Veronica Castro

9.5

Elegance and power. A beautifully made wine. Striking minerality, intense stoniness. The fruit comes later: pineapple, nectarine, with saltiness and limeyness at the end. Coming from 49 year old vines, and below 4g RS. Stealing your soul! So intense. — 8 years ago

Nico J. Snyman

9.8

Solera vintages: 2005-2013, Dégorgement: 01/2016, Dosage: 0-4g/l, All 7 Cépage, this is so interesting, screaming acidity, beautiful development & layers of complexity, outstanding wine. — 8 years ago

Nico J. Snyman

9.3

Dégorgement: 01/2016, Dosage: 2-4g/l, Really great Meunier, quite young, but a beautifully structured style. — 8 years ago

Ryan Mayes

9.7

First wine from 4G's 2012 vintage. Tasted at winery. This is an absolutely gorgeous blend of Syrah, Cab Sav and PV and one of the most memorable wines I've ever tasted. Only 3,745 bottles produced. This wine has it all for me: huge gorgeous aromas of dark fruit, leather, black tea, underbrush. Mouthfeel is rich and velvety, taste is complex and harmonious blend of the aromatic notes above. So much depth. Masculine but refined and entirely in control. Finish is long and reminds me of the fade-out at the end of a favorite song that you want to play on loop. Approachable today but will age beautifully. No one seems to know about this producer yet but it is destined for greatness. I only wish the price tag was more accessible. — 8 years ago

Arnold Messer

9.2

Discovered at Wally's tasting last week. Really nice structure. A little oxidized with good acidity. 4g/L dosage. Great value for money — 9 years ago

with ian

John Kersey

9.2

Intense minerality and floral notes. Such an elegant and effortless finish. 4g/l extra brut. Sophisticated Champagne. — 10 years ago

Louis Schofield

Sommelier/Wine Merchant East End Cellars

9.7

18 years on lees and 4g dosage. Pretty good time. — 11 years ago

Megumi Gotoh

9.0

LAFONDのExtra Brut
40%Ch,60%PN
ドサージュ4g/L
とてもエレガントで美味しい！！
— 11 years ago

with Masaki

Andy Tam

9.4

Incredibly creamy medium body. 25/75 Pinot/Chardonnay. 4g of sugar only and 20% barrelled in oak. 13 years in Lees! Gerard calls it a meditation Champagne. Best to serve 12 deg and 15 mins in decanter necessary — 8 years ago

Nico J. Snyman

9.5

Dégorgement: 01/2016, Dosage: 4g/l, Another great example of real quality wine-growing, great line-up. — 8 years ago

Nico J. Snyman

9.2

Dégorgement: 12/2015, Vintage '12, Dosage 4g/l, Great structure, the whole line-up are quite young, but they're showing such beautiful expression of fruit character, great stuff. — 8 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.6

After a rather broad Ruinart bdb the last time, this was a distinct difference. Focused and driven. It strikes a delicate balance between fruit, aldehydes, and autolytic characters. Super complex and very long finish.

Note: 4g dosage. Apparently really low for Ruinart. — 8 years ago

Marcio Morelli

9.3

100% Pinot Noir
Premieur Cru Mareuil-Sur-Ay
Engarrafada em abril/2009
Dosage 4g/l
Degola 05/2015 — 9 years ago

with Marcia, Otavio and 1 other

Lewis Chester

9.3

2011 vintage. Light golden hue. Mineral, chalky, peaches and stone fruits to the fore. Quite ripe. On the palate, dry (probably more than 4g of residual but acidity masks the sugar), medium plus body,high alcohol, high extract, long and persistent finish and huge refreshing, tangy acidity, especially on the finish. Peaches and apricots, lemon zest from the acidity, crisp and long textured wine with real weight. Love it. More similar to an Alsatian Riesling than a Mosel/Rheingau Riesling, and although weighty, no noticeable TDN notes or lime juice zest of a High Eden or Clare Valley Aussie Riesling. — 10 years ago

Daron Watson

9.5

Solid Wine. If "First Growth" I'd draw comparisons to Haut Brion...and then blended with a Cali Cult — 10 years ago

Veronica Castro

9.6

Passionfruit, nectarine, and lime all over the place. 4g/L dosage. Base wine from 2010. — 11 years ago

Nico J. Snyman

10

Dégorgé: Oct/15, Dosage: 4g/l, It took about an a half to show itself, when opened the intensity/character & layers really came alive, beautifully complex & powerful, great to see. — 8 years ago

Nico J. Snyman

9.9

Années: 20% '11, 80% '12, Dosage: 4g/l, Decanted/Burgundy glass, took about 1.5hrs to shine, was tried beside the Savart, both such outstanding examples of true/pure RM's, there was the beautiful yogurt intensity that shone through with some air, much like the Savart, such great terroirs. — 8 years ago

Nico J. Snyman

9.2

Disgorged May 2016, Dosage 4g/l, it's still extremely young, but the structure/phenolics are so appropriate for food, serve it in a Burgundy stem & let the bubbles dissipate because with time & air it really starts to shine... — 8 years ago

Chip Hughes

9.6

November-harvested, botrytised Chardonnay. Originally a banned style in Vire-Clesse but allowed now. Warm honey, manzanilla, white port. 100g RS, 4g acidity. Balanced, lively. #viréclessé #chardonnay #botrytis — 8 years ago

Audrey Goodridge

9.4

Refreshing, refined so very Rosé. Beautiful rose, gold colour with rose petal and strawberry on the nose. Grapefruit, pear, cherry. Well structured with great vinosity and minerality. Absolutely beautiful. Ooo la la! 50pn 50ch dosage 4g/L — 9 years ago

Jay Clark

9.7

Prestige= 100% Chardonnay. Disgorged May 2013. 4g dosage. Gangster. — 10 years ago

Christian Laur

10

Besser geht's nicht. — 10 years ago

Gary Westby

Champagne & Sherry buyer K&L Wines

10

62% Pinot Noir and 38% Chardonnay all from estate vineyards in Ambonnay, dosed at 4g/l. On deck for the Marguet tasting tonight in Redwood City. — 11 years ago

Mark McCanna

9.5

$12.95 and only 4g/L of sugar, great tannin, lots of fruit, you can't go wrong. — 11 years ago