Blog posts of '2015' 'August'

In Chablis 2 producers are legendary: Raveneau and Dauvissat, we tried a 1992 La Forest from the latter.

Its color is beautiful and sparkly golden, the color of freshly harvested straw.

Although the wine is perfectly chilled to drinking temperature it still releases dense, concentrated aroma’s...

2011 L’If - a pop up from le Pin or a keeper?

This wine is deep cherry red, concentrated and dark with intensely colored, fat legs oozing down my glass.It opens up immediately with the sweet fruitiness of brambles, blueberries and ripe dark cherries, accompanied by spices (a dash of white pepper)...

2012 L’If

A stunning purple color, dark and brooding, with an intensely colored rim and viscous, dark legs oozing down the glass at the pace of a glacier promising a very concentrated wine. And expectations are definitely fulfilled : even without whirling the glass around the wine reveals a power...

2009 Baron de L

This well known Pouilly Fumé has a lovely pale yellow color, it is iridescent and sparkling, changing  from pale straw to young and greenish.

Even cold it opens up with crushed rocks and freshly trimmed box hedge followed with summer peaches, more exotic pineapple and lych...

1995 CHÂTEAU LYNCH BAGES Pauillac 5 Ième Grand Cru Classé

1995 has a reputation very similar to 1975, supposedly an excellent vintage, but several years or decades later often proven not to be able to live up to that reputation. Not really being a huge fan of Lynch Bages I feared this might ...