This Grand Cru Chambertin Clos de Bèze  shows agreeably fresh, layered and cool wild red berry fruit aromas that are liberally laced with a sauvage character. There is good richness and plenty of volume to the tautly muscled medium weight plus flavors that possess a subtle minerality that continues onto the impressively long finish. Like several wines in the range this is not especially complex at present but my projected range offers the benefit of the doubt that much more will develop with time in bottle.

Eric and Jean-Luc Burguet succinctly described 2012 as a "difficult vintage that was not easy to manage. We lost a lot of the potential crop because of a poor flowering and then at the time of the harvest we lost more due to a careful sorting process. On the plus side the fruit was concentrated and the vinifications were able to pull out this material into the wine with almost no help from us. As a result the 2012s are quite fleshy and generous with seductive mouth feels that should allow the wines to be very popular as they will be easy to appreciate. For us, 2012 is not a great vintage but it is an attractive one all the same." My take on the Burguet 2012s is pretty much spot on with how the brothers feel about their wines, which is to say that the quality is consistent with the general level of the vintage. The 2012s will be bottled without fining or filtration.
91-93/100 Allen Meadows - burghound.com - issue 53 - Jan 2014

Glowing purple with an impressive density of fruit, though the detail is yet to emerge. Super-stylish, very graceful, yet the weight of fruit builds gloriously on the palate to a very noble finish with great persistence. It is all about the elegance. Superb. 
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer

The 2013 harvest is the latest ever recorded at Burguet, starting 9th October, in the cold more than the rain – there was even some frost one morning. They have three separate sorting stations, though rot varied by sector. Vinification was normal, a long time in tank but a gentle approach. The 2013 is particularly, and consistently, successful chez Burguet.

Fine mid-purple, this again starts discreetly but then swells magically on the palate to a very long, graceful, expansive finish. Wherever we have tasted it, Clos de Bèze has been very true to itself this year.

This year Jean-Luc and Eric Burguet purchased some additional vineyards from another member of the family: an additional 0.75ha each in the two village Gevrey cuvées. We may also get a small allocation of Gevrey-Chambertin, Champeaux, 1er Cru and a new wine, Gevrey-Chambertin, Lavaux St Jacques, 1er Cru. They found that 2014 produced decent yields, with picking beginning on 18th September.

Rich full purple. An explosive nose of weight and majesty, everything you would hope for. Chassin barrel shows again, marvellous mid palate fruit, then a wonderful long finish based around a complex basket of fruit, superb texture, seamless, and enormously long. Again there is a wonderful, fresh undercurrent which comes from picking at the right time. Bravo. Throughout this wine shows a beautiful grain of finesse, with silky tannins all the way through.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Buying Director

A glowing deep purple, an initial barrel toast soon departs and fruit rushes in. There is a great sense of harmony, enhanced by ultra-concentrated cherries, flamboyant at the front, rich through the middle, perfumed and timeless at the back. 
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer

Faiveley use three picking teams. Two started in the white wine vineyards on 28th September and were finished in four days. Then it was all hands to the red grapes. In general the harvest came in healthily, the hard work all year round in the vineyards paying dividends. We were once again very impressed.

Given time, even the tough Faiveley tannins will rescind to allow this gem of a vineyard shine through. Be patient though.

The beautiful purple colour demonstrates the majesty of this wine. A regal nose of fine, black fruit, scented blackcurrant and cassis follows, yet with elegance and restraint. There is a lovely coolness to the fruit, introverted but with wonderful potential. A glorious harmony throughout, and a sinuous strength with rich, velvety tannins. 
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer

 

Just four barrels were produced this year from these old vines in the the plot right in the middle of Faiveley’s holding. A touch of clay in the soil gives weight and the nose has an unbelievable class. Really precise, and with amazing length, it has a very long finish and there is clearly much more to come.
Jasper Morris MW, Berrys' Burgundy Director The resurgence begun by the trio of Erwan Faiveley, Bernard Hervé and winemaker Jérôme Flous, who arrived in 2007, is very apparent in this brilliant series of 2011 wines. They began the harvest on 31 August and picked for 9 days. There are some new wines this year from a contract for the whole production of an estate in Chambolle-Musigny and the Faiveley white wines from totally healthy grapes are particularly successful in 2011, perhaps the best we have seen from the new regime.

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An addition to the list in 2009 and an exceptional wine. The colour is on the blacker side of imperial purple. The nose is magically exuberant, beautiful aromatics without any suggestion of over-ripeness. This really delivers a magical volume of flavour - one can sense a huge amount of detail which is currently lost inside the sumptuous wealth of fruit. Once again there are minerals lingering at the finish. Put this one away.
Jasper Morris MW, Fine Wine Buyer