Severn Goodwin

9.3

50% Chardonnay / 40% Pinot Meunier / 10% Pinot Noir

On the nose, light citrus and green apple, white flowers with honey.

On the palate, toasty brioche with refreshing acidity and pear/melon notes.

This bottle delivers a stunning value; we normally can buy this at $30, and be oh so happy!

Producer Note:
Canard-Duchêne is unique in its origins, history and style. The Champagne house has been located in Ludes, in the Montagne de Reims National Park, since 1868, and is one of the original Grandes Marques. Its founders, Victor Canard and Leonie Duchêne, both well-known characters in Champagne, were granted the right by the Russian Imperial Family to adopt its coat of arms as the family emblem. The crowned two-headed eagle has thus appeared on every Canard-Duchêne label since the end of the 19th century. These authentic, original Champagnes combine fruit, intensity and complexity.

@David T
This is my version of your Billecart-Salmon Brut. — 8 years ago

Jay Bergesen

9.0

Delish. Funk and yeast at first. Mellows over the hour. Fresh fruits and joy. Unfiltered glory. — 9 years ago

Alan Goldberg

9.0

The Riesling that changed my mind about trocken. Balanced in all its fruit, acidity, and minerality glory — 9 years ago

Josh Spurling

9.3

I'm upping my rating on this. Wine needed air to show its full glory. Today, it's blowing dark fruit, tree bark, big cinnamon and dark spice - yet, it remains fresh and vibrant. It still reminds me of really good Cru Beaujolais but the Mourvèdre character is more present. Yum! — 9 years ago

Paul Luce

9.1

The glory of hanging out with the young & upwardly mobile...the Luders ability to throw a party is unmatched ...cheers — 9 years ago

Billy L.

9.7

2008 Materium from Magnum
@ Ruth's Chris. Silky smooth, concentrated Weitz Vineyard Oakville glory! Chris Maybach & Thomas Brown make fabulous wines together. — 10 years ago

Brian Zhang

9.1

A bit tired with noticeable VA. First few whiffs still showed its former glory though. Fully mature with tertiary notes dominating. Lovely. — 10 years ago

Wineshout 💀

9.0

Let 'er breathe and glory awaits! Lush berries and licorice notes dominate a balanced, elegantly oaked wine.

Also kudos on the detailed data on the label of the what, how and where of this Red Mountain wine. — 10 years ago

Michael Descamps

9.4

Pure glory. — 10 years ago

Jonathan Wood

9.3

Delicious! Go Scanny — 11 years ago

with Erin

John Tucker

9.6

Love it, in all it's dirty (unfiltered) concrete egg glory. — 11 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.4

I've been curious about this wine for some time. The original 05 Ausone review from Parker was revised and one would think it was at the request of the Chateau. Parker's 💯 point review started something like this...if you are over the age of 55, you'll want to decide if you want to buy this this wine. Largely, due to his call on it's years of drinkability; which was from 2055-80. Parker's review was mysteriously revised within two months of it's original review. Tonight, I Coravin-ed this tasting of the Chapelle D'Ausone. The 05 Chapelle D'Ausone is still very big & tight but starting it's journey into a decent drinking phase. The tannins are still chewy and dark. The fruits are; ruby blackberries, dark cherries, a mix of blue fruits, strawberries paint the back palate, dark & milk chocolate, caramel, Christmas cake, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, spice-box, black tea, a whiff of green bell peppers, irony minerals, loamy soils, tree bark, a touch of leather, lead pencil shavings, dry stems, dry stones & dark moist soil. The acidity is perfect. The structure, length, balance and tension flirt with glory. The finish runs ripe to dry fruit and the minerals are rich with a dark elegance that lasts and lasts. As good as this wine is tonight, I'll put this bottle back; which is 1 of a 6 pack and wait another 7-10 years to reopen it. Both of Ausone's 05 wines are meant for most collectors end of life or meant to be left for their children. — 8 years ago

David Kline

9.1

Perfect composition! Crowned indelibly with a thick head of spongey. meadow foam. Hot cocoa aromas backed by a leathery malt. Fig and sweet espresso, black currant toast and honey combo, but with baked caramel notes, egg cream soda, bourbon creams. Much better nearly a year later. This was too rich a year ago. — 9 years ago

