Marsannay, Clos du Roy, 2016

A destalked Marsannay offering a darker more powerful side than the Château’s other Marsannay cuvées. With this power comes focus, offering wonderfully precise sloe and bramble fruit, beautifully etched tannins, with a savoury minerally, gravelly quality underpinning the ripe crushed black fruits. Excellent. A cuvée made from a plot of 70 year-old vines planted stony soils with a clay subsoil. A great vineyard and surely a candidate for 1er Cru status if Marsannay ever wins that right.