98 JS Fantastic complexity and energy to this chenin blanc, showing slate, seashell, chamomile, thyme, lime-peel and Asian-pear aromas, with a sprinkling of aniseed. Incredibly lively and tense on the medium- to full-bodied...
98 JS / 97 VM This is an impressively layered and complex white, the result of a blend of 11 varietals from 17 vineyards across the Swartland. Aromas of jack fruit, sliced pear, green papaya, flint, grapefruit and hazelnut...
99 JS / 96 VM #5 James Sucking Top 100 Austrian Wines 2024 This great Wachau riesling has breathtaking concentration of stone-fruit and cassis aromas plus a deep well of minerality on the medium-bodied palate. The...
96 VM / 96 JS The 2023 Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Hochrain grows in the two dierent soils of this site, gneiss and loess. The gentleness on the nose has a icker of honey one moment and then a icker of green pear. The...
98 VM / 98 JS The 2023 Riesling Achleiten Smaragd is still reduced on the nose; underneath is a icker of citrus, perhaps even of conifer. The palate dances in on light feet, leaving its traces on the stone like a gure...
98 JS / 97 VM #13 James Suckling Top 100 Austrian Wine 2024 Such an expressive and elegant gruner veltliner. Yes, it has those classic peppery aromas on the medium-bodied palate, but there’s also an entire floral...
97 VM / 95 VM Incredibly vibrant, this astonishing gruner veltliner has an enormous wet stone freshness and flinty energy. Very complex aromas of Reine Claude and Mirabelle plums, with a whole garden’s worth of herbal...
94 JS / 94 VM Brimming with aromas of Reine Claude plums and green and white pepper, this is simultaneously a generous and animating medium- to full-bodied gruner veltliner. I love the combination of rich texture and...
92-93 VM The 2021 Monts Damnés was tasted as a barrel sample, staying in wood until just before the next harvest and then spending around six months in tank before bottling. It has plentiful concentration perhaps due...
100 WA / 98 VM / 98 JS / 97 TA / 96 WE / 18.5+ JR#8 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Cellar Selections 2024 There is an usual stony austerity in the 2021 Adrianna Vineyard River, cropped from a cold year when the full clusters...
100 JS / 98 VM / 96 TA / 19 JR#2 James Suckling Top 100 Argentina 2024#17 James Suckling Top 100 2024 This is always aromatic, exotic and idiosyncratic, with its enchanting aromas of green fruit, green curry, citrus, ash,...
97 JS / 95 WE / 95 WA / 94 WS / 17 JR Sliced apple, apple, sea shell and crushed stone aromas follow through to a full body yet it’s tight and structured with an impressive fruit, acidic and phenolic balance giving it...
96+ WA / 96 JS / 95 VM / 95 WE / 95 DE / 94 WS / 16.5 JR#53 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Cellar Selections 2024 Fifty percent Mendoza, some Gingin and a bunch of Bernard clones (76, 277 and 96) populate this 30-hectare vineyard...
100 WA / 100 JS / 97 VM The incredibly subtle, elegant and austere 2019 Gran Enemigo Gualtallary Single Vineyard reminds me of a great vintage of Lafleur, my favorite Bordeaux, as this is one of the finest vintages for this...
96 JS I love the subtle floral honey, ripe grapefruit and shiso leaf aromas of this super-elegant and creamy, full-bodied gewurz that is so unique you might well not recognize the grape variety. What delicacy and vitality...
100 JS / 96 VM#2 James Suckling Top 100 France 2024#15 James Suckling Top 100 2024 Step into this incredible dry pinot gris kaleidoscope and it could be difficult to get out again. Exotic, spicy, smoky, but...
97 JS Pinot gris has the reputation of being easygoing, but this dry pinot gris from Alsace has enormous energy and vitality. The staggering citrusy juiciness electrifies the super-concentrated, medium-bodied palate. At...
97 JS Welcome to the wild side of pinot gris, but don’t imagine for a second that this is a lush wine. In spite of all the power, this is super-cool and tense. If you have the patience, then let yourself sink into...
98 JS / 97 VM#46 Vinous Top 100 2024 All the yellow and fresh tropical fruit of the world is packed into this exceptionally complex and mind-blowingly intense wine that pushes the envelope of minerality all the way, and...
