2021 French Wine Products On Sale

The 2021 Puligny-Montrachet Les Quatre Climats is a multi-climat blend mandated due to the frost. It has a well-defined quite minerally nose focused and gaining complexity with aeration. The palate is well balanced with a brisk... Read More

A more complex if moderately similar nose offers more in the way of white orchard fruit aromas that are trimmed in subtle wood nuances. There is fine mid-palate density to the delicious and appealingly intense medium-bodied flavors... Read More

Firm reduction flattens the underlying fruit though there is excellent freshness and verve to the sleek delicious and beautifully delineated flavors that terminate in a chiseled finale that is shaped by citrus-inflected and crunchy... Read More

A more floral and more expressive nose features notes of pear liqueur lemon rind green apple and soft spice nuances that are set up by an admirably discreet application of wood. The round and almost tender medium-bodied flavors... Read More

Offering up notes of peonies rose petals red berries and spices the 2021 Chassagne-Montrachet Vieilles Vignes is medium-bodied satiny and perfumed with lively acids and a saline finish.

An earthier and more somber nose reluctantly displays its aromas of purple fruit especially plum. There is more volume to the rich velvety and solidly concentrated flavors that are more powerful and less refined on the solidly... Read More

A strikingly pure cool and airy nose is comprised by notes of the essence of red pinot fruit floral and discreet forest floor wisps. There is almost painful intensity to the chiseled and overtly stony medium weight flavors that... Read More

The 2021 Puligny-Montrachet Village has a strict petrichor/wet limestone-scented bouquet focused but not powerful. The palate is well balanced with a sappy entry fine depth for a Village Cru and beautifully-judged acidity. A dab... Read More

In theory this plot does not usually frost but that was not the case in 2021: three barrels instead of 20! Pale lime green. A mix of reductive tension and something a little bit chunkier than usual. This is one of the 2021s with... Read More

A mild touch of reduction blurs the nuances of the very fresh white-fleshed orchard fruit nut and floral scents. There is better size weight and richness to the solidly density and powerful middleweight flavors that are shaped... Read More

Firm reduction. As one would expect there is a more sophisticated mouthfeel to the rich voluminous and equally strikingly textured medium-weight flavors that aren't as powerful but they are notably finer on the bitter lemon-inflected... Read More

This possesses the most floral-suffused nose in the range with its notes of citrus peel crushed fennel and mineral reduction. The sleek and beautifully delineated medium weight flavors brim with the hallmark minerality of a fine... Read More

Medium crimson colour. Some fruit on the nose pure enough but not stunning. Prettier fruit on the palate not the out and out weight of a classic Santenots but this will be agreeable in about 5 years. A bit more density at the... Read More

This east-facing higher-altitude site has performed brilliantly this year delivering a 2021 Montagny 1er Cru Le Mont Laurent that offers up aromas of spring flowers verbena white currants crisp pear and wet stones followed by... Read More

An overtly floral-suffused and more expressive nose freely offers up elegant aromas of white orchard fruit zest and a touch of spice. There is again excellent mid-palate density to the pretty middleweight flavors that exude evident... Read More

The 2021 Pouilly-Fuissé Le Clos 1er Cru is by far the best cuvée from Château de Fuissé this year even though it was cropped at a measly 7hL/ha equivalent to around ten barrels instead of around 50 barrels. It has a lovely... Read More

Having bottled Chateauneuf since the end of the nineteenth century and being prominent members in the town since at least two centuries before this, the Avril family of Clos des Papes have made the estate into one of the great... Read More

A much more deeply pitched and more floral-suffused nose speaks mostly of blue berries anise and a subtle touch of earth. I very much like the seductive mid-palate texture of the vibrant medium weight flavors that display excellent... Read More

Moderate wood suffuses the cool and ripe nose of restrained dark berry fruit aromas that are liberally laced with earth forest floor and overt sauvage elements. There is a lovely mid-palate mouthfeel to the beautifully tension-filled... Read More