2018 Vougeot Clos du Prieure Monopole Blanc La Vougeraie

Medium deep red purple. The nose is a beauty, with perfectly judged whole bunch - quite a lot numerically, 75%, but working in perfect harmony. This is quintessential Vougeraie style, very elegant all the way through with a graceful alpine strawberry finish. Tasted: November 2019.

The 2018 Vougeot Le Clos du Prieuré Blanc reveals expressive aromas of pear, mandarin, fresh pastry and white flowers. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, racy and precise, with a pretty core of fragrant fruit underpinned by impressively lively acids.

The 2018 Vougeot Le Clos du Prieuré Blanc 1er Cru comes from a parcel near the Vouge River, which unfortunately leaves the vines vulnerable to hungry ducks. The bouquet is well defined with a little more mineral tension than the Beaune Blanc tasted alongside. The well-balanced palate offers passion fruit and pineapple notes and a fine bead of acidity; the prudent 20% new oak is just right. Excellent.

Pale gold in colour, offering heady lemon curd, toasty oak and flinty aromas. Generous on entry, revealing salted lemon peel, candied ginger, and quince with firm, yet juicy acidity and a fantastic long finish marked by a distinct crushed-stone minerality. Grapes come from the tiny, 0.8-hectare organic and biodynamically farmed...