99 JS / 96 VM A great masterpiece of finesse. It’s hard to adequately describe the beauty of this dry riesling that marries breathtaking stone fruit aromas with an incredible freshness to create an overwhelmingly...
98 JS / 95 VM What a totally fascinating and exhilaratingly mineral dry riesling this is. An expansive spectrum of citrus and stone fruit aromas and flavors wash over you in a great wave on the very concentrated and focused...
97 JS / 96 VM At once powerful and crystalline, this densely structured dry riesling is made for the long term. Extremely lemony and salty on the medium- to full-bodied palate, then so compact at the very long, driving...
97 VM / 95 WA / 94 WE The 2021 Pofadder is pure Cinsault with 40% whole clusters, aged in oak foudres for 12 months. It has an open and expressive nose with wild strawberry and raspberry scents, light slatey aromas and...
98 WA / 97 JS / 96 VM / 18 JR Composed of a blend of Syrah, Mourvèdre, Grenache, Carignan, Cinsault and Tinta Barocca, the 2021 Columella is instantly impressive, with firm layers of red fruit over a spicy core of...
94 VM / 93 JS / 91 WS The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Bramare Luján de Cuyo was aged for 18 months in 25% new barrels, the rest in used. A dusky, garnet red in the glass. The nuanced nose is led by pyrazines followed by...
Soil : SilicaProduction technical data : After a gentle pressing, 40% of the must is fermented in new 300 litre oak barrels from Allier. The wine stays in barrel for 8 to 9 months and the lees are stirred regularly to give...
98 JS / 94 WA Great depth and ripeness, but more importantly great freshness and vitality. A whole hillside of wild herbs, plus limes, peaches and a lot of wet stone, which animate the sleek body in a really exciting way...
96 JS / 95 VM A stunning wine for this grape that is also rather easy to understand. The Reine Claude plum and peppery nose is complex, but already charming. As exciting as the simultaneously creamy and succulent mid-palate...
97 JS / 96 VM / 94 WS This dry riesling beauty is complex, but also so delicious. Ripe through and through, this medium- to full-bodied wine is very concentrated with a staggering freshness that literally takes your breath...
99 JS / 97 VM This astonishing dry riesling is already wonderful to drink, but it is, in fact, still very youthful and just beginning to reveal its awesome treasures. The very cool nose of white peach and wild herbs pulls...
98 JS / 96 VM One of the most extraordinary gruner veltliners of the vintage. Still very young, this great wine has an astonishing purity. At the upper limit of medium-bodied with a staggeringly intense stony minerality...
95 WA / 93 VM From almost 50-year-old vines in flint-stone soils, the 2021 Sancerre Les Chailloux opens with a clear and intense nose with pure mineral aromas of iodine and crushed flint stones, whereas the fruit aromas are...
94+ WA / 94 VM From 41- to 48-year-old vines on silex soils at 250 meters in altitude, Stéphan Riffault's 2020 Sancerre Les Chailloux shows a deep, complex and intensely mineral bouquet with ripe, intense, elegant...
98 WA / 98 JS / 98 DE / 97 FS / 96 VM / 95 JA / 95 JD / 95 WE / 16+ JR The 2018 Cheval des Andes is a blend of 70% Malbec and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon fermented in small lots in 3,000- to 8,000-liter tanks and matured 40% in...
96 WE / 95 WS / 95 DE / 17.5 JR#82 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Cellar Selections 2024 Owned and the Alvarez family, and part of the Tempos Vega Sicilia properties which include Vega Sicilia, Alion, Pintia and Macan. Pineapple...
98 JS / 96+ WA / 95 WE / 17++ JR A dense and structured white with white peaches, honeysuckle, lemon tree, and hints lime. Full-bodied with a gorgeous center palate and intense and lively finish. So wild and energetic...
98 WC / 97 WA / 96 JS / 94 WS #29 James Suckling's Top 100 Australian Wines of 2023 Another alluring Coal River chardonnay release from the folks at Tolpuddle. It's at once full and concentrated but is reined in by a...
98 WA / 98 JS / 96 DE / 95 VM The 2020 Adrianna Vineyard Fortuna Terrae shows exceptionally well. It's still young and juicy with some baby fat that should get rendered with some more time in bottle. It's a little lighter,...
