Another highlight this year—and what’s new?—is the 2019 Beaune 1er Cru Aux Cras (Domaine Gagey), an elegant, nicely concentrated wine that offers up notes of cherries, red berries, rose petals, orange rind and spicy oak. Medium to full-bodied, with refined tannins and lively acids, it’s one of the house’s finest Beaune bottlings.Robert Parker Wine Advocate | 92-94 RPAll the upfront red fruit and delicate earthiness that we expect from a good Beaune red, in a particularly bright and expressive form, the animating acidity making it seem to dance on your palate. Slightly sappy, but wonderfully lively finish. Drink or hold.James Suckling | 94 JSProduced from a fairly cool site upslope from Teurons, along the road to the Hautes-Côtes. The grapes are destemmed and fermented for four weeks before ageing, to deliver a wine with bright pomegranate and ripe cherry aromas on the nose, then a fresh, firm texture, impressive density and good length. Drinking Window 2021 - 2025.Decanter | 93 DECA more restrained and cooler nose reluctantly offers up its aromas poached plum, various red berries and warm earth. The more mineral-driven and slightly finer middle weight flavors are at once refined but punchy while delivering strikingly good depth and persistence on the powerful and moderately austere finale. This is potentially excellent.Burghound | 91-93 BHThe 2019 Beaune Cras 1er Cru is glossier and riper on the the nose compared to Jadot’s other Beaune Premiers, veins of blue fruit and vanilla pod infusing the red cherries. The palate is medium-bodied with a fleshy opening, a velvety texture and red cherry and strawberry flavors, though it misses a little grip and density on the finish.Vinous Media | 88-90 VM