Cellar Favorite: 2001 Domaine Yvon Clerget Clos Vougeot Grand Cru
cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites
, Nov 2020
Following our lengthy tasting of 2018s and 2019s, Clerget opened and served blind three older bottles made by his father, Yvon.
Cellar Favorite: 2017 Domaine Didier Montchovet Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune
France: Burgundy, cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites
, Nov 2020
Why a piddling Bourgogne Hautes-Côte de Whatever? What numbskull chooses to cellar such low ranking Burgundy? And who the hell is Didier Montchovet? Pull up a chair and let me explain why I chose this particular wine.
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Cellar Favorite: 1999 Dunn Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
United States: California, cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites
, Nov 2020
The 1999 Dunn Cabernet Sauvignon has earned a highly respected place in the cellars of collectors in the know, and we’re not talking about the more popular Howell Mountain bottling.
Cellar Favorite: 2015 Domaine des Comtes-Lafon Meursault Clos de la Barre
France: Burgundy, cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites
, Nov 2020
Why is there a photo depicting mackerel in this Cellar Favorite? Well, let me explain.
Cellar Favorite: 2006 Monsanto Chianti Classico Riserva
Italy: Tuscany, cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites
, Nov 2020
The fact is, the 2016 Riserva became one of my favorite wines to pull from my cellar year after year. Now, at fourteen years old, the 2006 appears to have fully peaked, but is holding strong.
Cellar Favorite: 1966 Dow’s Vintage Port
cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites, Portugal
, Oct 2020
The vintage Ports of 1966, despite their extremely high quality, have and probably always will live in the shade of the monumental 1963s, which is great news for consumers.
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Cellar Favorite: 2001 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape Hommage à Jacques Perrin Grande Cuvée
cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites, France: Rhône & Beaujolais
, Oct 2020
Two thousand and one is, without a doubt, one of this generation’s greatest vintages for France’s southern Rhône valley, producing an abundance of rich but balanced and ageworthy wines that are now either in their prime or entering it.
Cellar Favorite: 1955 Maison Leroy La Romanée Grand Cru
France: Burgundy, cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites
, Oct 2020
Maison Leroy’s 1955 La Romanée Grand Cru is a historic wine for many reasons, and not just because of its age. It was the year Henri Leroy asked his daughter Lalou, then 23, to join the family business and help him select the wines for the maison’s portfolio. To this day, Lalou Bize-Leroy has an extraordinary memory of those early wines she tasted with her father.
Cellar Favorite: 2014 Tiberio Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Colle Vota
Italy: Center & South, cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites
, Oct 2020
I clearly remember the first time I tasted the 2014 Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Colle Vota from Tiberio three years ago. It was so tense and structured, taking hours to begin showing its layers and complexities. It was on day two that the wine began to reveal its inner beauty.
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Cellar Favorite: 1919 Montrose
France: Bordeaux, cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites
, Sep 2020
Obscure Bordeaux vintages are like the detritus of odds and ends you find at the back of the drawer you never open. The more forgotten or derided the annus horribilus, the more it piques my interest.