99 JS / 98+ WA / 98 VM#3 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of Argentina 2023#75 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2023 What an exotic, perfumed yet elegant nose here full of thyme, local herbs, green...
95 JS / 94 WE / 92 WA What a deep and dramatic wine this is! But there’s also a lot of charm, the mini banana and fresh pineapple aromas pouring from the glass. A lot of power on the expansive palate, but also great...
97 WE / 95 FS / 94 WS / 93 VM / 17 JR #17 Wine Enthusiast's Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2023 Following an outstanding 2020 vintage, the '21s are, remarkably, even better. Coddington is the richest in the Kumeu Chard...
96 VM / 95+ WA / 95 WS / 95 JS / 95 WE / 17.5 JR The 2022 Chardonnay Hunting Hill is an impressive, focused style. It has a sense of energy, being almost buoyant with the movement of a skimming stone across your palate...
98 JS / 96 WA / 95 VM / 95 WS / 94 WE / 17+ JR#3 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of New Zealand 2023#47 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2023Gorgeous precise aromas of apples, white peaches, some...
96 JS / 96 WA There’s a whole basket of yellow fruit here, including ripe apricot and King Alfonso mango, but there’s nothing loud about this beautiful high-end gruner veltliner, rather it opens slowly and...
98 JS / 96 WA Wonderfully subtle nose with an extremely wide spectrum of exotic fruit (tons of mango) and flowers. Super-ripe with breathtaking freshness that makes this a spectacular Wachau dry riesling. And in spite of...
100 JS / 98+ WA / 97 DE / 96 VM / 95 WI / 95 JA#1 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of Chile 2023#3 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2023 An extremely pure and elegant vintage for Seña. This is really...
95 VM Despite its 125g/L of residual sugar, the 2022 Le Mont Premiere Trie Moelleux is balanced, fine and long. Yes, its sweetness fills the mouth and makes it blossom, but there's no suggestion of unctuousness or weight...
93 VM The 2022 Le Haut-Lieu Premiere Trie Moelleux is supple and fine with a high level of purity and finesse. It's delicate, light and precise despite its 95g/L of residual sugar. - Rebecca Gibb MW, Vinous...
94 VM The 2022 Le Mont Moelleux is a medium-sweet, tender style that is just so welcoming and appealing. It is the quiet type that doesn't show off. It offers breadth without weight, which I always like about the Huet wines...
93 VM The 2022 Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux is a supple, tender style. It's delicate on the palate while succulent and medium-sweet, which is quite a feat. You'll struggle to find many producers in the world who can achieve this...
94 WS / 93 VM Perfumed and juicy, with a concentration that builds. Round and silky, this shows a lot of delicious fruit and a lot of complexity, with sea salt–dusted apple and honeycomb flavors layered with green...
95 VM / 94 WS The 2022 Le Mont Sec is a parcel of Chenin planted on clay with scattered flint, giving a certain tension to the style you certainly don't find in the come-hither Clos du Bourg. Its supple, concentrated core...
96 WS / 96 DE / 96 WI / 96 JS / 95 VM / 95 DB / 95 JA / 17.5 JR#6 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of South Africa 2023 A gorgeous dessert wine, with a fine, creamy nappe to the texture as it lightly coats the palate,...
Stunning complexity from the benchmark producer of collectible Chenin. Excellent vintage, ready to drink.
94 WE Intensly rich without being sweet, this wine is full of ripe flavors and a touch of honey. It's a wonderful combination of spices, candied fruits and opulence. The acidity rounds this wine out nicely. Imported by...
97 JS A giant of a sweet Loire chenin blanc that is incredibly powerful and vibrant. So dynamic, dancing across the medium- to full-bodied palate. Stacks of dried apricot, creme brulee, toasted walnut and maple syrup aromas...
96+ WA From another early, low-acid vintage, the golden shining, botrytis-free 2003 Vouvray Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux Première Trie shows a beautifully intense, extraordinary clear, refined and elegant bouquet of ripe...
25 Wines To Drink Right Now For Summer 2024 - New Wine ReviewYour friends want something fizzy and pink. You want something nerdy. Or maybe vice versa. Doesn’t matter—this has been, and remains, the answer...
