It’s Maison Saint AIX’s absolutely perfect balance between its elegantly expressed, copious red fruit and watermelon, and the wine’s clean, vibrant, natural tasting acidity. Nothing stands out yet it all stands out: its...
We’ve just received a small allocation of these Chateauneuf blue bloods! The white is a rarity made from Clairette, Grenache Blanc and Roussanne. While a lot of Chateauneuf Blancs can be quite low in acid and lacking in great structure, this is not! Love...
Those of us in the wine business, well, those of us who truly love wine anyway, make no pretense towards absolute impartiality when it comes to judging our favorites. We form deep emotional attachments to some wines and they become more like old...
Bourgogne Blanc, even if it’s from the so- called ‘elevated’ level Bourgogne Cotes d’Or appellation, can be a real catch-all as far as style goes and it’s important to know the producer. We taste a lot around...
At last the Clos La Folie drought is over and we couldn’t be more excited! To the uninitiated, Rully, near the regional city of Chalon-sur-Soane and just three miles south of Chassagne-Montrachet as the Burgundian crow flies, has long been the source of...
If they needed a set for a movie about Burgundy in the 1950s, they wouldn’t have to look any further than this eight-generation old cellar in Savigny-Les-Beaune. Here is a spot steeped in tradition with none of the frou-frou associated with some of the...
Wine Country: France Wine Subregion: Rhone Valley While one ordinarily thinks of the Cotes du Rhone, one thinks of the Grenache-based wines of the southern Rhone Valley. This is not one of those. Iconic winemaker Jean-Louis Chave, instead,...
Summer is coming back! We promise. Cassis sits with Bandol on one side of Marseilles on the Mediterranean coast but its production is a mere fraction of their much-better known neighbor. And, what, say, Domaine Tempier, is to Bandol is what Domaine du...
Wine Country: France
Wine Subregion: Burgundy
Wine Sub-subregion: Chablis
New to PRIMA (and to the United States!), last year’s debut 2022 vintage marked the discovery one of the most exciting young Chablis producers we’ve seen in...
This juicy, floral Cabernet Franc Rose from the Loire Valley was a huge hit last year and we regretted not ordering more than we did. We're not making the same mistake twice! Not only will this be one of the best Roses you'll enjoy this spring, it might...
(80% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay (10% Pinot Noir still wine) Based on 2017 harvest,plus reserve wine 36 months en tirage) Laetitia Billiot is the fourth generation to estate-bottle Champagnes at this domaine in the Grand Cru Village of Ambonnay...
50% 2013 and 25% each ’12-’11, deg 6/2015; dosage made, as for all of Laurent’s wines, from still wines of the two best cuvées, Grand Cellier d’Or and Coeur de Cuvée, done in wood. In the first 1-2 years after...
What do you do when your spouse insists on great White Burgundy but you’re too cheap to spend an arm and a leg to keep peace in the family? The obvious answer is to buy Macon Village and lie about the price. With a wine like the 2020...
Winery Notes: An absolute delicacy of pure wine as this cuvee is vinified without sulfites and bottled without filtration. The crunch of the fruit freshly acidulated and without tannins will let you succumb to the pleasure of...
Professional RatingsDecanter - 93 pointsBeautiful depth, density and complexity, and a lovely spice, along with softer touches of floral aromatics. Successfully holds juice and tension through the palate. A clear feeling of family relation to its bigger...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 95 Points: The medium to deep garnet-purple colored 2018 Malescot St. Exupery leaps from the glass with expressive scents of baked blackberries, Morello cherries and boysenberries with hints of blackcurrant...
Winery Notes: The 2020 is very similar to the 2019 – the fruit was ripe and absolutely stunning. The resultant wine shows lush black fruit, it is rounded and fleshy with a salinity that calls for a fine steak. This wine has a short vatting...
99 points James Suckling :A beautifully layered red with blackcurrant, hazelnut and lead-pencil character and fine, velvety tannins. Full-bodied and reserved. It’s like a tightly knit ball of polished tannins that are cashmere in texture. So very...
An elegant and vibrant Sauvignon Blanc from one of Sancerre’s most esteemed vineyards. Exhibiting fresh citrus, green apple, and flinty mineral notes, this wine is crisp and refreshing with a lingering finish. Perfect for pairing with seafood, goat...
There’s Chablis and there there’s Chablis, and Regnard’s Grand Regnard has long been one of the best! Calling this producer ‘venerable’ is an understatement, and their wines, dating back to the nineteenth century, are...
Great Bandol Rose is one of life’s great pleasures. This totally unique appellation at the very south of France near Marseilles is as coastal as it gets yet the heat-loving Mourvedre grape thrives under the Provencal sunshine too, creating a...
2013 Alexandra Sainz Millesime Bouzy Grand Cru Champagne CHARACTERISTICS OF THE YEAR 2013 IN CHAMPAGNE 2013 was harsh and very capricious. Our dormant vines were covered with snow in the winter. Spring came a little later than usual with intense cold in...
