Bourgogne Hautes Cotes de Beaune Blanc 2019A cool, ripe and pretty nose offers up notes of both red and dark raspberry with touches of spice and a whiff of earth. There is a lovely sense of energy to the delicious, intense and lightly stony flavors that conclude in a balanced, focused and lingering finale. This is an excellent Bourgogne and well worth your interest plus it should reward a few years of cellaring. Country Region: France, Burgundy Grape Variety: 70% Chardonnay and 30% Pinot Blanc

It is a wine that goes out to give pleasure

slowly unfurling to reveal a core of Black Forest cake

Simply captivating even in its youth

dried mulberries and eucalyptus plus a touch of potpourri

Grape Variety: 50% old Grenache noir

and sophisticated mineral notes

2020 is the third vintage in a row grown in warm sunny conditions

very fine and intense yet exquisitely delicate with wonderful freshness

focused and powerful large-scaled flavors that possess copious amounts of dry extract

Sémillon 37%

In any event this is really quite good and note that it's not so structured and backward that it couldn't be enjoyed now with 30 minutes or so of air

The 2014 Smith-Haut-Lafitte Blanc is now more expressive than when I tasted it from barrel