Benjamin Leroux Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Les Vergelesses 2022

This is Leroux’s second release of this cuvée and our first allocation. He has worked with a small parcel in Les Vergelesses, arguably Savigny’s finest terroir, for five years, striving to improve the viticulture and the quality of the wine before releasing something under its own label (previous vintages were blended into the Savigny village wine). Leroux calls out Les Vergelesses as his favourite Savigny 1er Cru, producing wines with “another layer of elegance” compared to Lavières and Serpentières, for example. Like the other two Savignys on offer, this is a wonderful ‘restaurant wine’ as it can be consumed young and is on the more delicate side. On the other hand, it has a little more finesse but also more depth and seems a touch more structured—perhaps thanks to more clay in the soil and one-third of the wine having fermented as bunches.