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France: Sweet, Brief Farewell to the Loire

My final report on wines from the Loire Valley includes noble sweet wines: two rare Domaine Huet Vouvrays and two Domaine Ogereau Chenins de botrytis....

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Stephan Reinhardt •

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France, Alsace: Two Great Consecutive Vintages, 2019 and 2020

This report of 602 wines consists mainly of 2020s and 2019s, with some great wines. But you will also find a few 2021s and even some 2017s and 2016s....

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Stephan Reinhardt •

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Reviewers’ Favorites 2022: William Kelley

Taking over coverage of Bordeaux has been rich with interest, so I’ve dedicated this year’s “favorites” entirely to the reds and whites of the Gironde. I hope this selection may...

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William Kelley •

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France: 100 Cool French Rosés for a Hot Northern Hemisphere Summer

Hot weather and outdoor cooking go together like salads and rosé, hamburgers and rosé, grilled chicken and rosé....

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Joe Czerwinski •

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France, Southwest: How a Swiss-Made Dream Became True in the Perigord

The Perigord is not one of my regions, but the wines of Château Monestier La Tour deserve to be noticed—they are excellent and also very good value for money....

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Stephan Reinhardt •

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France, Burgundy: High Density, High Definition – A Vertical Tasting with Olivier Lamy

In the Côte d’Or, Lamy is producing some of contemporary Burgundy’s most exciting wines from his experimental plantings of high-density Chardonnay....

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William Kelley •

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France, Bordeaux: Sauvé des Eaux – Bordeaux’s 2021 Vintage

While Bordeaux’s 2021 isn’t a great vintage, it has produced several genuinely great wines, as well as many good to excellent wines....

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William Kelley •

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France, Champagne: New Releases from Pol Roger

This small report looks at Pol Roger's newly released 2015 vintage bottlings, as well as the 2013 Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill....

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William Kelley •

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France: Up From the Cellar 28

While I taste and review thousands of young wines throughout the year, it’s older bottles that I most often reach for at home. This installment reflects a year’s domestic drinking....

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William Kelley •

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France, Burgundy & Champagne: Up From the Cellar 30

The tasting notes published here are, in the vast majority of cases, the fruit of a lunch or dinner spent in front of the bottle in question....

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William Kelley •

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