Vincent Girardin Santenay le Beauregard 2015

93 points –  Wine & Spirits “Eric Germain makes this wine from a parcel of 45-year-old vines, farmed without herbicides, fermented with some stems and with ambient yeasts, then aged in mostly older oak (he and Girardin have worked to cut back on new oak across their range, and Germain now uses 20 percent new barrels for this particular wine). The wine buzzes with energy, a hive of raspberry and pomegranate flavor, saturated without weight. The tannins add some youthful green stemminess and gamey depths, setting this up with the structure to age five years or more. It’s notably grand for a Santenay premier cru.”