Merry Christmas from our family to yours! 🎄🥂
With brunch, we’re sipping a special bottle of bubbly from Champagne Hervieux-Dumez, a grower-producer located in Sacy, a Premier Cru Village in the Montagne de Reims region of Champagne.
We were fortunate to visit Hervieux-Dumez in the fall of 2021. We received a warm, welcoming tour of the property from Clément, who represents the fourth generation of this family business. We had the pleasure of tasting some incredible wines, including this one, which we brought home with us.
It's the ‘Cuvée des Rois de France’ – the ‘Cuvée of the Kings of France’ – named in recognition of Champagne’s history as the traditional site for the coronation of kings at the Basilica Notre-Dame in Reims. 👑 The village of Sacy played a special role in these events as a popular source of water.
This wine is a blend of Pinot Noir, Meunier, and Chardonnay, 50% of which came from reserve wines that aged a minimum of 60 months in the Hervieux-Dumez cellar. It is a medium lemon hue with a fine mousse and offers delicious notes of yellow apple, pear, white raspberry, lemon, blossom, wet stones, brioche, almond paste, and pie crust, with a lingering, elegant finish.
We are grateful for this beautiful experience that remains a beautiful memory. — 3 years ago

SLH without too much explanation is a premier site for Pinot Noir and Chard. But like Napa/Sonoma and Santa Barbara the similar theme is we're finding more grape varietals to diversify ourselves because of how great our weather is and generally our love of many options. Roar is a local leader of quality wines, if you're looking for an SLH example of the good stuff.. here you go.
Went on a cool personal tour of some vineyards at the winery and tried some wine after. This is a newer vineyard for them, high elevation grown Viognier (10 years). Keep in mind this is a foggy climate versus most other Viognier climates. Rich peaches outweigh the honeydew melon fruit for an ideal balance of fruit I'd prefer. I think an edge to this wine is some minerality I usually find clouded from old world veen. Also out here we're in our 2nd or 3rd year in a row of very cold summers and cold spring/fall. It's really what I imagine Seattle to be because most days I just get overcast with my beach view😂 I look forward to a very warm SLH year; this will wake up the locals. — 9 years ago
My wife went to the Boyd Vineyard last weekend on a private tour recommended by a colleague. She liked the 2010 Cab, Oak Knoll District so much, she had the vineyard ship a case home for my birthday. extremely smooth even without giving time to breathe. Not overpowered berry or other fruit, dry but without dust on the rim. You will make a good impression if you bring this to the next dinner party invite but volunteer to open on site as you may not find it again. Just returned from a business trip to my French parent company. I did not taste anything better over there. Concerned how the 2011 will fare given how that poor year is shaping up but there are exceptions, — 12 years ago
Solid Bordeau. Ready to drink. Vanilla, oak, cherries. Slightly underwhelming finish. — 7 months ago
My father has a case of these 1983 BV in his father’s wine collection. Have sat undisturbed for a few decades since my grandfather passed. Opened this for Easter dinner if braised lamb shanks. Had some cork breakage but decanted and let it breathe… it was quite delicious! Looking forward to drinking the rest of his collection! — 4 years ago
Really great wine! Drank it with a coq au Vin and it was an excellent pairing. — 6 years ago
Our favourite #restaurant in #Rocamadour
📍 Hôtel Beau Site, Cité Médiévale - 46500 Rocamadour - FRANCE 🇫🇷 💗
Fabulous terrace views, amazing food #foodporn & lovely wine list 😍
We had the 2009 Cristal & 2015 Louis Latour Nuits St George’s - all fabulous 👍
I think the butterfly wanted our wine 🤣 scroll through pics too see ⏩ on Instagram @chrisjengland 👍
NSG was a 92-93 points yummy drop - no notes taken 😁
Cristal 09 well ... 😍 €280 in restaurant 😊
🏵 97 points
🍷 Liquid gold
👃 Caramelised apple & almond butter croissant w/ a light smoke
👄 Med bodied impeccably smooth fine delicate golden mousse oozing decadence & refinement of soft honey, sweet & sour apple & citrus bake - its incredibly gorgeous
🎯 Long delightful creamy smooth caramel honey, green & citrus fruits silky seduction — 8 years ago
Beau Bordeaux , valeur qualité prix encore du haut Médoc .. excellent mais court en bouche quelque peu . 24$ — 9 years ago
Another surprise from Lidl for about 8 eur!!! — 10 years ago
So yum! Got a case of this in France! So nice with meats! — 13 years ago
5/2024. Very nice blend. Full of flavor. Sits well on the palate. Good finish. Paired well with the grilled bone in pork chop at Mr. Friendly’s. — 2 years ago
Fore Please!…Now Drinking 2019 Bedrock Wine Co. Monte Rosso Vineyard Zinfandel.
In celebration of Scottie Scheffler’s 2022 Masters victory- let’s pair the Bedrock wine notes with Mr. Scheffler’s golf game!
Morgan Twain-Peterson(MT-P) writes: “this wine comes from a phenomenal block planted in 1886 on the midslope of the vineyard “.
Just so, Mr. Scheffler, being just 25 years old exemplifies great maturity. Scottie also maintained his elevated game this entire Masters week to capture his first major.
MT-P: “Though this site has always excelled, it looks particularly dialed in”.
Likewise Mr. Scheffler has always excelled at his craft of tournament golf. Since dominating junior golf events, to keeping his game dialed in since turning pro on the PGA tour, and especially this week at Augusta National.
Job well done Mr. Twain-Peterson.
Congratulations, and job well done also Mr. Scheffler! Okay — 4 years ago
Toured this winery in 2014 and was a member for 1 year. We bought a mixed case and recd another case via mail. A neat place to visit & do a tour. A lot of history. Outstanding on site restaurant. This one really smoothed out. "Hening's Statute- Virginia Barrel-Agrd Claret: Cabernet Franc 60%, Cab Sav 20%, Malbec 12.5%, Petit Verdot 7.5%. Delicate & subtle" — 9 years ago
Best if purchased on a biking wine tour — 10 years ago
Fred P
Solid Bordeau. Ready to drink. Cherries, oak, vanilla. Slightly underwhelming finish. — 7 months ago