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Burgundy: Domaine Dugat-Py's Chambertin, 1997-2021
The combination of the inherent characteristics of the site and the very gentle vinification mean that the Chambertin is invariably the most elegant wine in the cellar, and as shown in this vertical tasting, it's also one of the most consistent.
Apr 03, 2025
25Bordeaux: The 2022 Vintage in Bottle
We are delighted to report that the 2022 vintage has turned out brilliantly in bottle. With comparatively few exceptions, the best 2022s’ compelling marriage of ripeness and aromatic freshness, power and precision has made it into bottle intact.
Mar 06, 2025
420Bordeaux: New Releases from Château Latour
This report features Château Latour’s latest releases: the 2020 Pauillac, 2019 Forts de Latour and the 2016 Grand Vin de Latour.
Feb 13, 2025
3Burgundy: The 2022 Vintage at the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
The 2022s are rich, generous wines, for the most part very integrated out of the gates, and though they'll reward patience, they will not demand it.
Feb 13, 2025
9Burgundy: Up From the Cellar 39
This 2025 installment records the most interesting Burgundies I enjoyed over the last year, ranging from the mid-19th century to recent vintages.
Feb 06, 2025
113Burgundy: The Côte d’Or’s 2023 and 2022 Vintages
If one characteristic defines the 2023 vintage in Burgundy, it’s abundance. For Pinot Noir, this was a year of abundant yields; for Chardonnay, 2023 is a year of abundant flesh and texture.
Jan 30, 2025
990France, Burgundy: New Mâconnais Releases from Verget and Guffens-Heynen
Jean-Marie Guffens is producing some of the most virtuosic wines of his entire career, crafting singular cuvées whose quality any taster can readily appreciate.
Nov 07, 2024
37Champagne: New Releases from Cédric Bouchard
This small report focuses on Cédric Bouchard's recent releases of his exemplary 2019 sparkling wines and the brilliant debut of a red still wine.
Sep 19, 2024
7Champagne: New Releases from Bollinger
These new releases are two blanc de noirs: the latest rendition of the house's NV bottling and the 2014 Vieilles Vignes Françaises, one of my favorite wines but one I drink all too seldom given its tiny production and lofty price tag.
Aug 15, 2024
2Champagne: Louis Roederer’s 2016 Cristal
Jean-Baptise Lecaillon described 2016 as a complicated season, much like 2021 and 2024 (thus far). The resulting wine is a classic in the best sense of the term, and one that will offer a long and broad drinking window.
Aug 15, 2024
1Bordeaux En Primeur 2023: Make or Break
The best 2023s are just as exciting as the best 2022s, even if the vintage is more varied in quality and style; yet the final paradox is that, due to a cool global economy and two consecutive lukewarm en primeur campaigns, the 2023s may be released at prices as interesting as any we have seen since 2019.
Apr 26, 2024
371Champagne: Bollinger's 2015 Grande Année and Grande Année Rosé
The 2015 Champagne vintage enjoys a mixed reputation, but Bollinger’s 2015s have turned out very well due to terroir and agronomic and vinification approaches.
Mar 29, 2024
2Champagne: Two decades of Ulysse Collin's Les Pierrières
It feels like only yesterday that Olivier Collin’s first releases took the Champagne world by storm, but two decades have now elapsed since his first vinification.
Mar 21, 2024
112021 Bordeaux in Bottle: The Saved and the Damned
Two years ago, tasting from barrel, I said that this was a farmers’ vintage. Now that the wines are in bottle, my earlier analysis has been confirmed.
Feb 08, 2024
337Burgundy: The Côte d’Or’s 2022 and 2021 Vintages
2022 is another very strong Burgundy vintage, offering excellence in both colors and a variety of styles, and the best 2021s are perfumed and sensual.
