Back in his Domaine Comte Armand days, Leroux was one of the first in Burgundy to celebrate old-vine Aligoté. Working with great, old-vine material and super-precise winemaking, this wine remains at the top of the spectrum. The key components are Leroux’s parcel of 50-year-old vines in Meursault. The vine material comes from the high-quality, low-yielding Aligoté Doré cultivar.

This is the second release of this old-vine label. Looking for a new source of high-quality, old-vine Aligoté, Leroux came across this parcel of vines late in 2022. His plan was to simply find a great source for massale cuttings to work with in the future (watch the whole story here), but after tasting the first vintage from cask, he knew he had found something special. The Grands Champs vineyard lies in Chassagne Montrachet, below the village and next to the restored 19th-century washhouse of Fontaine Saulx. The plot of almost 100-year-old vines is unusual in that all the vines are completely healthy, and there are no replacements. Vinified in a 1200L neutral oak cask, it’s a wonderful and full-bodied example of this variety. It shows considerably more texture and spicy complexity from the small bunches than the straight Aligoté above. A stunning, deep and chewy Aligoté.

Always a ridiculous value, the 2024 is no exception. It’s drawn almost entirely from Leroux’s Estate vineyards in Meursault—including Les Millerands, Sous la Velle and Les Belles Côtes. Unlike the majority of Bourgogne (from the foot of the hill and across the D974), Leroux’s Estate vines grow on the lower slopes of the Côte, situated below the village-level vines of Meursault but on the upper side of the road. The wine was matured in 50% large oak, 25% Winglobe (glass) and 25% used barrique. It’s fabulous, and if it had “villages” or “1er cru” on the label, it would score in the 90s!

Leroux’s terrific Auxey-Duresses has always been another one of the range’s great-value wines—drinking superbly young and aging very well, too. The fruit comes from two terroirs—Les Hautés and La Macabrée —both abutting Meursault’s Les Vireuils Dessous and Les Meix Chavaux. The oldest vines date back to 1946. The land here faces north, enduring the cold air rolling down from the Hautes Côtes—a very fresh terroir! I think this has claims to be the best example we have shipped. It has all the mineral and saline raciness you expect, but with excellent depth.

The Meursault is an Estate wine, based on Leroux’s own vines in Moulin Landin, Les Criots, Bois de Blagny and Les Millerands, along with Clos du Village, a parcel he acquired in 2017. Bois de Blagny sits higher and adds a mineral edge to the fruit from the lower-lying sites. These vines are certified organic and biodynamic, with some dating back to 1944. Fermentation and maturation take place in 300-litre and 600-litre barrels before the wine is racked to foudre and stainless steel to finish aging. We’re going to be raving a lot about the whites because they deserve it, and this is stunning. Again, you could easily imagine “1er cru” on the label and, just like magic, it would have a higher score. Wine like this is why we drink white Burgundy.

This high-grown wine is a favourite among followers of this producer. Little wonder Leroux has made a consistently excellent wine from the same two blocks in this vineyard for twenty years, and he now owns these same sites. Both parcels, totalling roughly 0.8 hectares, are east-facing, late-ripening (like the whole of Vireuils) with rocky, limestone soils, and some flint. The vines date back to the mid-1970s. Here we are in Vireuils Dessus, one of the higher sites of Meursault, above the renowned Les Chevalières and Rougeots. In short, one of the best areas for village-level wine in the commune. Leroux acquired the vineyard outright in 2024, and the wine will become fully Domaine-farmed starting with the 2025 vintage. But really, nothing will change except potentially the label, as Leroux thinks he will go to Vireuils Dessus, instead of Les Vireuils. The 2024 has a load of depth for such a cool site, yet of course this is balanced by fabulous, saline freshness and drive.

Only 24 bottles shipped. This is now a flagship wine for Leroux, who works 1.5 of the 2.2 hectares of Chardonnay available. Leroux’s vines average 50 years old and are biodynamically certified. This is perhaps Ben’s most extreme and rocky terroir. While it lies at high altitude (320 to 350 metres) and endures bitterly cold winters, the vineyard picks up plenty of sun during the summer. It’s no secret that Leroux is a HUGE fan of Blagny, constantly wearing his “In Blagny we Trust” T-shirt, including for this year’s video recordings. It’s the high altitude, the rockiness that he loves, and the energy it brings in the era of climate change. Here, he used various aging vessels, including a glass Wineglobe and a new egg-shaped foudre. This has lovely vibrancy, floral, citrus-edged fruit. Superb class, as the notes below make clear.

