En Orveaux

This parcel is situated right next to the border with Chambolle, it therefore comes as no surprise to find piercing red fruit right through this wine. Stunning poise and finer, more lifted then the Brûlées, this is a fantastic Vosne of the very highest quality.  The choice between this and the Brûlées is really a personal preference over the style you look for.
Matthew Tipping – Fine Wine Sales Manager
 

This wine has extraordinary finesse, delivering fruit and flowers together on the nose, very silky red-purple fruit. The tannins here are beautifully covered by the flesh and an enormously persistent finish. What amazing elegance: this is truly fabulous, cool, precise, and floral.

We discovered Jean-Pierre Guyon’s amazing wines last year, just in time to offer his 2013s in the summer, so this is his first entry in our en primeur offering. This is a domaine worth discovering, producing intense wines with layers of complexity waiting to unfold. There is no question about the concentration here in 2014 – these are certainly wines for keeping.

Rich full purple, this is too dark-fruited to be floral, but there is a whole wealth of different things going on. It’s really spicy with plump fruit, an intense core between black and red, dense raspberry, but also strikingly backward. Drink 2023-2035.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer

It is not easy to get a tasting with Jean-Pierre Guyon as he likes to be out in the vineyards all day long (“I am the shepherd of my grapes”). His meticulous work in the vineyards enables him to work thereafter with ripe and healthy grapes which can be vinified without sulphur and entirely as whole bunches. The wines have been matured in less new wood than previously, although it’s still two thirds for the top cuvées. Jean-Pierre has also worked his whites to minimise their weight in this sunny year, fermenting in older barrels with no lees’ stirring.

Sitting on the slope above the Echezeaux vineyard, this is a wine of finesse and energy. Rich and suave, but with an elegant, feminine edge, this is a masterclass in understated power. The style gives a nod to neighbouring Chambolle, a wine Jean-Pierre is keen to make. Drink 2024-2035. Adam Bruntlett, Wine Buyer

This excellent domaine in Vosne-Romanée has flown under the radar – perhaps because Jean-Pierre Guyon spends so much of his time out in the vineyards, which have been farmed organically since 2006, certified from 2012. With his high-pedigree viticulture as a great starting point, Jean-Pierre can employ whole-bunch fermentation as the stalks are ripe, eschewing the use of sulphur at this stage, though some is added during élevage and at bottling to assure stability. Despite obvious frustration at the small volumes, Jean-Pierre Guyon is delighted with the quality of his 2016s. He describes it as a vintage of great Pinot Noir typicity, which will be greater than 2015, explaining that the wines' saline character will have you reaching for the next glass. As ever, the grapes here were picked a touch later than many estates to ensure the stems were fully ripe. He only bought six new barrels for the entire 2016 crop, so the proportion of new oak is reduced.