2009 White Wine

jamessuckling.com, 95 points: Aromas of lemon and lime with hints of lemon grass, rose flower and licorice, plus aniseed. Pine needles too. Full-bodied and layered with dried fruit, chalk and gun metal. Tight and chewy. Drink now or hold.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The 2009 Beaune Clos des Mouches is quite round and seamless for a young Beaune. Yellow stone fruits and minerals are some of the notes that wrap around the palate in this striking white from Drouhin. I especially like to...

Wine Enthusiast, 94 points: Full of tropical fruit flavors, this is rounded, ripe and very accessible. At the same time, its structure shows through in the tang of green apple skin, judicious wood aging and taut aftertaste.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: Absolutely stunning wine and a sleeper of the vintage for this particular producer this wine displays loads of waxy melony exotic fruits as well as hints of figs orange and apricot marmalade and some subtle oak in the...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 96 points: (ST94-96 points) Full, bright medium yellow. Exotic spices, pineapple, orange and iodiney minerality on the rather impenetrable nose. Juicy, chewy and tactile, with powerful pineapple and soft citrus fruit flavors...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The 2009 Corton-Charlemagne shows gorgeous balance and overall harmony. The overt forward fruit is nicely buttressed by the wine's underlying minerality and crystalline purity. The 2009 is juicy and oily but without being...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The 2009 Puligny-Montrachet Pucelles emerges from the glass with crystalline purity in its finely chiseled fruit. It possesses striking mid-palate energy and focus with sweet floral notes that add lift on the finish. This...

Wine Enthusiast, 93 points: A deliciously fruity wine, its bright apricot, pineapple and peach flavors open and generous. Of course, there is a more serious core of structure, lemon zest and dryness to promise aging. At the end, though, fruit and a...

Burghound, 94 points: (BH91-94 points) A moderately exotic nose of very ripe yellow fruit and honeysuckle is followed by rich, full and luxurious flavors that brim with seemingly buckets of dry extract yet there is a fine sense of underlying...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: A blend of 80% Sauvignon and 20% Semillon that hit 14% natural alcohol this is serious wine boasting notes of lemon and lime marmalade intermixed with honeysuckle a whiff of freshly cut grass and a waxy melony character...

Wine Spectator, 92 points: Starts out with enticing peach, apricot and passion fruit flavors, kept plump and juicy by the smooth texture and underlying acidity. Nicely balanced, this picks up an attractive mineral accent on the long aftertaste...