This wine is produced within the Anjou appellation but is intentionally declassified as VDF. From four parcels planted in 2000. Fruity attack, a crunchy wine. Agnès and René Mosse, along with their sons Joseph...
92 WS Alluring and fresh, with beautiful kumquat, crisp apple and nectarine notes complemented by a glaze of honey. Shows good tension and energy through the clean finish, while a whiff of smoke, sea salt and intense...
Les Bonnes Blanches is a sector of vines widely considered to be the top terroir in the area. It’s location is geologically ideal to the Layon river, and it’s one of the rare vineyards that can produce an...
96 JS If you are ever worried that Alsace pinot gris might be too extravagant for you, here is an incredibly pure and wonderfully balanced example. Super-ripe apricot yet so bright and clean, then you are pulled into...
95 JS / 92 VM / 17 JR Stunning nose of yellow peach, pomelo and fresh pineapple that pulls you into this simultaneously ripe and vibrant dry riesling. The ripe citrus flavors run right through the palate into the long...
97 JS / 97 WE / 95 WA Enticing and subtle nose of Yamanashi white peach, wild berries and herbs. Ripe, but also seriously concentrated and elegant, this has deep minerality at the very long and focused finish. This is built...
99 JS / 95 WA This Wachau dry riesling masterpiece is still extremely youthful, so it is anything but a no-brainer. But if you are patient, notes of white peach, lemon balm and a slew of wild herbs emerge. Super-precise and...
93 JS A fresh, vivid red with lots of blackberry, blueberry and spice aromas and flavors. Full-bodied, layered and very intense. Gorgeous and serious finish. Very transparent and focused. Syrah, cabernet sauvignon, and...
95 VM The 2021 Clos de la Coulée de Serrant is a dry, floral Chenin Blanc produced from late-picked grapes, done in 3 passes with around 1/10th affected by botrytis. Grown biodynamically and vinified with minimal...
95 WA The acidity of Barthelmes’ 2010 Pinot Gris Altenbourg Selection De Grains Nobles Le Tri – picked on October 7 – is not extreme for its genre, but still nearly half again as much as that of the...
97 DE Decanter Top 10 Australian Wines of 2022 Change is sweeping through South Australia’s vast Riverland region, with many vineyard owners embracing an array of Mediterranean grape varieties. This is what excites...
98 WA / 98 JS / 96 JA / 96 WI / 95 DE / 17.5 JR #72 James Suckling Top 100 Austrian Wines Blending 60% Welschriesling vinified in Slavonian oak vats of 1,000 and 1,500 liters and 40% Chardonnay aged in barriques, the 2019...
96 VM The 2018 Clos la Neore was only bottled in magnum. Clarity is a term the accurately describes the 2018 Clos la Neore. It has a pure and intense core of fruit. But it’s not fruity. It’s a sophisticated...
92 WS 500 Cases Produced A brisk, energetic style, with densely packed flavors of lemon curd, jasmine, gooseberry and verbena coiled around a firm spine of minerals and tangy acidity. An invigorating wine, with notes of...
98 JS / 97 WA / 96 WS / 95 VM / 17.5+ JR The aromatics here really seduce you with their blackberry and dried-strawberry notes and undertones of wet earth, green tea, dried flowers, stones and dust. Full bodied, tight and...
99 WA / 99 JS / 96 VM / 17+ JR#2 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of Argentina 2022#21 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2022 The nose of the 2020 White Bones Chardonnay is an explosion of thyme and rockrose, aromatic,...
96 JS / 96 VM / 95 WA Blueberries, blackcurrants, hot stones, tobacco leaves, dried lavender, walnuts and cracked pepper on the nose. Medium-to full-bodied with firm, fine-grained tannins. Dark and mineral character to this...
96 JS / 94 DE / 92 WE / 16 JR Aromas of blueberries and wild herbs, as well as raspberries and a complex, spicy and fragrant edge. Blood orange and pomegranate here, too. The palate is smoothly emulsified and has...
98 DE / 97 JH / 96 JS / 95+ WA The beautiful and historic name Mount Edelstone is a translation from the German Edelstein meaning ‘gemstone’, a reference to small yellow opals once found in the area. The Mount...
