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Céline Champalou’s Vouvray is always a joy to drink. The wine seems so pure, as if it bubbled up out of the limestone into a cool, limpid pool tended by nymphs and satyrs who pour it into the mouths of weary souls. That’s what I feel, anyway, when I grab a bottle from the fridge.
Shows singed herbs, spices and mesquite smoke, which surround red currant and crunchy plum flavors. Medium-weight and savory, with mouthwatering acidity and warm earth accents through the finish. Drink now through 2028. 450 cases imported.
The Wine Blended from the traditional Bordeaux varietals, including our own coveted grapes, the Chappellet Mountain Cuvée Proprietor’s Blend builds on our more than five decades of experience crafting great mountain-grown wines. Each grape variety in the cuvée contributes nuances that complement each other. The result is a complex array of aromas and flavors that deliver pure pleasure in a glass. Made for more near-term enjoyment, this is the wine to choose when you’re looking for vivid, mouthfilling fruit flavors.
Growing Season & Harvest With early season rains saturating soils and a cool spring and summer that ensured generous hangtime, 2023 offered perfect weather that took the grapes to another level. To provide airflow and light on the grapes during a cool vintage, we pruned and leafed early and often. Though later than normal, both budbreak and bloom were excellent with overall yields up slightly. The weather stayed cool into fall, with only one September day above 90° F, before things warmed up in October, providing a final push to ripeness. Though harvest was compact, we were able to pick everything at the ideal moment, yielding impeccably balanced red wines with concentrated color, seamless tannins and an abundance of fruit and spice.
Tasting Notes This beautifully aromatic wine leaps from the glass with effusive aromas of dark cherry, blackberry and plum, as well as French oak-inspired hints of clove, cardamom and cedar and notions of black pepper and fresh herbs. On the richly textured palate, lush ripe berry layers echo the aromas, with fine-grained tannins framing the luxurious flavors as they glide to a lingering dark chocolate and anise finish
A blend of 60% Grenache and 40% Syrah, the 2022 Vacqueyras Tradition is slightly deeper and richer than the Cuvée Spéciale, with ripe blackberry and darker cherry fruits as well as spicy, leather, and Provençal garrigue driven aromas and flavors. It too i...
The 2023 Beau-Séjour Bécot is fabulous. Rich, opulent and explosive to
the core, the 2023 offers up a heady mélange of dark red/purplish
fruit, spice, lavender, rose petal, blood orange and bright saline notes.
As always, Cabernet Franc plays an impor...
The 2019 Bel-Air Jean & Gabriel is impeccable. Soft, creamy and beautifully
layered in the glass, the 2019 is especially fine for Lussac, where the wines
are rarely this polished. Black cherry, chocolate, licorice and dark spice
build over time. There ...
The 2024 Branaire-Ducru offers up a pretty and precise bouquet of cassis, violets and pencil shavings. Medium-bodied, supple and suave, with polished tannins and tangy acids, it's a fine-boned, delicate wine from Branaire that was harvested between 20 Sep...