At once dark and perfumed this Romanee-Saint-Vivant is still very young, but the wine has terrific depth and tension for the vintage, the very fine tannins beautifully integrated with the mineral acidity on focused linear finish. This really needs some time to open up. From biodynamically grown grapes. Best from 2025.

(93-95 points) A glowing brisk crimson colour. The bouquet is where it belongs, at the heart of Vosne-Romanée. Still needs a little teasing out though. Good energy at the front of the palate, a useful thread of acidity, the oak lends a light char, then the fruit returns to sweep through to the finish. The acidity is just right, tannins are refined. Fresh crunchy red berry fruit to finish. Drink from 2029-2036.

The 2021 Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru clearly has whole bunch presence on the nose with brambly red fruit. Very elegant in style, it just blossoms in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy red berry fruit, soy and brown spices. Quite savoury compared to its peers, it has insistent grip and a healthy pinch of cracked black pepper on the tertiary finish. If you do not like stems, then avoid this, but I feel that it should all come together with time in bottle. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting. -- Neal Martin

There is a lovely ripe raspberry fruit with mineral, smoke, and leather notes on the initial attack here, along with a point of reduction that will certainly resolve when the wine is racked in January. The texture is racy and lean, with firm tannins, fresh acidity, and enough extract to ensure a lingering finish. The grapes come from quarter-hectare and are partially destemmed before fermenting on ambient yeast and ageing in cask. In 2021 there were four casks, two of them new.