Wine for Laying down, 5-10 Years

The 2008 Dom Pérignon is fabulous, but quite remarkably, it was even more open when I tasted it a year ago. Bright, focused and crystalline in its precision, the 2008 is going to need a nu...(more info)

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 note....(more info)

Spicy damson and sour cherry nose, fleshy open with some wood spice. Palate is less intense than Vigne Rouge, open knit, with cherry, damson scent good tannins nice acidity, but more ethereal, li...(more info)

Seems quite oaky, but it's really just that the fruit is a little on the back foot. In need of a racking? No doubting the volume; it's as rich and full as it could be. Rich and tense and relaxed...(more info)

Bright violet. Heady, mineral-accented red and blue fruit, olive, incense and floral scents expand steadily as the wine opens up. Sweet and incisive on the palate, offering intense boysenberry, v...(more info)

The wood is settling into the wine, dark chocolate, spice, black cherry, blackberry fruit, polished and intense. Very pure and direct in the mouth, richly structured, superb tannins, core of dark...(more info)

Quite concentrated again fragrant with intense tobacco, spice, chocolate, cassis and cherry. The palate is dark and bold with good intensity, pure fine tannins, touch creamy, ripe cassis, cedar,...(more info)

There is evident heat to the fruit in the 2011 Lupicaia, but the balsam intensity or tertiary aromas also come through. The wine shows green notes of grilled herb and a sharper, more defined leve...(more info)

38th position on Wine Enthusiast’s TOP100 Cellar Selection Wines for 2019

The very pinnacle of Loire valley sweet wines. 100% Chenin Blanc lending crisp acidity to the fresh white fruit palate. Zippy and bright in youth, this will age magnificently picking up deeper ho...(more info)