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A Trip Back In Time with Gilles Corsin and the Hotspots of NYC In New York City, the hottest restaurant names on the street are Daniel, Bar Boulud, Gramercy Tavern, Le Bernardin, and most recently, Eleven Madison Park, with 3 Michelin stars and ranked #3 on Pellegrino’s 50 best restaurants in the world in 2016….
Premier Cru White Burgundy. Puligny-Montrachet. Those were our two best guesses as we pondered the golden, lively, mineral-laced white wine in our glasses. And although we sat in the bustling Les Halles Bacalan marketplace in Bordeaux with a slew of local wines on the table, we knew this was no white Bordeaux—its complex apple tones,…
2013 Jean-Michel Seve Pouilly Fuisse “Terroir” — “Apple, beeswax and honeysuckle” Just beneath the white crags of La Roche de Solutre, limestone hillsides have long turned out wildly mineral Chardonnay, the best of which outpoints village Meursault. But over the course of the last twenty years, as growers chased ratings, many Pouilly Fuisse makers inexplicably…
One of the Finest and Age-Worthy White Burgundies That this 2013 Domaine Marc Morey & Fils Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru was the standout in a lineup of the domaine’s wines came as no surprise to our Chief Wine Officer and Master of WIne Matt Deller MW, and our Wine Access judging panel experts Master Sommelier Sur…
1er Cru Chassagne this Good at this Price is Rare This superb 2013 Marc Morey 1er Cru “Les Vergers” embodies everything we love about Chassagne-Montrachet: elegant and round, with fantastic minerality, silky concentration of fruit, redolent of yellow pear, apple, quince and ripe meyer lemon, with gorgeous white flower aromatics. “Sabine Mollard is quietly going…
Thanks to our membership size, buying power, and consistency, importers think of Wine Access when they have an opportunity that doesn’t fit into one of their other distribution channels. When we get offered white Burgundy from one of the most famous names in Meursault — Matrot — we’re halfway there. When we negotiate our way…
Grand Cru Quality from Les Perrières 1er Cru “If there is one premier cru vineyard in Burgundy that merits elevation to grand cru status, it must be Les Perrières in Meursault,” raves Robert Parker. Clive Coates MW concurs, saying “most would agree (it) produces Meursault’s best wine.” The 2013 Domaine Pierre Matrot Meursault Perrières Premier…
One Barrel of Matrot Puligny-Montrachet … and We Feel Pretty Good About It! During the Great Recession, the top estates on many of the world’s most glamorous wine routes took it on the chin. As trattorias struggled to fill seats on Saturday night, Tuscan sales slipped. Napa Valley was rocked as wholesalers stopped answering supplier…
“As good as mineral California Chardonnay gets at $14/bottle” There are less than 100 acres under vine in Wild Horse Valley, and unfortunately, given the extraordinary potential for top-notch Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, barely another acre left to plant. There are only a few vineyards and even fewer tiny wineries. Even if it’s just 15…
Italy’s most famous sparkling wine, despite winning the 2019 Gambero Rosso Winery of the Year Award and the Producer of the Year award at the Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships, is still an insider secret on U.S. soils. But we don’t expect this glorious, golden bubbly to remain under the radar much longer. Made from 100%…
Ginger and Spice: Meursault in the USA While Chardonnay continues to be one of the most widely planted varieties in the world, there are very few places where the grape truly flourishes. In 2015, we tasted 273 Chardonnays. Most were Californian. Just 18 made the cut. What distinguished the winners from the losers? Our Chardonnay…
The Foxen Boys’ Dry-Farmed Tinaquaic Vineyard There’s one common denominator shared by the highest-rated 2013 Chardonnays of Sonoma Coast and Russian River. All were drawn off low-yielding, dry-farmed vineyards where BB-sized berries were nursed to extreme maturity. Steve Kistler, Peter Michael, Luc Morlet, and Mark Aubert crafted brilliant single-vineyard Chardonnays, each infused with terrific lemon-curd intensity…
Robert Parker’s Tweet: “Super Value in central coast #Chardonnay from Varner boys!” When identifying California’s top Chardonnay producers, from a stylistic and structural perspective, it’s best to evaluate them in keeping with the vagaries of the AVAs from which their wines are drawn. In Sonoma County’s Knights Valley, Peter Michael Winery is at the top…
Impeccably balanced Chardonnay from California’s emerging superstar A seismic shift is occurring in epicenter of California Chardonnay. Napa and Sonoma have ruled the roost for the nineties and oughts, but a significant part of California Chardonnay’s future can be found in Santa Barbara. The present, too: The husband and wife team of John Hilliard and…
Wine Spectator’s #1 Chardonnay in the World We have the last 25 cases from the US importer of Wine Spectator’s #1 best Chardonnay in the world from 2013 vintage, the2013 Leeuwin Chardonnay Art Series from Margaret River. Considered one of the greatest Chardonnays in the world and Australia’s finest white wine for thirty years, the…
Louis-Fabrice Latour’s “Petit Charlemagne” This one’s short, but never sweeter. While Jean-François Coche crafts the most priceless Corton-Charlemagne ($2,000/bottle), Louis-Fabrice Latour is far and away the appellation’s largest landholder. Louis Latour’s massive 25-hectare limestone swath, perched high above the variegated tile roof of Château Corton Grancey, is the most impressive Grand Cru holding in Burgundy….
Pulling a Louis Latour out of the cellar is something we always look forward to. Its iconic bottle and recognizable label are enough to excite friends and family—but we love to see their expression, especially when we pull out a wine like today’s 2013 Louis Latour Puligny-Montrachet “Sous le Puits” 1er Cru, one of the…
Grand Cru Chablis in the Mayacamas We first discovered the majesty of Mayacamas Chardonnay at a tasting in NYC in the summer of 1989. Drawn from some of the highest-elevation Chardonnay plantings on the coast, the 1981 Mayacamas was unlike any Chardonnay we’d ever smelled or sipped. Brilliant golden in hue, a drop-dead knockoff of…
Julien Fayard’s Nicholson Jones Dolly Hill Chardonnay from Parker’s “vintage of a lifetime” has the luscious texture of Napa Carneros Chardonnay, balanced by the freshness of a terrific Fumé Blanc. “The French say ‘aerien,’” Fayard told Wine Access, which translates to “elevated and pure.” That’s this wine in a nutshell. “I picked at about 23…
Tony Rynder’s Tiny Single Parcel It’s just us and the Panther Creek mailing list — you can’t get the 2013 French Creek Chardonnay anywhere else. Sourced from a single 9-acre parcel in the Columbia Valley, the 2013 French Creek is the definition of a boutique wine. Meticulous vineyard work matched with star winemaker Tony Rynders’…
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