Following the 2017 harvest, Leroux managed something of a coup when he won a hard-fought tender to acquire these vines. The purchase came with a small selection of village plots (including Clos du Village), but the real prizes were well-sited parcels in Volnay Santenots (Les Plures), Meursault-Blagny and this small piece of the Premier Cru Charmes lying directly beneath Clos des Perrières. It’s a sliver of 1988-planted vines in the vineyard’s upper (Dessus) portion—a section singled out since the 1830s as the finest part of Les Charmes. The wine it produces is special and now in great hands! The 2024 is simply epic: deep and ripe, yet restrained, earthy and very long. Brilliant now, but a keeper for sure. I would not call it serene; I find it intense and rock-and-roll. But I agree with the score! It’s as good as Meursault Charmes gets (which is saying something).

Only 24 bottles shipped. Yet another Leroux classic, the 3.6-hectare Les Baudines vineyard sits high up on the slope, near the tree line on the southwestern border of Chassagne. It’s essentially a continuation of Les Embazées but sits higher on the hillside, on poorer soil, with a higher limestone content. It’s a very cool site with mostly white, rocky clay soils—a terroir perfectly aligned with Leroux’s desire to produce fine-boned, chiselled Chassagne. Leroux’s vines were planted in the 1980s. The 2024 is beautifully balanced, ripe and pulpy yet with a racy, saline close.

Only 36 bottles shipped. Leroux calls Tête du Clos the “Chevalier-Montrachet of the south.” It’s one of the many sub-climats of Morgeot and lies at the vineyard’s apex, where the soil is very rocky. In fact, there’s barely 20 centimetres of topsoil, with white clay and plenty of limestone on the surface. It’s about the same altitude as Les Embazées but showcases an entirely different expression of Chassagne—both richer and more mineral (hence the Chevalier reference). Leroux’s 0.4-hectare old-vine parcel (planted in 1955) produces small, concentrated clusters. This brings genuine depth of fruit to wine and helps it live up to its baby-Grand-Cru reputation. The 2024 is deep, rich, and more exotic in the fruit than the other whites in 2024. Powerful, hedonistic and very long.

Only 6 bottles shipped. Being introduced to this wine at chez Leroux was a wonderful surprise. Note that this Grand Cru is not Corton-Charlemagne but rather Corton Blanc, another appellation on the Corton Hill for certain rare plots outside of Corton-Charlemagne. It’s a rarely seen appellation, with only around 4 hectares typically declared. Suffice to say, many experienced Burgundy lovers have never tasted one. To avoid confusion: Leroux previously sourced Pinot from Les Grandes Lolières, but his first white was from the same site. Downslope from Corton Le Rognet, the vineyard sits close to the village of Ladoix-Serrigny and faces due east, where the soil below is very chalky—a real Chardonnay terroir.

This has great energy and racy acidity but also loads of ripe fruit: notes of all kinds of citrus, stone fruits and exotic flowers. Delicious! The vineyard has since been prepared for replanting, so this brilliant wine is now historic as well!

Only 12 bottles shipped. Leroux’s Estate Bâtard is quite simply his greatest white and one of the finest wines of the terroir. It comes from a brilliantly located 0.16-hectare plot of 40-year-old vines right next to the Hospices de Beaune’s parcel and directly across the road, maybe fifteen metres away, from DRC’s parcel of Le Montrachet. It falls on the Chassagne side of the vineyard, for what it’s worth (which means nothing, to be frank, but we’re regularly asked so there you go). Leroux gained full control of the vineyard management here in 2016. He recently restored the original stone entrance along the road between le Montrachet and Bâtard, so it’s quite easy to find his plot if you’re ever driving. The 2024 is stunning. Tasted in November 2025 at the cellars, it was profoundly deep yet so restrained, with wonderful structure and freshness.

This blend draws Bourgogne-level fruit from mostly Leroux’s key sources: Maison Dieu in Pommard and Mon Poulain in Volnay, with some Monthelie villages now bringing freshness. The wine is matured in a large Grenier oak cask alongside several smaller barrels. It a wonderful little Côte de Beaune red in a year when this area has done brilliantly with Pinot. A bargain.

The backbone of this cuvée is the outstanding Aux Fourneaux lieu-dit in the north of the village, where Leroux works with a lot of Pinot Fin — a high-quality, low-yielding Pinot Noir cultivar that gives low yields and real concentration. In recent vintages, the blend has also included Saucours, a site on the western extension of the slope near Les Hauts Jarrons, which replaced the now-sold Connardises parcel starting with the 2023 vintage. This is always such a winner for the money in the range, and 2024 is no exception. Loads of bright fruit but also some real depth, structure and age-worthiness.

One of Leroux’s close friends owns these vines in the heart of the 1er Cru on the east-facing Beaune side of Savigny. The most elegant Savigny wines tend to come from this area. Like most Côte d’Or terrain, the soils are clay/limestone, but the clay is light and sandy. So, although there’s more flesh than in the village cuvée, there is also greater finesse. Very low yields here in 2024 have meant greater ripeness and fruit generosity. As always, it’s an excellent value 1er Cru that will drink well from release but will also benefit from at least short-term aging.

