2022 Domaine Michel Lafarge Beaune Premier Cru Aigrots Rouge

Fewer than 300 cases made. Crushed strawberry, red cherry, violet, and a thread of leather and warm earth — plump and generous on the palate, with soft-pile tannins and a mineral grip that pulls the finish long. Les Aigrots sits between Clos des Mouches and Champs Pimont on clay-limestone and red clay soils, vines planted in 1949, 1964, and 2012 — certified organic and Demeter-certified biodynamic, 100% destemmed, native yeast, 15% new oak, unfined, unfiltered. This is Beaune from the family that defined Volnay — same discipline, different address, and one of the Côte de Beaune's quietly essential premier crus.