Producer note: Nicolas Potel noted that "while the 2021 growing season was a bit complicated viticulturally speaking, it was easy to vinify and raise. The trick with the vines in years where there is enormous disease pressure is to never miss a treatment. If you do, it will be necessary to constantly play defense and risk falling ever further behind. In the end, the attention to detail really helped as there was relatively little sorting necessary as the fruit was ripe and clean. Volumes were small in both colors though because bud break for the pinot occurs after that of the chardonnay, there was slightly less damage. Potential alcohols were between .5 and 1% lower than they have been for the last several vintages with good post-malo pHs. We chose to vinify lightly to be sure not to obtain any underripe tannins and especially no seed tannins. And to give an idea as to how clean the fruit was, most of the reds will be bottled without any filtration." Note that the négociant offerings are reviewed below under the Roche de Bellene label. Lastly all of the wines are bottled under Diam corks that are stamped with the relevant information that includes producer, vintage and appellation. (Loosen Bros. USA, www.loosenbrosusa.com, OR, USA; Berry Brothers & Rudd, www.bbr.com and Graham Gardner through Folly Wines, www.follywines.co.uk, both UK; L'Imperatrice Fine Wines, https://imperatricewine.com.hk, Hong Kong/China).