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Clos du Moulin Aux Moines Bourgogne ‘Aux Seurrets’ 2014

Clos du Moulin Aux Moines Bourgogne 'Aux Seurrets' 2014

The vines that makeup Clos du Moulin Aux Moines Bourgogne ‘Aux Seurrets’ bottling are located in a small parcel just outside the village of Pommard. Established in the 1970s and seated in clay-loam soils, the 2014 vintage is awash in brambly red berries, wild strawberries, damp earth, barnyard, and a pleasant top note of rancio. […]

Domaine des Vieilles Pierres Pouilly-Fuissé ‘Les Crays’ 2015

Domaine des Vieilles Pierres Pouilly-Fuissé Les Crays 2015

Crafted from old-vine Chardonnay the 2015 Jean Jacques Litaud Pouilly-Fuisse ‘Les Crays’ is the color of goldenrod, and offers plenty of olfactory charm: yellow apples, unripened pineapple, tamarind, and beautiful citrusy undertones. It’s an agile wine, with suppleness and fabulous texture followed by a back-palate infused with minerality, fleur de sel, and white grapefruit that […]

Prosper Maufoux Crémant de Bourgogne Brut Rosé NV

Prosper Maufoux Crémant de Bourgogne Brut Rosé

A lively, cheerful bead set against a vibrant background—the sort of orangey-pink one finds in a sunset—sets the stage for this ebullient Crémant de Bourgogne from Prosper Maufoux. Aromas of peach, candied orange peel, crème fraiche, and hazelnut spread grace the nose. On the palate, limestone-etched acidity gives lift to more tender notes of peach […]

Raveneau Chablis Premier Cru Montée de Tonnerre 2011

Raveneau Chablis Premier Cru Montée de Tonnerre 2011

Sublime sophistication, Raveneau’s 2011 Chablis Premier Cru Montée de Tonnerre shows its pedigree with complex aromas of roasted pear, earth, hazelnut, iodine, and smoke. The influence of Kimmeridgian soils is evident on the palate, one that is both expansive and neatly tailored, swathed in stone fruit and lemon curd tightly bound by a mineral spine. […]

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée-St.-Vivant 1999

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée-St.-Vivant 1999

Breathtaking, transcendant and pure, the 1999 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée-St.-Vivant is a woven tapestry of raspberries, cinnamon bark and fresh pastry, along with subtle touches of earth, underbrush, and lilting minerality. More diaphanous than the ’99 La Tâche or Richebourg, the words that this wine conjures are vibrant, ethereal, fine-boned and mineral-edged. This is […]

Domaine Dublère Corton-Charlemagne 2005

Domaine Dublère Corton-Charlemagne 2005

Enjoyed on the Brooks winery patio on a warm not-quite summer’s eve, the 2005 Dublère Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru followed a lithe Muscadet and oysters. Graced with pretty notes of apple tartin, yellow flowers, lemon curd, graphite, and spice, it’s full and round and richly buttery on the palate, with ample intensity and good acidic cut, […]

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Richebourg 1999

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Richebourg 1999

I’ve been holding off on posting notes for months, DRC is admittedly, an intimidating wine to write about. The 1999 Richebourg is a pinnacle wine, the sweetest nocturne, a walled-in garden of the soul. Heady, slowly unfurling layers of rose petals, dark loamy earth, mahogany wood, black cherry, crab apple, game, and forest floor. On […]

Louis Jadot Meursault 2008

Louis Jadot Meursault 2008

This Louis Jadot Meursault was sampled last March, at JoJo Madrid’s aka Burgnut’s beautifully appointed wine shop in Metro Manila, Premium Wine Exchange (if this note tells you anything, it tells you how far behind I am in posting my tasting notes!). Back to the Jadot, the 2008 is fairly brimming over with luscious, ripe, tropical mango […]

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche 1999

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche 1999

The 1999 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche is a transcendent bottle, wherein no one element dominates, it’s in absolute harmony, not unlike a great piece of music or art. It has pronounced power, and is at the same time weightless and ethereal. Layers of crushed raspberries, currants, blackberries and plum give substance to more […]

Patrick Piuze ‘Val de Mer’ Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos 2012

Patrick Piuze 'Val de Mer' Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos 2012

Ripe and expressive, the 2012 Patrick Piuze Val de Mer Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos is bursting with honey, white flowers and wet river rock. While medium-bodied, the texture is slightly waxy, verging on tropical with notes of lush papaya, dried pineapple and lemon curd set against a pronounced mineral finish of wet shell and […]

CHRISTINE HAVENS
McMinnville, OR

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