Françoise Roumieux
Château Lynch-Bages
Grand Cru Classé Pauillac Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2000
Domaine Françoise André
Sous Frétille Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Chardonnay 2009
Broad, more fruit, more leesy, more depth then the Pernand V. Fat and chewy. This big sister. — 9 years ago
Microbrasserie de l’Île d’Orléans
Orléans Françoise Lelièvre Belgian Ale
Not at all what I was expecting. Very Brett influenced and noticeably sour. Candied and Caramel note blend with hay and spice. Interesting. — 9 years ago
Le Grand-Clere (Françoise Blanchard)
Cabernet Franc
Been holding onto this for a while, finally drank it last night. Cab Franc grown/ made entirely by hand by one dude. Impressive. Yummy too, after some time to open. — 10 years ago
Hospices de Beaune
Pouilly-Fuissé Cuvée Françoise Poisot Verget 2000
1st vintage, out of mag, light smoked fruit — 10 years ago
Françoise Chauvenet
Silver Cap Rosé Brut Grand Cuvée
The bubbly at the party!! — 11 years ago
Françoise & Denis Clair
Sur le Sentier du Clou Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Pinot Noir 2014
Really good. Plenty of fruit, well balanced by earth and ashy notes. — 6 years ago
Françoise & Denis Clair
Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Pinot Noir
2014 is drinking delicious — 7 years ago
Le Grand-Clere (Françoise Blanchard)
White Blend
An oily orange wine with a cute etiquette. Friends and I chose slices of liver and well cooked onions as our secondo which was a pretty good decision :) — 7 years ago
Domaine Charles Audoin
Marsannay Pinot Noir Rosé 2016
On the nose, perfumed, candied fruits of strawberries, watermelon, cherries & Rainer cherries. Ballpark chewing gum, soft, powdery chalkiness and pink rose petals. The mouthfeel is round, ripe and fresh. Fruits are; ripe strawberries, watermelon, cherries & Rainer cherries. Ballpark chewing gum, roses petals and really like the soft, delicate, powdery chalkiness and minerality. Acidity is round, soft and mouthwatering. The long finish is round, fresh and delicious. The 2016 yield was about 1/2 of normal. Photos of; the Marasanny vineyard being harvested, outside shot of the Domaine & their stainless tanks in the the cellar as well as Cyril. Producer history and notes...Domaine Charles Audoin lies in the village of Marsannay-la-Côte. Descended from a long line of wine growers passing down from father to son, Charles Audoin took over the family property in 1972 with his wife Marie-Françoise, an oenologist by training. Located within the commune of Marsannay-la-Côte. Domaine Charles Audoin began with only three hectares but the estate has grown to nearly 35 acres with a diversity of soils. After taking over his father’s five acres of vineyards, Charles Audoin and wife Marie-Françoise developed the estate through the restoration and the purchase of new lots. Their vines are over 45 years of age on average and have a south-eastern orientation. Cyril prefers lower yields and has less intensive extraction for softer and more elegant wines. Happy Bastille everyone!
— 7 years ago
Francoise Bedel
L'âme de la Terre Brut Nature Champagne Blend
Françoise Bedel, L'âme de la Terre Extra Brut Champagne 2004 Millesimé paired with Burnt Onions with black truffle and smoked cod roe. — 8 years ago
Domaine de la Garenne
Mâcon-Azé Chardonnay 2009
2009 chez Gérard et Françoise — 8 years ago
Le Grand-Clere (Françoise Blanchard)
blackbeard Touraine Cabernet Franc
Cab franc alive and straight to the face! — 9 years ago
Françoise Chauvenet
Silver Cap Blanc de Blancs Brut
Hjorths Hotel, skagen. Super vintage sea hotel. Sigurd Mullers wineshop, Aalborg. 66 dkr, less if you buy more than three boxes. — 9 years ago
Domaine Feuillat-Juillot
Les Coères Montagny 1er Cru Chardonnay 2013
Steely, clean, tropical, pineapple with some pear. Nimble, live, pebbly. Little sandy. Love the acid.
