France
The vast and diverse wine regions of France, each with its own unique terroirs, grape varieties, and winemaking techniques, are a treasure trove.
In Bordeaux, the birthplace of some of the world's most iconic wines, esteemed vineyards such as Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Margaux, Château Latour, and Château Haut-Brion produce exceptional red wines, showcasing the art of blending Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, and Malbec. The region is also renowned for its exquisite white wines, with vineyards like Château d'Yquem and Domaine de Chevalier producing legendary sweet wines.
Moving to Burgundy, the vineyards of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Domaine Leroy, and Domaine Armand Rousseau capture the essence of the region's revered terroir, crafting exquisite red wines from the Pinot Noir grape. Meanwhile, Domaine Leflaive and Domaine Coche-Dury are celebrated for their world-class white wines, predominantly made from Chardonnay.
The Champagne region, known for its sparkling wines, boasts illustrious houses such as Krug, Dom Pérignon, and Moët & Chandon, as well as grower-producers like Pierre Péters and Jacques Selosse. These vineyards create exceptional sparkling wines using the traditional method, offering a symphony of delicate bubbles, elegant flavors, and vibrant acidity.
In the Rhône Valley, iconic vineyards like Chapoutier, E. Guigal, and Château de Beaucastel produce remarkable red wines in the northern appellations of Hermitage, Côte-Rôtie, and Cornas, showcasing the elegance and power of Syrah. Further south, Châteauneuf-du-Pape is celebrated for its rich and full-bodied red blends, with Château Rayas and Clos des Papes leading the way.
In Alsace, vineyards such as Domaine Zind-Humbrecht and omaine Trimbach craft exquisite white wines, including Riesling, Gewürztraminer, and Pinot Gris, expressing the region's unique terroir and varietal character.
These are just a few highlights among the diverse array of wines that France offers. From the Loire Valley's crisp whites and elegant reds to the Languedoc-Roussillon's bold and robust wines, each region presents its own vinous treasures.
France
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(12x75cl) 2010Wine Spectator (90)
A dark well of black cherry, plum and charred oak aromas and flavors are allied to equally dense tannins. Muscular, if a bit monolithic, with a spice and tar finish. Impressive, but for fans of the style. Drink now through 2018. 617 cases made. -BSInc. GSTSG$3,905.43 -
(12x75cl) 2011Inc. GSTSG$4,003.53 -
(12x75cl) 2012Vinous (87-89)
(just racked): Good bright red. Wild aromas and flavors of redcurrant, plum, mint and flowers. The palate offers good shape and cut, and a firm, ripe finish.Inc. GSTSG$5,540.43 -
(12x75cl) 2013Burghound (87-90)
There is a discreet floral hint adding a touch of elegance to the mix of earth red currant and dark raspberry aromas. The attractively textured and delineated medium-bodied flavors are shaped by relatively fine tannins for a Nuits villages, all wrapped in a lingering and solidly complex finish.Inc. GSTSG$4,560.56 -
(12x75cl) 2014Vinous (87-89)
(a blend of eight vineyards): Bright medium red. Very dark aromas of black cherry, blackberry, licorice, herbs and spices. A juicy, youthfully tight midweight with a firm spine of dusty tannins and sneaky persistence. (Incidentally, the 2014 Bourgogne Rouge showed sexy red fruit flavors in a round, juicy style and should offer early pleasure. )Inc. GSTSG$4,755.63 -
(2x75cl) 2014Vinous (87-89)
(a blend of eight vineyards): Bright medium red. Very dark aromas of black cherry, blackberry, licorice, herbs and spices. A juicy, youthfully tight midweight with a firm spine of dusty tannins and sneaky persistence. (Incidentally, the 2014 Bourgogne Rouge showed sexy red fruit flavors in a round, juicy style and should offer early pleasure. )Inc. GSTSG$663.98 -
Burghound (89-91)
