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: Gerard Perseval
Gérard Perseval combines his extensive knowledge of biodynamic viticulture and his profound respect for nature to create structured and complex wines, treasures in bottles capable of exciting the senses.
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: Jacquesson
2019. Winter was mild and dry. Spring frost struck three times and mainly caused damage to our Chardonnay vines, hence the predominance of the Pinots in this cuvee. Summer was dry with heatwaves that caused sunburn. We harvested a very high-quality crop with moderate yields from 12th to 22nd September. The wines are structured, balanced, long and complex....
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The 2020 Clos-de-la-Roche Grand Cru has an extremely pure bouquet with blackberry, raspberry, violet and crushed stone. This feels very focused and classy. The palate is very well balanced with supple tannins, fine acidity, very smooth and sensual with a welcome touch of bitterness towards the finish. A gorgeous wine, although I feel that Clos Saint-Denis has the edge.
Producer: Domaine Coche Dury
Sexy aromas of lemon and musky minerals, plus a hint of grilled oak. Sweet and opulent, but with racy acidity framing the lemon, orange and menthol flavors and giving cut to the wine. Really lipsmacking combination of acidity and minerality here.
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 Jean Tardy et Fils
The 2020 Nuits Saint-Georges Aux Argillas has a well-defined bouquet with dark berry fruit, loam, a light marine influence developing with time. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, fresh and focused.
Producer: Domaine Leroy
Darker ruby-red color. Brooding cassis and licorice nose, with a whiff of earth and a mineral pungency. Thicker, larger-scaled and sweeter than the Lavieres, but very unevolved. But this premier cru already shows lovely finesse. Has a solid underlying structure for aging.
Producer: Domaine de la Romanee Conti
The 2019 Grands Echézeaux Grand Cru offers blackberry, briar, crushed iris flower and a light marine influence; this is just beautiful. The palate is silky in texture with spine-tingling acidity and good cohesion, gently building in the mouth toward a saline finish that fans out wondrously.
Producer: Domaine Ramonet
The Bienvenues Batard Montrachet from Ramonet has a pretty bouquet of hibiscus and iris that is quite distinctive compared to their other Grand Crus. A step up in weight and power from the beautiful 1er Cru Ruchottes.
Producer: Domaine Jean Tardy et Fils
Tardy's Gevrey Chambertin Champerriers 2022 has a complex bouquet of dark fruit, spice, and earthy notes. On the palate, it is medium-bodied with a firm structure, showing flavors of black cherry, blackberry, and hints of leather and mushroom. The tannins are firm and well-integrated, and the finish is long and satisfying. Overall, this wine is a classic...
Producer: Olivier Leflaive
Corton-Charlemagne is named after the Roman Emperor Charlemagne, who once owned the hill of Corton that the vineyards now rest. A wine of great class.
Producer: Domaine Pierre Girardin
Vincent Girardin Chassagne-Montrache displays a great aromatic richness while presenting the typical minerality of the clay-limestone and gravel soils of the Côte de Beaune. The aromatic bouquet opens with fine floral notes evoking the scent of acacia, and evolves into the sweetness of honey.
Producer: Domaine Coche Dury
Coche described as perfect grapes, untouched by frost): Penetrating scents of crushed stone and lemon; classic Perrières! Smooth and very dense on the palate, with its flavors of crushed rock, lemon, lime, underripe pineapple, flowers and saline minerality showing great inner-mouth tension. This, too, boasts terrific dry extract. Finishes with...
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 Jean Tardy et Fils
The 2019 Chambolle-Musigny Les Athets, which will be matured in around one-third new oak, has a high-toned, vivacious bouquet. The palate is lovely, fleshy and rounded, and moderate in terms of depth.
Producer: Domaine Leroy
Good bright, deep red with ruby highlights. Fruitier aromas of black cherry and flowers. Sweet and juicy, with brisk acids giving shape and grip to the pure dark cherry flavour.
Producer: Domaine Francois Raveneau
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 Leroy
One of the many highlights in this flight of 1er Crus, the 2003 Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Narbantons is outrageously beautiful. From the very first taste, the Narbantons is lush, exotically ripe and silky. Time in the glass just brings out the wine’s sensual allure even further. The warmth of the vintage seems to have added an extra level of sweetness and...
Producer: Emmanuel Rouget
Bright red. Aromas of redcurrant, spicy oak and violet. Dense and sappy in the mouth, offering attractive spicy lift to the cranberry and redcurrant flavors. Subtler and finer than the village wine, and showing a firm mineral underpinning, but also oakier in the early going.
The 2020 Clos-de-la-Roche Grand Cru has an extremely pure bouquet with blackberry, raspberry, violet and crushed stone. This feels very focused and classy. The palate is very well balanced with supple tannins, fine acidity, very smooth and sensual with a welcome touch of bitterness towards the finish. A gorgeous wine, although I feel that Clos Saint-Denis has the edge.
