Fine Wine Odd Bottle Sale Nov 2020

Broader, richer feel. Delivers beautifully. This is impressive! Weightier, richer - with just enough minerality and drive. Good.

Approximately 7,000 bottles are made of this blend of 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Semillon. Lemon/lime/grapefruit dominate the aromatics. Medium-bodied with wet gravel-like scents this is a nicely textured wine with 5-7...(read more)

Beautifully composed, cool and fresh. Weighty like hefting a lump of stone, crystalline in texture. Closed yet opens on the palate, succulent with juicy fruit. Complex oaky and earthy spices. Lovely long, pure calm finis...(read more)

70% whole bunch. 80% new wood, but barrels with no toast. The start is all Charmes, relaxed, easy, but then it gains in energy and precision, ripe blackcurrant and blackberry, building nicely in intensity.

Spicy, mildly medicinal, herbal (dried herbs de Provence), menthol. Very tight and linear. Not very Charmes! Again a rich tannic mass, all wrapped up with full fruit - great concentration. A long way to go.

Rich spicy nose (there's new wood here). Very fresh and rich and pure and harmonious, coupled with finesse and elegance. 65-70 year old vines in the middle of what Stéphane is keen to point out is the old Clos Sai...(read more)

Sweeter, riper, denser and 'hairier' than the Charmes. There's rigid minerality, a kind of Giacometti frame. Spicy and long.

After the generous velvety richness of the Gevrey, this shows a touch more structure and grip - but only a touch, it's still a Vosne-styled Nuits from north of the town - really its just a bit more lively and long.

Tiny yields here following hail - 15hl/ha, and even worse in 2016, with 13/hl/ha thanks to frost. Deep colour, very blue-purple to black. Aromatic nose of juicy crushed black berries, and palate is a joy of this very dar...(read more)

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 and velvety all the the s...(read more)

Branaire is really on a roll. Both first and second wines since 1998 have been faultless. The 2001 is better than either 1998 or 1999, and hardly below the 2000, a point which Philippe Dhalluin makes by giving it to us t...(read more)

A terrific Langoa (again), deep dense and rich with an expressive centre, lovely flavour all the way through. Structure is quite dense, woody, but the fruit and class carry it.