There is just enough reduction present to suppress the underlying fruit but it shouldn't last. Otherwise there is a really lovely texture to the attractively intense and vibrant middle weight flavors that display only a touch of rusticity on the complex, focused and solidly persistent finale. This too is really very good and worth a look.Inc. GSTSG$324.71 -
(2x75cl) 2016Vinous (90)
The 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges Villages has an open-knit, crushed strawberry and woodland scented nose, almost malic in style perhaps due to the 70% stem addition. The palate is fleshy with ample grip, very sappy in style with blackberry and tart red fruit on the finish that lingers in the mouth. What an excellent Village Cru!Inc. GSTSG$983.35 -
(6x75cl) 2016Vinous (90)
The 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges Villages has an open-knit, crushed strawberry and woodland scented nose, almost malic in style perhaps due to the 70% stem addition. The palate is fleshy with ample grip, very sappy in style with blackberry and tart red fruit on the finish that lingers in the mouth. What an excellent Village Cru!Inc. GSTSG$6,394.46 -
Vinous (89-91)
The 2017 Nuits Saint-Georges Village is a blend of several vineyards that offer homogeneous ripeness but on different soils. It has quite an earthy, sous-bois tinged bouquet that is very well defined, the 60% whole bunches nicely integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with a tart opening, and the 10% new oak lends discreet lift toward a persistent finish spiced with a dash of black pepper. Excellent.Inc. GSTSG$3,928.91 -
(1x75cl) 2018Jancis Robinson (16.5)
1.42 ha from seven lieux-dits in the north of the appellation. 100% whole bunch. Lightish cherry red but greyish rather than crimson. A little more savoury than the Bourgogne and a very slight stemmy herbal note but it's subtle. A little bit peppery. More tension here than in the Bourgogne, a little lighter in obvious fruit and a little more tannic but barely so. Super-fresh. Dry and lingering. So elegant.Inc. GSTSG$1,709.39 -
(3x75cl) 2018Jancis Robinson (16.5)
1.42 ha from seven lieux-dits in the north of the appellation. 100% whole bunch. Lightish cherry red but greyish rather than crimson. A little more savoury than the Bourgogne and a very slight stemmy herbal note but it's subtle. A little bit peppery. More tension here than in the Bourgogne, a little lighter in obvious fruit and a little more tannic but barely so. Super-fresh. Dry and lingering. So elegant.Inc. GSTSG$5,455.18 -
Jancis Robinson (16.5)
1.42 ha from seven lieux-dits in the north of the appellation. 100% whole bunch. Lightish cherry red but greyish rather than crimson. A little more savoury than the Bourgogne and a very slight stemmy herbal note but it's subtle. A little bit peppery. More tension here than in the Bourgogne, a little lighter in obvious fruit and a little more tannic but barely so. Super-fresh. Dry and lingering. So elegant.Inc. GSTSG$2,800.76 -
Vinous (91)
The 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Village has a beautifully defined bouquet with red cherries, raspberry and light briary scents with wonderful mineralité. The palate is medium-bodied with lithe tannins, very focused and smooth, great transparency here with a touch of piquancy on the finish. This is a sublime Village Cru.Inc. GSTSG$740.74 -
(2x75cl) 2019Vinous (91)
The 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Village has a beautifully defined bouquet with red cherries, raspberry and light briary scents with wonderful mineralité. The palate is medium-bodied with lithe tannins, very focused and smooth, great transparency here with a touch of piquancy on the finish. This is a sublime Village Cru.Inc. GSTSG$2,084.25 -
Vinous (91)
The 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Village has a beautifully defined bouquet with red cherries, raspberry and light briary scents with wonderful mineralité. The palate is medium-bodied with lithe tannins, very focused and smooth, great transparency here with a touch of piquancy on the finish. This is a sublime Village Cru.Inc. GSTSG$4,367.06 -
Wine Advocate (90+)