Had the great opportunity to taste these wines with Françoise Feuillat-Juillot. An amazing woman, and winemaker. — 10 years ago
Domaine Françoise André
Les Vergellesses Savigny-Les-Beaune Blanc 1er Cru Chardonnay 2009
Chapitre des Chevaliers du Tastevin, à Kyoto — 10 years ago
Le Grand-Clere (Françoise Blanchard)
Touraine Cabernet Franc 2011
Stunning natural wine Cab Franc, Le Grand Clere no sulfur, oddly in a bottle cap closure. Dense, dark, yet bright & vibrant. 12.5% — 11 years ago
Françoise Joffray
Brut Champagne Blend
Vila. Black Friday. 37,95 -30% = 26,56
24.11.17 — 7 years ago
Studio Seven Fifty
Criscione Vineyard Francoise Peschon Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
Françoise Peschon is an amazing winemaker! Besides displaying her epic abilities at Araujo Eststes, she also shows off her skills with David Stevens at 750 Wines. — 7 years ago
Françoise Chauvenet
Meursault Chardonnay 1986
Fully mature, but no oxidation, has a white flower, poached pear nose with beeswax and honeyed citrus on the back end. Full bodied, rich and still lovely finish, reminds me of an Orange sherbet Popsicle. — 8 years ago
Château Grand Lartigue
St. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend 2009
2009 chez Gérard et Françoise — 8 years ago
Françoise & Denis Clair
Santenay Chardonnay 2012
Stellar! Maybe just another year or two will be required for the oak to resolve. — 9 years ago
Françoise & Denis Clair
Saint-Aubin Chardonnay
Françoise & Denis Clair
Côte de Beaune Villages Pinot Noir
Wow -- delicious, fresh-fruited burgundy with fine, subtle tannins, v lively acidity. Like biting into a fresh fruit. But better. — 9 years ago
Françoise & Denis Clair
Les Champlots Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Chardonnay
Buttery and delicious - had this with my roasted chicken & potatoes & asparagus & lemon recipe. — 10 years ago
David T
Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator
The 2000 is delicious but, it is evolving at a glacial pace. Out of magnum.
On the nose, touch of barnyard, glycerin, ripe; blackberries, dark cherries, black raspberries, plum, strawberries & cherries. Vanilla, dry clay, limestone, river stones, just a touch of pyrazines & bandaid, dark,,turned, moist earth, dry grass and dry & fresh dark florals.
The body is full, round & sexy. Dry softened, sweet tannins. ripe; blackberries, dark cherries, black raspberries, plum, strawberries & cherries. Vanilla, dry clay, limestone, river stones, just a touch of pyrazines & bandaid, fresh tobacco leaf, saddle-wood, dry underbrush, dark, turned, moist earth, dry grass and dry & fresh dark florals. The acidity is magnificent. The structure, tension, length and balance are sensational. The finish is drop dead gorgeous. I’d still hold mine another 5 years as long as you have 3-4 bottles for more 5 year increments.
Photos of, their Estate vines, Clyde Beffa-Owner of K&L Wine Merchants, Owner of Chateau Lynch Bages - Jean-Michel Cazes, guests of the dinner and a sunset view from their Estate.
Producer notes and history...Lynch Bages takes its name from the local area where the Chateau is located in Bages. The vineyard of what was to become Lynch Bages was established and then expanded by the Dejean family who sold it in 1728 to Pierre Drouillard.
In 1749, Drouillard bequeathed the estate to his daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Lynch. This is how the estate came to belong to the Lynch family, where it remained for seventy-five years and received the name Lynch Bages. However, it was not always known under that name.
For a while the wines were sold under the name of Jurine Bages. In fact, when the estate was Classified in the 1855 Classification of the Medoc, the wines were selling under the name of Chateau Jurine Bages. That is because the property was owned at the time by a Swiss wine merchant, Sebastien Jurine.
In 1862, the property was sold to the Cayrou brothers who restored the estate’s name to Chateau Lynch family.
Around 1870, Lou Janou Cazes and his wife Angelique were living in Pauillac, close to Chateau Pichon Longueville Baron. It was here that Jean-Charles Cazes, the couple’s second son, was born in 1877.
In the 1930’s, Jean-Charles Cazes, who was already in charge of Les-Ormes-de-Pez in St. Estephe agreed to lease the vines of Lynch Bages. By that time, the Cazes family had history in Bordeaux dating back to the second half of the nineteenth century.
This agreement to take over Lynch Bages was good for both the owner and Jean Charles Cazes. Because, the vineyards had become dilapidated and were in need of expensive replanting, which was too expensive for the owner. However, for Cazes, this represented an opportunity, as he had the time, and the ability to manage Lynch Bages, but he lacked the funds to buy the vineyard.
Jean-Charles Cazes eventually purchased both properties on the eve of the Second World War. Lynch Bages and Les-Ormes-de-Pez have been run by the Cazes family ever since. In 1988, the Cazes family added to their holdings in Bordeaux when they purchased an estate in the Graves region, Chateau Villa Bel Air.
Around 1970, they increased their vineyards with the purchase of Haut-Bages Averous and Saussus. By the late 1990’s their holdings had expanded to nearly 100 hectares! Jean-Michel Cazes who had been employed as an engineer in Paris, joined the wine trade in 1973. In a short time, Jean Michel Cazes modernized everything at Lynch Bages.
