WINES TO SUIT ALL SEASONS
Champagne Marie-Courtin Resonance – Pinot Noir from the Cote des Bar. Biodynamically, fermented with own yeasts, no dosage. The colour is a touch bronze and a more than a touch opaque-chalky, the aromas redolent of sun-ripened apricots, peaches (skins and stone), flowers and crushed rocks. Chalky notes linger on the precise, beautifully articulated, ever-so-long finish. In fact it resonates.
Summary: Real Pagne
Muscadet Clos des Briords, Domaine de la Pepiere – It’s September, there’s a r in the month if you’ve had the day from hell then deck those natives with the wine from shell, namely, the friskiest of frisky Muscadet. - Clos des Briords from old vines has shell and sea-salt qualities in abundance.
Summary: Salt of the sea.
Saumur Blanc Clos Romans, Thierry Germain – Unlike the above superior thirst-slaker this is the wine for a special occasion. It is epic Chenin where the limestone seems to have wept tears of joy into the wine – it is the cru within the cru of Thierry Germain’s, the oldest vines, all raging purity and longer than the collected works of Proust.
Summary: Saumur’s lease hath all too short a date
Syrah, Intellego Wines– Jurgen Gouws makes excellent al dente Syrah from granitic soils in the Swartland. This wine has a semi cool climate feel with its curranty fruit and powdery tannins.
Summary: Que Syrah Syrah!
Gloria Pinot, Commune of Buttons - Not a new wine, rather than a return to an old one. Every year I set out on my personal grail quest, the grail being a beautiful harmonious Pinot Noir. This is a very nice iteration of the variety from the cool 2021 vintage.
Summary: GLORIA-ous
Durant Chardonnay, Kelley Fox Wines
This might already be one of my wines of the year and cooled my lips on Jan 1st. Kelley describes it as like a Puligny, by which she means that the wine luminously binds together chalky minerals with ripe yet effortlessly gliding citrus aromatics and flavours. The mouth waters reflexively. Pure class in a glass.
Summary: Chardo-YAY!
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