Jacquart Mosaique Brut Rose NVWhere Michel Genets 9208 runs on a low, chalky, saline line, Jacquart Mosaque Brut Ros NV goes for a broader, more table friendly profile, still polished, made to work across a greater range of foods and palates. Jacquart is a very different kind of Champagne story. Founded as a grower cooperative, its roots stretch across the patchwork of Champagne itself: vineyards from the Montagne de Reims, Valle de la Marne, Cte des Blancs, stitched together into

Triumphant complexity is a given at Bollinger

I got a late afternoon

lowly AOC St Emilion

blackcurrant skin

Kloster Neustift—Abbazia di Novacella—has anchored this alpine valley for nearly 900 years as a working monastery in the full sense

with the dark fruit unfurling smoothly across the mid-palate rather than staying held in reserve

and Boulay is never cheap

I’ll have to revise

Now the argument:

characterized by the indulgent embrace of mocha and the gentle caress of soft

the proof of this dynamic Chardonnay is in the bottle

there’s that whisper of earth and herbs