2020 Pinot Noir Wine Over $100

A distinctly cool and exuberantly fresh nose features reticent wonderfully spiced notes of various dark berries along with forest floor nuances that include humus and earth. The intensity of the imposingly broad-shouldered and... Read More

A brooding and reticent nose features liqueur-like aromas of poached plum cassis and cool earth. The delicious intense and overtly stony middle weight plus flavors flashed focused power on the firm compact and tightly wound finale.... Read More

The 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru La Cardeuse opens in the glass with scents of peonies violets plums wild berries dark chocolate and baking spices. Medium to full-bodied lively and perfumed it's bright and fine-boned... Read More

Ripe aromas of warm earth and poached plum introduce sleek vibrant and delineated medium-bodied flavors that possess excellent density and a lovely texture while displaying a refreshing salinity on the firm serious and built-to-age... Read More

Rich full purple a heady but attractive nose holding up well. Still mostly in the raspberry register but there is a firm structure and some freshness to the finish. 20% whole bunch is helping. Good long finish. An early malolactic... Read More

An overtly floral-suffused nose blends both ripe red and dark cherry aromas with those of anise and an interesting hint of orange peel. The rich but lilting medium-bodied flavors coat the palate with sappy dry extract that buffers... Read More

Here too moderate reduction renders the nose difficult to assess. The relatively delicate and refined middle weight flavors possess no lack of punch that carries over to the youthfully austere complex and sneaky long finish that... Read More

Ripe but markedly fresher aromas of poached plum black cherry coulis warm earth and pretty floral nuances lead to intense vibrant and very concentrated larger-scaled flavors that deliver excellent length on the ever-so-slightly... Read More

This is the first wine to exhibit any appreciable reduction and it's enough to overshadow the underlying fruit at present. More interesting are the intense and super-sleek broad-shouldered flavors that exhibit excellent precision... Read More

This too is very firmly reduced. The more refined and slightly denser flavors possess a more sophisticated texture with notably better depth and persistence on the balanced if chalky and slightly austere finale. In contrast to... Read More

Very generous wood fights somewhat with the distinctly earthy aromas of ripe dark currant sauvage and anise. The rich mouthcoating and relatively fine middleweight flavors display very fine length on the balanced finale. For my... Read More

A cooler and wonderfully pure nose reflects notes of ripe red berries humus and a gamy nuance. There is excellent underlying tension to the chiseled and intensely mineral-suffused flavors that are tautly muscular and quite powerful... Read More

A very ripe nose features notes of poached plum mocha wood toast and a pretty floral top note. The more refined and more tension filled middle weight flavors flash evident minerality on the youthfully austere and sneaky long finish.... Read More

Slightly riper aromas are comprised by notes of black raspberry plum wood and soft spice wisps. The delicious middle weight flavors possess both good volume and mid-palate density all wrapped in a clean chalky and saline-suffused... Read More

As is usual at this early juncture the nose is firmly reduced. More interesting are the much finer but less concentrated middle weight flavors that possess both good detail and evident minerality on the finish that is somewhat... Read More

Whiffs of herbal tea violet and an assortment of spice nuances are present on the mostly dark berry fruit-suffused nose. The succulent round and sleek medium weight flavors evident good minerality on the notably more complex and... Read More

Aromas of wild berries and plums mingled with hints of warm spices and rose petals introduce the 2020 Santenay 1er Cru Le Passetemps a full-bodied layered and concentrated wine with a velvety attack that segues into a deep multidimensional... Read More

Aromas of sweet berries potpourri warm spices and orange rind introduce Drouhin's 2020 Beaune 1er Cru Les Grèves a medium to full-bodied lively and concentrated Pinot Noir that's taut and chalky deriving from the thin... Read More

Practicing organic
100% Pinot Noir
From the top of Beaumonts, adjacent to “Aux Brûlées”
30+ year old vines
100% whole cluster
Indigenous yeast
Aged in barrel (50% new) for 12 months + 3 months in stainless... Read More

Practicing organic
100% Pinot Noir
One of the great lieux-dits of Vosne-Romanée, sitting just above La Tache, La Romanée, and Aux Reignots
100% whole cluster
Indigenous yeast
Aged in barrel (66% new) for 10 months... Read More

40% whole bunch. Rich vibrant purple but just as you think this might be going to be too powerful a lovely refreshing currant of pure red fruit comes up through the darker fruit. Picked in good time and helped by the whole bunches.... Read More