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Wines are listed in order of white then red, then by scores, and then alphabetically by producer. The 2022s are bottled from January 2024, hence prices, stockists and alcohols are not yet finalised. Contact specialist merchant for allocations or to enquire about en primeur tastings. The following 40 wines were Charles Curtis MW’s selection for particularly notable quality and value among the 650 wines he scored from the 2022 Burgundy vintage –we have highlighted those rated as ‘Top value’ in their relative categories or appellation types
1 Domaine des Comtes Lafon, Montrachet Grand Cru 99
This wine is among the greatest whites in Burgundy in 2022 (as is often the case), with a profusion of ripe tropical fruit, nectarine and peach aromas, accents of butter, soft white blossoms and spice. The texture is rich with extract and dense, yet there is lively acidity to balance the aromas and flavours perfectly through to a dynamic finish. Fortunately, the yield of this 0.33ha plot was 6.5 barrels in 2022, although Lafon will wait several years to bring it to market. Organic. Drink 2028-2070
Millemann Wines, Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru 99
The Millemann family has taken every step to retain maximum freshness even in the torrid 2022 vintage, and has already racked wine into stainless steel to help preserve its vigour. Superb concentration of tropical and orchard fruit aromas are gently trimmed with hints of spice, fresh acacia flowers and beeswax. Amarvellous tension and intensity draw the wine to a neverending finish. After pressing and settling, the must is run into anew puncheon for fermentation and ageing without sulphur (until bottling). Areference for the appellation. Drink 2028-2070
WHITE WINE OF THE VINTAGE, TOP PRODUCER Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey, Montrachet Grand Cru 99
Pierre-Yves Colin has good reason to be delighted with the arrival to the portfolio of a tiny sliver of Montrachet from his family’s holdings. The wine is superb, with aromas of ripe nectarine, Williams pear and peach, suggestions of hawthorn flowers, spice and cream. The texture is rich without being heavy, and the freshness brings exquisite balance. The grapes come from 267 vines (0.0267ha) on the Chassagne side under Dent de Chien, planted at the highest part of Montrachet to give a rewardingly mineral result. Look out in six or seven years for release of the 220 bottles produced. Drink 2028-2070
Domaine Michel Niellon, Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 98
Awine of intense concentration, tension and focus, even in the warm conditions of 2022. Aroma notes of ripe apple, peach and quince, then the volume and density you’d expect from 2022, but it’s well balanced by the fresh acidity that draws it to a lingering finish. Grapes from Niellon’s plot of old vines are ferment
