(Please read my vintage overview here.)
Florian Rémy said that he began harvesting on 6 September.
We begin with three negociant wines under the Héritières Louis Rémy label.
2018 Bourgogne-Côte d’Or Pinot Noir
There’s good density here with red fruits, rust, and some minerality. From a property bordering the Morey-Saint-Denis appellation; wine purchased in barrel. (87-89)
2018 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Seuvrées
From purchased grapes, vineyard is nest to the Morey-Saint-Denis boundary and below Mazoyères-Chambertin (among others), but west of the route nationale. This wine shows red cherry fruit, medium-weight, good intensity, enough acidity, and tannic support. (88-90)
2018 Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru Clos des Ormes
Also from purchased grapes, from a vineyard below Clos de la Roche and near the Gevrey-Chambertin border. This wine is very ripe and shows moderate acidity to go with cherry fruit; the energy of the previous wine is lacking here. (86-88)
The estate wines under the Domaine Chantal Rémy label:
Malolactic fermentations were quick. 10% whole clusters in the wines. Normal yield for the Morey, but grands crus were higher.
2018 Morey-Saint-Denis Clos des Rosiers
From a patch just over the wall from the Clos des Lambrays, planted in 2000. The wine is pure, intense, and deep with rust, red fruits and some dark ones, and good acidity. (90-92)
2018 Clos de la Roche
Let’s get the ugly out first — grapes picked at 15.2º natural alcohol; with time in the barrel, this wine is down to 14.9º. This is not the type of wine I want to drink, yet for certain palates, there is something attractive here, and so an “objective” score. Very ripe, New World-style with red fruits and richness, but no sense of Clos de la Roche here. The alcohol, high as it is, doesn’t really show in the mouth. (89-92)
2018 Latricières-Chambertin
Here the alcohol is more modest — 14.2º, although still high for Burgundy, in general. The wine is rich and ripe with red cherry fruit. It has sufficient acidity, but no Latricières tension although there is some energy. Again, it is not my choice to drink a wine of this style, but some will like it. (91-94)
2018 Chambertin
The Chambertin is more Burgundian than the other two grands crus, with intense red cherry aromas and flavors, some oak showing, too. (91-94)