Surfing Delectable: What The Pros Are Drinking

 

DOMAINE PERROT-MINOT
Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru Pinot Noir 1985
Rated 9.5

JEAN FOILLARD
Fleurie Gamay 2008
Rated 9.2

CLOS ROUGEARD
Saumur Champigny Cabernet Franc 2010
Rated 9.2

MARIE ET PIERRE BÉNETIÈRE
Cordeloux Côte-Rôtie Syrah 2009
Rated 9.2

PIERRE BOISSON
Meursault Chardonnay 2011
Rated 8.9 

DOMAINE GEORGES MUGNERET
Vosne-Romanée Pinot Noir 2011
Rated 9.0

DOMAINE ROULOT
Les Luchets Meursault Chardonnay 2009
Rated 9.4 

VINCENT DAUVISSAT
Chablis Chardonnay 2007
Rated 8.9 

 

LA CLARINE FARM
Cedarville Vineyard Mourvedre 2014
Rated 9.1

SANDLANDS
Sonoma County Trousseau 2013
Rated 9.3

FAMILLE LAUDET-PARLEBOSCQ-LANDES
Armagnac Laballe Bas Armagnac 1987
"Flat out the best Armagnac I've ever tasted."
Rated 9.5

CLOS SARON
Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2011
"Really great bottle. Just kept getting better and better with air...and then it was gone!"
Rated 9.3

DOMAINE DUPASQUIER
Savoie Gamay 2011
"2011. Still in love with this wine."
Rated 9.2

GERARD DUPLESSIS
Chablis Chardonnay 2011
"2011. Beautiful in all of its Chablis-ness, without shouting "CHABLIS!" in your face. Need a bigger bottle next time."
Rated 9.1 

VINOS AMBIZ
Garnacha 2013
"Damn good wine."
Rated 9.2

CYRIL ZANGS
This Side(R) Up Cider
"Zangs! Dang!!"
Rated 9.3 

 

EMMANUEL HOUILLON (MAISON PIERRE OVERNOY)
Arbois Pupillin Poulsard 2012
"We drank this poor guy in Arbois but he definitely was asking for another 10 years before being opened."
Rated 9.0

DOMAINE DE LA GRAND'COUR
Clos de la Grand'Cour Fleurie Gamay
"2010. Clos de la Grand'Cour."
Rated 9.3

YVON MÉTRAS
l'Ultime Fleurie Gamay 2014
Rated 9.8

BERTRAND
Cuvée du Chaos Fleurie Gamay 2014
"Firm wine that needs time and will age well. Not ready just yet"
Rated 9.0

YVON MÉTRAS
Moulin-à-Vent Gamay 2014
Rated 9.7

MARCEL LAPIERRE
Morgon Gamay 2008
"Apero wine at Lapierre. Elegant wine showing its evolution in a slimmer vintage"
Rated 9.2

DOMAINE BELLUARD
Grandes Jorasses Terroir du Mont Blanc Vin de Savoie Altesse 2013
"Belluard. Altesse paired with a Vegetable tasting menu @ Semilla BK"
Rated 10

GEORGES LAVAL
Cuvée les Chênes Brut Nature Cumières 1er Cru Champagne 2009
"Clarity in a rich vintage"
Rated 10 

  

CAVES SÃO JOÃO
Reserva Porta Dos Cavaleiros Dão Touriga Nacional 1980
"A little muted at first but opened up beautifully! Thanks to the La Taberna team!"
Rated 9.0

CAMILLE GIROUD
Les Vergers Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Chardonnay 2012
Rated 9.5

MASSICAN
Gemina Napa Valley Chardonnay 2012
Rated 9.2

CHARLES JOGUET
Les Petites Roches Chinon Cabernet Franc 2013
"Perfectly juicy roast chicken wine!"

DOMAINE COMTE ABBATUCCI
Faustine Vieilles Vignes Rosé Blend 2014
"Breakfast rosé"
Rated 9.1

JEAN FRANÇOIS GANEVAT
La Combe de Rotalier Côtes du Jura Chardonnay 2011
Rated 9.3

DOMAINE AUGUSTE CLAPE
Le Vin des Amis Syrah
"Peppery, savory, lip smacking good. For entry level VDP Syrah, doesn't get much better than this"
Rated 9.0

RAPHAEL & VINCENT BÉRÊCHE
Côte 1er Cru Champagne Blend 2008
Rated 9.4 

  

ARIANNA OCCHIPINTI
SP68 Sicilia Bianco White Blend 2014
Rated 9.3 

DOMAINE CABIRAU
Serge & Nicolas Maury Sec Red Rhone Blend
"Nicely done Dan kravitz. This is the 'hearty and lusty' red that Julia child or my grandmother would love."
Rated 8.9

ANNE SOPHIE DUBOIS
l’Alchemiste Fleurie Gamay 2013
Rated 9.6

CHARTOGNE-TAILLET
Le Rosé Champagne Blend Rosé
"Sometimes on harvest days that start in the wee hours of the morning and are a million degrees in the afternoon you need revitalization and inspiration to match the perspiration. A marriage of savoy truffle and strawberry fields forever."
Rated 9.2

CARLISLE
The Derivative Sonoma County White Blend 2012
"Who says red wine winemakers can't make white! Oily and rich but fresh- blind I might have guessed deiss pinot blanc. Cool wine from old semillon, muscadelle and palomino"
Rated 9.0

CHÂTEAU CALON-SÉGUR
St. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend 1995
"Hitting its peak. Perfumed loveliness, #2 pencil shavings before getting a 780 on the writing section of the SAT's."
Rated 9.5 

DOMAINE COMTE ABBATUCCI
Cuvée Collection Il Cavaliere Diplomate d'Empire Red Blend 2013
"Beautiful stuff. Like Chassagne Montrachet infused with sweet sea air and Corsican garrigue. There are answers to old mysteries in here. Time to be myrr-thful."
Rated 9.7 

TURLEY
Fredericks Vineyard Zinfandel 2013
"Celebrating the end of picking Zinfandel at Bedrock and a rare harvest morning with no pick tomorrow with this bad boy. Tegan knocked it out of the park."
Rated 9.4