David Shaw

9.1

Fine light drinking red with an assortment of heirloom varietals you would see in a Sandlands release. Down the middle table red style with good acid but lighter in alcohol and tannins. — 2 months ago

PD

8.9

Good but not amazing. Could have benefitted from a longer cellar aging. Bright tones of Brett and sunflower. — 5 years ago

Jordan Wardlaw

9.1

Crisp pear, green apple, lemon verbena and honey leaping out of the glass. Very lively acidity, both round and supple in the middle. There’s a (dare I say) Chenin Blanc kind of flavor and aromatic profile to this that I love. Versatile, complex and fresh. — 6 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.3

First Disney wine. Starts off black and blue but then gets more red fruited as it opens. This is a baby. We are lobbying to have a bottle opened tonight to enjoy tomorrow. This wine has a great toasted oak tannin finish. Middle has medium+ density weight. Really nice bottle. Will be a 94 in 5 years but solid 92-93 now. Can't imagine what the WS Keyes Merlot tastes like! — 6 years ago

Carmen

9.0

Grüner co-fermented with Riesling skins to make an orange wine.
Bright and zippy with lime and peach flavors and a bit of grippy earth (wet rocks).
Stainless steel and oak aging with some time on its lees.
Named after the winemakers middle daughter. As a middle daughter myself, I feel extra attached to this 🍷! — 5 months ago

Sarah Milsow-Guenther

9.1

Still a nice little GSM blend. Brighter fruit on the front-end, smooth middle, nice lighter pepper finish. Best with food. — 5 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.8

One of the absolute best white wines I’ve had so far this year to date was this extraordinary Grand Cru Chablis from 2006. I think we caught this wine at the absolute perfect time to drink. Grenouilles is French for frog, more on that below.
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The color on this was perfect, a vibrant light gold and yellow, watery at the rim. The nose was also in perfect condition, notes of flint, crushed oyster shell, a touch of smoke, allied with fresh Asian pear and crisp Fuji apple. The wind absolutely jumped out of the glass, the nose was so pronounced. The palage took it another level up with a perfect expression of what the nose was giving, all the while wrapped up in a perfect medium bodied majorly dense and complex wine. Medium plus acidity and very long on the finish.
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Formed in 1923, la Chablisienne is a co-op winery based of course in Chablis. As I have gone deeper into the rabbit hole of wine I tend to find these amazing co-ops which I wish I could have known about earlier as the wines are so impeccably good and priced so reasonably well. They produce something like 30 different wines off from the Chardonnay grape and all from vineyards within the AOC borders of Chablis.
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The Grenouilles climat is the smallest of the 7 Chablis Grand Cru climat at 9.38 hectares. It has soils that consist of upper and middle layers of Kimmeridgian, alternating with limestone and marl that are studded with fossilised seashells.
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The first vines to grow at the bottom of this hill were close to the River Serein and frogs no doubt came to keep the winegrowers company. — 6 years ago

Kit Lewis

8.9

Middle of the road body. Nose is tart raspberry and roasted plum. Palette is macerated strawberry with a hint of basil. Crowd pleaser. Could cocktail or pair with food very easily. — 7 months ago

Ginnis Tonik

9.1

A big hit across family members that like their wines drier or on the sweeter side - nicely in the middle — 3 years ago

Stephen Stone

9.0

For the price...it can’t be beat. Both biscuit and floral essence...a perfect middle of the road sparkling wine from France. $9.99 at Winestore Charlotte. — 5 years ago

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