EARL MAISON ZOELLERGEWURZTRAMINER |
 As the press dating from XVIIe century testifies some, the family perpetuates since more than ten generations the viticultural tradition. Today, this ancestral know-how is combined with the modern methods to make it possible to work out wines complying with the rules of hygiene and quality while preserving their naturalness and especially their authenticity. A respect of fauna and flora for the health of the vine (manual grape harvest). Remarkable Riesling Grand Cru Altenberg 2005, very typified, with the robe of golden steady, with the white fruit aromas, a beautiful very well-balanced, scented and persistent wine, complex in mouth, combining structure and smoothness. Superb Gewurztraminer Les Orchidées 2009, suave and dry at the same time, a powerful and strong wine, where intermingle the fresh spices and flowers, all finally, of excellent evolution as attests this 2007. Riesling de Wolxheim cuvée Réservée 2009 is a wine which releases a great aromatic expression marked by notes of ripe fruits and rose, of a great complexity. Taste also the Pinot noir 2008, coloured, of full and fleshy mouth, with nuances of black cherry, currant and cinnamon. Very suave, Gewurztraminer Vendanges Tardives 2008, with the complex and powerful nose, where nuances of acacia open out, candied fruits and white flowers, is a very unctuous wine, very elegant, to uncork on goose truffle foie gras of Alsace. There is still this rosy Pinot noir Saignée 2008, all color, all in aromas like the Pinot noir 2009, extremely well matured, with the subtle aromas where the red fruits and the violet prevail, a rich wine, combining smoothness and structure. Taste Riesling Anna 2007, all in aromatic smoothness, of nice robe brilliant, all in persistence, and this enchanting Muscat Vendanges Tardives 2009, very dense, with the fruity and floral notes intense, of an aromatic great power to the palate (toast, ripe peach…), of a soft consistency. |
DOMAINE COQUARD-LOISON-FLEUROTCLOS DE LA ROCHE |
 Fifth generation of vine growers for this winegrowing of 9 ha, manual grape harvest, standing fermentation open during 12 to 15 days, with pigeage and reassembly days laborer, control of the temperatures by thermoregulation and maturing out of barrels of oak for approximately 18 months for all the appellations. Superb Échezeaux Grand Cru 2004, remarkable, fleshy, with the morello cherry and spice nose ripe, very rich, of a long final with ripe and complex nuances of red fruits, undergrowth and of liquorice. The 2003, elegant and of large smoothness, complex and rich person, are supple and fleshy at the same time, a wine typified well as it should be, with truffle and prune notes, of vivid color, a powerful great wine. The Chambolle-Mussigny 2004 is of beautiful intense red color, with the nose marked by aromas of blackberry and of liquorice, a full wine, very persistent stops some like this Morey-Saint-Denis 2004, rich person and generous, with notes characteristic of blackberry and undergrowth, where the fleshy one joins the structure, of very good guard. Remarkable Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2004, very a typified great wine, where the spices and the vanilla intermingle, which mixes structure and consistency in mouth, suave, of excellent evolution like this Échezeaux 2003, elegant and of large smoothness, complex and rich person, supple and fleshy at the same time, a wine typified well as it should be, with truffle and prune notes, of vivid color, a powerful great wine. Remarkable Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru 2004, of vivid, rich color with the nose, with these connotations of cherry and humus, a complex and powerful great wine, melted stops some like the Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru 2003, of powerful mouth, with melted tannins, with these notes quite characteristic of slightly spiced ripe small fruits, a wine which requires to be melted, like the Vosne Romanée 2006. |
DOMAINE ROGER PABIOT ET SES FILSPOUILLY-FUME |
