Producer: Dehours et Fils
The Dehours Champagne Brut Grande Reserve is the result of an assemblage of Meunier, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, with a great percentage of vin de rèserve, fermented according to Solera methods, embraced by Jerome in 1998.
Producer: Jacquesson
The NV Extra-Brut Cuvée No. 744 is soft, open-knit and caressing. The natural radiance of the vintage comes through in the wine's ample, creamy feel. Apricot, spice, dried flowers, hazelnut and lightly honeyed notes are all beautifully laced together.
Producer: Jacquesson
For the 2018 harvest in Aÿ, Dizy, Hautvillers (68%), Avize and Oiry (32%), the previous winter was exceptionally rainy, this was followed by a mild, stormy spring. The weather changed from June onwards, becoming fine and dry, resulting in a particularly early harvest: we started picking on 30 August and finished on 11 September. The vines were in perfect...
Producer: Jacquesson
NV Extra-Brut Cuvée No. 743 (2015 base) is soft, open-knit and caressing. The natural radiance of 2015 comes through in the wine's ample, creamy feel. Apricot, spice, dried flowers, hazelnut and lightly honeyed notes are all beautifully laced together.
Producer: Bouquin Dupont Fils
A wonderful champagne, 100% Chardonnay of Avize from vineyards more than 60 years old. A base of citrus fruit melted with the scent, and taste, of a custard where there are also two drops of lemon juice. Delicious and enjoyable.
Producer: Jacquesson
2017, the harvest from Ay, Dizy, Hautvillers (66%) Avize and Oiry (34%). Winter and Spring were exceptionally dry; the beginning of Spring was mild but, in April, destructive frosts ravaged the vineyards, especially in the Côte des Blancs. Temperatures then rose and the weather was good until July. The end of the growing season was hot but very wet. The...
Producer: Dehours et Fils
The Champagne Rosè Oeil de Pedrix is the result of an assemblage of Meunier and Chardonnay from old vineyards. Flowery Champagne Rosè Extra Brut, particularly fine and fresh with a very limited production.
Producer: Podere Poggio Scalette
The 2021 Il Carbonaione is a regal, elegant wine. Silky, beautifully perfumed and persistent, the 2021 is everything I want from Il Carbonaione. All the purity of Sangiovese caresses the senses in a wine that is both textually intense and also light on its feet. Dark red-toned fruit, rose petals, cinnamon, new leather and cedar are some of the many...
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The 2016 Chablis Foret is very promising with a crisp line of acidity, gentle grip and a live-wire, spicy finish that matches the exotic style of the vintage.
Producer: Domaine Pierre Girardin
This parcel is perfectly situated at mid-slope, just above the climat des Clous de Meursault. This Meix Chavaux reveals minerality and coldness of limestone, a tense and long wine that can be kept for many years in the cellar.
Producer: Benoit Ente
The 2020 Bourgogne Aligoté Antichtone is gorgeous. White pear, smoke, slate and graphite all jump from the glass in a perfumed, nuanced wine loaded with class.
Producer: Domaine Roulot
Soft citrus fruits and toast lifted by crushed stone on the nose. Fat and fruity but less showy than the Tillets. This is densely packed and rather serious wine, offering a glyceral texture but showing less of the vintage's exotic side. Finishes with lovely length.
Producer: Domaine Ponsot
The 2013 Chapelle-Chambertin totally saturates the palate with deep layers of fruit and an enveloping, intense personality. Today the aromatics are rather inward and hard to read, especially as the wine starts shutting down in the glass. The Chapelle is at the beginning of what looks to be a fascinating journey.
Producer: Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair
(20% of this fruit comes from the top of the slope, which Liger-Belair says brings limestone freshness): Bright ruby-red. Blackberry, roast coffee and smoke on the nose. Dense and round, offering a velvety texture and good stuffing for village wine. Very ripe but nicely leavened by smoky minerality. In a softer style, finishing with ripe tannins.
Producer: Domaine Pierre Girardin
"Les Beaumonts" is one of the most highly regarded Premier Cru vineyards in Vosne-Romanée and is known for producing wines of exceptional quality and depth. The vineyard has a southeast-facing exposure and a relatively steep slope, which provides optimal sunlight exposure for the grapes and helps to produce wines of exceptional complexity.
Producer: Meo Camuzet
Good red-ruby. Aromas of cherry, licorice and spicy oak, plus a violet topnote. Rich, broad and fleshy, with impressive sweetness and volume for a young Clos Vougeot. Then finishes with fine, horizontal, palate-coating tannins. A very good showing.
Producer: Domaine Pierre Girardin
"Perrières" is a premier cru vineyard situated in Meursault. The name "Perrières" translates to "quarries" in English, referring to the stony nature of the soil in this vineyard. The wines from this site are highly regarded for their complexity, richness, and ability to age gracefully.
Producer: Domaine de la Romanee Conti
DRC Richebourg is pure seduction. The aromatics alone are breathtaking, this wine is truly firing on all cylinders. It shows remarkable silkiness, inner perfume and nobility. A seamless finish rounds things out in style.
Producer: Domaine Roulot
The 2009 Meursault Perrières is a mode of coolness. It possesses tons of energy in reserve. With time in the glass hints of slate, crushed rocks, lime and white flowers start to take shape. The Perrières is simply breathtaking for its clarity and precision.
Producer: Domaine Ponsot
Bright ruby-red. Wonderfully concentrated and large-scaled if a bit youthfully inexpressive today, already communicating a compelling sappy quality to its dark raspberry fruit.
Producer: Domaine Jean Tardy et Fils
The 2020 Echezeaux Les Treux VV, matured entirely in new oak, needed quite a bit of aeration to peer behind the veneer of wood. There appears to be good concentration here. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe tannins, fine acidity, fleshy and rounded.
Producer: Domaine de la Romanee Conti
Medium red, knockout perfume of raspberry, minerals and truffley underbrush accented by licorice and pepper notes. Wonderfully sikly yet energetic, with fibrant raspberry and Asian spice flavors complicated by sexy earth tones and a traffley sweetness.
Producer: Domaine Coche Dury
The 2020 Auxey-Duresses Village has a fragrant bouquet with red cherries and strawberry pastille scents. The palate is medium-bodied with light tannins, crisp red berry fruit laced with mulberry and very subtle sweet toffee-ish notes on the finish.
Producer: Domaine Jean Tardy et Fils
Jean Tardy Coteaux Bourguignons 2022 is a delightful expression of Burgundy, showcasing the hallmark elegance and finesse of the region. Its vibrant fruit, intricate aromatics, and well-integrated structure make it a versatile wine suitable for various occasions.
The 2016 Chablis Foret is very promising with a crisp line of acidity, gentle grip and a live-wire, spicy finish that matches the exotic style of the vintage.
