This Saint Véran Blanc from Château Fuissé is made from 30-year-old vines. It is characterized by a beautiful freshness with notes of citrus. The clay-limestone soils, sublimated by vinification in vats, are revealed through a salty wine of great generosity. A Saint Véran of great finesse!

More brooding and reserved than the Échézeaux that preceded it in the tasting, the 2017 Grands Échézeaux Grand Cru unwinds in the glass with an enticing bouquet of cassis, blackberries, blood orange, exotic spices and musk. On the palate, it’s full-bodied, ample and fleshy, with a more introverted, structured profile than the Échézeaux, its considerable...