Gae Saccoccio - NdC

9.6

Really complicated on these so suspect days, expose themselves with concepts such as: tradition, terroir, identity without falling into the most sinister rhetoric if not sounds just trite and hypocritical as the counterfeit currency with which even large-scale industries - supported by marketing - pays back its inattentive mass audience riding the wave of the country of origin or protected typicality. A diabolical mechanism this one for which even the most noble ideas probably the right practices and good experiences completed in the scale of centuries to human measure and not on massive industrial scale, are trivialized by sleazy slogan, emptied of meaning to be more or less surreptitious thanks to barbaric persuasion techniques and brain-washing propaganda.
Yet with the Valentini's Trebbiano you may not groped to summarize in words if not by drawing on terms so appropriate to express it. Now concerning this iconic label we've got behind it a local grape variety, a real family and a great wine that collect in a bottle the past and present story of a side of Abruzzo who claims to defeats victories and sacrifices to dominate the abuses (on and of) nature, miseries and splendours of agricultural seasons. Places, people, vision, wines such as Valentini are here to remind us how each bottle stay so proudly standing as non-reproducible beauty and fermented goodness expressing all its artisanal uniqueness and authenticity which are just that suspect to industrial wine production in manufacturing chains on standardized quantities; wines that are all equal to themselves even though wine itself is not much left at the end of the day/cycle. Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Valentini 1998 is what we have to rate right now: rusticity with class; style, purity and glory of a local grape recognized by many admirers from all over the world: act local think global this is another slogan-cliché which in this specific Valentini's wine exemple could sounds a little less false and more effective. — 9 years ago

with Alberto and Giovanni

Taylor Wilcox

French Wine Specialist The Wine House, Los Angeles.

9.1

Bless you.... Worth the bit I got (thanks boys)! Full Napa glory, Gorgeous, well- integrated dark fruits and tannins... Lovely.... Don't be a stranger! — 10 years ago

with Winehouse, Jim and 1 other

Josh MacGregor

9.6

The old man in all his glory — 10 years ago

Mark Oldman

9.8

Domaine Henri Jayer Echézeaux 1988: Lush and silky, bursting with sweet black fruit and a commanding, complex perfume of Asian spice, musk, and minerals. Wines from the late, legendary Henri Jayer represent a singularly heightened benchmark for Burgundy and Pinot Noir. They are Led Zeppelin conquering the Garden in 1973 or Kurt Cobain rasping behind the stargazer lilies: pure glory, glorious purity. beetroot and menthol on the nose, velvet on the tongue, and exhilaration in the heart. Wines like these make even the most law-abiding drinker contemplate a life on the lam. — 10 years ago

Jeff Clavier

9.1

Really enjoying this cab from the glory days of lot18 — 10 years ago

Randy Whitlatch

9.7

2007 in its glory. — 11 years ago

Nathan O'Brien

9.6

#Glory #HappySicilianDay — 8 years ago

with Anthony

Paul Einbund

Wine Director/Sommelier Frances

9.5

2007 with the most intriguing nose in a long time seaweed and salt water shitake mushroom and sweet black cherry juice live on with glory my friend!! — 8 years ago

Dan Weisshaar

9.3

Chewy, marzipan glory. Outstanding balance with lovely nutty finish. Decant an hour or two for girlfriend experience. SO GOOD!! — 9 years ago

with Lyle and Matthew

Sam Barber

9.0

Cherry cola, dirt, balanced. Young but heading towards glory — 9 years ago

Christine Havens

9.2

I was pleasantly surprised by this sparkling blend of 90% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot Noir. The 2011 Mineral Springs Brut Rosé has spent three years en tirage, further it's hand riddled and production is limited to 50 cases. Salmon-hued with a delicate mousse, it's a lovely juxtaposition between fruit and brisk acidity. Racy tangerine and fresh raspberry notes lead into a base layer of cherry clafoutis crowned with a dollop of cream. A mineral-driven finish laden with chalk and crushed stone cut through mid-palate richness. 12.8% ABV — 9 years ago

Kai Wright

9.3

We drank it soon after a transport, so the wine was a bit closed and in-expressive. And way too young. But still signs of glory that will come. Rich dried fruit, earth and olive. Fuller body and booze, plenty of fruit to age. Look forward to drinking the one I stowed away years down the road. — 10 years ago

with Jedd and Derek

Colleen Nielsen

9.3

Flying a jet fighter through a lemon orchard and crashing into a river in a blaze of glory! — 10 years ago

boyd

9.5

Late night. Eating jambon royal and sheep's milk chevre. 2010 gigondas in all its glory. This wine is phenomenal. Earthy and floral. Almost like a great garden. But also has dense delicious fruit. Just can't say enough good things. Sent me to bed with a smile. — 10 years ago

Mike Dombrow

Buyer Sunfish Cellars

8.9

So quiet and understated at first. 4 hours later I see the wine was just a wallflower at the start . A glory to taste, walking on the edge. Richness in the middle surrounded from the front and back by a piercing clarity. — 10 years ago

Mo Daly

9.1

Campfire ash peat in all their glory — 11 years ago

Mark Lindzy

9.2

Syrah in all it's glory! — 11 years ago

with Josefa