Jan 18, 2024
1100Burgundy: Domaine Guffens-Heynen’s Les Croux and Clos des Petits Croux, 1990–2020
Since the 1980s, Jean-Marie Guffens has produced wines so compelling that they upend many of our preconceived notions about Burgundy itself.
Dec 21, 2023
16Bordeaux: Château Montrose, 1893–2020
One of Bordeaux’s greatest estates and a Médoc classified growth, Château Montrose produces wines of remarkable depth, presence and longevity.
Dec 21, 2023
26Bordeaux: Up From the Cellar
This latest installment features a wide variety of estates and vintages, and many of the wines may actually still be obtainable in the marketplace.
Dec 21, 2023
71Burgundy & Champagne: Up From the Cellar 37
This latest installment is especially wide ranging, featuring old still wines from Champagne and perfectly aged white Burgundies, among others.
Dec 21, 2023
57France, Champagne: The New Champagne
This dynamic region continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, but there are no shortcuts to true quality; and the best producers aren’t taking any.
Dec 14, 2023
159France, Burgundy: Burgundy’s Secret Garden – the Côte Chalonnaise, the Mâconnais and Beyond
Readers will by now be familiar with the theme of this article, an annual report that attempts to foreground the “other” Burgundy beyond the Côte d’Or’s more glamorous villages.
Oct 19, 2023
165France, Burgundy: Recent and Forthcoming Releases from Chablis and Beyond
Chablis is changing, and the 2022 vintage only underscores that. Readers looking for “Chablis that tastes like Chablis” might actually find more to like in carefully selected 2021s than by buying at random in 2022.
Sep 07, 2023
185France, Champagne: New Frontier in the Aube
The Aube produces around one-quarter of all Champagne, yet it retains a distinctive identity that sets it apart from the rest of the appellation.
Aug 10, 2023
56France, Burgundy: Bonneau du Martray’s Corton-Charlemagne, 1973-2020
I’ve always wanted to write about Bonneau du Martray’s Corton-Charlemagne, and five years on from Stan Kroenke’s acquisition seemed the perfect time.
Jun 22, 2023
14France, Bordeaux: L’Eglise Clinet and the Durantou Family's Other 2022s
I recently visited the Durantou sisters in Bordeaux to taste their latest wines, including the 2022 L’Eglise Clinet, which is being released this week.
Jun 15, 2023
6France, Champagne: Roederer's 2015 Brut Vintage
Roderer's just-released 2015 Brut Vintage is a strong performance for a cuvée that continues to rank as one of the best values in vintage Grande Marque Champagne.
Jun 15, 2023
1France, Burgundy: The 2020 Vintage at Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux
Charles Lachaux has revolutionized his domaine in just a handful of years, and these 2020 wines are the most accomplished he has bottled to date.
May 11, 2023
15France, Burgundy & Champagne: Up From the Cellar 35
This installment of looks at mature wines from across Burgundy and Champagne, mostly bottles tasted at home, in many instances from my own cellar.
May 04, 2023
50France, Bordeaux: No Smoke Without Fire – En Primeur 2022
Everyone who has tasted the wines will agree that the quality and character of the 2022 vintage in Bordeaux is a surprise. How did conditions so extreme deliver wines of such aromatic range and freshness?
Apr 28, 2023
463France, Champagne: Louis Roederer's 2015 Cristal
April sees the release of Louis Roederer's 2015 Cristal, a strong effort in a vintage that is proving somewhat uneven in Champagne.
Apr 20, 2023
1France, Bordeaux: The 2020 Vintage in Bottle – Out with the Old, in with the New
Bordeaux’s 2020 vintage has produced brilliant wines that exemplify the region’s rapid agronomic and technical evolution.
Apr 06, 2023
294France, Champagne: Bollinger's 2008 R. D.
The 2008 vintage was a great success for Bollinger, and I had been looking forward to tasting the R.D. for some time.