"The 2019 Chablis Vosgros comes from vines planted in the early 1960s and in 1986. The nose sports a very subtle but beneficial reduction, and there are lovely, pure dried pineapple and crushed limestone scents underneath. The palate is well balanced...
2019 Grand Veneur Cotes du Rhone 'Les Champauvins' 2022 was the year of the Cotes du Rhone at PRIMA! It seems like everything we tried from either 2018 or 2019 was either delicious, well-priced or both! It was really hard to pick a favorite...
97 points James Suckling Lots of blackcurrants and blueberries on the nose, together with walnuts and chocolate. Full-bodied and very layered, with super depth and plushness, offering currant, crushed-stone and bitter-chocolate flavors. Very lush...
Importer's Notes: The Bellecroix vineyard grows down on the slope that ends at the town of Chagny. Chagny was besieged centuries ago by one of the many marauding bands of mercenaries that ran around Europe in the Middle Ages, and a battle took...
Winemaker NotesA golden color, distinctive of black grape varieties. Very fine bubbles. On the nose, it has a beautiful aromatic complexity, ripe fruit, and spicy aromas, with hints of roasted apples, apple compote, and peaches. On the palate, there is a...
Alexandra Sainz Brut Heritage Grand Cru Champagne 750 ml
Our Brut Héritage is a sharp selection of the highest quality plots in Bouzy, blended with the best reserve wines.
This Champagne rests a minimum of 4 years on lees before disgorging.
The...
Jeb Dunnuck: 95-97 Points The 2017 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Reserve Auguste Favier offers more kirsch and blackberry fruits as well as ample charcoal, earth, licorice, and spice nuances. It's full-bodied, incredibly concentrated, layered, and...
(375ml) Clean, precise bouquet, tightly wound at first but unfolding to reveal raspberry, cranberry and pressed flower. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy black fruit, and lightly spiced with a touch of white pepper toward the finish. - Vinous 92...
Importer's Notes: This 0.51-hectare vineyard is a direct continuation of Maranges' Clos Roussots, divided only by the Maranges premier cru Clos de la Boutières. Vines average 30 years of age, and the oak treatment is in 2nd and 3rd use...
Wine Spectator 94 Points: Shows a touch of dark earth out front, with a mix of smoldering tobacco, espresso crema and singed alder notes before the core of warmed plum and blackberry reduction flavors finally starts to unwind. Just a touch...
PRIMA Notes: The Les Vaumuriens is a north-east facing vineyard located to the west of the village of Pommard, planted in the limestone-marl soil that gives French Burgundies their complex extraction and intriguing finesse. Being slightly...
When I saw that the name ‘Paul Hobb’s was associated with the Crocus Cahors, I sat up and took notice. When I noticed the incredibly low price, I just had to learn more. After all, Paul Hobbs is a near-legendary winemaker, famous for his...
In what’s officially (in my mind) the coolest wine evv-vahh, we present the 2020 Vin de la Solitude from Domaine de la Solitude; Chateauneuf du Pape as it once was, or, maybe, how it may be again. The grapes are fermented as whole clusters...
Importer's Notes: Produced from equal parts of these varietals, the fruit for this wine comes from Chidaine’s estate-grown, bio-dynamically farmed vineyards located just north of the Cher river between the villages of Montrichard &...
We sure hated running out of Luc Prieur’s 2023 Sancerre Blanc earlier this summer. And, by all accounts, so did you! That lovely little wine was one of our biggest sellers of the spring! There is some good news, though, for...
The bluest of Bandol blue chips have also arrived. Can you believe Bastide Blanche, one of the most venerable of all producers in Bandol is half the price of Domaine Tempier? That probably won’t stop you from getting some Tempier, though. I know it won’t...
PRIMA Notes: The nv Gosset Brut Grande Reserve Brut is a blend of 45% Chardonnay, 45% Pinot Noir and 10% Pinot Meunier, aged for three years on the lees and finished with 7g/liter, tilting it toward the drier end of the spectrum. The...
Wine Spectator: 97 Points Very rich, but cuts like a knife, with dried apricot, marzipan and wet stone notes leading the way for richer flavors of candle wax, heather, honey and white peach on the back end. The long, extremely taut finish...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 95 Points The exuberant 2007 Hermitage Blanc reveals notes of petroleum, crushed rocks, earth, white currants and peaches, an unctuous texture, high glycerin and good acidity. This big, thick white Hermitage will...
95 points Allen Meadows - Burghound A gorgeously spicy nose features aromas of black cherry, plum and soft mocha that complements well the ripe, supple and clearly very vibrant middle weight plus flavors that are overtly muscular but not rustic and...
Burghound: 95 Points This is perhaps the most floral wine in the range in 2014 plus it's even spicier than the RSV if not the La Tâche with its rose petal, violet, lilac, Asian spice, sandalwood, dark berry liqueur and lavender-scented nose...
This cuvée is one of Carole’s signature wines, designed to express the essential character of Chardonnay grown on the chalky hillsides of Vertus in the Côte des Blancs. The wine has brilliant precision in its structure, coming on...