Leroux is a master of Volnay and has produced outstanding examples for over two decades. The wine is a blend of Les Grands Poisots and Les Petits Poisots, the two lieux-dits that border Pommard. Leaning towards Pommard in style, the deep clay soils and old vines here give density and ripe tannins, which Leroux complements with judicious use of whole bunches and maturation in large oak. The 2024 is wildly perfumed and floral, yet with excellent depth and powdery structure.

Les Mitans derives from the old French for ‘centre’, and this is likely the source of the name as this Cru lies at the heart of the appellation, on the slopes beneath the village. Leroux’s 0.65-hectare parcel is close to the Volnay 1er Cru Clos de la Barre and encroaches into the Mitans l’Ormeau lieu-dit. The soil is fine clay, shot through with limestone, which preserves excellent moisture during dry spells. The vines are 50 years old on average. Only four barrels made this year. It’s so pretty and perfumed yet, again, the palate has more depth and structure than you might expect from the nose.

One of the signature cuvées of the Leroux stable, Clos de la Cave des Ducs is a 0.64-hectare monopole owned by the family of Leroux’s right-hand man, Jean-Charles Carré. It’s a wine that was rarely seen before Leroux started bottling this wine in 2007. It’s Volnay’s highest 1er Cru and has fine, light soils that typically produce wines of great delicacy. The vines are up to 80 years old (an average age of 50 years) and include some 20-year-old mass-selection vines from Comte Armand’s Clos des Epeneaux. The site is managed biodynamically and with meticulous care—Carré and Leroux test their most progressive viticulture here. Always very floral on the nose (Leroux speaks of geranium), this has loads of sweet, red fruits, some anise and again more depth and structure than typical. Will be special with age.

Only 30 bottles shipped. Les Santenots is one of Volnay’s top 1er Cru sites. The clay-rich soils produce wines of perfumed depth and good structure. To give some idea of the quality, we asked Leroux many years ago if there was one vineyard in Volnay he would particularly like to work with. Without hesitation, he replied Santenots, mentioning that he buys the wine of this vineyard every year from his friend Dominique Lafon, and loves it. Of course, he then went on to speak about Caillerets (the village’s most revered site—that he first made under his own label in 2011). His Santenots dream only came true when Leroux finally got access to this vineyard in 2018, and now owns a one-hectare plot of 70-year-old, Estate-owned vines in the lieu-dit Les Plures. Made with 40% whole-bunch, this is a fine yet intense Volnay that is a real keeper. If you drink or serve it young, please give it a good decant, otherwise it will really start to pop after 10 years.

Only 12 bottles shipped. There’s an old saying in the Côte de Beaune that goes: “If you haven’t drunk Caillerets, you don't know Volnay!” Benjamin Leroux could hardly conceal his excitement when he first told us he had access to a parcel of vines in this famous site, which he calls the “King of Volnay.” That excitement has certainly been borne out in the brilliant new releases.

Les Caillerets is a beautifully exposed terroir that sits mid-slope, on the border with Meursault. It’s exploited by important growers such as d’Angerville, Lafarge and Pousse d’Or. The 14-odd-hectare vineyard is subdivided into three lieux-dits, with Leroux now farming 0.5 hectares of Pinot Fin (planted in 1945, 1985 and the late ‘90s) in the area known as Caillerets-Dessus (another Dessus!). This is magical. Leroux included 80% whole bunches in the ferment, and the resulting wine is deep and powerful, full of spice and florals. So long! As it was last year, this is Grand Cru quality. Sadly, only half the usual volume was produced.

Only 12 bottles shipped. There’s an old saying in the Côte de Beaune that goes: “If you haven’t drunk Caillerets, you don't know Volnay!” Benjamin Leroux could hardly conceal his excitement when he first told us he had access to a parcel of vines in this famous site, which he calls the “King of Volnay.” That excitement has certainly been borne out in the brilliant new releases.

Les Caillerets is a beautifully exposed terroir that sits mid-slope, on the border with Meursault. It’s exploited by important growers such as d’Angerville, Lafarge and Pousse d’Or. The 14-odd-hectare vineyard is subdivided into three lieux-dits, with Leroux now farming 0.5 hectares of Pinot Fin (planted in 1945, 1985 and the late ‘90s) in the area known as Caillerets-Dessus (another Dessus!). This is magical. Leroux included 80% whole bunches in the ferment, and the resulting wine is deep and powerful, full of spice and florals. So long! As it was last year, this is Grand Cru quality. Sadly, only half the usual volume was produced.

