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"The apricot-scented 2000 Gewurztraminer Selection de Grains Nobles Hors Choix is a massive, white peach, assorted yellow fruit, and zesty lemon-fl...

"Bright ruby color. Intense, spicy red berry and cherry aromas, along with a subtle anise quality. Silky in texture, with elegant raspberry and can...

La Grande Dame is only made in exceptional vintages and this highly collectible limited edition release is adorned with the joyful polka-dot artwor...

"Full, bright red. Aromas of redcurrant and pungent sweet oak. At once fleshy and quite primary, with crushed redcurrant, mineral and spice flavors...

"The 1989 Gewurztraminer Selection de Grains Nobles has leafy/minty, apricot, fruit cake, dried and candied fruit aromas, with some spicy/white pep...

"Discreet wood spice notes frame elegant, expressive and ripe red and blue pinot fruit aromas nuanced by hints of underbrush and earth that continu...

"Almost invisible oak allows the spicy, ripe and mildly sauvage red berry fruit aromas to shine and this transparency extends to the dense, serious...

"The 2009 Cote Rotie La Mordoree (471 cases) is potentially the finest La Mordoree made since the monumental 1991 (which is just beginning to hit f...

In 2001 Charles Ballot took over the running of the Domaine from his father Philippe and has since strived to establish it as one of the finest pro...

"The sweetly fruited, downright sexy 2014 Ermitage le Meal offers plenty of raspberry jam, toasted bread and floral notes in a ripe, expansive, mou...

"Medium red, a bit less saturated than the Mazoyères. Ripe aromas of musky strawberry, licorice and game are complicated by exotic oak tones. Sweet...

Founded in the late 1960s by Aimé Guibert and his wife Véronique, Mas de Daumas Gassac was born from their recognition of the extraordinary potenti...

"The 2008 Chapelle-Chambertin is a huge wine endowed with striking purity in its rich, dark fruit. Despite its sheer richness, the Chapelle also sh...

"This offers a completely different aromatic profile with its intense floral, earth and spice aromas that add considerable breadth to the red curra...

"It is an amazing achievement. Even better is the 2008 Ermitage l’Ermite (449 cases). Not as concentrated as Le Pavillon, it reveals a powdered roc...

The Jacques Puffeney Arbois Vin de Paille is a very rare, luscious sweet wine from Jura, made from dried Savagnin, Poulsard, and Chardonnay. "Jacqu...

"You cannot get more “trad claret” that the 1986 Grand-Puy-Lacoste. From a Pauillac that takes time to reach its drinking plateau and a notorious v...

"A young producer who has just under 12 acres of vines, Jean-Michel Stephan is a mystical winemaker, eschewing any kind of yeast, chaptalisation, e...

"As it is in nearly every vintage, the spectacular 2010 Condrieu Coteau de Vernon is one of the top wines of the appellation. From a fabulous site ...

The hugely impressive 2012 Dom Perignon bursts from the glass with a vibrant minerality and delivers gorgeous mouth coating creamy chalk, apple pas...

"Inky ruby. Dramatic bouquet of spicy red berries, baking spices, fresh flowers and minerals. The palate offers vibrant raspberry and candied cherr...

"The inky black/purple-colored 2014 Ermitage l’Ermite is more firm, backward and mineral driven than the sexier Pavillon, offering fabulous notes o...