Fragrant and aromatic, with evocative rose petal and mixed spice notes on the nose. Cherry, raspberry, juicy acidity, fine-grained tannins, and a long, defined finish. This is a blend of 20- and 50-year-old vines and has decades to go.
This wine combines fruit from 40- and 60-year-old vines. Satiny with a certain lavish character, it delivers complex plum, cassis, forest floor, earth and chocolate notes. As with all the wines of this renowned domaine, it's a wine for the cellar.
Rich and expansive, with cassis, plum, spice, earth and smoke. This is a blend of fruit from 20-year-old and 60-70-year-old vines and possesses an undeniable charm and energy.
Another choice wine for the cellar from Nicolas Rossignol. This comes from what constitute 'young' vines for this domaine (mere babies at 20 years of age), grown in iron-rich soils. Fresh and spicy with upfront ripeness, a rich mouthfeel, and a fine clove character on the close. This has the pedigree to develop for two decades from vintage.
This wine is still a relatively new addition to the Domaine Nicolas Rossignol stable, having first been produced in 2018. It's a lithe, tempting wine that has well-defined, absorbing dark berry, plum, spice and earth. In the cellar, think in terms of 15+ years, with an emphasis on the +. (Vintages: Waiting on information)
This wine is sourced from 30-year-old vines grown in chalk, clay and gravel. It's vibrant and complex, with intense red fruit and a marvellous underlying spice. Rich and evocative. This will continue to delight into the late 2030s at least.
Very pretty, with a concentration and intensity one can only find in 50-year-old vines. Seductive and charming, with juicy acidity and finely defined fruit accented by forest tones. Enjoy for another 20+ years.
From 40-year-old vines, this wine is a perennially outstanding effort that radiates charm and elegance. It shows briary black fruit, blackcurrant, cherry, spice, and dried flowers. Excellent concentration and depth. This will evolve through the late 2040s.
Crafted in an attractive, engaging manner that offers ripe black cherry and raspberry with delicately interwoven floral tones. Quite sleek, rich and ample, this is a wine that will evolve through 2034+.
This wine is sourced from 30- and 40-year-old vines from a steep, rocky plot with southern exposure that escaped the phylloxera scourge at the end of the 19th century. Grafts from this site were used to help repopulate the Côte de Beaune. A fresh, bold wine with an undeniable dynamic temperament and a sharply defined mineral note. Follow into the 2040s.
Extremely bright flowers and citrus with graphite, currants and blueberries. The nose is like going into a flower shop. Medium- to full-bodied with extremely polished tannins that caress your palate. Firm at the finish, which tells you that there is plenty coming in the future. A blend of 60% cabernet sauvignon, 25% malbec, 9% carmenere, 6% petit verdot. Try after 2028, but already open and enticing. Score - 98. (jamessuckling.com, Feb. 12, 2024)
Mid lemon yellow. A clear-cut limestone bouquet, St-Romain is doing well in these warmer times. Fuller bodied than it once would have been. An excellent balance between the flesh and the crystalline structure, with some ripe citrus enhancing the aftertaste. Drink from 2026-2028. Tasted Nov 2024. Score - 88-90. (Jasper Morris, MW, insideburgundy.com, Jan. 2025)
The 2023 Clos des Monts Luisants is an impressive wine. It is without a doubt the best Aligoté of the vintage, but it is a wine that competes at any level, with a pronounced aroma of gooseberry and citrus touched with herbs and mineral. The texture is substantial and concentrated but there is enough acidity to ensure that it doesn't tip over into heaviness. This is not as racy as the 2021, but it is a wine that will continue to improve for 10 to 20 years in a proper cellar. Drinking window: 2025-2060. Score - 94. (Charles Curtis, MW, decanter.com, May 22, 2024)
The 'Alouettes' is the polar opposite of the village-level 'Grives' - sometimes the bird theme is a bit confusing. The premier cru also comes from Monts Luisants, but at the base of the slope and not the top. The result is a wine with more black fruit than red and much more concentration and depth. There is a sensual appeal here and a more substantial heft that suggest that this should age well with time. Open in five years and drink over the next 20. Drinking window: 2028-2055. Score - 94. (Charles Curtis, MW, decanter.com, May 22, 2024)
Here too there is a whiff of Granny Smith apple along with cool hints of lemon-lime and mineral reduction. There is better volume to the caressing but powerful broad-shouldered flavors that also exude a more prominent bead of minerality on the compact, youthfully austere and decidedly long finale. This is quite backward though I suspect that it will come around relatively quickly, at least in the context of what is typical for CC. Drink: 2030+. Score - 91-94. (Allen Meadows, burghound.com, June 10, 2025)
Imperial purple, vibrant. There is not a lot of nose to begin with as this great wine bides its time. It comes across in multiple layers, berries that taste of perfect ripeness with just one or two darker notes creeping in, though the structure has maintained considerable freshness. Raspberries predominate and they appear in multiple waves. Gloriously balanced, with the right intensity and no feeling of the sunshine nor of being picked too late. The flavours stay in the mouth. Drink from 2035-2045. Tasted Nov 2024. Score - 95-97. (Jasper Morris, MW, insideburgundy.com, Jan. 2025)
Some density of purple, has fallen very clear. An intriguing bouquet of alpine strawberries, delicacy without losing intensity, definitely more strawberry than raspberry on the nose. This continues on the palate with a good balance between the fruit and the structure, and a lively aftertaste. Drink from 2032-2040. Tasted Nov 2024. Score - 93-96. (Jasper Morris, MW, insideburgundy.com, Jan. 2025)
The 2022 Viñedo Chadwick comprises 98% Cabernet Sauvignon and 4% Petit Verdot, sourced from the Puente Alto vineyard. Among Chile's iconic wines, Viñedo Chadwick has carved out a unique place for elegance and intensity, and this vintage is a stunning example. Aged for 20 months, with 90% in new French oak barrels and 10% in foudres, this bright purple wine unfolds nuanced aromas of cassis, ash and black pepper, complemented by a deep cedar layer that evolves into subtle floral and spicy hints. Dry, with fine-grained tannins and a juicy flow, its deep flavors lead to a structured and slightly austere mouthfeel - a finessed Bordeaux-oriented red with the plush tannins of Maipo. Beautiful. Drinking window: 2026-2040. Score - 98. (Joaquín Hidalgo, vinous.com, July 3, 2024)
The 2011 Seña was harvested at the end of a low-yield season in which temperatures were cool and ripening slow. A blend of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Carménère, 15% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc, aged for 22 months in three quarters new barrels. Garnet red in the glass. The nose is rewardingly fruity with delicate notes of blackcurrant, orange petit fours, country herbs, spice and dried flowers. In the mouth the palate is refined with a moderate structure and a flavorful, slightly juicy flow that lingers at length. A well-focused wine. Drinking window: 2022-2036. Score - 95. (Joaquín Hidalgo, vinous.com, Aug. 3, 2022)
This is the third version of this Rocas de Seña, a sort of second wine from Seña, but with a 'soul of its own,' as defined by winemaker Emily Faulconer. To start with, it has a higher percentage of Mediterranean varieties, such as 25% syrah, 7% monastrell, and 5% garnacha, which complement the 33% malbec, 21% cabernet sauvignon. The rest is petit verdot. In addition, a third of the blend comes from vines in Las Vertientes, a vineyard about seven kilometers west of the Seña vineyard, also in the Aconcagua Valley. A spicy character is what marks this wine, as well as herbal notes amidst a layer of juicy, ripe red and black fruits. It is a big, intense, dense wine. Score - 95. (Patricio Tapia, guiadescorchados.cl, 2025)