Wine for Laying down, 5-10 Years

Pale gold hue with tight bubbles and a persistent cordon. Bouquet is youthful, light and delicate, with white fruit and chalky accent. Fresh yeast underlay. The wine is lovely, lemony and lively br...

Bollinger have bucked the trend of releasing a 2006 Grand Année, selecting instead to release this fabulous 2007. Chiming well with this vintage's restraint - Bollinger have created a beautiful v br...

We were very privileged to be the first people to taste the new R.D. release outside Bollinger. It made for a very happy Tuesday morning! The nose was strikingly crisp with plenty of orange peel br...

Departing chef de caves Richard Geoffroy says that 2008 is his best DP vintage since 1990. The first half of the growing season was dull and sunless, but good weather returned in mid-September an br...

Pleasingly pale, with a fine bead of soft, well-integrated bubbles that fill the nose with aromas of wild strawberry, some perky red berries and a very gentle, soothingly doughy, autolytic not br...

Exuberant and loaded with gravitas and style…on a world stage they (this and the white) stand shoulder to shoulder in flavour terms with the big Houses’ wines from across the Channel and they als br...

Lots of sliced apple, pineapple and slate. Dried mango too. Full body, off dry. Spicy, tropical fruit. A blend of grape varieties from riesling to muscat. Drink now.

A stunning Grand Cru from the Altenberg vineyard, planted with almost all of the Alsace varietals. The residual sugar level is high (100g/l) giving an impression of richness, yet the mineral stra br...

"Levroute" is a Mâcon dialect word meaning "the colour of the hare", a reference to the deeper colour of grapes starting to show the effects of noble rot.

Less open and obvious than the Vide Bourse for now, but the volume and mineral is here. As so often this is less sunny and smiling at this stage, but full of coiled energy. Very long.

Like the Poruzot, still gassy and this gives a gunflint and smoke character. Fat and mineral, powerful and long. Classy. Really good tangy power on the lengthy finish.