Featured Wines - July 2000

Firm, full and bursting with flavor, this dry 1999 Peter Lehmann Eden Valley Riesling is no wimpy wine. When young, the wine possesses a lovely bouquet with fresh citrus and lime flavors on the palate. Deepening in color and gaining complexity with age, this Riesling will ultimately reveal more of its flesh. Although Lehmann’s wines drink well young, they age beautifully. As testimony to the quality of Peter Lehmann, Eden Valley Riesling from the...

From the traditional trio of Bordeaux grapes: Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, the 1996 Chateau Les Aubret exhibits a deep, regal robe and beautiful intensity. An amplifying bouquet of minerals, earth and red fruits: blueberry, currant and cassis mingle with cedar and spice in this concentrated, fleshy, full-flavored wine. Deep and harmonious, it is quite drinkable now, but it should continue to improve for several more years. Allow...

The 1998 Domaine des Deux Roches St. Veran is one of the most richly robed wines of the commune. Its deep color underscores the "gras" and fullness that the Macon region is capable of producing. Hints of butter, honey and spring flowers rise from the glass, then melt into the pure essence of Chardonnay - a flavor too few consumers now recognize, due to the preponderance of oak in New World Chardonnays. Forsythia, bonbel cheese and white peach com...

The 1977 Font-Sane Gigondas is a beautiful example of Gigondas; it displays an intense, smokey nose, entwined with Provencal herbs. It also sports the typical pure, bold fruit for which Font-Sane is justly renowned. Due no doubt to the scrupulous handling of the harvest and careful vinification at this estate. Font-Sane combines great flavor with finesse, smoothness, profound fruit and depth of color, and uncommon length in the mouth, all in equa...