The 2019 Vosne-Romanée La Colombière is promising, wafting from the glass with scents of raw coca, warm spices, red berries, orange rind and burning embers. Medium-bodied, supple and charming, with a pretty core of fruit, lively acids and melting tannins, it concludes with a saline finish.

Revealing a deeper bouquet of cherries, sweet berry fruit, orange rind, peonies and toasty new oak, the 2018 Vosne-Romanée La Colombière is medium to full-bodied, velvety and enveloping, with a rounded profile that's underpinned by succulent acids.

The 2017 Vosne-Romanée La Colombière is also quite strongly marked by its time in new wood, though the wine has more substance to integrate it, offering up an appealing bouquet of French roast, plums, wild berries, dark chocolate and an attractive touch of peony. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, satiny and more complete, with juicy acids and creditable depth at the core, concluding with a saline finish. It's an appreciable step above the regular Vosne-Romanée Village this year.

The 2016 Vosne-Romanée La Colombière, which suffered only marginal frost damage, has a perfumed bouquet with blackcurrant pastille and blueberry scents, a little darker than the village cru in style but equally as sensual. The palate is medium-bodied with very supple tannin, dark berry fruit laced with iodine, focused with a more floral finish than the village cru. Superb, especially for a village cru.

The 2015 Vosne-Romanée La Colombière was showing just a slight reduction on the nose, but tucked underneath lie attractive mulberry and raspberry preserve aromas. The palate has a savory note on the entry, a crisp line of acidity, nicely structured with veins of blood orange and orange rind that enhance the finish. It does not possess the length of the premier crus, yet it represents a very capable village cru.