He installed a new vat room, insulated the buildings, developing new technologies and equipment, built storage cellars, restored the loading areas and wine storehouses over the next fifteen years. During that time period, Jean Michel Cazes was the unofficial ambassador of not just the Left Bank, but all of Bordeaux. Jean Michel Cazes was one of the first Chateau owners to begin promoting their wine in China back in 1986.
Bages became the first wine sent into space, when a French astronaut carried a bottle of 1975 Lynch Bages with him on the joint American/French space flight!
Beginning in 1987, Jean-Michel Cazes joined the team at the insurance company AXA, who wanted to build an investment portfolio of quality vineyards in the Medoc, Pomerol, Sauternes, Portugal and Hungary.
Jean-Michel Cazes was named the director of the wine division and all the estates including of course, the neighboring, Second Growth, Chateau Pichon Baron.
June 1989 marked the inauguration of the new wine making facilities at Lynch Bages, which was on of their best vintages. 1989 also marked the debut of the Cordeillan- hotel and restaurant where Sofia and I had one of our best dinners ever. A few years after that, the Village de Bages with its shops was born.
The following year, in 1990, the estate began making white wine, Blanc de Lynch Bages. In 2001, the Cazes family company bought vineyards in the Rhone Valley in the Languedoc appellation, as well as in Australia and Portugal. They added to their holdings a few years later when they purchased a vineyard in Chateauneuf du Pape.
In 2006, Jean-Charles Cazes took over as the managing director of Chateau Lynch Bages. Jean-Michel Cazes continues to lead the wine and tourism division of the family’s activities. Due to their constant promotion in the Asian market, Chateau Lynch Bages remains one of the strongest brands in the Asian market, especially in China.
In 2017, Chateau Lynch Bages began a massive renovation and modernization, focusing on their wine making, and technical facilities. The project, headed by the noted architects Chien Chung Pei and Li Chung Pei, the sons of the famous architect that designed the glass pyramid for the Louvre in Paris as well as several other important buildings.
The project will be completed in 2019. This includes a new grape, reception center, gravity flow wine cellar and the vat rooms, which will house at least, 80 stainless steel vats in various sizes allowing for parcel by parcel vinification.
The new cellars will feature a glass roof, terraces with 360 degree views and completely modernized reception areas and offices. They are not seeing visitors until it’s completion.
In March, 2017, they purchased Chateau Haut Batailley from Françoise Des Brest Borie giving the Cazes family over 120 hectares of vines in Pauillac!
The 100 hectare vineyard of Lynch Bages is planted to 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. The vineyard has a terroir of gravel, chalk and sand soils.
The vineyard can be divided into two main sections, with a large portion of the vines being planted close to the Chateau on the Bages plateau. At their peak, the vineyard reaches an elevation of 20 meters. The other section of the vineyard lies further north, with its key terroir placed on the Monferan plateau.
They also own vines in the far southwest of the appellation, next Chateau Pichon Lalande, on the St. Julien border, which can be used in the Grand Vin. The vineyard can be split into four main blocks, which can be further subdivided into 140 separate parcels.
The average age of the vines is about 30 years old. But they have old vines, some of which are close to 90 years old.
The vineyards are planted to a vine density of 9,000 vines per hectare. The average age of the vines is about 30 years old. But they have old vines, some of which are close to 90 years old.
Lynch Bages also six hectares of vine are reserved for the production of the white Bordeaux wine of Chateau Lynch Bages. Those vines are located to the west of the estate. They are planted to 53% Sauvignon Blanc, 32% Semillon and 15% Muscadelle. On average, those vines are about 20 years of age. Lynch Bages Blanc made its debut in 1990.
To produce the wine of Chateau Lynch Bages, vinification takes place 35 stainless steel vats that vary in size. Malolactic fermentation takes place in a combination of 30% French, oak barrels with the remainder taking place in tank.
The wine of Chateau Lynch Bages is aged in an average of 70% new, French oak barrels for between 12 and 15 months. Due to the appellation laws of Pauillac, the wine is sold as a generic AOC Bordeaux Blanc, because Pauillac does not allow for the plantings of white wine grapes.
For the vinification of their white, Bordeaux wine, Blanc de Lynch-Bages is vinified in a combination of 50% new, French oak barrels, 20% in one year old barrels and the remaining 30% is vinified in vats. The wine is aged on its lees for at least six months. The white wine is sold an AOC Bordeaux wine.
The annual production at Lynch Bages is close to 35,000 cases depending on the vintage.
The also make a 2nd wine, which was previously known as Chateau Chateau Haut Bages Averous. However, the estate changed its name to Echo de Lynch Bages beginning with the 2007 vintage. The estate recently added a third wine, Pauillac de Lynch-Bages.
— 6 years ago