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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Petit Chablis is a fresh wine with attractive white fruit and floral notes. The finish shows excellent energy and drive. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2018. -AG

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Chablis is simply dazzling, and makes for a great introduction to the estate's 2010s. It boasts gorgeous, bright fruit supported by attractive minerality. High toned ...

About this Wine: The vineyard is located in the village of Chablis, in the very heart of the Chablis country, on the left bank of the Serein River, with a south-south east exposure. It is loca...

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About this Wine: When young, Corton-Charlemagne is pale gold in color with green highlights. As it ages, the color shifts towards yellow or amber. The bouquet, delicate in the extreme, fea...

About this Wine: Green-gold, evolving to a light yellow with age, this is a wine with fine ageing properties (10-15 years, sometimes more). Intense mineral scents (flint) but with notes of lim...

Burghound: A discreet touch of mineral reduction adds breath to the otherwise fresh, elegant and beautifully complex nose of acacia blossom, rose petal, spiced pear and white peach. The ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Pale, bright yellow. Dusty stone, lemon drop and wild herbs on the nose. At once rich and penetrating, with strong acidity and mineral spine intensifying the flavors of grap...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (from Vaulorent): Good bright pale-medium yellow. Musky aromas of wet stone and honey, with a cyanic hint of apricot pit. Fat, broad and seamless, with a ripe peach flavor ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (these vines are now about 15 years old): Bright green-tinged yellow. Sexy, precise aromas of orange marmalade and flowers. Broad and minerally on the palate, with orange a...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Medium yellow. Peach, spices, menthol and hazelnut on the nose. Tight stone fruit flavors are given a penetrating quality by strong acidity, and lifted by hints of menthol a...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good medium yellow. Ripe peach, quince, clove, marzipan and medicinal herbs on the nose. Densely packed but a bit youthfully disjointed today, with powerful, very ripe pinea...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright straw-yellow. Ripe nectarine lifted by nutmeg and lavender on the nose. Large-scaled, smooth and sweet; not a particularly refined style of Corton-Charlemagne bu...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (I tasted a sample taken from barrel in August, shortly before the bottling): Good full yellow. Big, ripe aromas of lemon oil, smoke, hazelnut and vanillin oak. Opulent, mo...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bracing aromas of lemon, pineapple and petrolly minerality; reminded me of a top Alsace riesling. Creamy, vibrant and classic, with great purity of flavor, harmonious palate-...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright, pale yellow. Very pure, reticent aromas of lemon, lime and white flowers. Dry and penetrating to the point of painful, with pristine flavors of crushed stone, l...

About this Wine: According to the legend, the Lord of Montrachet shared his land out between his two sons. One had become a Chevalier during  the crusades and the other, illegitimate, is ...