Producer note: Grégory Gouges described the 2021 growing season as "one of those vintages where yields and maturities were inversely related. While painful to admit, if yields hadn't been much lower than normal, we never would have had decent maturities so from a glass half full perspective, the lower volumes weren't all bad news. Even so, it was a battle between the frost and the disease pressure. We picked the whites on the 17th of September and began on the reds on the 18th. Potential sugars were in the 12.5 to 12.8% range and the vinifications were relatively easy. As to the wines, they're completely classic with good balance and while they are stylistically similar to the 2017s, speaking for our wines anyway, the 2021s are more structured and should age well." Overall, I like the 2021s better than I thought I would as they have really improved during the élevage. As they did in 2019 and 2020, the domaine has started buying in fruit as well as participating in the Hospices de Nuits auction to augment their volumes slightly and those reviews can be found under the Maison Henri Gouges section immediately below. (Vineyard Brands, www.vineyardbrands.com, AL, USA; Howard Ripley, www.howardripley.com, Avery's Wine Merchants, www.averys.com, Flint Wines, www.flintwines.com, Tanners Wine, www.tanners-wines.co.uk, Laytons, www.laytons.co.uk, Justerini & Brooks, www.justerinis.com and Charles Taylor Wines, www.charlestaylorwines.com all UK; Wein & Vin, www.weinvin.com, Singapore; Pearl of Burgundy, www.pearlofburgundy.com, Hong Kong and Macau; SAQ, www.saq.com, Montreal, Canada; Domaine Wine Shippers, www.domainewineshippers.com.au, VIC, Australia).