Australia: Penfolds 2023 Collection

The 2023 Penfolds Collection spans 27 wines across Australia, North America and Europe. The highlight this year is undoubtedly the Chardonnays....

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Australia, Victoria: Giaconda 2021 Estate Vineyard Chardonnay – What Is in a Score?

This is a Great Wine by any standard globally. I am proud to give it a perfectly rounded score of 100 points....

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USA, California, Sonoma County: Latest Releases from Peter Michael Winery

Earlier this month, I tasted the bottled 2020s and samples of the soon-to-be-bottled 2021s with winemaker Robert Fiore at the winery in Knights Valley....

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Austria, Styria: A Selection of STK Crus from the 2020 Vintage and Some Late Releases

This report features 69 white wines from the Steirische Klassik (Styrian Classic) domaines that were presented during the Single Vineyard Summit this year....

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Australia, Western Australia: Longevity Reigns at Xanadu, 2007-2020

This incredible vertical covers the 2007-2020 vintages across the Black Label, Stevens Road and Reserve ranges of Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon....

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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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Australia, Victoria: 2021 in the Yarra Valley – Single-Vineyard Releases from Giant Steps

This is a brilliant collection overall, which most importantly shows the distinct vineyard DNA of each site alongside the Giant Steps house style....

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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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France, Champagne: Making Sense of Champagne

Champagne is one of France’s most multifaceted and rapidly evolving wine regions. Home to some of the country’s most dynamic wine growers, as well as some of its most complacent,...

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France, Burgundy: Santenay’s Unsung Hero – Domaine Jean-Marc Vincent, 2003-2019

One of Burgundy’s most exciting small domaines is hiding in plain sight. You simply have to be sufficiently adventurous to drive to Santenay....

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