Vinified with some 20% whole bunch this year, Faiveley's 2020 Mercurey La Framboisière offers up inviting aromas of sweet berries, plums, rose petals and rich soil tones. Medium to full-bodied, velvety and seamless, it's rich but lively, standing out as one of the more supple, ethereal wines in this year's range. It exemplifies the great value still to be found in contemporary Burgundy.

The finest rendition of this cuvée that I've ever tasted, Faiveley's 2019 Mercurey La Framboisière wafts from the glass with aromas of sweet berry fruit, warm spices, rose petals and plums. Medium-bodied, fleshy and precise, with lively acids and excellent depth at the core, it's deep and unusually serious, with all the charm but less of the frivolity that this cuvée has historically displayed. It derives from an 11-hectare parcel—part of which was planted in 1990 and the rest of which is old massal selections—that was vinified with 15% whole cluster and matured in 20% new oak.

Bursting with aromas of raspberries, plums and dark chocolate, the 2018 Mercurey La Framboisière is medium to full-bodied, deep and fleshy, with a generous core of fruit and an unusually muscular chassis of rich, powdery tannin by the standards of this routinely ethereal cuvée. It has turned out well, but it will benefit from a year or two of bottle age.

The 2017 Mercurey La Framboisière continues to show very well, wafting from the glass with a lovely bouquet of strawberries, raspberries, incense and spices. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, succulent and expressive, with a lively core of ripe fruit, juicy acids and powdery tannins, concluding with a sapid finish. As I've written before, this cuvée's combination of quantity and quality—some 65,000 bottles are produced in a normal year—makes it a veritable gift to wine lovers.

The 2015 Mercurey La Framboisière is lovely, opening in the glass with expressive aromas of red cherries, raspberries, cassis and incipient suggestions of black truffle. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and succulent, with a generous core of ripe fruit, juicy acids, and fine-grained tannins that assert themselves with a touch of C?te Chalonnaise rusticity on the tangy finish. This is a touch more ripe and gourmand than usual, but it wears the warmth of the vintage beautifully and represents one of the finest values in the portfolio. Since some 65,000 bottles are produced every year, it's also easy to find.