Vanessa

9.4

Cheers to a sparkling weekend!

We’re launching into it with this beautiful bottle of grower bubbly produced by H. Goutorbe with 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay hailing from estate vineyards of Aÿ, a coveted terroir in the Grande Vallée de la Marne.

This “Special Club” cuvée comes exclusively from the warm 2015 vintage, which faced hydric stress and drought conditions.

For producers like H. Goutorbe, the vintage yielded fabulously ripe grapes lending supple, plush qualities to their expression in the glass.

The concentration of fleshy fruit character matches well with Goutorbe’s extensive lees aging over the course of many months, finally disgorged in October, 2024 with a Brut level of dosage.

The mousse and mouthfeel are creamy and fine with layers of honeycrisp apple, ripe white peach, mango peel, kumquat, lemon curd, oyster shell, piece crust, brioche, toasted almond, nougat, and chalk. — 15 days ago

with Deked1

Makayla Romanus

9.1

Full but light; very fresh with a strong golden color — 13 days ago

Conrad Green

9.4

Very pure and old school. Delicious if austere. Dark plum and garrigue. Inky edges. Excellent but young — 2 months ago

with Peter and Gregg

Alvaro Bustillos

9.5

Papas gaucho — 4 months ago

Dave

8.9

Last had this 10 months ago. I think it's on the decline since then. Grapefruit, melon, citrus. Lacking acidity, it's a bit flabby. That's not what I remember in the last bottle. Anyway, it's nice with some fresh caught walleye.
Watching Spinal Tap 2 — 5 months ago

Jack Petras

9.2

Had zero expectations for this wine at a party featuring lost bottles from your cellar. It was like a raspberry preserve that you canned 10 years ago and still has the essence of that years growing season. An unexpected joy. — 6 months ago

Kelly Utton

9.1

City cellar WPB recommend — 8 days ago

Conrad Green

9.4

Lemon and limestone and a hint of peach. A gorgeous bright intense palate with citrus and beautiful supple acidity. A touch of salinity. Young, fresh and sophisticated and very rounded. — 7 hours ago

with Bex

Jay Kline

9.0

Popped and poured; enjoyed over the course of lunch. The Cuvée Prestige pours a straw color with a persistent mousse. On the nose, the wine is developing with notes of apple, raspberry, fresh brioche, lemon curd and minerals. On the palate, the wine is dry with medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is medium+. Most of my experience with this producer has been focused on its Special Club bottling (I know, poor me), but I gotta say, this is a great representative of the family’s style! Super easy to enjoy. Drink now. Disgorged November of 2021. — a month ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.4

Wow. This is serious stuff.
Candied lemon, reductive hints of matchstick, smooth and spicy mouthfeel, creamy vanillin, beautiful veins of acidity. This might be the best Bourgogne Blanc in my cellar. We’ll see, as I plan to evaluate them in the months to come. — 3 months ago

Jack Petras

9.2

Not called Baroness anymore this mid level HB 2025 vintage is exploding out of the glass. Took a minute to get my bearings instead of restraint and editing it’s a full out cabaret of a wine with lively melon gooseberries and passion fruit on an edgy substrate of salinity and limestone. Went incredibly well with prosciutto and honeydew. Once I adjusted I found it magnificent. — 5 months ago

Alvaro Bustillos

10

Cata winegeeks cdjrz @ ardeo WOTN — 6 months ago

Jose Lorenzo

9.0

A baby. Will wait at least 5 yrs to open the next. — 7 months ago

Rob Krapf

8.9

At The Grand Tier — 12 days ago

Conrad Green

9.5

This is still young and quite primary, but very luxurious. A dense nose of honeyed floral notes, wet limestone. Intense on the palate, very broad, very detailed, and very long. Delicious. Many years ahead. — 15 days ago

with BOT, Matt and 1 other

Neville Weston

9.5

Solid Puligny Montrachet. Mr Boillot knows what he’s doing. Perfect accompaniment to a perfect lunch 👌
Tasting notes: hint of citrus, peach and vanilla. — a month ago

with Marta

romo

9.4

Cellar Selection. Profound pedigree with length and little of the 05 fighting tannin. Wow. - at Raft Island — 2 months ago

Steve Messinger

9.1

Dark fruit forest floor and sassafras. Intense deep still you w some unresolved tannins — 5 months ago

bitsof

9.3

Beautiful minerality — 6 months ago

Irina Georgieva

9.1

Well balanced wine, deep and rich taste — 6 months ago