Taking over coverage of Bordeaux has been rich with interest, so I’ve dedicated this year’s “favorites” entirely to the reds and whites of the Gironde. I hope this selection may...
Read MoreHot weather and outdoor cooking go together like salads and rosé, hamburgers and rosé, grilled chicken and rosé....
Read MoreThe Perigord is not one of my regions, but the wines of Château Monestier La Tour deserve to be noticed—they are excellent and also very good value for money....
Read MoreIn the Côte d’Or, Lamy is producing some of contemporary Burgundy’s most exciting wines from his experimental plantings of high-density Chardonnay....
Read MoreWhile Bordeaux’s 2021 isn’t a great vintage, it has produced several genuinely great wines, as well as many good to excellent wines....
Read MoreThis small report looks at Pol Roger's newly released 2015 vintage bottlings, as well as the 2013 Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill....
Read MoreWhile I taste and review thousands of young wines throughout the year, it’s older bottles that I most often reach for at home. This installment reflects a year’s domestic drinking....
Read MoreThe tasting notes published here are, in the vast majority of cases, the fruit of a lunch or dinner spent in front of the bottle in question....
Read MoreVery different from the 2012 and 2013 vintages, the 2014 is an aromatic, head-turning and incisive Cristal that will offer a broad drinking window....
Read MoreThis is a spotlight on the just-released 2012 Dom Pérignon from Möet & Chandon, as well as the 2003 Dom Pérignon P2....
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