The 2014 Brut Nature Pinot Kirchenstück Réserve is a single-site Sekt of Pinot Noir grown on limestone. The base wines were fermented in stainless steel, and the wine spent 7 years and 8 months on lees. Exemplary...

Brilliant red. A complex, highly perfumed bouquet evokes candied red and dark berries, incense, vanilla and smoky Indian spices. Sweet and seamless in texture, offering concentrated black raspberry, boysenberry, spicecake...

Disgorged in June 2023, the 2014 Mareuil-sur-Aÿ Extra Brut is a 100% Pinot Noir sourced from vines planted in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ and vinified in barrels. It evokes notes of a deep, complex, intense bouquet with aromas of...

The 2014 Vosne villages from the Mugnerets is also very red fruity this year, wafting from the glass in a lovely nose of raspberries, cherries, Vosne spice tones, a lovely base of soil and a touch of cedary wood. On the...

This wine is dense, although you hardly notice the tannins for the weight of concentrated fruit. The tannins are there, though, a power to thrust this immense wine well into the future. It is well formed, firm while rich...

(93-96 points) A gorgeously broad range of spice nuances add excellent breadth to the ultra-elegant, cool and pure aromas of black cherry, plum, cassis, sandalwood and a lovely range of floral scents. There is good...

The wood treatment here is markedly more apparent with its notes of menthol and toast that stop just short of fighting with the earthy and humus-scented red berry fruit aromas. There is notably more volume and richness to...

Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2014 tasting, Ghislaine Barthod's 2014 Chambolle Musigny 1er Cru les Cras has a slightly leathery, animally bouquet, but behind that is plenty of gutsy red fruit laced with pressed flowers...