 A family estate of 21 hectares, including some parcels of vines of more than 80 years old, run by two sons, Gérard and Bernard, who combine traditional practices with the modern techniques they have learned in legendary wine-growing areas: Beaune, Macon and Bordeaux. The estate is planted on the best hillsides overlooking the Loire, with very representative soils of the region: hard limestone, flinty clay, sandy terraces and Kimmeridgian marl, with each type of soil contributing its own qualities and creating a wine which has very particular characteristics on a terroir which does not. Their Pouilly-Fumé Cuvée Silex is quite superb, combining complexity and finesse, with a subtle nose of notes of honey, flowers and spices. The mouth is very marked by the soils, giving it a mineral taste and great freshness. It is a racy, very well-balanced, powerful, ample wine with very good development. The Pouilly-Fumé Coteau des Girarmes is remarkable, with notes of fresh fruit and lime-tree, a fleshy, aromatic wine which is ample, fruity and lasting in the mouth. A member of the Individual Wineries Federation. |
DOMAINE CHARLES AUDOINMARSANNAY |
 The field extends on 14 ha, offering a diversity of 14 names of Marsannay, Porte-d’Or of Côte-de-Nuits, in Pommard, to Côte-de-Beaune. Cyril Audoin, 29 years, represents the fifth generation of vine growers. But, if the field reaches 14 ha today, the surface of the property, to the beginning of the year 1900, was limited to only 4 ha. The vineyard was maintained thanks to the perseverance of Marie Ragonneau, the great-grandmother of Cyril, a strong woman who knew only to preserve and maintain the vineyard, working itself with her horse and her pulverizer with back. To pay homage to him, Cyril created the vintage Marie Ragonneau besides on Marsannay name. Charles Audoin, his father, knows each piece, each stock and it is this respect of the vine in its environment which will have guided its decisions during these forty last years, the objective being to allow this marvellous type of vine, black Pinot, installed on grounds argilo-limestones if varied, to express all the potentialities with authenticity of these beautiful soils. The word is marked “soil”. Cyril encased the step. In its research of optimal quality, of typicity of each soil, it also made the choice separately vinify in Marsannay name various worthy localities to express a typicity, a special character of it. A large work when it is known that the smallest Marsannay vintage, Charme aux Prêtres, does not exceed 600 bottles! Marsannay always awaits the attribution of a classification in Premier Cru for its excellent localities located in medium of slopes, Marsannay the Favières, the Clos of Roy, Les Longeroies, Charmes aux Prêtres, Champ Solomon… are the best representatives. “Where the harmony, complexity, elegance must characterize a high-class wine of Bourgogne, Cyril Audoin continues, let nature achieve its wonders by accompanying it and not while trying to replace it. I do not understand the needs for a very thorough extraction. To make confidence at the year, to keep an ancestral know-how, respecting what the former generations brought to us, to transmit and perfect our knowledge, not unreasoned innovation! We are resolutely faithful to simple practices: to gather the grapes with maturity a healthy harvest, without overload, to take care of the manually collected grapes, sorted on table to perfect quality. Maceration and cuvaisons carried out according to the year during 14 to 18 days, a breeding out of barrels in cellar where the wines will open out at their rate/rhythm, a setting in bottles if possible without joining nor filtration at the time when the wine is ready and not when “the market” requires it.” Very beautiful Marsannay Clos of Roy red 2006, with the nose of ripe fruits and humus, rich and complex, all in mouth, of vivid color, with well balanced tannins, very promising.The 2005, coloured, robust, with the notes of ripe red fruits and spices, dense in mouth, structured well, generous, of delicate and rich at the same time structure, are of very good guard. The 2002, intense with the nose as in mouth, rich color as in aromas (stone-fruits, liquorice), and starts to open. Beautiful Marsannay Les Favières, mouthfull, scented well (morello cherry, grooves), with very well-balanced tannins, at the same time powerful and supple, of a beautiful final, excellent guard. At their sides, Marsannay Les Longeroies 2005, of powerful mouth, with the subtle nose where the undergrowth prevails. Very attractive white Marsannay In Champs Solomon 2006, with these aromas of flower of acacia and lime, associating structure and smoothness, all in harmony, of persistent mouth like excellent rosy Marsannay. |
