Allen Meadows, Burghound

Bertrand Chevillon, who is normally pretty restrained, described 2021 as a "stressful vintage where I would very much like to forget the growing season, yet the quality is surprisingly good. [...] Moderate reduction is sufficient to suppress the underlying fruit though there is both good freshness and verve to the rich, generously proportioned and solidly concentrated middleweight flavors that deliver much better depth and persistence than is typical for the genre plus it will age. This could easily pass for a villages Nuits.