"It has been about a year since I last tasted a bottle of the 2018 Pinot Noir bottling from Jean-Paul Brun and the wine continues to show very well in deed. The bouquet offers up a refined blend of cherries, strawberries, pigeon, lovely soil tones, raw cocoa, a bit of thyme and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is fullish, tangy and intensely flavored, with a good core and soil transparency, suave tannins and a long, tangy and nascently complex finish. This is a fine middleweight example of the vintage, tipping the scales at a svelte 12.5 percent alcohol and it will drink beautifully in due course, but still needs a few more years’ worth of bottle age before drinking. 2024-2045. "