The 2024 Côte de Brouilly from Domaine Lafarge-Vial is beautifully red fruity this year. The wine’s aromatic constellation wafts from the glass in a sappy blend of red cherries, sweet cranberries, pigeon, a complex base of stony soil tones, peonies, woodsmoke and a topnote of fresh thyme. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and complex, with a lovely core of fruit, fine mineral drive and grip, moderate, buried tannins, seamless balance and a long, tangy and focused finish. This will need some cellaring time to blossom properly and will be quite long-lived. 2028- 2050+.