Colour: Pale, clear red. Aroma: Open, billowing raspberry perfumes of great purity and intrinsic sweetness.

Appearance: Clear scarlet-red. Aroma: Ah, yes: the violets, the lift, the brightness. Very much a flower wine at this early stage: poised, fragrant, elegant, seamless and complete.

Colour: Clear, bright red. Aroma: Clearly different to Échézeaux, and not as winningly or freshly fruited at this stage: broader, grainier, more composed though less forthcoming.

Colour: Clear scarlet-red. Aroma: The fruit register is different from Échézeaux or Grands Échézeaux: chic blackcurrant and cherry replace the raspberry and plum.

Colour: Mid-depth of bright, clear scarlet.

As deep in colour as the Échézeaux pair, with aromas of frank power, length and a kind of barrel-chested width, too.

One of the paler wines in the range. The aroma took me aback: it was almost Bordeaux-like.

Pale in colour. Aromatically, full of floral grace, charm and intrigue.

Deeply coloured for DRC. Earthy, full, frank and ripe at first sniff, with peppery raspberry ruffled by a little brisk oak. Later growing in aromatic amplitude: flamboyant and nosecatching.

Relatively pale in colour, with warm, rich, settled and comfortable aromas, smooth and voluminous, like a coat.