Lachaux's 2020 Nuits-Saint-Georges Village is also built for the cellar, offering up aromas of sweet red berries, plums and pomegranate with subtle hints of petals and orange zest. Medium to full-bodied, layered and fleshy, with a dense, compact core of fruit framed by sweet structuring tannins, it concludes with a long, saline finish.Inc. GSTSG$3,133.10 -
(1x75cl) 2021Inc. GSTSG$1,023.40 -
Inc. GSTSG$2,789.86 -
(12x75cl) 2012Vinous (90-92)
(30% vendange entier): Bright, dark red. Vibrant aromas of red fruits and minerals, lifted by a piquant whiff of blood orange. Juicy, spicy and sharply delineated, with the blood orange note repeating on the palate. Finishes brisk and long, with firm tannins. I like this pristine, fruit-driven style.Inc. GSTSG$7,688.64 -
(12x75cl) 2013Vinous (89)
(50% vendange entier; 40% new oak): Bright medium red. Red cherry, redcurrant and musky underbrush accented by pepper and spices on the nose; riper than the Chambolle villages. Softer and creamier in the mouth too, conveying a restrained sweetness to the flavors of red cherry, berries, licorice and spices. Finishes firmly tannic and persistent.Inc. GSTSG$7,688.64 -
Vinous (89-91)
(50% vendange entier; 30% new oak; from vines in excess of 60 years of age): Healthy dark red with ruby tones. Lovely floral, spicy and herbal high notes to the aromas of black raspberry and crushed stone. Chewy and soil-driven, with red berry flavors enlivened by mineral-driven acidity. This nicely concentrated wine finishes serious, classic and dry but not at all hard.Inc. GSTSG$12,037.74 -
(1x75cl) 2018Vinous (88-90)
The 2018 Nuit Saint-Georges Les Poisets comes from 0.7 hectares that this year produced just five barrels due to hail (14hl/ha). The nose feels a little disjointed at the moment, missing the focus that imbues Lachaux’s other 2018s. It needs to find more harmony during its élevage. The palate is medium-bodied with wild strawberry and cranberry fruit, firm tannins and a very pretty, pure finish that maybe just misses the length of other recent vintages I have tasted.Inc. GSTSG$1,253.39 -
Vinous (88-90)
The 2018 Nuit Saint-Georges Les Poisets comes from 0.7 hectares that this year produced just five barrels due to hail (14hl/ha). The nose feels a little disjointed at the moment, missing the focus that imbues Lachaux’s other 2018s. It needs to find more harmony during its élevage. The palate is medium-bodied with wild strawberry and cranberry fruit, firm tannins and a very pretty, pure finish that maybe just misses the length of other recent vintages I have tasted.Inc. GSTSG$4,408.40 -
(1x75cl) 2019Vinous (90)
The 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Poisets, which was hailed 2018 and therefore pruned short to replenish its vigour in 2019, was cropped at 15hl/ha. It has a fresh, slightly earthy bouquet with dark berry fruit, Earl Grey and light cedar scents. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, fine acidity, quite pliant on the mouth with a hint of white pepper towards the finish with sour cherry on the aftertaste. Fine.Inc. GSTSG$2,287.09 -
(1x75cl) 2021Inc. GSTSG$1,128.04 -
Vinous (92+)
Good deep red. Bright, less evolved aromas of black plum, currant and mint. Juicy, minty and fruit-driven; quite primary for the vintage. Lovely penetrating acids give the wine very good delineation and spine. Very long, pure finish features even, slow-mounting tannins and excellent vinosity and grip.Inc. GSTSG$2,506.89 -
(6x75cl) 1999Vinous (94+)
Red-ruby. Spicy black fruits, cocoa powder, violet and spices on the primary nose. A step up in volume, sweetness and depth from the Suchots, with very primary grapey, minerally flavors and hints of exotic fruits. As unevolved as this grand cru is today, it already shows lovely inner-mouth perfume. Very long and ripe on the back end, with the firm tannins covered by sappy fruits and spices.Inc. GSTSG$20,829.25 -
(3x150cl) 2005Burghound (96)
