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2014 Penya Côtes Catalanes: Parker’s Best Bargain Red of the Year The windswept hillsides of Languedoc-Roussillon have long given birth to the richest and most powerfully structured red wine bargains in the world. But having traveled the backroads from Montpelier to the outskirts of Perpignan for nearly 20 years, we’ve learned that while these two…
Out of the thousands of wines we tasted in 2017, the 2015 Chateau de Beaucastel, Chateauneuf du Pape, Rouge, is our #1 Imported Wine of 2017. This highly allocated release earned a category-winning 96 points from Wine Access, as well as dual 97-point scores from Wine Spectator and from James Suckling. Spectator calls it, “a…
Syrah Stunner From Greatest Northern Rhône Vintage in Generations Domaine des Entrefaux, Crozes-Hermitage — drawn off some of the best sites of the Crozes-Hermitage appellation which were previously sold exclusively to Marcel Guigal — had perhaps the finest vintage since the family started domaine bottling with the 2015 growing season. 96-99 points from Wine Spectator…
Parker: Pallières is to Gigondas as Rayas is to CdP As Gigondas inches its way up the Southern Rhône hierarchy, Domaine Les Pallières leads the way. The 94-point 2015 Pallières Les Racines, from Wine Spectator’s 97-point 2015 vintage, struck James Suckling as “elegant, lithe, and profound,” as well as “layered and long.” The famille Brunier…
You won’t find Le Clos du Caillou on a map of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. It’s not an error. In 1895, the château launched as a hunting club with no interest in winemaking. When government experts dropped by to survey the land for inclusion within Châteauneuf-du-Pape in 1936, they were greeted with drawn shotguns. The experts got off…
Parker’s Greatest Chapoutier Bila-Haut Côtes du Roussillon To Date In the Rhône Valley, three names rise above the rest: Guigal, Beaucastel, and Chapoutier, all members of Robert Parker’s 100-point club. While Guigal is heralded for its Syrah-based “La-La” Côte-Rôties and Beaucastel for its world-class “Hommage à Jacques Perrin,” enologist Michel Chapoutier is best known for…
Raising the Winemaking Stakes Before winemaker Chris Pittenger founded Skinner Vineyards, he’d cut his teeth at the iconic Williams Selyem and Helen Turley’s legendary Marcassin. Skinner Vineyards was named one winery of “Four to Watch” by Wine Spectator. Jon Bonne’s The New California Wine includes Skinner as a “Top Producer” and calls Skinner a “serious…
A winemaker cannot live by Cabernet alone, though one winemaker — Helen Keplinger — absolutely could spend her entire career on that variety alone, if that was her desire. Just look at this Napa Valley superstar’s stewardship of Grace Family Vineyards (California’s original cult Cabernet winery) along with past success at Bryant Family and Kenzo…
A Beaucastel Flirting With Perfection In which world-famous wine regions can you find a 99-point wine from both an iconic estate and a historic vintage—for $80? Bordeaux? Get real. Burgundy? Not happening. Incredibly, it is still possible in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, and that is what we have in the 2016 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Rouge: a wine…
When he first tasted Michel Chapoutier’s Roussillon wines more than 15 years ago, Robert Parker called the winemaker “a young genius” who wouldn’t compromise. “Everything Chapoutier is doing,” noted Parker, before listing Chapoutier’s obsessive methods, “is done to produce the essence of a vineyard and a vintage.” Chapoutier’s Roussillon outpost is now the source of…
96pt Magnums: Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Réserve VII IX X … “Hedonistic and decadent” After a couple days in Montpellier recovering from jet lag, then a quick jaunt to the Roussillon to see Bila-Haut and Roc des Anges, we made a quick detour to the east for an afternoon with Xavier Vignon in Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Lunch outside Vignon’s…
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