Domaine Faiveley Mercurey La Framboisière 2017

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.

A very successful vintage of this charming Mercurey. Lots of raspberries, wild strawberries and hints of wild blackberries. Sleek and elegant with crisp acidity and very focused on the long, clean finish. Drink or hold.

This is a textbook Mercurey red from this much-improved Nuits-St-Georges-based négociant, and it's usually widely available. Sourced from a 10ha monopole, it's fermented with 20% whole bunches and aged in 20% new wood. It's a commendably reliable wine, sweet and appealing with a good underlying focus, showing some clove spice with red cherry and raspberry fruit.

Drinking Window 2019 - 2023