Best Wines With Turkey This Christmas

Quite a rich nose with very bright acidity. More palate weight than previous vintages. Good stuff! Already a fine drink. Lime streak. Stony finish. VGV

The top white here is from 50-90 year old vines vineyards, 90% Xarel-lo, 10% Malvasia de Sitges, fermented and aged for 10 months in 300 litre French oak barrels and a small number of amphoras, with weekly batonnage. The...(read more)

Rich volume on the attack, and then the freshness of the vintage comes behind, tightening the tannins on the finish.

The 2019 Viré-Clessé had just been racked on my visit, therefore there was so much gas in this wine, as expected. Nevertheless, there is already fine balance and harmony, a keen line of acidity with a lovel...(read more)

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Aged for seven months 55% in concrete tanks, 41% in used French oak barrels and 4% in amphorae. Perfumed nose, with that floral character allied to lovely depths of red fruit. A subtle and intertwined earthy chara...(read more)

'My Cherie Amour, lovely as a summer day' I'm pretty sure Stevie Wonder penned this song sitting high above the village of Condrieu with a glass of Niero Chéry. It would be easy to make the leap, the 2020 is all f...(read more)

100% Aÿ pinot noir from five plots, four toward the east of the cru grouped together above the village; fermented at just 16 degrees in stainless steel, 'to uphold the aromatics,' 5g/L dosage of MCR; disgorged Janua...(read more)

The élevage for the 2021 Cincuenta y Cinco was different from the past; they have now aged 40% in concrete tanks (it used to be 25%), 40% in French oak barrels and 20% in clay amphorae for nine months. They use co...(read more)

Thump - in contrast to the Vergers. This is immediately much firmer. Really lovely fruit, but you can sense the toast here, a good spiced edge. More darkness, black baked damson and more intense, a touch of more bitter f...(read more)

Nose quite compact with black cherry, palate supple, then with fine tannins building - good weight and concentration. Tannic finale, but this is all in harmony, and it is very long.

If expecting any kind of Nuits structural ferocity, this one is a surprise - but then it is calles 'vignes rondes'. Extraordinary elegance and with the supple texture and lightness of touch of a Chambolle. Superfine, tex...(read more)