A wonderful Chenin Blanc, the fresh and aromatic B&G Vouvray exhibits fine balance and nice underlying sweetness and a fine crisp finish; a nice wine with baked chicken.
A classic, time-honored wine, the firm and well-built Louis Jadot is a serious Beaujolais-Villages that comes into the picture as a real red wine; tasty and bright.
The Bosquets des Pape Chateauneuf-du-Pape exhibits plenty of licorice, pepper, cherries, and some plum-like fruit with hints of Asian spice and incense.
Candied-fruits in the nose and a classic minerality on the palate. Medium-bodied and mouth-filling with a tangy finish. Great with vegetables, savory quiches and hard cheeses.
Deep ruby/purple with a tight but promising nose of black fruits, loamy, earthy notes intermixed with pepper, smoke, licorice, and dried herbs.
The fruit is restrained, the mineral/stony notes are here, subtle fruit tones of melon & citrus show nicely, the acidity is proper & the wine drinks nicely now.
A rustic wine, the Ch Greysac combines red fruit with dried leaves to present a very good picture of a Medoc wine; ready-to-enjoy; try with duck confit or braised beef.
Dependable as usual, the Ch Larose-Trintaudon offers very typical Haut-Medoc flavors of dried earth and black fruits; sturdy and fine on the palate; good to go.
A fine Chenin Blanc, the concentated and aromatic Ch du Monfort Vouvray simply shines on the palate; bright and focused, this wine delivers loads of flavors to a lively aftertaste.
A good prototypical Chateauneuf-du-Pape, the Louis Bernard stays on the typical side, far from the New World over-the-top extracted models; solid performance year-in and year-out; drinks well now.
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The Guigal Cotes du Rhone has fresh strawberry and raspberry on the nose, with sexy violet and rose accents. Sweet red berry flavors are sharpened by cracked pepper.
Supple and silky, with delicious blackberry, mocha, spice and mineral notes that ripple through the fleshy finish. Drink now.
Bright and fresh style; crisp aromas of green apples; pear; and just a whiff of honeydew; medium bodied and quite dry, with a long zesty finish. Great to serve with a light chicken salad.
Zesty yet seductive, the creamy-like Joseph Drouhin Pouilly-Fuisse is a bright star of this wide and varied AOC; this excellent example would be great with coq au vin.
The mouth reveals rounded tannins (thanks to the stay in the oak barrels), a warm and full-bodied wine with an uncommon and lasting aromatic intensity. The proof that Cotes-du-Rhone can be a serious and elegant wine.
A stylish effort that picks up world-wide appeal; balanced in all respects, the tasteful Joseph Drouhin Laforet Bourgogne Chardonnay stays long and ripe on the palate.
Clean and refined, the racy Olivier Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet drives home the core fruit, minerally-accent aspect of this wine; long and perky in the aftertaste.
Clean and vibrant; the Louis Jadot Chablis exhibits a beautiful mineral; and citrus aromas; crisp and lively on the palate with a beautiful balance on the finish. Great to serve with shell fish.
Its bouquet suggests complex, subtle aromas of white Spring flowers, such as acacia, lilies and hawthorn, as well as typical citrus notes.
This wine has a bright, pale-golden colour. On the nose there are intense peach and apricot fruits combined with the almost woolly scent that is so classic of great Chenin Blanc.
Defines the category nicely, the Paul Jaboulet Aine Cotes-du-Rhone offers ripe fruit flavors with a smooth palate impression; smooth and easy with a long finish.
Packed with ripe fig, licorice and currant paste flavors, backed by cocoa and graphite notes. Dark, muscular finish has some serious grip, so cellar short-term to let it round into form.
From the award winning team Pascal & Mireille Renaud, a delightful well balanced wine of great character, buttery, nutty, with full fruit flavours of peach, melon & banana, typically Pouilly Fussé.
Pale straw in color. Piquant, minerally, austere, and very clean nose. The palate is open, fresh, and direct, with ripe fruit flavor. Clean biting finish; very youthful; minerally flavors resurface.
The nose is very fresh, very clean with notes of lime peel, green herbs, black currant; typical, not aggressive. On the palate it is fresh and fruity; acidity is tempered by very subtle residual sugar; very clean; alive, racy, youthful.