Ben Leroux Cellar Offer 2026

OUTSTANDING - A brooding and reticent nose features liqueur-like aromas of poached plum, cassis and cool earth. The delicious, intense and overtly stony middle weight plus flavors flashed focused power on the firm, compact and tightly wound finale. Patience strongly recommended. BURGHOUND

One of the high points of the range is the 2019 Pommard 1er Cru Rugiens-Hauts, a medium to full-bodied, round and fleshy wine evocative of raspberries, plums, sweet spices and orange rind. It's a soft, charming rendition of this site, which delivers a more linear, ethereal style than the stereotypical muscularity of Rugiens-Bas. WILLIAM KELLEY

The 2020 Volnay Village comes from two climats. This nose feels quite backward at the moment, later offers black plum, mint and undergrowth aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent ripe tannins, fleshy, good backbone with a finely proportioned finish. Very fine. NEAL MARTIN

The 2020 Volnay Les Mitans 1er Cru has a generous bouquet with red cherries, blackcurrant and violet aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, quite spicy with white pepper and clove notes towards the finish. Very fine, but it needs time. NEAL MARTIN

OUTSTANDING - A much spicier blend of red and dark raspberry, violet and Asian-style tea introduces round, richer and more generously proportioned medium-bodied flavors that possess a seductive mouthfeel while displaying even better depth and persistence on the balanced finale. This is also a really good villages and worth your interest. BURGHOUND

FIVE STARS - This cuvee is usually built around Les Seuvrées and La Justice, boosted from 2020 by the addition of Champerrier, Jeunes Rois and En Champs. Dark but fresh purple, lively fruit and roses, this wine is lovely with more of a heart than usual, more floral, in fact it dances through to the back. The addition of the Brochon end vineyards make this more floral, more juicy, less savoury JASPER MORRIS MW

The 2020 Gevrey-Chambertin Village has a slightly stemmy bouquet (around 20% whoe bunch), dark berry fruit laced with cold tea, just a slight beetroot note emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, firm grip, fine depth with a crisp finish. Very fine. NEAL MARTIN

A cool, airy and exceptionally pretty nose reflects notes of the essence of various red berries, especially raspberry, along with lilac and rose petal hints. There is outstanding delineation to superbly intense flavors that are akin to rolling tiny pebbles around in the mouth before terminating a moderately austere, focused and chiseled finish. At least some patience will be required as this is very tightly wound at present. BURGHOUND

SWEET SPOT, OUTSTANDING - A much more sauvage-inflected nose speaks of more deeply pitched darker berry fruit and humus-suffused earth. There is more volume and power to the nicely rich but intense broad-shouldered flavors that exude a more subtle minerality on the youthfully austere, tightly wound and built-to-age finale. This is also very good and worth your interest. BURGHOUND

OUTSTANDING - A pure, elegant and expressive nose offers up essence of red and dark pinot fruit, spice and once again, plenty of floral nuances. The middle weight flavors are not especially dense but I very much like the texture as well as the more complex and lingering finale. This is really very pretty, and the supporting tannins are sufficient dense to see this through at least a decade of cellaring. BURGHOUND

FIVE STARS - From Les Plures with one third whole bunches. Rich deep purple, great pinot plants, which showed last year and really does again this time. A magical fresh red deep cherry fruit, really gorgeous fruit here dancing across the palate, super fine tannins and impressive length. Bravo. Very long JASPER MORRIS MW.

There are five barrels of the 2019 Volnay Santenots 1er Cru, one new, that were racked in the summer. It has a generous and typically quite opulent bouquet, the one-third whole bunch nicely integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-boned tannins, good backbone and a grippy, very nicely focused finish. Bags of freshness locked up in this Santenots. Excellent. NEAL MARTIN

From Cras and Vaumuriens, so a mix of the flat land and the hillside. Deep concentrated red with a most delicious bouquet, heady but balanced with floral notes too. Succulent red fruit, really stylish for Pommard, backed by some habitual tannins. JASPER MORRIS MW

Plenty of colour. Less dark fruit, complex - super fresh, a little barrel as part of a general width of complexity. The structure suggests patience, the flavours less so - excellent wine! BILL NANSON, The Burgundy Report