France Misc

Albert Mann Pinot Gris Hengst Grand Cru 2017 (750ML)

96 WA / 95 WE / 94 JS Harvested on September 19, the 2017 Pinot Gris Grand Cru Hengst offers generous and open (tropical) fruit with lots of floral aromas and great elegance. On the palate, this is a generous, dense,...

Clos Cibonne Cuvee Tradition Rose Cotes de Provence 2020 (750ML)

The heart of Clos Cibonne is Tibouren. The Roux family are great fans of this native varietal and believed it to be the ideal grape for the region. As part of the estate’s revitalization in the 1930s, André Roux...

Domaine Dugois Arbois Savagnin 2010 (750ML)

Domaine Pierre Chauvin Cremant de Loire 2014 (750ML)

Huet Vouvray Le Clos Du Bourg Demi Sec 2020 (750ML)

97 VM / 95 WA Drinking the 2020 Clos du Bourg Demi-Sec is like taking your shoes off at the end of a long day of walking and soaking them in warm water: there's just satisfaction and relaxation. The 2020 has a sense of...

Huet Vouvray Le Clos du Bourg Moelleux 1ere Trie 2020 (750ML)

97-98 VM / 96-97 WA The 2020 Clos du Bourg Première Trie comes from a warm parcel and a warm vintage, meaning that the grapes were a little quicker to ripen than the norm – but it's still outstanding. A richly,...

Huet Vouvray Le Clos du Bourg Sec 2019 (750ML)

97 WA / 95 VM The 2019 Vouvray Clos du Bourg Sec offers a deep, rich yet pure and refined, intensely aromatic, darker-toned nose with aromas of fully ripe stone and tropical fruit intertwined with earthy, chalky and yeasty...

Huet Vouvray Le Haut Lieu Demi Sec 2020 (750ML)

95-97 VM / 95-96 WA Pear and pineapple aromas meet fine, floral characters in the 2020 Demi-Sec Le Haut-Lieu. While this wine's edges are rounded, it is refined and elegant. It has a sense of density on the mid-palate, but...

Huet Vouvray Le Haut Lieu Moelleux 2020 (750ML)

96 VM / 94 WA   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 appealing perfume...

Huet Vouvray Le Mont Demi-Sec 2019 (750ML)

97 WA / 95 WS / 94 VM The 2019 Vouvray Le Mont Demi-Sec is clear, fresh, deep and complex yet pure, fine, elegant and perfectly interwoven on the nose, where notes of crushed flint stones, limestones and concentrated citrus...

Huet Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux 1ere Trie 2020 (750ML)

97-98 WA / 94 VM The intensely yellow colored 2020 Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux Première Trie is highly concentrated and complex on the nose that exhibits candied lemon zest and chutney aromas along with calcareous and...

Huet Vouvray Le Mont Moelleux 2020 (750ML)

96 VM / 96 WA 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 characters such...

Mousse & Fils Ratafia La Vie en Meunier NV (500ML)

This 100% pinot meunier Ratafia from Champagne goes back to a 1947 family recipe from Champagne Moussé Fils using their Marc de Champagne, a liqueur distilled from pomace after winemaking. Non-sparkling, it...

Ostertag Riesling Muenchberg Grand Cru 2012 (750ML)

92 Vinous / 95 WE Gold-tinged straw. Deep, very pure nose hints at white peach, minerals and flowers. A noticeable step up in depth and complexity over the preceding Riesling samples, boasting impressive flavor intensity...

Tempier Bandol Rose 2018 (750ML)

93 VM / 89-92 WA Shimmering orange. Fresh pit fruit, red berry and floral qualities on the highly perfumed nose, along with suggestions of dusty minerals and orange zest. Juicy, focused and lithe on the palate, offering...

Trimbach Riesling Cuvee 390th Anniversary 2016 (750ML)

94 VM One of 3 Anniversary editions produced (1976, 2001, and 2016) Made from a blend of their finest grapes. Vivid straw-green. Rich aromas of soft citrus fruits, honey and minerals. Dense, juicy and tactile on the...

Weinbach Pinot Gris Cuvee Ste. Catherine 2018 (750ML)

97 JS / 94 WE / 17 JR Wow. This has such attractively pure fruit with flinty nuances, across ripe peaches, nectarines and grapefruit. The off-dry palate has a flinty and gently smoky edge with a very fresh, concentrated...

Zind Humbrecht Gewurtztraminer Rangen de Thann Clos St Urbain Grand Cru 2013 (750ML)

97 JS / 95+ WA / 95 WE Crazy aromas of gun powder, dried pineapple and mango. Flint stone too. Full-bodied and lightly dry with a wonderful subdued and complex palate. Very long and subtle. Great gewurz. James...

Zind Humbrecht Gewurztraminer Clos Windsbuhl 2019 (750ML)

95 JS / 93 DE   Indice 4   Alcohol :   13.1°   Residual sugar :   35.6 g/l   Gewurz can be an impressive but tiring wine. With its floral delicacy and lively, graceful...

Zind Humbrecht Gewurztraminer Hengst Grand Cru 2019 (750ML)

97 JS / 95 DE Indice 3   Alcohol :   13.4°   Residual sugar :   25.9 g/l   There’s nothing obvious about this intensely spicy gewurz. In fact, studying the aromas is like solving...

Zind Humbrecht Gewurztraminer Rangen de Thann Clos St Urbain Grand Cru 2019 (750ML)

97 JS / 94 DE This is a massively concentrated and enormously structured wine with so much smoke and spice, but there’s also so much rose aroma that it comes off as charming rather than imposing. And the giant...

Zind Humbrecht Pinot Gris Rangen De Thann Clos St Urbain Grand Cru 2012 (750ML)

95-97 VM / 95 JS / 94 WA / 94 WE Medium straw-gold color. Pure, highly aromatic nose combines orange zest, smoke and white truffle, with complicating notes of lemony, marmaladey botrytis. The strong botrytis character is...

Zind Humbrecht Pinot Gris Rangen De Thann Clos St Urbain Grand Cru 2019 (750ML)

98 JS So spicy and smoky with a hint of mushroom, this is an enormously deep and concentrated dry pinot gris that’s just beginning to open up. With some aeration, ripe melon character is added to the expansive picture...

Zind Humbrecht Riesling Brand Grand Cru 2018 (750ML)

97 JS / 97 WE / 95 VM Although only just beginning to open up, this is already a breathtakingly vibrant dry white that marries perfectly ripe, fresh-pineapple character with enormous minerality dominating the stunningly...

Zind Humbrecht Riesling Clos Hauserer 2018 (750ML)

96 JS Very flinty nose that’s still pretty closed, but with aeration, floral and beeswax notes slowly emerge. This has stunning concentration, but is still tightly wound. The acidity makes this extremely straight, but...

Zind Humbrecht Riesling Clos Windsbuhl 2019 (750ML)

96 JS / 96 DE It’s hard to resist the fragrant bouquet of apricot and orange blossom! This is very dense and concentrated with very intense, chalky minerality, yet it remains so graceful and the very long finish shows...

Zind Humbrecht Riesling Rangen de Thann Clos St Urbain GC 2019 (750ML)

98 JS / 97 DE #38 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of France 2021 This dry riesling masterpiece is full of seeming contradictions that give it a sense of mystery you very rarely find. So rich and concentrated, yet also...