90 points
"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. "
View From the Cellar
, November 2020