Beautiful dense purple in colour, this is a bit more open than les Champeaux, a really stylish, fine-boned cuvée this year, on the cusp of red and black fruit with a lovely elegant finish. This absolutely reflects the style of Arnaud Mortet. 
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer

Arnaud harvested from 25th September for 10 days and, though the grapes needed lots of sorting, yields finished up better than in 2012. He likens the vintage to 2008 but with more flesh and more flattering. Arnaud is continuing slowly to reduce the percentage of new wood – no more than 30% for the village bottlings, 50-60% for the Premiers Crus.

The 70 year old vines give an intense deep purple colour, with very concentrated fruit on the nose. This lovely Lavaux offers an exceptional intensity of fruit, balanced between red and black, with great weight and brilliant length.
Jasper Morris MW - Burgundy Wine Director

It was fascinating to taste the 2012 range with Bertrand Maume and his colleagues from Marchand-Tawse, who now assist in the winemaking process since Moray Tawse bought the domaine two years ago. There is still the recognisable, characterful Maume style but some of the inconsistencies of the past have been ironed out. There has been a little more pumping-over to aerate the fermenting vats and thus better manage the reductive aspects of old-style Maume winemaking. 2012 is a lovely vintage here.

This wine wears its 100% new oak incredibly well. There is even more density to the colour than Mortet’s Gevrey Champeaux whilst a rich, sensual nose with a whole bag of red and black fruits precedes a very glossy mouthful with excellent structure behind. The fruit continues to burst across the palate for a very long time after tasting. This is a very special wine indeed!
Jasper Morris MW, Berrys' Burgundy Director Arnaud Mortet has reduced the new wood percentage in his cuvées as well as the time that the lesser appellations spend in barrel. He also continues to cut back on extraction again with less punching down and more pumping over. All this is a good thing, because the key to the wines – the perfect ripeness through exceptional work in the vineyards – remains unchanged and enables Arnaud to deliver a set of wines of which his father would have approved. He began picking on 1st September, with fully ripe grapes. There is a lovely balance in 2011 chez Mortet.