A. De Luze & Fils

La Vieille Ferme (Perrin & Fils)

La Vieille Ferme Red Rhone Blend 2014

Hints of fruit and an earthy flavor. Good for a sunny afternoon. — 9 years ago

Bouchard Père et Fils

Ancienne Cuvée Carnot Volnay Caillerets 1er Cru Pinot Noir 1998

Lovely Pinot from a warm year. Rich with a long finish. — 11 years ago

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Domaine Pierre Usseglio & Fils

Cuvée De Mon Aïeul Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhone Blend 1998

Jeremy Shanker
9.1

Inaugural vintage and showing better than it did in August. Mostly old-vine Grenache from the era before the domaine began entirely destemming. This is big, burly, epic, and velvety CDP. Like hugging a fuzzy bear. — 11 years ago

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L. Aubry Fils

Brut Rosé 1er Cru Champagne Blend

Crisp and clean with a lovely medium pink color. Perfect for ringing in 2017 — 10 years ago

Bouchard Père et Fils

Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru Chardonnay 2000

Clean, precise, notes of toffee/butterscotch, a little more dense but minerally, great showing — 11 years ago

Agrapart & Fils (Pascal Agrapart)

L'Avizoise Millésime A Avize Grand Cru Brut Blanc de Blancs 2007

Wow. Yeasty focused fruit explosion. Wow. A great wine. Internal llaromatics lagging but this will be sick in time. Ig — 12 years ago

Simon Bize & Fils

Les Fournaux Savigny-les-Beaune 1er Cru Pinot Noir 2005

Fully mature, perhaps even fading a little. Warm cherries, baking spices, a little smoke, and rust on the nose. More of the same on the palate, plus some pleasant tertiary florals and forest notes. Tannins fully resolved, good balance, and reasonable length. A little grippy on the finish - might be residual wood influence, but no obvious oakiness. Nice wine, but I wonder if it might have been in better shape a few years ago. Note that the cork showed evidence of a little leakage, so fully intact bottles might drink younger. — 10 years ago

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Ira Schwartz

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@Max Kelly excellent note but I'm disappointed to read that a premier cru from that vintage appears to be fully mature.
Max Kelly

Max Kelly

Yeah, I was surprised too. As mentioned, may have been the cork.

Pierre Gimonnet & Fils

Cuvée Fleuron 1er Cru Brut Blanc de Blancs Chardonnay 2006

2006. Tastes golden. It's a deeper, older wine. You can taste the pinot noir, but it also has the smooth freshness of a blanc de blancs. — 11 years ago

Domaine Christian Moreau Père et Fils

Valmur Chablis Grand Cru Chardonnay 2004

This was a monster out of the gate and held its own. Really impressed. Shows age but not softness. Elegant, open, beeswaxy, beautiful — 12 years ago