Chambolle Musigny, Les Veroilles, 1er Cru, 2018

In our view the most successful cuvée in Barthod's cellar this year. Full of verve and resplendent fruit, the tannins are gripping but silky and melt into the body of the wine. Bursting with fresh, floral bramble and loganberry fruit, notes of cherry blossom and black cherry. Juicy, broad and expansive but holding its shape and definition well. Fulsome, satisfying and impeccably balanced. Top class. This is one of Chambolle’s higher crus sitting adjacent to Bonnes-Mares. It also has denser soils than its neighbouring Chambolle vineyards often producing very intense, mineral but powerful and compact wines, rather like Bonnes-Mares in style.