There are wines that define a style, then there are wines that define a region. If a winery can achieve both of those things in one wine then you know you are dealing with some serious juice. Domaine Jamet is one of those wineries. The brothers Jean Paul and Jean Luc Jamet took over from…
“Brothers come quickly, I’m drinking the stars!” The immortal words of Dom Pierre Pérignon, the Benedectine monk popularly responsible for the creation of sparkling wine. Even though in the modern era we’ve found this tale to not entirely be true, it’s still a lovely story. The wines which bear his name need no introduction. When…
There was a time in the not too distant past when we got our wine news from magazines. When you anxiously awaited the vintage reports to come out and for Mr. Parker or Mr. Suckling or Ms. Robinson to declare the vintage good bad or otherwise. Once in awhile these critical voices would lineup in chorus…
Located right over the border from Pomerol in St. Emilion sits one of the most storied Libourne estates, Chateau Cheval Blanc. Since its founding in 1832, Cheval Blanc has been consistently producing one of the finest wines in the world. With 39 hectares of vineyards the estate produces a wine that tends slightly towards their…
We’ve never understood why Chateau Lynch Bages doesn’t seem to wind up in the discussion with the other big boys of Pauillac. Often times, even in the great vintages, the scrappy Cinquièmes Cru out performs some of its more “high brow” neighbors. The history of the estate stretches back to the late 1700s, but the…