Mar 09, 2023
1France, Champagne: Pol Roger's Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill, 1996-2013
Initially conceived as a one-off tribute to their most celebrated and loyal customer, Pol Roger’s Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill has been released in 21 vintages since 1975.
Mar 09, 2023
11France, Burgundy: Domaine Claude Dugat’s Griotte-Chambertin, 1997-2017
From a tiny parcel and characterized by striking purity of fruit and filigree tannins, this is the domaine’s most elegant, most consistent and greatest wine.
Feb 28, 2023
10France, Burgundy: The Côte d’Or’s 2021 and 2020 Vintages
For this report, I visited well over 100 domaines and tasted over 1,000 wines. The two vintages are different, but fine wines can be had from both.
Jan 31, 2023
1138France, Burgundy: Domaine Ponsot’s 150th Anniversary
I’ve written about Domaine Ponsot’s emblematic bottling of Clos de la Roche in these pages before, but this vertical tasting went a good deal further.
Dec 30, 2022
15France, Bordeaux: The 1982 Vintage 40 Years On
1982 was a year of seminal importance for Bordeaux and also for this publication, with Robert Parker’s early and sapient praise for that vintage.
Dec 30, 2022
35France, Burgundy & Champagne: Up From the Cellar 34
This installment features mature wines from across Burgundy and Champagne and, in the interest of timeliness, a couple of newly released Champagnes as well.
Nov 10, 2022
60France, Bordeaux: The Other Bordeaux – Lesser-Known Estates of the Médoc
Many of the wines reviewed in this report exist on the very margins of profitability, yet they’re rich with interest and demonstrate what is possible.
Oct 31, 2022
100France, Champagne: Bollinger's New Côte Aux Enfants
This new addition sits somewhere between the rather demonstrative Brut PN series and the strikingly vinous, dramatic Vieilles Vignes Française.
Oct 13, 2022
1France, Champagne: Taittinger's 2012 Comtes de Champagne
This small report covers the newly released 2012 Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs and 2009 Comtes de Champagne Rosé, now arriving on the marketplace.
Oct 06, 2022
2France, Bordeaux: 2012 Château Palmer
Château Palmer holds back some of its production each year for later release. Now it’s the turn of the 2012, one of the successes of the vintage.
Sep 22, 2022
1France, Beaujolais: New Releases from Clos de la Roilette
The 2021s from the Coudert’s Clos de la Roilette have turned out very nicely. The Cuvée Tardive in particular is worth a special effort to seek out.
Sep 22, 2022
3France & Spain: The Judgment of Palafrugell – 1947 Bordeaux & Rioja
This joint report is the product of a monumental tasting of Bordeaux and Rioja wines from 1947, one of the most revered vintages in history.
Sep 22, 2022
9France, Burgundy: The Annual Mâconnais Report
In the Mâconnais in general, it’s clear 2020 was a superior vintage to 2021—with the potential to be one of the region’s best in the last 20 years.
Sep 08, 2022
178France, Champagne: New Releases and New Horizons
Today, the true bifurcation in Champagne isn’t really between growers and houses, but rather between the best farmers and the rest.
Aug 31, 2022
171France, Burgundy: Insiders' Burgundy
In this report on less-famous appellations, the vast majority of wines reviewed demonstrate that Burgundy need not break the bank.
Aug 25, 2022
217France, Bordeaux: Two Decades of Léoville Las Cases
Château Léoville Las Cases is one of the greatest and most consistent estates of Bordeaux. The foundation of its quality is its exceptional vineyard.
Aug 18, 2022
15France, Champagne: Bollinger’s R. D. 2002–1955
For me, R. D. represents the essence of the Bollinger style: vinous, muscular and concentrated, with complex aromas and a sapid, bone-dry finish.
Aug 18, 2022
6France, Bordeaux: Up From the Cellar 33
This latest installment contains notes for wines between 2019 and 1921. Most wines are from my cellar, but some are from a recent tasting in Bordeaux.
Aug 11, 2022
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