CHATEAU TOULOUZEGRAVES DE VAYRES |
 The grounds of the Château Toulouze depended on a vast land unit, property of the Château de Vayres. This last built in XIIIème century with the site of a Gallo-Roman “oppidum” which prevails the Dordogne, was one of the residences of the king Henri IV. Property in its current form, 27 ha of only one holding, buildings and vineyard, corresponds to what remains of a vast domain wine and maturing of more than 70 ha, built with delicate of the XVIIIème century, following the French revolution and dismantled gradually by the play of the successions. The vineyard completely restructured in 1986, starts to express the rise to power of the expression of the soil. That gives wines to the flesh fuller, generous, fruity but with impressed elegant tannins of smoothnesses. Well-balanced and harmonious wines, that one can taste young people after a broad ventilation out of carafe, but who offer according to the vintages an excellent potential of guard, on average from 10 to 15 years. |
CLOS TRIMOULETSAINT-EMILION Grand Cru |
 Located to the north of Saint-Emilion, "Clos Trimoulet" is a family estate on which the ancestral skills have been handed down over five generations now. Guy Appollot and his two sons have managed to preseve this heritage, whilst combining it with the most modern of techniques. The estate is divided into several plots of vines with clay and sandy soils which give the wine structure, longevity and finesse. The grapes are picked when they are perfectly ripe and undergo a long vatting process which extracts as many tannins as possible. The result is that "Clos Trimoulet" is an excellent wine for laying down. All the production is bottled on the estate after 18 months of maturing in oak barrels. This rich, generous Grand Cru has lots of colour, is dense and firm in the mouth and has a characteristic nose of ripe red fruit, spices and humus. Most remarkable development. Try the excellent Montagne-Saint-Emilion Château Chevalier-Saint-Georges, made and matured like the Clos Trimoulet. The orientation of the estate and its essentially clay soils produce a wine with a different character and personality, fleshy and distinctive and offering remarkable value (and pleasure) for money. |
LES VINS PHILIPPE NUSSWITZVIN DE PAYS DUCHE D'UZES |
 Better Sommelier de France in 1986, Philippe Nusswitz settles in 2002 with Pascale, his wife and her children to Durfort in a Cevennes farmhouse of XVIIth century in the middle of the vines, in the soil of Duché d' Uzès. The vine growing is respectful environment and the vineyard in the course of recognition of the AOC Duché D' Uzès. The wine making is done in Coopérative Agricole Les Coteaux Cévenols in Durfort. One tastes there this fermented VDP Orénia white 2008, assembly of Viognier (50%), Marsanne, Roussane and a point of Grenache, fresh and dense, all in smoothness, a beautiful length in mouth, with the peach and hazel nut nose. This ? white Orénia Réserve 2008, selection of Viognier, Roussane and Marsanne, a third of the vintage was fermented out of barrel of oak, with the green reflections with aromas of nut and citrus fruits, is a wine of a good acidity, quite round with the nose as in mouth, lively and delicate, persistent and aromatic, of a beautiful fresh final. Red Orénia Réserve 2007, coloured and robust, with the nose prevailed by the red small fruits with stone and of the accents of smoked to the palate, is a rich wine like Miratus red 2006 (60% Syrah, 20% Mourvèdre and 20% Grenache), fleshy, with rich and silky tannins at the same time, persistent, with the leather and cooked black fruit notes, wine for ageing. |
DOMAINE ALAIN MICHAUDBROUILLY |