There is an all-but-invisible touch of brett present on the otherwise pretty and beautifully layered nose that features notes of various dark berries, violets and a wide range of spice elements. The gorgeously refined middle weight flavors possess a suave and silky mouth feel before culminating in a strikingly complex finish that seems to dance across the palate while delivering flat out huge length. This is still moderately firm yet with air it could easily be enjoyed now. Note that my score offers the benefit of the doubt regarding the brett as I have no other recent notes and thus I can't say whether this bottle was entirely representative.Inc. GSTSG$20,751.92 -
Burghound (96)
There is an all-but-invisible touch of brett present on the otherwise pretty and beautifully layered nose that features notes of various dark berries, violets and a wide range of spice elements. The gorgeously refined middle weight flavors possess a suave and silky mouth feel before culminating in a strikingly complex finish that seems to dance across the palate while delivering flat out huge length. This is still moderately firm yet with air it could easily be enjoyed now. Note that my score offers the benefit of the doubt regarding the brett as I have no other recent notes and thus I can't say whether this bottle was entirely representative.Inc. GSTSG$15,258.32
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(12x75cl) 2010Wine Spectator (90)
A dark well of black cherry, plum and charred oak aromas and flavors are allied to equally dense tannins. Muscular, if a bit monolithic, with a spice and tar finish. Impressive, but for fans of the style. Drink now through 2018. 617 cases made. -BSIn BondSG$3,480.00 -
(12x75cl) 2011In BondSG$3,570.00 -
(12x75cl) 2012Vinous (87-89)
(just racked): Good bright red. Wild aromas and flavors of redcurrant, plum, mint and flowers. The palate offers good shape and cut, and a firm, ripe finish.In BondSG$4,980.00 -
(12x75cl) 2013Burghound (87-90)
There is a discreet floral hint adding a touch of elegance to the mix of earth red currant and dark raspberry aromas. The attractively textured and delineated medium-bodied flavors are shaped by relatively fine tannins for a Nuits villages, all wrapped in a lingering and solidly complex finish.In BondSG$4,085.00 -
(12x75cl) 2014Vinous (87-89)
(a blend of eight vineyards): Bright medium red. Very dark aromas of black cherry, blackberry, licorice, herbs and spices. A juicy, youthfully tight midweight with a firm spine of dusty tannins and sneaky persistence. (Incidentally, the 2014 Bourgogne Rouge showed sexy red fruit flavors in a round, juicy style and should offer early pleasure. )In BondSG$4,260.00 -
(2x75cl) 2014Vinous (87-89)
(a blend of eight vineyards): Bright medium red. Very dark aromas of black cherry, blackberry, licorice, herbs and spices. A juicy, youthfully tight midweight with a firm spine of dusty tannins and sneaky persistence. (Incidentally, the 2014 Bourgogne Rouge showed sexy red fruit flavors in a round, juicy style and should offer early pleasure. )In BondSG$592.00 -
Burghound (89-91)
There is just enough reduction present to suppress the underlying fruit but it shouldn't last. Otherwise there is a really lovely texture to the attractively intense and vibrant middle weight flavors that display only a touch of rusticity on the complex, focused and solidly persistent finale. This too is really very good and worth a look.In BondSG$288.00 -
(2x75cl) 2016Vinous (90)
The 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges Villages has an open-knit, crushed strawberry and woodland scented nose, almost malic in style perhaps due to the 70% stem addition. The palate is fleshy with ample grip, very sappy in style with blackberry and tart red fruit on the finish that lingers in the mouth. What an excellent Village Cru!In BondSG$885.00 -
(6x75cl) 2016Vinous (90)
The 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges Villages has an open-knit, crushed strawberry and woodland scented nose, almost malic in style perhaps due to the 70% stem addition. The palate is fleshy with ample grip, very sappy in style with blackberry and tart red fruit on the finish that lingers in the mouth. What an excellent Village Cru!In BondSG$5,815.00 -
Vinous (89-91)
