Antoine Jobard Meursault 1er Cru Charmes 2022

Antoine Jobard Meursault 1er Cru Charmes 2022

There is both fine volume and intensity to the punchy flavors that are more refined than usual thanks to the fine grain of the supporting tannins on the attractively well-balanced and persistent finish

The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Helms Vineyard

This is an imposing but graceful wine that is presently exceptionally firm and like the Grands Echézeaux

There is excellent power and punch to the large-scaled flavors that are a combination of power and refinement while being blessed with an abundance of sappy dry extract that imparts a seductive quality to the mouth coating

chewy finish

Tawny ports are aged in wood from essentially a solera system for the number of years indicated on the bottle

There is superb richness to the voluminous

powerful and opulent big-bodied flavors that possess an abundance of palate soaking dry extract that pushes the otherwise tightly coiled tannins to the background on the massively long coffee-inflected finish that really fans out as it sits on the palate

The nose offers ripe pear

long and elegant

The 2014 Barbaresco Sorì Tildìn is fine and deeply finessed

This is jaw droppingly good and somewhat curiously relative to how the two wines typically show at this stage