Fine Wine > $20-50 > France

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Domaines Ott's Clos Mireille Blanc de Blancs is an elegant, mouth-filling blend of Semillon and Rolle (aka Vermentino when in Italy). The result is a delicately floral, fruit filled wine with echoes of white peach and honey. The 2010 vintage was cool fermented and stored in oak casks for a year..

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"Firm and harmonious, featuring peach, apple, honey and spice notes. Picks up some citrus accents toward the fi nish, which is long and mouthwatering."

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Pale and golden in color with an abundance of elegant bubbles brings forth floral fruits with a subtle predominance of pear, apple, almonds and hazelnuts. On the palate it is fresh on the opening, smooth, pleasant and balanced.

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Soft and elegant showing delicious notes of citrus and pear, with an underlying creaminess, yet remaining lively on the palate. 100% Chardonnay from Premier Cru vineyards in the prestigious Cotes Des Blancs. The perfect aperitif, also great with chicken and seafood.

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Light yellow-gold. Pungent, lees-accented aromas of pear skin, nectarine and jasmine, with a hint of iodine adding complexity. Juicy, palate-coating orchard fruit flavors are energized by notes of lime and lemongrass. Hefty but surprisingly lithe wine with impressive finishing cling, firm back-end..

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A major sleeper of the vintage, this outstanding wine from the Aubert family in St.-Emilion has terrific plum, black cherry and cassis fruit as well as hints of earth and flowers. Supple-textured, opulent and savory, it is a heady, fleshy wine to drink over the next 3-5 years.

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"The basic Fontenil (95% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon) has a deep bluish purple color ... full-bodied, layered, opulent wine, with lots of black raspberry fruit intermixed with some blueberries and crushed rock ... [One] of the best wines from Dany and Michel Rolland ... of Fontenil in Fronsac."

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Aromas of small red berries with some light cherry sapwood and a delicate nose of oak. This is dynamic and full of minerality due to the stony soil.

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Very perfumed, soft and supple, even velvety. The name means raspberry bush and the berry notes come through brightly on the nose and palate. Solid tannic structure and definition.