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 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 du Comte Liger-Belair
Good bright red-ruby. Pure, showy aromas of wild dark berries, espresso and violet. Conveys a powerful impression of energy, elegance and power, with superb intensity to the black fruit, spice and mineral flavors. Impressively vibrant on the aftertaste if a bit youthfully brutal today, with late-emerging notes of bitter chocolate and meat.
Producer: Domaine Leroy
Deep ruby-red. Slightly reduced, reserved nose hints at superripe dark fruits and roasted nuts. Extremley ripe but a bit youthfully stunted, with slightly roasted, chocolatey flavor.
Producer: Domaine Coche Dury
Subtly complex aromas of lemon ice, mint and nutty, spicy oak. Rich, sweet and chewy, with a powerful minerality giving it great penetration for the vintage. This boasts wonderful inner-mouth perfume. Less obviously ripe than the young 2002 but possesses terrific lurking sweetness. Finishes very long, with notes of oatmeal and vanillin oak.
Producer: Domaine Pierre Girardin
The Meursault Les Grand Charrons is a rather large lieu dit, located in the hillside behind the town of Meursault. A wine known to have a nice breadth of bouquet, to be enjoyed now and to be stored a few years to enjoy a better overall balance.
Producer: Leroy Negoce
On a vast plain slightly sloping, witha soil of limestone rich in ferruginous, the appellation Meursault produce very high quality Premiers Crus. Meursault wines are famous throughout the world for their golden color and their intense aromas.
Producer: Benoit Ente
The 2020 Bourgogne is a striking wine endowed with gorgeous textural finesse and elegance. It Shows attractive freshness and fine balance at this level.
Producer: Domaine Pierre Girardin
Griotte Chambertin, with its 2.65 hectares, represents one of the smallest and rarest plots in Burgundy. Only the greatest producers own plots here, and it is from these wonderful soils that Pierre Girardin produces great wines that are powerful, elegant and complex.
Producer: Domaine Pierre Girardin
This Pommard Les Vignots is one of the best red wines of Burgundy! Its frank and powerful aromas and its beautiful length in the mouth will not disappoint. This vintage is particularly delicious, it is impossible not to keep some in the cellar.
Producer: Domaine Coche Dury
The 2019 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 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 Pierre Girardin
Clos Vougeot is a Grand Cru vineyard located in the Cote de Nuits region of Burgundy. Clos Vougeot is renowned for producing some of the finest Pinot Noir wines in the world, with a complex and elegant flavor profile. The vineyard has a complex terroir with a mix of soils, including limestone, clay, and gravel, which contributes to the distinctive flavor...
Producer: Domaine Ramonet
Ramonet in white is the equivalent of Henri Jayer or the DRC in red, writes Clive Coates. The Ramonet Batard Montrachet is a brilliantly young and nervy wine, great perfume of honeysuckle, good concentration of pear with hints of white mushrooms.
Producer: Domaine Pierre Girardin
Meursault Les Tillets Blanc is a wine of great elegance with considerable ageing potential, and like every wine from Pierre Vincent Girardin it expresses the typicality of each individual vineyard, with a perfect balance between minerality and fruit.
Producer: Domaine Francois Raveneau
The 2010 Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru has the most expressive of Ravneau's three Grand Crus. With scents of dried honey, pressed flowers, almond and a little wild fannel. The palate is taut and crisp with fine acidity.
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 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.
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.
