This has the delicacy, moderate acidity and pretty red berry fruit that are typical for good 2021 red Burgundies. The tannins have been cautiously extracted, but they are emphatically dry at the finish where there are notes of licorice and roasted meat. Drink or hold.

The 2016 Mercurey 1er Cru Clos du Roy offers up an attractive bouquet of fried flowers and crunchy wild berries that's marked by 30% whole cluster vinification. On the palate, it's medium-bodied and succulent, but firm tannins clamp down on the somewhat drying finish.