A special mixed case of 12 different wines from various regions and made in various styles to please everyone at the party! Whites, reds, sweet wines and more regularly priced up to $360 per case, now less than $13.50 per...
97 JG / 96 WS The 2018 Vouvray "Cuvée Constance" from Domaine Huët is a stunning young wine. The bouquet is deep, pure and youthfully complex, offering up scents of sweet quince, honeycomb, barley sugar,...
97 JS / 96 WA Indice 1 (15.6% Alcohol) 2025-2045+ Very smoky and flinty with lychee, papaya and star-fruit aromas. A very concentrated and super-silky gewurz that has none of the massiveness or bitterness towards which the...
95 JS / 93 WS / 16.5 JR Indice 5 (13% Alcohol) 2025-2045+ Very fragrant nose of yellow and pink roses with plenty of turkish delight. Very concentrated, but the fine tannins and excellent freshness (in spite of modest...
98 JS / 17 JR Indice 1 (13.6% Alcohol) 2025-2045+ Super smoky, spicy and flinty, this imposing and enveloping pinot gris is barely off-dry. Welcome to a world of smoky and textural complexity on the deep and refined palate...
96 JS Indice 1 (13% Alcohol) 2025-2035+ A game-changing dry pinot gris that manages to get all the floral-honey character and creaminess that fans of this category adore into a self-confidently dry package. In spite of the...
96 JS / 93 WS Indice 1 (13.2% Alcohol) 2025-2040+ A lot of riesling freaks say the grape needs stony soils, but here’s a beautiful example of how well it can do on clay-rich soil. So much citrus and peach here, even...
93 WA / 92 WS From one of the grand old estates of Provence, the 2020 Palette Rose is a dark pink, copper-tinged rosé—a blend of 45% Grenache, 30% Mourvèdre and 5% Cinsault, plus 20% mixed "secondary"...
94 WA / 94 JS / 94 FS / 93 WS / 93 VM / 91 WE The current release of their second wine is the 2020 Epu. It's selected from the same terroir and vineyard in Puente Alto, one of the most reputed places for Cabernet Sauvignon...
98 JS / 97 WA / 95 WI / 94 VM / 94 JA#98 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2022 Complex, with savory, spicy character, showing tobacco, salted plums, olives, black cherries, cassis and a hint of white pepper on the...
91 VM This young Clos de la Coulée de Serrant is soft, round and mouthfilling. The fruit quality of the 2020 is concentrated and succulent without weight, but there's a light farmyardy character to the wine. Offering...
97 WE / 96 JS / 93 WA #36 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of Austria 2020 A still shy nose is not ready to give up its secrets easily, despite much swirling and air. It is the palate that lifts the veil on the citric...
95 JS / 95 WE / 92 WA Did somebody say lobster thermidor? A noble grüner veltliner that is so ripe (apricot, mirabelle and just a hint of papaya), but every bit as subtle, with a very polished texture on the rich...
97 JS / 96 WA It’s hard to imagine a more attractive and enticing dry riesling than this cornucopia of peach, apricot and mandarin that’s so curvaceous and seductive. However, behind all this extravagance is a...
97-98 WA / 97 WS / 97 JS / DE 95 / 94 VM #65 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of France 2023 The intensely yellow colored 2020 Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux Première Trie is highly concentrated and complex on the nose that...
97 VM / 95-96 WA / 95 WS There are many shouty wines in the world, but the 2020 Le Mont Moelleux is understated, which is highly attractive. There's finesse and elegance to this sweeter style (49g/L). Delicate exotic...
97 JS / 96 VM / 96 WA / 96 DE / 96 WS The expansive spectrum of dried stone-fruit, candied-citrus and fresh-melon aromas beautifully fill out the rich and luscious palate of this precisely balanced Vouvray. Great honeyed...
96 VM / 95 DE / 94 WA / 94 WS It might be delicate but the 2020 Le Haut-Lieu Moelleux is also rather succulent, coating the mouth with its sweet embrace. A combination of white flowers and nectarine creates an...
95 WE / 94 VM / 93 WS #3 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 2022 One of only three Anniversary Editions ever produced (1976, 2001, and 2016) and made from a blend of their finest grapes. Notes of petrol and pear are focused and...
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