Savigny Les Beaune 1er cru Les Peuillets, Domaine Jean Guiton

Note:

Opening this a couple of days after the Ladoix (which I still had open for comparison) I wondered if the two wines would blur in homogeneity – and be less interesting to me as a result.
No danger of that as it turned out. The deep colour was in common, as was really excellent fruit concentration, but in terms of the aromatics and palate, these wines are as different as one could reasonably hope and expect. On the nose, the Savigny is a bit ‘redder’ and sweeter in terms of fruit character (red cherry, plum) and has a slightly smokey, earthy, grilled character. A little more immediately savoury and a little more wild, less violet. On the palate also, we find crunchy, spicy red fruit initially, before you feel the weight of fruit and the flavours turn to plum and bramble. The tannic structure of this wine is also more apparent – but in no way unattractive – the finish note hints at game and smoke. Again, this is clearly a 20+ year wine, although one you can, again, enjoy very much now with your char-grilled rib-eye. As I did.