Wine Explorers Club - 2015 Perrot Minot Grand Cru Duo - The DRC beater - 99pts
Wine Explorers Club - 2015 Perrot Minot Grand Cru Duo - The DRC beater - 99pts
Two bottles from the superb 2015 class of Perrot-Minot, including the wine that outscored Romanee-Conti.
2 packs available. Stored since release in professional temp control.
2015 Chambertin Clos-de-Beze - Top-Rated Wine of the Vintage: 97-99 points Stephen Tanzer, Vinous:
(just one new barrel out of seven): Dark red with ruby tones. Essence-of-Burgundy perfume of raspberry, white pepper, cardamom, Cuban tobacco, coffee and underbrush. Outrageously dense and intense on entry, then brilliantly delineated, penetrating and sweet in the middle palate, with its tangy red berry and earth flavors enlivened by building notes of menthol, rose petal and Oriental spices. With its uncanny energy and complexity and its unflagging finishing thickness, this noble, electric wine has all the elements for greatness. (And I could drink it today for its perfect balance and digestibility!)(ST)
2015 Mazoyeres-Chambertin - 95-97 points Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate
The 2015 Mazoyères-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru has the most vivacious and intense bouquet amongst Christophe's 2015s, billowing red and dark cherries, creme de cassis, crushed violets and blood orange. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and extremely well-judged acidity. As such, there is outstanding focus here and a sense of precision running all the way through to the finish. This is a seriously fine Mazoyères-Chambertin that must rank as one of the best this domaine has produced. (NM)
Save over 50% on our Gilded Splinters Syrah - a special bottling...
Whenever I think about Syrah, I think of the Joan Jett song, “I Hate Myself For Loving You.” I’m a complete pushover for Syrah. A Stan. A Simp. A Puppet. I won’t pretend Syrah is easy to sell, but will I ever stop making it? No fuckin’ way! Syrah is the goddamn greatest and I will keep looking for sick variations on this incredible grape.
2020 brings a much darker personality than our 2018 release from John Sebastiano. Where that was cool-climate delicacy, silken and Burgundian, this is wooly, burly, chewy and sultry. This Syrah is sitting out on the porch all night long, listening to the sounds of the French Quarter, and goes to sleep when the sun rises.
Smoked meats and briar patch aromas frame game and red plum. On the palate, the spiciness of the clusters imparts notes of tobacco, black pepper, rosemary and tea. The palate is mid-weight, viscous morello-cherry Syrah of the type I treasure from Cornas with tongue-staining extract and plenty of tannin and acidity. It almost feels like a robust, gravelly young Nebbiolo. The finish is aerial blackberry and fine tannins on the palate. There is a lot of promise in this young wine.
It’s farmed by Ruben Solorzano of Stolpman/Coastal Vineyard Care. The rows come from Block 4B, Alban Powerblock clone. It’s 50% whole cluster and is aged in used barriques.