The 2017 Nuits Saint-Georges Village is a blend of several vineyards that offer homogeneous ripeness but on different soils. It has quite an earthy, sous-bois tinged bouquet that is very well defined, the 60% whole bunches nicely integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with a tart opening, and the 10% new oak lends discreet lift toward a persistent finish spiced with a dash of black pepper. Excellent.In BondSG$3,555.00 -
(1x75cl) 2018Jancis Robinson (16.5)
1.42 ha from seven lieux-dits in the north of the appellation. 100% whole bunch. Lightish cherry red but greyish rather than crimson. A little more savoury than the Bourgogne and a very slight stemmy herbal note but it's subtle. A little bit peppery. More tension here than in the Bourgogne, a little lighter in obvious fruit and a little more tannic but barely so. Super-fresh. Dry and lingering. So elegant.In BondSG$1,560.00 -
(3x75cl) 2018Jancis Robinson (16.5)
1.42 ha from seven lieux-dits in the north of the appellation. 100% whole bunch. Lightish cherry red but greyish rather than crimson. A little more savoury than the Bourgogne and a very slight stemmy herbal note but it's subtle. A little bit peppery. More tension here than in the Bourgogne, a little lighter in obvious fruit and a little more tannic but barely so. Super-fresh. Dry and lingering. So elegant.In BondSG$4,980.00 -
Jancis Robinson (16.5)
1.42 ha from seven lieux-dits in the north of the appellation. 100% whole bunch. Lightish cherry red but greyish rather than crimson. A little more savoury than the Bourgogne and a very slight stemmy herbal note but it's subtle. A little bit peppery. More tension here than in the Bourgogne, a little lighter in obvious fruit and a little more tannic but barely so. Super-fresh. Dry and lingering. So elegant.In BondSG$2,520.00 -
Vinous (91)
The 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Village has a beautifully defined bouquet with red cherries, raspberry and light briary scents with wonderful mineralité. The palate is medium-bodied with lithe tannins, very focused and smooth, great transparency here with a touch of piquancy on the finish. This is a sublime Village Cru.In BondSG$671.00 -
(2x75cl) 2019Vinous (91)
The 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Village has a beautifully defined bouquet with red cherries, raspberry and light briary scents with wonderful mineralité. The palate is medium-bodied with lithe tannins, very focused and smooth, great transparency here with a touch of piquancy on the finish. This is a sublime Village Cru.In BondSG$1,895.00 -
Vinous (91)
The 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Village has a beautifully defined bouquet with red cherries, raspberry and light briary scents with wonderful mineralité. The palate is medium-bodied with lithe tannins, very focused and smooth, great transparency here with a touch of piquancy on the finish. This is a sublime Village Cru.In BondSG$3,955.00 -
Wine Advocate (90+)
Lachaux's 2020 Nuits-Saint-Georges Village is also built for the cellar, offering up aromas of sweet red berries, plums and pomegranate with subtle hints of petals and orange zest. Medium to full-bodied, layered and fleshy, with a dense, compact core of fruit framed by sweet structuring tannins, it concludes with a long, saline finish.In BondSG$2,815.00 -
(1x75cl) 2021In BondSG$929.00 -
In BondSG$2,510.00 -
(12x75cl) 2012Vinous (90-92)
(30% vendange entier): Bright, dark red. Vibrant aromas of red fruits and minerals, lifted by a piquant whiff of blood orange. Juicy, spicy and sharply delineated, with the blood orange note repeating on the palate. Finishes brisk and long, with firm tannins. I like this pristine, fruit-driven style.In BondSG$6,935.00 -
(12x75cl) 2013Vinous (89)
(50% vendange entier; 40% new oak): Bright medium red. Red cherry, redcurrant and musky underbrush accented by pepper and spices on the nose; riper than the Chambolle villages. Softer and creamier in the mouth too, conveying a restrained sweetness to the flavors of red cherry, berries, licorice and spices. Finishes firmly tannic and persistent.In BondSG$6,935.00 -
Vinous (89-91)
