Aromas of dark cherries, spices and licorice introduce the 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge, a medium to full-bodied, bright and fleshy wine built around supple tannins and lively acids. It's a fine effort.

Aromas of sweet red berries, raw cocoa, licorice and spices introduce Niellon's 2019 Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge, a medium-bodied, lively and charming wine with melting tannins and tangy acids. This has turned out very well.

Bursting with aromas of spiced cherries, plums and loamy soil, Niellon's 2018 Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge is medium to full-bodied, rich and layered, built around ripe but youthfully chewy tannins cloaked in a fleshy core of fruit. One of the C?te de Beaune's values, it is well worth seeking out.

The 2015 Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge is very fine in this vintage, wafting from the glass with notes of ripe strawberry and spice; the prelude to a medium to full-bodied wine with bright acids and chalky tannins which assert themselves on the finish. A very pretty red Chassagne which will drink well with a few years of bottle age.