 Property created in 1910 by the grandfather. Alain Michaud represents the third generation of vine growers, assisted soon by 4th with Dorian. The winegrowing counts 13 ha including 9 in Brouilly appellation, made up for 70% by vines of more than 50 years. Beautiful Brouilly 2007, delicate, scented, robust, a wine which feels good the ripe red fruits and the undergrowth, of tasty mouth. The 2006, of a robe limpid red cherry, develop a nose of morello cherry but also with aromas of blackcurrant and peony and a fresh mouth with well melted tannins, a wine which requires a rich kitchen. The 2005 are of deep color, with the notes of blackberry and violet, of well-balanced structure, very charmer, of fleshy and persistent mouth, excellent evolution. The Morgon 2006 (2,50 ha, 45 years old vines on the slopes) is a success, wine of a full and rich, with the complex nuances of fruits of wood, powerful and tasty, promising mouth. The Beaujolais rosé 2006 (2000 bottles only) is greedy and fruity, perfect on the Lyons pork-butcheries. The 2008 are a small harvest with much concentration, and the winegrowing offers a new product to you “La Gamaysienne”. The Catch of foam is made out of bottle with a traditional discharging, an ideal wine for a light aperitif or a dessert. |
CHATEAU DES PEYREGRANDESFAUGERES |
 Family winegrowing of 25 ha since 5 generations, Marie-Geneviève Boudal-Benezech perpetuates the tradition and the destiny of the Winegrowing since 1995. Quality orders the control of our vines, our estate is qualified under l' Agriculture raisonnée. The wines are very typified “Faugères”: a great richness aromatic, much of structure, large smoothnesses of tannins. Our goal is to transmit to the consumer the typicity of this appellation, by working out wines resulting from assembly and in constant research from balance between the powerfull and the smoothness. In fact, as in a work of art, we try to transmit through our products, the love and the passion which we have for our area, our vines and our wine. The Winegrowing proposes this Faugères rouge 2004 to you, coming from grapes (manual grape harvest) resulting from an estate qualified with the title from reasoned agriculture and following the step Terra Vitis, of beautiful garnet-red color, still young, with the morello cherry and blackcurrant, undergrowth nose, associating smoothness and structure, with at the same time rich and tasty tannins. The Faugères cuvée Charlotte 2004, resulting from the four type of vines Syrah, Grenache, Carignan and Mourvèdre, is powerful and tasty, with the nose characteristic of ripe fruits and scrub, color vivid, robust, rich and molten at the same time, of guard. Beautiful Faugères Prestige 2003 (50% Syrah, 40% Carignan and 10% Mourvèdre, on the slopes of the Serre, arid slope on the heights of the southern full exposed village vis-a-vis the sea), maturing in oak barrel, a wine with tannins present and tasty at the same time, of beautiful robe vivid, very scented (humus, liquorice), of a beautiful fullness in mouth, very good evolution. The cuvée Marie Laurencie 2001 (40% Syrah, 40% Grenache, 10% Carignan and 10% Mourvèdre, vintage grain by grain, maturing 10 months out of barrels with 1/3 of new barrels) is a beautiful concentrated and rich wine, of intense garnet-red color, with the aromas of strawberry of wood and spices, of powerful and elegant mouth. Beautiful Faugères 2004, rich person and fleshy, of intense, fruity color (morello cherry, blackberry), finely peppered, robust, very succeeded like the Faugères rosé 2007. |
DOMAINE DE MENARDCOTES-DE-GASGOGNE |
 A passion of the vine transmitted since 3 generations of wire father and girl. In 1920, Jean François Morel, Swiss wire of wine growers, arrive in Gers and are installed on a winegrowing: it acquires the Winegrowing of Ménard into 1938 which includes 10 ha of vines then. Denise her daughter and her husband Jean Jegerlehner are installed on the winegrowing in 1960, and their common passion of the vine will make it possible to build the wine storehouses and to extend the vineyard. Their Philippe son joined them and reverses himself thoroughly in the good behavior of the vineyard and the winegrowing. But the passion of the vine and the wine gains also Elisabeth their daughter (first oenologist of Tariquet), who helped of her husband Henry Prataviera very quickly will make evolve the Domaine de Ménard which counts 110 ha to date. The first bottles of the Domaine de Ménard are produced in 2002. More than 400000 bottle-neck were marketed in 2007 in Ménard, Haut Marine and Saveur Gascogne, in France and abroad. The wines are very fruity and the richness of the soils makes it possible to leave each year new wines as in 2008 the “cuvée Marine ” and “Première Gelée ” which represent Gascogne so well. The objectives are to attract new consumers and to make them discover and divide thanks to a positive ratio quality-price, the pleasure of the wine. |