Only 12 bottles shipped. There’s an old saying in the Côte de Beaune that goes: “If you haven’t drunk Caillerets, you don't know Volnay!” Benjamin Leroux could hardly conceal his excitement when he first told us he had access to a parcel of vines in this famous site, which he calls the “King of Volnay.” That excitement has certainly been borne out in the brilliant new releases.

Les Caillerets is a beautifully exposed terroir that sits mid-slope, on the border with Meursault. It’s exploited by important growers such as d’Angerville, Lafarge and Pousse d’Or. The 14-odd-hectare vineyard is subdivided into three lieux-dits, with Leroux now farming 0.5 hectares of Pinot Fin (planted in 1945, 1985 and the late ‘90s) in the area known as Caillerets-Dessus (another Dessus!). This is magical. Leroux included 80% whole bunches in the ferment, and the resulting wine is deep and powerful, full of spice and florals. So long! As it was last year, this is Grand Cru quality. Sadly, only half the usual volume was produced.

Only 12 bottles shipped. There’s an old saying in the Côte de Beaune that goes: “If you haven’t drunk Caillerets, you don't know Volnay!” Benjamin Leroux could hardly conceal his excitement when he first told us he had access to a parcel of vines in this famous site, which he calls the “King of Volnay.” That excitement has certainly been borne out in the brilliant new releases.

Les Caillerets is a beautifully exposed terroir that sits mid-slope, on the border with Meursault. It’s exploited by important growers such as d’Angerville, Lafarge and Pousse d’Or. The 14-odd-hectare vineyard is subdivided into three lieux-dits, with Leroux now farming 0.5 hectares of Pinot Fin (planted in 1945, 1985 and the late ‘90s) in the area known as Caillerets-Dessus (another Dessus!). This is magical. Leroux included 80% whole bunches in the ferment, and the resulting wine is deep and powerful, full of spice and florals. So long! As it was last year, this is Grand Cru quality. Sadly, only half the usual volume was produced.

Only 12 bottles shipped. There’s an old saying in the Côte de Beaune that goes: “If you haven’t drunk Caillerets, you don't know Volnay!” Benjamin Leroux could hardly conceal his excitement when he first told us he had access to a parcel of vines in this famous site, which he calls the “King of Volnay.” That excitement has certainly been borne out in the brilliant new releases.

Les Caillerets is a beautifully exposed terroir that sits mid-slope, on the border with Meursault. It’s exploited by important growers such as d’Angerville, Lafarge and Pousse d’Or. The 14-odd-hectare vineyard is subdivided into three lieux-dits, with Leroux now farming 0.5 hectares of Pinot Fin (planted in 1945, 1985 and the late ‘90s) in the area known as Caillerets-Dessus (another Dessus!). This is magical. Leroux included 80% whole bunches in the ferment, and the resulting wine is deep and powerful, full of spice and florals. So long! As it was last year, this is Grand Cru quality. Sadly, only half the usual volume was produced.

Only 12 bottles shipped. There’s an old saying in the Côte de Beaune that goes: “If you haven’t drunk Caillerets, you don't know Volnay!” Benjamin Leroux could hardly conceal his excitement when he first told us he had access to a parcel of vines in this famous site, which he calls the “King of Volnay.” That excitement has certainly been borne out in the brilliant new releases.

Les Caillerets is a beautifully exposed terroir that sits mid-slope, on the border with Meursault. It’s exploited by important growers such as d’Angerville, Lafarge and Pousse d’Or. The 14-odd-hectare vineyard is subdivided into three lieux-dits, with Leroux now farming 0.5 hectares of Pinot Fin (planted in 1945, 1985 and the late ‘90s) in the area known as Caillerets-Dessus (another Dessus!). This is magical. Leroux included 80% whole bunches in the ferment, and the resulting wine is deep and powerful, full of spice and florals. So long! As it was last year, this is Grand Cru quality. Sadly, only half the usual volume was produced.

Only 12 bottles shipped. There’s an old saying in the Côte de Beaune that goes: “If you haven’t drunk Caillerets, you don't know Volnay!” Benjamin Leroux could hardly conceal his excitement when he first told us he had access to a parcel of vines in this famous site, which he calls the “King of Volnay.” That excitement has certainly been borne out in the brilliant new releases.

Les Caillerets is a beautifully exposed terroir that sits mid-slope, on the border with Meursault. It’s exploited by important growers such as d’Angerville, Lafarge and Pousse d’Or. The 14-odd-hectare vineyard is subdivided into three lieux-dits, with Leroux now farming 0.5 hectares of Pinot Fin (planted in 1945, 1985 and the late ‘90s) in the area known as Caillerets-Dessus (another Dessus!). This is magical. Leroux included 80% whole bunches in the ferment, and the resulting wine is deep and powerful, full of spice and florals. So long! As it was last year, this is Grand Cru quality. Sadly, only half the usual volume was produced.