French

"There are nine barrels of the 2018 Montrachet Grand Cru (Maison Louis Jadot), a broad-shouldered, powerful wine that offers up aromas of pear, whi...

"Once again in 2010, notes of mocha, espresso roast, chocolate, creme de cassis and scorched earth soar from this opaque purple-colored wine. It is...

"Good full ruby-red. Pure, ripe aromas of cassis, graphite and cedar, lifted by floral and mineral high notes. Dense and amazingly concentrated yet...

"Located in the southern part of Burgundy, at the North limit of Beaujolais area, Pouilly-Fuissé is the top of the Mâconnais wines, in the heart of...

"Similarly colored to the traditional cuvée, the 2016 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée du Baron has rocking aromas and flavors of garrigue, kirsch liqueur...

"The 1990 Petrus remains incredibly young, one of the least evolved wines of the vintage (along with Montrose and Beausejour-Duffau). This dense ru...

"Deep garnet in color, the 2010 Canon la Gaffeliere delivers classic plum preserves, boysenberries and cigar box scents with wafts of underbrush, d...

"The 2015 Canon La Gaffelière is deep, powerful and explosive. Seamless and captivating in the glass, it possesses magnificent richness, volume and...

"A ripe if highly restrained mix of red and blue fruit is liberally sprinkled with spice and floral notes. There is good volume and solid mid-palat...

"The Lafon 2006 Meursault Clos de la Barre offers another example of very clear, bright fruit; a polished, satiny texture yet with underlying firmn...

"The 1990 Lynch-Bages has a precocious nose, utterly captivating with intense black fruit suffused with iodine and seaweed scents. It gains cohesio...

"Year after year, Lynch-Bages is able to produce sumptuous wines, typically rich, powerful and structured. This is solid, the blackberry ripe fruit...

"Gorgeous, silky red that is thickly textured. Full-bodied, with near flawless balance, it delivers layers of mocha, coffee, ginger, blackberry, an...

"The light straw color and spiciness of youth bode well for this wine. Minerals and pepper-like spice predominate while pineapple-like fruitiness l...

"Elegant and lively, with fresh, ripe cherry and raspberry flavors, spicy oak notes and crisp acidity. The fine, supple tannins are in check and th...

"A ripe and brooding nose flashes notes of spice, floral and sandalwood nuances. The exceptionally rich and concentrated broad-shouldered yet refin...

"Deep, glistening violet color. Highly perfumed aromas of fresh black/blue fruits, exotic spices, peony, vanilla and incense are complemented by a ...

"Heady and opulent, this red offers concentrated black cherry and blackberry aromas and flavors with hints of chocolate and spice. The oak is well-...

"The 1999 Bâtard Montrachet Grand Cru from Domaine Leflaive is blessed with a stunning gunflint nose that soars from the glass. It is supremely wel...

"This is coming along very nicely and while by no means ready at only 8 years of age, it's sufficiently open and supple that it could be drunk now ...

"This is so decadent and exciting on the nose, with very ripe fruit, tobacco, meat and cedar. Full-bodied, offering amazing raspberry fruit in the ...

"Good smoky, lemony, and honeyed complexity. Medium-bodied, offering clean and pure character, with a ripe-tasting finish." - Wine Spectator

"Racy, classy and as pure as crystal, this medium-bodied but uncompromising, idiosyncratic Chablis is so tightly wound now it's like a lemon and mi...

"This is aromatically similar to the Pucelles with the addition of more obvious (though not intrusive) wood treatment. Once again the mid-palate te...

"(a blend of fruit coming from 35+ and 75+ year old vines all in Charmes Dessus, which is the best part directly below Perrières and abutting Combe...

"Matching the otherworldly 2009, the 2015 Hermitage Blanc is a perfect wine and certainly one of the greatest whites ever made from this hallowed e...

"Lean and tight, with lemon verbena, citrus blossom and stone notes. This is balanced, though the structure is more evident now, with a long, miner...

"The 2008 Meursault Charmes 1er Cru has a powerful nose with honeysuckle, beeswax, fennel, hints of acacia coming through with time. I adore the me...

"Revisited from bottle, the 2018 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru has turned out very well indeed, unwinding in the glass with notes of crisp orchard f...

"Okay, I am closing my eyes, I am feeling the wonderful lift and floating fruit effect, and I have to say this is a lovely Ausone. It performs some...

"The Richebourg parcel now totals .6 ha after it was combined with the vines that formerly belonged to Michel Gros, which he agreed to exchange so ...

"Served from magnum at Domaine de Chevalier, the 2009 Corton-Charlemagne is in absolutely stunning form. While it does not possess the heart-stoppi...

"This is more aromatically elegant than the Maréchaudes with an airy nose of various red berries along with moderate amounts of spice, floral and e...

"I was blown away by the 2018 Hermitage from barrel, and it unquestionably doesn't disappoint from bottle. Reminding me slightly of the 2009, it po...