Wines of the Week

Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier 1997 Musigny 95
La Mission Haut-Brion 1990 Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion 95
by Ian D’Agata

Mountford 2010 Riesling Pure Waipara New Zealand                 93
Mauro Molino 2016 Barolo Conca                 93+

Benjamin Bridge NV Muscat Nova 7 Nova Scotia Canada 92
Marques de Murrieta 1998 Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 93

2011 Inglenook Rubicon Estate Rutheford Napa Valley California  92+
by Echo Miao Zhou
2009 Chateau Durfort-Vivens Margaux Bordeaux   91
by Ian D’Agata

Felsina 2013 Chianti Classico Riserva Rancia 95 by Ian D’Agata There are fewer better estates in Italy than Felsina, located in Castelnuovo Berardenga in the Siena portion of the Chianti Classico, and there are fewer better wines than Felsina’s...

Domaine Leflaive 2007 Montrachet grand cru                              97 Sometimes, it’s really all in a name, and it’s admittedly hard to do better than Domaine Leflaive and Montrachet. Joseph Leflaive, who was born in 1870 and lived until the...

Beringer 1995 Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve                   95 Beringer was officially founded in 1869, but its history was really set into motion the year before, in 1868, when Jacob Beringer washed upon US shores from his native Mainz...

Lanson 2000 Champagne Noble Cuvée             94 Hervé Dantan is only the third winemaker or chef de cave at Lanson in the last fifty years. He has held this prestigious post for eight years now (since July 15, 2013), after having compiled work...

Even in a year as a difficult as 2020 turned out to be for the world of wine (not that 2021 has been a walk in the park, at least, not this far) there were reasons to smile. Clearly, the smiling was limited to when the mind stopped focusing on the...

Château d’Yquem 1976
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands Échézeaux 1990
Reif Estate Winery Vidal Icewine Niagara River 2017 
Tiberio Montepulciano d’Abruzzo “Archivio” 2017 
Trimbach Riesling Clos Ste. Hune 1971