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Vintage	Producer	Product Name	Notes	Source	Score	Sell Sheet	Updated
2016	Rocca di Castagnoli	Chianti Classico DOCG	The 2016 Chianti Classico offers a super-appealing combination of dense, pliant fruit and supporting structure. Succulent red cherry, white pepper, mint and dried flowers all flesh out in the glass. Ideally, readers should plan on cellaring the 2016 for at least a few years. This is a very serious wine.	Vinous	92		2019-02-22
2015	Domaine du Moulin	Cuvee Florentin	Braucol by itself makes a solidly tannic wine. This rich example, packed with dark fruit and powerful smoky tannins, is densely concentrated. Coming from the estate's best parcels and with wood aging, it is meant to age. Drink this impressive and unique wine from 2022.	Wine Enthusiast	92		2019-02-22
2016	Domaine du Moulin	Cuvee le Faucon	This bold wine shouts its rich tannins and dark flavors concentrated with spice, layers of black-plum fruit and acidity. Tannat and Braucol come together with their own style of dry tannins to create a wine that will need to age. Drink from 2023.	Wine Enthusiast	91		2019-02-22
2013	La Fiorita	Brunello di Montacino Riserva	This delivers a fresh and complex nose with red plums and berries, as well as warm spices and terracotta. The palate has smooth, fine and quite dense tannins with ample fruit flavor. Drink or hold.	James Suckling	93		2019-02-21
2014	La Fiorita	Brunello di Montalcino	Flowers and berries with cedar, earth and leaf aromas, following through to a medium-bodied palate with firm and silky tannins and a flavorful finish. Needs a year or two to come completely together. Drink in 2020.	James Suckling	90		2019-02-21
2016	Latour Giraud	Mersault 1er Cru Genevrieres Cuvee des Pierres	(four barrels produced--one new, two once-used and one twice-used): Bright yellow. Alluring perfume of ripe peach, hazelnut and brown spices. Savory, utterly refined wine; at once ripe and dry, offering a lovely balance of salinity and concentrated stone fruit flavors. Currently more reserved than the Genevrières cuvée classique, finishing salty and backward but without any hard edges. This is an outstanding expression of soil with lovely citrus energy and superb longer-term potential. Tight and taut, as it should be in a good vintage. Saturates the palate and builds slowly and inexorably on the back end. This wine has historically been made from Latour's oldest parcel in Genevrières. He has done a bit of recent replanting and thus the source of this special bottling is in the process of shifting, but he told me that the wine will "always be from 50+-year-old vines in the same band of soil."	Vinous	93+		2019-02-19
2016	Latour Giraud	Mersault 1er Cru Charmes	(35 hectoliters per hectare produced, with some loss of fruit to the frost): Bright medium yellow. Aromas of peach, smoky oak, hazelnut and earth. Offers more carry-through of fruit onto the palate than the village wines, with stone fruit flavors nicely buffering the wine's salty minerality. Good depth and stuffing here, not to mention inner-mouth tension and sappiness. This rather refined 2016 finishes with excellent length and grip. (Incidentally, Latour produced just two barrels apiece of Meursault Bouchères and Poruzots in 2016.)	Vinous	92		2019-02-19
2016	Latour Giraud	Mersault 1er Cru Genevrieres	(the yield here was just 30 hectoliters per hectare, according to Latour): Rather pale, bright yellow. Alluring scents of peach, lemon, mandarin orange and smoky oak, plus a whiff of almond flower. Very suave on entry, then drier and more closed in the middle palate than the Charmes, but with excellent citrus lift to relieve its salinity. Laid-back, concentrated wine with a fine-grained texture and excellent verve. Really resounds on the salty finish. There's a lot more to come here.	Vinous	92+		2019-02-19
2016	Latour Giraud	Meursault 1er Cru Perrieres	(Latour told me this wine and most of his other premier crus weigh in at about 13.5% alcohol and carry about 4.5 grams per liter of acidity, which he attributes largely to the low-yielding old vines): Bright lemon-yellow. Lemon zest and crushed stone on the nose, plus a piquant note of orange. Conveys a brighter, rockier mineral aspect than the Charmes ("another form of minerality," says Latour), along with more tension, and a note of pineapple that remains this side of exotic. This lovely high-pitched, concentrated wine is shockingly tastable now, yet it also possesses the force of the vintage's better examples. Latour noted that this wine finished its malolactic fermentation first among his '16s and that he gave it a slightly stronger fining with casein than the rest.	Vinous	93		2019-02-19
2016	Latour Giraud	Puligny Montrachet 1er cru Champs Canet	Bright yellow. Sexy, expressive aromas of lemon oil, fresh apricot, hazelnut and oak. Suave and broad on entry, conveying a touch of sweetness and a fine-grained texture to its flavors of lemon, white peach and spices, then turns a bit leaner but more focused and citrussy on the back half. Doesn't offer the body or the palate presence of the estate's top Meursault crus (there was no frost effect here and the yield was a healthy 40 hectoliters per hectare) but this is still rather youthfully taut. Finishes dry, classic and long. I like the combination of stone and citrus fruits and underlying saline minerality.	Vinous	92		2019-02-19