Stuart Pollack

9.3

Nice restrained and elegant Chablis-type Chardonnay. Apple flavor and clean and pure. Good value under $25. — 3 months ago

Vanessa

9.1

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. — 2 years ago

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Daniel M

8.9

Domaine de la Font de Notre Dame, rasteau 331, 2019

Superb nose with blackberry, garrigue, tapenade, a little bit of heat too. The palate is delicious. A massive acid backbone gives way to a superb blackberry note all along, a good width, a fruity/juicy mouthfeel, a power house of a mid palate with a good tannins wall that dries things up a notch. The finish is made of blackberry, that drying effect, a tiny touch of oak and a bitter note in the end. It's very good and delivering exactly what's expected. — 4 years ago

Jay Kline

10

A physically pristine example from a well established cellar, the cork pulled clean and without so much as a hint of compromise. It was subsequently double decanted several hours in advance. The 2000 Margaux pours a deep garnet color with a near opaque core; medium+ viscosity with moderate staining of the tears. The nose: developing and simply stunning. A cornucopia of cassis, black bramble fruit, purple flowers, tobacco, new leather, cocoa, fine woody notes, dry gravelly earth and gorgeous baking spices. On the palate, the wine is dry with medium+ tannin and medium+ acid; the structure acting like the flying buttresses of Notre Dame. Confirming the notes from the nose, the finish is forever long and impossibly silky. Sensationally balanced.

To my palate, this falls into the very small category of wines that require no additional inquest. It is utterly complete. And, when I consider the company and circumstances, perfect. Drink now with a healthy decant and through 2100. — a year ago

Iwan

9.2

Beautiful. Medium bodied, round mouth feel. Perfect balance of fruit, earth and that Cab Franc bell pepper. Well done. — 2 years ago

JKT

8.9

Good tasty Burg with good varietal profile of red fruits cherry earth and lean palate and finish. Good time to drink up. At Outer Banks last red though not with well matched food — 4 years ago

Alex Gordon

10

Platonic ideal of Cab Franc. No notes. — a year ago

Peter Sultan

9.1

Deceivingly medium bodied, but I guess like most Bandols needs air to really strut its stuff. Deep red fruits and dark brambly on nose; on palate more black & ripe cherries, & that Provençal garrique herb blend in the background. Quite accessible at six years of bottle age. My second bottle & consistent with first. Not the first word on complexity but not the last either…. — 2 years ago

Darrell

9.2

With Miranda one night before her athletic graduation from the University of Notre Dame — 2 years ago

MaJ CappS

9.2

Slightly funky fermented flower nose -

A thick and juicy wine - easy to get into - hefty, with black cherry, dark berry blend, pinch of anise, pepper. Cherry skin tannins, with a zesty acidic overture.
An excellent wine! — 4 years ago