2019 Guilhem & J-Hugues Goisot Cotes d’Auxerre La Ronce Bourgogne Rouge, Burgundy

This nose is more compact after the last, but there’s a finesse to this aroma too. Finer tannin – practically no grain to find just a subtle dryness. This the wine with the finest texture, the previous with the finest flavour – it would be great to compare their evolution over the next years.

Bill Nanson Burgundy Report

From vines located on light blue clay with no surface detritus, the 2019 Bourgogne Côtes d’Auxerre La Ronce has an exquisite, floral bouquet of blackberry and raspberry fruit infused with peony and violet scents. The palate is very well balanced with pliant tannins, superbly judged acidity and firm grip on the finish, counterbalanced by a lovely saline note that lingers in the mouth. Wonderful.

92 points Neal Martin Vinous

Biodynamic. Single-vineyard Pinot Noir. Replanted some twenty years ago to 12,000 vines per hectare, La Ronce was established with low-yielding, massale selection vines specifically chosen to suit the site’s warm microclimate. Each vine naturally yields only 2-4 bunches —about half to a third of what you would expect of a well-managed Grand Cru site in the Côte d’Or! Unlike Les Mazelots in Irancy, La Ronce is on white clay soils rich in fossils. This soil gifts a more seductive, sweet-fruited, ‘Beaunois’ style of Pinot than the Mazelots’ more mineral, structured persona.