A spectacularly elegant Auslese with impressive concentration and richness. The extremely fresh and mineral acidity is the secret behind this. Stacks of dried stone fruit and dried pear aromas are married to delicate...

A sensational riesling Auslese that leaves you wondering why you wanted to do anything else today other than drink this wine. Fabulous peachy finesse that makes me think of the pink shimmer on the skin of a beautiful...

The 2023 Suduiraut is a model of modern Sauternes. Orange peel, burnt sugar, crème-brûlée, tangerine peel, and wild flowers inform a Sauternes of total finesse and silkiness. Yields were a measly 12 hectoliters per...

Very cool and delicate in spite of the floral honey sweetness that’s wrapped around the elegant mineral acidity at the core of this beautiful Mosel Auslese. Very finely nuanced and precisely balanced at the extremely...

This great Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese shows exactly the combination of white flower and white peach aromas with silky succulence and extraordinary freshness that made these wines legendary. There’s a healthy amount of...

Anybody who doesn’t know what the noblest form of botrytis smells like is in for an extraordinary initiation. What a mind-boggling array of tropical fruit aromas (think mango, papaya, mangosteen) this gigantically...

This was harvested from a plot on the river. The harvesting window arrived on January 21st between 2 am and 4 am in temperatures of -12ºC. Wildly fresh, pure and super clean with incredible floral and mineral character...

The NV Champagne Premiere Cuvée Extra Brut Rosé has a salmon/pink hue and jumps from the glass with a floral perfume in its aromas of salted grapefruit, rose water, strawberries, and green melon. Compact and...

Deep gold in color. Bursting, lively nose of figs, molasses, toffee, browned apple, and humus. Unctuous on the palate, the dried fruit flavors are still bright and juicy, accentuated by a touch of sweetness that is...

One more single-harvest, old sweet wine, the 1955 Don PX Convento Selección was bottled in September 2014 and it had been aged slowly in very old American oak barrels and getting thick and concentrated through...

Combines a dry and driven spine with a plump edge, allowing flan, hazelnut husk, bergamot and bitter orange notes to play out wonderfully. The lovely finish combines a rapier feel with a gently curved aspect. Drink now.

The NV Pedro Ximenez Solera 1927 is non-vintage, but does have some 1927 material in it. This is totally dark brown/amber with notes of figs, toffee, caramel syrup, molasses and coffee. It is dense, super sweet, intense...

The June 2025 bottling of the NV Manzanilla Pasada en Rama Pastora has an average age of some nine years, from an old solera, almost 200 years old. It has complexity, depth and age. It has notes of iodine, low tide and...

The NV Rainwater Medium Dry is an attractive wine, displaying aromas of fresh walnuts, dates and orange peel. On the palate, it's full-bodied, satiny textured and delicately sweet, with succulent acids, excellent...

94+ One of the finest wine produced by Reynald Delille, the 2025 Bandol Rosé is a compelling wine not to be missed. Wafting from the glass with aromas of red berries, pomegranate, spices and iodine, it's medium- to...

A more sauvage influence suffuses the nose of poached plum, spicy red currant and newly turned earth. The rich, delicious and caressing medium weight flavors flash evident minerality that continues onto the bitter pit...

The interplay of concentrated exotic fruit aromas (what a wide spectrum of them there are!) and the cool wet stone minerality of this succulent Auslese is a beauty to behold. Stunning vitality at the uplifting finish...

An Italian icon, the Quintarelli Giuseppe 2015 Recioto della Valpolicella Classico represents the estate's special blend of air-dried grapes (with Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella, Cabernet, Nebbiolo, Croatina and...

Very solid, with the core nicely packed with cassis, plum puree and cherry reduction notes that are inlaid with licorice snap and violet hints before ending with an element of singed apple wood. Drink now through 2034. - JM