(50% vendange entier; 30% new oak; from vines in excess of 60 years of age): Healthy dark red with ruby tones. Lovely floral, spicy and herbal high notes to the aromas of black raspberry and crushed stone. Chewy and soil-driven, with red berry flavors enlivened by mineral-driven acidity. This nicely concentrated wine finishes serious, classic and dry but not at all hard.In BondSG$10,925.00 -
(1x75cl) 2018Vinous (88-90)
The 2018 Nuit Saint-Georges Les Poisets comes from 0.7 hectares that this year produced just five barrels due to hail (14hl/ha). The nose feels a little disjointed at the moment, missing the focus that imbues Lachaux’s other 2018s. It needs to find more harmony during its élevage. The palate is medium-bodied with wild strawberry and cranberry fruit, firm tannins and a very pretty, pure finish that maybe just misses the length of other recent vintages I have tasted.In BondSG$1,140.00 -
Vinous (88-90)
The 2018 Nuit Saint-Georges Les Poisets comes from 0.7 hectares that this year produced just five barrels due to hail (14hl/ha). The nose feels a little disjointed at the moment, missing the focus that imbues Lachaux’s other 2018s. It needs to find more harmony during its élevage. The palate is medium-bodied with wild strawberry and cranberry fruit, firm tannins and a very pretty, pure finish that maybe just misses the length of other recent vintages I have tasted.In BondSG$3,985.00 -
(1x75cl) 2019Vinous (90)
The 2019 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Poisets, which was hailed 2018 and therefore pruned short to replenish its vigour in 2019, was cropped at 15hl/ha. It has a fresh, slightly earthy bouquet with dark berry fruit, Earl Grey and light cedar scents. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, fine acidity, quite pliant on the mouth with a hint of white pepper towards the finish with sour cherry on the aftertaste. Fine.In BondSG$2,090.00 -
(1x75cl) 2021In BondSG$1,025.00 -
Vinous (92+)
Good deep red. Bright, less evolved aromas of black plum, currant and mint. Juicy, minty and fruit-driven; quite primary for the vintage. Lovely penetrating acids give the wine very good delineation and spine. Very long, pure finish features even, slow-mounting tannins and excellent vinosity and grip.In BondSG$2,290.00 -
(6x75cl) 1999Vinous (94+)
Red-ruby. Spicy black fruits, cocoa powder, violet and spices on the primary nose. A step up in volume, sweetness and depth from the Suchots, with very primary grapey, minerally flavors and hints of exotic fruits. As unevolved as this grand cru is today, it already shows lovely inner-mouth perfume. Very long and ripe on the back end, with the firm tannins covered by sappy fruits and spices.In BondSG$19,050.00 -
(3x150cl) 2005Burghound (96)
There is an all-but-invisible touch of brett present on the otherwise pretty and beautifully layered nose that features notes of various dark berries, violets and a wide range of spice elements. The gorgeously refined middle weight flavors possess a suave and silky mouth feel before culminating in a strikingly complex finish that seems to dance across the palate while delivering flat out huge length. This is still moderately firm yet with air it could easily be enjoyed now. Note that my score offers the benefit of the doubt regarding the brett as I have no other recent notes and thus I can't say whether this bottle was entirely representative.In BondSG$18,985.00 -
Burghound (96)
There is an all-but-invisible touch of brett present on the otherwise pretty and beautifully layered nose that features notes of various dark berries, violets and a wide range of spice elements. The gorgeously refined middle weight flavors possess a suave and silky mouth feel before culminating in a strikingly complex finish that seems to dance across the palate while delivering flat out huge length. This is still moderately firm yet with air it could easily be enjoyed now. Note that my score offers the benefit of the doubt regarding the brett as I have no other recent notes and thus I can't say whether this bottle was entirely representative.In BondSG$13,945.00

