-racked on the lees, undergoing a long élevage in pursuit of more tension and complexity. As ever, picking tends to be on the early side with a view to retaining freshness. As readers may know, Colin's bigger cuvées are crushed and see four-hour press cycles, whereas smaller cuvées aren't crushed but see even longer press cycles lasting five or more hours. Vinification and maturation in barrel, with a heavy emphasis on larger-format barrels, follow. As I've written before, since moving to his new, much colder cellars in Chassagne-Montrachet's "zone artisanale," he finds his wines retain significantly more free sulfur dioxide for any given addition, so a touch less is being used.
92-94 Points - Wine Advocate Jan 2025

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Chassagne-Montrachet
Variety: Chardonnay
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

This cuvée is drawn from four parcels totalling approximately 0.75 hectares, located on the northern side of Chassagne close to the Puligny border. These sites sit on deeper soils with a higher clay content, contributing more mid-palate weight than higher-slope sites.

The “Vieilles Vignes” designation reflects older vine material across these parcels, delivering greater concentration and extract.

Winemaking follows the domaine’s precise, reductive approach: whole-bunch pressing, indigenous yeast fermentation in 350L barrels, minimal new oak and long élevage on lees without bâtonnage. The reductive handling and controlled oxygen exposure are key to the wine’s tension and ageing potential.

Cellared Says

This is where Chassagne starts to show real depth. There’s more weight here than Saint-Aubin, but PYCM keeps it in check. Proper village Burgundy with intent.

Reviews

A blend of three vineyards on the Puligny side of the appellation, the 2023 ChassagneMontrachet Vieilles Vignes has a slightly reductive bouquet that makes it difficult to read at the moment. The palate is well balanced with a tangy orange rind-tinged opening and lovely weight in the mouth, as lilting clementine and apricot notes mix with citrus peel toward the harmonious finish. This will be delicious.

(90-92) points, Neal Martin, Vinous Media, November 2024.

Region: Burgundy
Sub Region: Saint-Aubin 1er Cru
Variety: Chardonnay
Country: France
Vintage: 2023

The Wine

A multi-site 1er Cru blend from three high-quality Saint-Aubin climats: Combes, Perrières and Les Créots. These sites sit at higher altitude above Puligny and Chassagne, on thinner limestone-rich soils that deliver wines with naturally higher acidity, tension and salinity.

The cuvée was first created in 2016, named in tribute to Colin-Morey’s grandmother. Across the parcels (totalling over 1 hectare), the focus is on low yields and precise picking to retain freshness in what can be a variable appellation.

Winemaking is classic PYCM: whole-bunch pressing, wild fermentation in 350L barrels, no lees stirring and extended elevage on fine lees. A portion of the wine is transferred to tank before bottling to refine texture and control reduction, a hallmark of the domaine’s modern approach.

Cellared Says

Saint-Aubin is no longer a “step down” in the right hands. This sits much closer to Puligny in style than price, and it’s one of the smartest buys in the PYCM range.

Reviews

The 2023 Saint-Aubin Hommage à Marguerite 1er Cru, a blend of Combe, Perrières and Craillot, is delightful, fresh and saline with subtle notes of sea spray and white peaches. The palate is well balanced with a tangy opening, and lively peach nuances develop toward the finish. This is harmonious and quite irresistible already. Recommended. (91-93) points - Neal Martin

The 2023 Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Hommage à Marguerite is fleshy and charming, bursting with aromas of pear, buttered toast and sweet citrus fruit, followed by a medium to full-bodied, ample and fleshy palate with a satiny attack and a saline finish. This will offer a broad drinking window.

90-91 Points - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate