Alsace Zoeller

As the press dating from the XVIIe century testifies some, the family perpetuates since more than eight 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. The Gewurztraminer Les Orchidées 2005, typified, of scented and unctuous mouth, with the notes of smoked with a spice point, is a wine very representative of this vintage, well-balanced and harmonious. The Pinot gris Les Orchidées 2005, with the subtle nose, of a beautiful aromatic persistence, with marked nuances of dry fruits, nervous and dense mouth at the same time, is to be opened on a lobster. The Gewurztraminer cuvée Réservée 2006 associates smoothness and structure, slightly spiced, of powerful mouth, dry and suave at the same time, very succeeded. Remarkable Pinot gris Vendanges Tardives 2003, a complex, delicate and ripe wine at the same time, all in aromatic subtlety, with this nuance of candied fruits quite persistent, of a great consistency. Excellent Pinot noir La Saignée 2006, a wine of supple but quite robust mouth, coloured and scented (ripe). The House also proposes white Pinot to you vintage Réservée 2006 and this nice Crémant d' Alsace, having a nice bouquet, with quince the fruity notes, of frank and creamy foam, ideal on a tart with the mirabelle plums.

COORDONNEES
Owner's name : Mathieu Zoeller
Who's in charge : Mathieu Zoeller
Adress : 14, rue de L'Eglise 67120 Wolxheim
Phone : 03 88 38 15 90
Fax : 03 88 38 15 90
E-Mail : maisonzoeller@vinsdusiecle.com
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Personal website : www.vins-zoeller.fr

Vins du Siècle

Armagnac Dartigalongue

It is in 1838 pennies Louis Philippe, that Pascal DARTIGALONGUE originating in Saint Lannes close to Madiran settled in Nogaro in the Gers and founded its House of trade of Armagnac which is still ours. In 1969, Pierre Dartigalongue installed its distilling with Salles d ' Armagnac. Since, five generations followed one another to ensure and perennialize “the oldest house of the Armagnac”. Producer, distiller and stockbreeder, installed in the area of best believed of this brandy seven times centenary, Dartigalongue is specialized in the very old Bas Armagnacs, products selected and matured according to the ancestral tradition. It offers this single Eau de Vie, declined in credits or vintages, in luxurious and personalized presentations. The house holds in its old original wine storehouses a very important range of old Armagnacs Millésimés, growing old and improving in barrels in oak of the country under the permanent control of the Master of wine storehouse which supervises the evolution and carries out of it various handling of transfer and ventilation. In addition, following meticulous research and tastings, certain vintages are assembled in order to create “special vintages” giving rise to traditional assemblies such V.S.O.P., OUT OF OLD, or to “15 YEARS of OLD”,” 25 YEARS”…, thus to celebrate the 170ème birthday of the creation of the house an exceptional assembly of 70% of 1974 and 30% of 1976, was carried out under the denomination Cuvée Louis-Philippe 42%,70 Cl. (Carafe) (king of the French in 1838).
Remarkable Bas-Armagnac cuvée Louis-Philippe (70% of 1974 and 30% of 1976), with the nuances of rancio and spices, very floral, at the same time dry and suave, very persistent with the palate. Also discover this 25 years Bas-Armagnac, assembly of several Armagnac of which young person is at least 25 years old, elegant, with these cocoa and dry fig connotations, slightly fume, of a great consistency in mouth, very scented (nut, prune), of a long final.

COORDONNEES
Owner's name : Françoise Dartigalongue
Who's in charge : Françoise Dartigalongue
Adress : Place du Four - BP 9 32110 Nogaro
Phone : 05 62 09 03 01
Fax : 05 62 09 01 78
E-Mail : dartigalongue@vinsdusiecle.com
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Personal website : www.dartigalongue.com

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Vins du siècle

Sancerre Henry Natter

Winegrowing of 23 ha, where one cultivates human heat with the same care that one brings to the vines, privileging fauna and the flora, “brooding them” to extract their quintessence and to let them from it express itself as well as possible, during a perfectly controlled and traditional maturing. These impassioned owners have indeed in heart to make discover subtleties of their environment, their soil and their work, so that each one of their bottle is a source of user-friendliness. Their daughter, Mathilde, work with them, her brother, Auguste, occupy more cellar. Since nearly 25 years, the Natter family is vivid by an Hmong team - originating in the mountains of the Laos - integrated into the culture of the wine. She impregnated single relation that these women and men maintain with the vegetable world. Together, they engage and take part in the installation of a protection of the local biodiversity. In 2005, the winegrowing gained the Trophy of the Best Very Small Exporter, at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the club of the exporters of France. The agricultural regional Meeting decreed in Cécile and Henry the price of Honor for “atypical Vine growers”. The family has in heart to make discover subtleties of their soil, their environment, their work so that their bottles are this discrete bond between nature and themselves: source of marvellous user-friendliness.
Exceptional Sancerre blanc L' Expression de Cécile “L' Essence des Terres Blanches” 2002, a wine of robe of a yellow shining, combining nervousness and fleshy, with the nose envoûtant, delicate and persistent, where one finds notes of white flowers, apple and nut, perfect on a fish with the furnace. Sancerre fermented François of the Barn 2004 is charmer, with the intense aromas, suave, very harmonious, subtle and powerful at the same time, where the ripe fruits and the fresh flowers intermingle, perfect on crayfish. Suberbe, the Sancerre blanc L' Expression de Cécile “L' Essence des Terres Blanches” 2006 develops these notes of smoked quite specific, a wine vinified very well, of brilliant and limpid robe, nose of fern and acacia, of a nice roundness, suave and persistent. The Sancerre rouge cuvée l' Enchantement 2005 (wine making and maturing out of barrels of oak), with the notes of prune and humus, very slightly spiced stops some as it should be, of intense color, with tannins present and silky at the same time, is a great wine. Their Sancerre rosé 2007 is always the best of the appellation, of a large aromatic smoothness, with the nose where the fresh fruits, the pink and the quince prevail, subtle, of a great persistence in mouth with nuances of strawberry of wood.

COORDONNEES
Owner's name : Henry et Cécile Natter
Who's in charge : Henry et Cécile Natter
Adress : Place de L'Eglise 18250 Montigny
Phone : 02 48 69 58 85
Fax : 02 48 69 51 34
E-Mail : henrynatter@vinsdusiecle.com
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Pommard Thierry Violot-Guillemard

Rich of an experiment transmitted since four generation, Thierry takes again the vines still exploited by the grandfather Jules Guillemard in 1980. It makes the choice in 1999 of the organic farming in order to preserve the five hectares of this splendid bourguignon soil which was entrusted to him. With a rigorous work with the vine, it wishes above all to respect the typicity of the soil, type of vine, and each vintage, in order to obtain pure wines, fruity and strongly marked by their character. The grape harvest is manual, and a rigorous sorting with the fermenting room makes it possible to keep only the most beautiful grapes. Maturing in oak barrels carefully selected near the best wet coopers of the area, the wines of Thierry are delicate and delicate and express the philosophy of the house: generosity and authenticity.
The Pommard 2005 is a very beautiful vintage that it is necessary to wait a little to let be expressed all its potential. For the 2006 outputs was weak, it is a wine concentrated with much smoothness. The 2007 were one vintage delicate and difficult for which a severe sorting was necessary in order to maintain quality.

COORDONNEES
Owner's name : Thierry Violot-Guillemard
Who's in charge : Thierry Violot-Guillemard
Adress : Clos de Derrière Saint-Jean 7, rue Sainte-Marguerite 21630 Pommard
Phone : 03 80 22 49 98
Fax : 03 80 22 94 40
E-Mail : violot-guillemard@vinsdusiecle.com
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Saint-Emilion GCC Château Laroque

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Château LAROQUE

(SAINT-ÉMILION)
Direction : Bruno Sainson
Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes
33330 Saint-Émilion
Téléphone :05 57 24 77 28
Télécopie : 05 57 24 63 65
Email : contact@chateau-laroque.com
Site : www.vinsdusiecle.com/chateaularoque
Site : www.chateau-laroque.com

Classified First Great wine. For more than forty years castle has belonged to the Beaumartin family. This superb feudal residence of XIIe rebuilt under Louis XIV, is worth to him the nickname of “Petit Versailles”. “The vintage 2009, much compare it with the 2005, us specifies Bruno Sainson, but the wine construction is different, the pH are more in the standard, 2009 will be a very full wine, more pleasant than 2005. We awaited the maturity of tannins, which was very important. The 2009 take very well wood, it is marked little by the first passages out of barrels. There will be very little of our second wine, Les Tours de Laroque, in this superb 2009: practically any master key in the first wine! The 2008 are a little more powerful, more generous than 2007, sharper, more typified Bordelais with a stronger acidity which supports the structure well. It makes me think of the 2001, with a beautiful minerality, beautiful tannins, a fruity present, it is a beautiful well built wine, very very full, of guard. The 2007 are a greedy wine with the ripe fruit aromas, with one toasted well integrated, attack well coated suave, tannins, beautiful harmony in mouth and persistent finale with a beautiful return. It is a wine harmonious, elegant, of a more tender approach, tannins are more delicate, more advanced, it there does not have no firmness, keeps average. A very pleasant wine with table.” One indeed gives really pleasure with this Saint-Émilion GCC 2007, at the same time delicate and fullbodied, with its notes very characteristic and very persistent of blackberry, violet and spices, with velvety tannins, a wine all stops some, really charmer. Powerful 2006, of full and fullbodied mouth, a fleshy and typified wine, with tannins quite present and melted at the same time, a very well-balanced vintage where mix with the scents of blackberry, mocha coffee and cinnamon finally. 2005, with the aromas characteristic of spices (grooves, pink pepper) and of morello cherry quite ripe, very fleshy, of garnet-red, tasty color with the palate, concentrate, a fleshy and persistent wine, with a beautiful volume finally, of guard, of course. Beautiful 2004, rich color, fullbodied, robust, of tasty mouth, with firm but very elegant tannins, the complex nose prevailed by cherry and leather, round and robust, a wine still quite young, of very beautiful guard. 2003 are remarkable, of ample mouth, combining this fleshy characteristic of the appellation to finely spiced notes, a powerful wine, of very good guard. 2002, of deep color, with much of structure, with the nose complex where the blackcurrant and the undergrowth prevail, with tannins powerful and silky at the same time, starts to open. Particularly attractive today, the 2001, dense, fleshy, combining powerfull and distinction, of a large smoothness, where the cooked fruits and the spices prevail, intense with the nose as in mouth with nuances of cherry and truffle. 2000, fleshy, with a strong color, are fleshy, with the notes of currant very ripe, vanilla and quite characteristic humuses. Perfect in this moment, the 99 is all in mouth, with this beautiful robe with the light reflections crimsons, red and a deep black fruit nose ripe with spiced notes, a wine full with smoothness to the tender matter, structured well. Remarkable 98, of beautiful tannic structure, powerful and molten at the same time, of a beautiful concentration, with the red nutmeg and macerated fruit notes, a wine very representative of this great traditional vintage. Very beautiful quality-price-typicité ratio.

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CASSIS DOMAINE SAINT-LOUIS JAYNE

The winegrowing belongs to the Jayne family since 1893. Alphonse Jayne cultivated his grounds during more than 70 years, within the framework of a mixed-farming, alternating vines, fruit trees, local grazing grounds, vegetables. In 1996, Laurent Jayne his grandson takes again his continuation and creates the Winegrowing Saint-Louis Jayne. He perpetuates the traditional and ancestral work of the vine, by privileging the natural and reasoned methods. He undertakes a slow reorganization of the vineyard which counts a very large variety of type of vines. Not less than 9 type of vines, of which the white Pascal (old woman variety of Provence) who remains only on this winegrowing. The 8 ha of the winegrowing extend on slopes ventilated by the marine breezes. The vines for half were planted by his/her grandfather, here are soon 70 years. They give and Laurent their bracket a limited, but exceptional production. Cassis fermented Fonfon white 2008 (nickname of the grandfather) is a wine which releases from subtle aromas of almond and lime, suave mouth but of sharp nature, a nice final. The rosy 2008, at the same time supple and fond of delicacies, with this persistent spiced key, of a beautiful aromatic smoothness, are a nice wine, of beautiful color. Vintages 2009 promise to be exceptional.

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The Best Beaujolais of the year

Château LACARELLE (BEAUJOLAIS-VILLAGES) Louis et Paule Durieu de Lacarelle BP 5 69460 Saint-Étienne-des-Ouillères Téléphone :04 74 03 40 80 Télécopie : 04 74 03 50 18 Email : info@lacarelle.com Site : www.lacarelle.com Classified 1st High-class wine with this Beaujolais-Villages 2006 (vines 35 year old on average, grape harvest manual, semi-carbonic maceration), rich color as in aromas, with the red fruit notes with core, intense with the nose as in mouth. The 2005 are of color crimson, velvety and harmonious, quite robust, with the marked nose of ripe currant, very good evolution.

Domaine CRÊT des GARANCHES (BROUILLY) Sylvie Dufaitre-Genin 69460 Odenas Téléphone :04 74 03 41 46 Télécopie : 04 74 03 51 65 Email : sylvie.dufaitre-genin@wanadoo.fr Site : www.vinsdusiecle.com/cretdesgaranches A family estate of 9,60 ha, located in the middle of the growth Brouilly. Soil with prevailing granitic, combined with the type of vine Gamay black with white juice confer on this wine its smoothness. Côte-de-Brouilly 2005 matured several months out of barrels of oak (manual vintage), typified, a powerful wine but all in elegance, scented in mouth, where prevail of the notes of currant and heather, with quite silky and very well-balanced tannins. Brouilly 2007 is a wine which allured us with these notes very characteristic and persistent of small stone-fruits, with tannins present but very delicate, of tasty mouth, to taste on a waterfowl. Beautiful Brouilly 2006, gold medal with the competition of the great wines of France Mâcon 2008, intense robe, scented well (fresh fruits, humus…), which develops fullness and roundness, a wine slightly peppered finally.

Alain MICHAUD (BROUILLY) Alain Michaud Beauvoir 69220 Saint-Lager Téléphone :04 74 66 84 29 Télécopie : 04 74 66 71 91 Email : alain.michaud17@wanadoo.fr Site : www.vinsdusiecle.com/alainmichaud Site : www.alain-michaud.fr At the top. Winegrowing of 13 ha including 9 in Brouilly appellation, made up for 70% by vines of more than 50 years. Beautiful Brouilly 2007, charmer, fleshy, velvety, very scented, with these ripe fruit and undergrowth notes (strawberry of wood, bilberry…), of a beautiful final in mouth, very good evolution. The 2006, of a limpid red robe cherry, are a wine with raspberry nose the powerful, rich, structured, of a beautiful aromatic persistence finally, a wine with tannins ripe but quite present, of excellent evolution, which requires a rich kitchen. Morgon 2006 (2,50 ha, 45 years old vines on the slopes) is of pronounced color, with ripe tannins, quite robust, with this nose of overripe fruits and humus, of good mouth, a rich and dense wine, which deserves a little patience to benefit from its potential. Rosy Beaujolais 2006 (2000 bottles only) is greedy and fruity, perfect on the Lyons pork-butcheries. Taste their new product “Gamaysienne”, astonishing a semi-sparkling red light with alcohol low level, very fruity, which they work out themselves in their wine storehouse. A wine which is the fruit of a work meticulous person, the catch of foam being made out of bottles with a traditional discharging, an ideal product with aperitif or on a dessert. Beautiful quality-price-pleasure ratio, which does not spoil anything.

Domaine CHAMPAGNON (CHENAS) Les Brureaux 69840 Chénas Téléphone :03 85 36 71 32 Télécopie : 03 85 36 72 00 Email : earl.champagnon@wanadoo.fr Site : www.vinsdusiecle.com/domainechampagnon Incontestably at the top. The two wire, Patrick and Jean-Yves, direct this beautiful estate. Their Moulin-à-Vent 2007, an intense wine of color, with the prune notes, is a dense great wine, typified, very harmonious, with tannins silky but quite present, traditional of this vintage. The 2006, with the aromas of macerated fruits and spices, rich, of beautiful garnet-red, dense color with the nose as in mouth, combining smoothness and structure, is of very good evolution. The 2005 is tasted very well in this moment, of robe crimson, with the nose prevailed by the strawberry and blackberry, rich, structured, of a nice final, a traditional wine, with tannins ripe but quite present, of very good evolution. Beautiful Chénas 2007, resulting from a traditional wine making from 6 to 8 days (maturing in the wood lightnings), of mouth intense and prevailed by blackberry, a wine mixing suppleness and aromatic, quite harmonious and very well-balanced intensity, all in aromas and smoothness finally, having a real potential of evolution. Taste their Fleurie 2007, delicate and scented as it should be, well also typified, of robe crimson, with the powerful and persistent nose prevailed by the ripe strawberry of wood, to lead to a ham of mountain.

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CAVE des VIGNERONS (COTEAUX-DU-LYONNAIS) Directeur : Thierry Sothier RN 89 69210 Sain-Bel Téléphone :04 74 01 11 33 Télécopie : 04 74 01 10 27 Email : contact@sainbelenlyonnais.com Site : www.vinsdusiecle.com/vigneronsdesain-bel Site : www.sainbelenlyonnais.com Great success with it Coteaux-du-Lyonnais cuvée l’Hommée rouge 2007 (at last century hommée surface represented that a vine grower worked in one day with his fessou), resulting from not very deep sandy grounds and a carbonic semi-maceration, where roundness and distinction join, very aromatic, an at the same time delicate wine and very structured, of a beautiful final. Coteaux-du-Lyonnais Domaine Peronnet red 2007, silver medal in Paris, selection and sorting manual, harvest and grape harvest in bunches whole, robust, at the same time fruity and tannic, fleshy and generous, harmonious in mouth like their Beaujolais Domaine of Soly 2007, only elaborate with the grapes resulting from the oldest vines, quite robust, with the nose prevailed by currant, of very good evolution. Excellent Coteaux-du-Lyonnais vintage rosy Référence 2007 (100% direct pressing, wine making at controlled temperature), a wine with the nuances of flowers and spices, associating richness and suppleness, of fruity and persistent mouth like Coteaux-du-Lyonnais Domaine de Champ-Guichard red 2007, fruity, quite traditional.

Domaine du GRANIT DORÉ Georges ROLLET (JULIÉNAS) Mme Georges Rollet Domaine du Granit Doré La Pouge 69840 Jullié Téléphone :04 74 04 44 81 Télécopie : 04 74 04 49 12 Email : rollet-g@wanadoo.fr Site : www.domainedugranitdore.com The son, Vincent, joined the property after his studies and of the training courses in Bourgogne, Alsace and South Africa. All the vines of the winegrowing being in slopes, all work of the vine are thus done manually, which represents a strong implication of the vine grower but supports an observation with more close to the vegetation. There is initially their Juliénas fermented Spéciale Vieilles Vignes 2007, with the plum aromas, of very good structure, having a nice bouquet, at the same time fruity and of beautiful structure, dense and persistent mouth, which agrees perfectly with a leg. Remarkable 2006, with the pepper and very ripe raspberry aromas, of very good structure, dense and persistent mouth, a harmonious, full and distinguished wine, of excellent evolution, which requires a raised kitchen. Juliénas Tradition 2007, Prestige price with the competition of the Great wines of Beaujolais 2008, coloured and scented (currant, grooves), with ripe tannins, the notes of strawberry, peony and spices, of garnet-red color, is very quite well-balanced.

Gérard BRISSON (MORGON) M.Brisson Domaine des Pillets Chemin des Romains 69910 Villié-Morgon Téléphone :04 74 04 21 60 Télécopie : 04 74 69 15 28 Email : vin.brisson@wanadoo.fr Site : www.vinsdusiecle.com/gerard-brisson Site : www.gerard-brisson.com At the top of first classified great wines. Gerard Brisson matures this superb Morgon Les Charmes Louve 2006, of color ruby, with these intense aromas where prevail the red small fruits good ripe (currant, blackberry) and this quite typical spice point, very also succeeded in the vintage 2007, with notes of violet and liquorice, rich color, traditional and concentrated, combining smoothness and structure. Morgon Les Charmes 2005 is a full and tasty wine, with the subtle stone-fruit nose, slightly spiced, combining smoothness and structure, of tasty mouth, of guard, of course. Dense, complex, Morgon Les Charmes Vieilles Vignes 2006 (vines of more than 50 years, maturing in the lightnings of oak between 12 and 18 months), with these crystallized blackberry notes, a wine with rich tannins, closes, all in perfumes, which associates roundness and structure in mouth. Showing the potential of evolution of these wines, Vieilles Vignes 99 is superb, with the reflections crimsons, the scents of ripe blackcurrant and liquorice, of powerful mouth, an ample wine, coloured and of excellent evolution. Morgon Les Charmes Noble Tradition is a wine of beautiful color, scented (ripe, morello cherry and violet), powerful with the nose as in mouth, with tannins present and very elegant at the same time, to open on a calf's liver to old. All charms some, the Beaujolais-Villages is with robe brilliant ruby, with the nuances of cherry, a wine of pleasure. The whole with exceptional a quality-price-typicité ratio.

Château de PIZAY (MORGON) Direction : Pascal Dufaitre 69220 Saint-Jean-d'Ardière Téléphone :04 74 66 26 10 Télécopie : 04 74 69 60 66 Email : chateau-de-pizay@chateau-de-pizay.com Site : www.chateau-de-pizay.com At the top also. The property extends on 80 ha around the castle, including 40 planted in vines. Beautiful Morgon Château de Pizay 2006, very aromatic, with these subtle and intense notes of humus, overripe red small fruits and spices. Régnié Château de Pizay 2007, coloured and robust, quite robust, with the nose of overripe red fruits, very good evolution. Very attractive white Beaujolais Château de Pizay, with this touch of allied acidity to a pleasant roundness, where intermingle with the nuances of fresh fruits, heather and honeysuckle. Château de Pizay is also a superb hotel 4 stars installed in a splendid castle of XIVe and XVIIe centuries. Relaxation and gastronomy are with go, tennis, swimming pool, French garden. You will be able to also taste the wines in secular arched cellars, very picturesque.

Domaine MORTET Père et Fils (MOULIN-A-VENT) Jean-Pierre Mortet Le Bourg 71570 Romanèche-Thorin Téléphone :03 85 35 55 51 Télécopie : 03 85 35 53 19 Email : jean.mortet@free.com Site : http://jean.mortet.free.fr/ Winegrowing of 10 ha. A great very favorite (usual) for this exceptional Moulin-à-Vent Les Rouchaux 2005, resulting from a granitic ground of rock, particularly succeeded, with beautiful reflections crimsons, with the aromas of ripe fruits (blackcurrant, blackberry) and of liquorice, powerful mouth, an ample, coloured and complex wine, that it is necessary to let be done and open on a stew. Its Moulin-à-Vent 2006 particularly attracted us with its subtle aromas where the ripe fruits and the violet prevail, all of structure, is very typified, linking with harmony smoothness and structure, of beautiful evolution.