French Whites
Alsace
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Golden yellow with copper reflections. Aromas of fresh fruits basket, from wild peach to raspberry. Smooth and delicately smoky on the palate, elegant fresh finish.
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Straw yellow with golden reflections. White flowers and citrus fruits notes. Intense with delicate mineral flavours.
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At first sight, a straw-yellow robe with nice, slightly coppery highlights. The aroma is youthful; the variety has yellow fruit and floral notes and hints of more mature fruit like fig, apricot and pear.
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This is Hugel's signature wine, a dry Riesling that stands out for its finesse and frankness and is the ideal partner to fish and seafood thanks to its wonderful balance and elegance. Dry and elegant, it expresses itself best on their steepest slopes with complex minerality.
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Astonishing pale copper colored wine, with refreshing acidity and flavors of apricot, dried fruit, citrus and lime. A characterful wine that is complex and well balanced.
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Complex nose, intense with citrus fruit flavours combined with mineral hints bringing out a lot of complexity. Well-balanced acidity. Some butter notes also appear on the mouth, blending with the mineral aromas, bringing to this wine a very strong aromatic complexity.
Loire Valley
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Because of the rocky soils, this wine is always the most intense, and regal personality when young, and can age gracefully for 20 years. Silex proudly displays the elegance and the mineral nuances of its soil. The mouthfeel texture compares to lemon sorbet sensations. The minerality is precise, intense and complemented by a hint of gooseberry and lime flavors.
Rating: 94 points Robert Parker
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Item Visually, its clear, pale yellow color, with a slight hint of green, suggests a lovely freshness. The nose reveals a beautiful aromatic intensity: the initial aromas release notes of ripe tropical fruits, mango, and passion fruit, mingled with delicate lemony and floral touches such as acacia blossom and elderflower. These are followed by more subtle notes of flint and gunflint, typical of great Pouilly-Fumé wines, evoking their terroir of origin.
On the palate, the attack is crisp and lively. The balance between natural acidity and roundness makes it a harmonious and structured wine. Aging in very light oak barrels adds complexity, with discreet notes of vanilla and hazelnut that highlight, without masking, the character of the Sauvignon Blanc. The finish, fresh and saline, prolongs the tasting experience with a pleasant and persistent mineral sensation, giving the wine a true signature.description
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Pale golden-green with green tints. A harmonious nose of strength and freshness, featuring notes of orange peel, grapefruit, beeswax, and floral hints. On the palate it offers a full and elegant fruit profile with mineral complexity, herbaceous fruit, and zesty acidity. A fresh fruity beginning, being fleshy and robust, with a good structure that balances fruity roundness and mineral firmness. The finish is very long, making Baron de L one of the finest expressions of Sauvignon Blanc.
Rated: Wine Spectator 92 points
Pouilly-Fumé
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Powerful aromas and outstanding floral notes. Bright, vibrant, aromatic and complex, gooseberries and citrus lead the way with a distinctive minerality. Dry, medium-bodied.
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The wine is pale yellow in color with green reflections. On the nose, aromas of white flowers and citrus fruits are complemented by subtle flinty notes. On the palate, the wine is well-balanced with bright acidity, richness, and citrus flavors.
Sancerre
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Lemon notes, flesh of white fruits, and some fine aniseed nuances. In the mouth, a nice, supple and fruity attack, with good vivacity and a fruit-forward aromatic finish.
Touraine
Burgundy
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The most prestigious Premier Cru. A racy, elegant wine with beautiful minerality, offering delicate notes of white blossom and orchard fruit.
Rated: Wine Enthusiast 93 points (2019)
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Both fresh and fruity nose, flinty minerality, citrus fruits but also fresh fruit notes like pear and green apple. On the palate, these aromas keep their freshness with a lasting floral dominancy.
Rated: Wine Enthusiast 91 points (2019)
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A yellow color with green highlights. A fruity bouquet both expressive and reminiscent of white fruit (peaches) supported with mineral notes. The palate is fresh and superbly balanced between fat and acidity. The finish is mineral and gourmand.
Rated: The SOMM Journal 98 points (2020) – Decanter 95 points (2020)
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It is a robust white wine. Olfactorily, it is commanding, exuding scents of exotic fruits, rosemary, and white-fleshed fruit. On the palate, it is velvety and vibrant, adorned with mineral undertones and citrusy hints (lemon). It concludes with a protracted finish.
Chablis
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Quite intense and rich fragrances of ripe fruits and toasted bread. The flavors are rich, powerful, very smooth at the beginning ending very nicely, long persistency.
Meursault
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Pale gold color. Beautifully intense, its fresh and elegant nose, finely buttery, reveals lemony notes. On the palate, great richness and smoothness, notes of yellow fruit and citrus. A delicious finish with a subtle saline note.
Rated: Wine Enthusiast 90 points (2019)
Chassagne-Montrachet
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The wine offers aromas of ripe tropical fruit, citrus, and mineral notes. It has a soft toasted character and a complex palate with flavors of toasted nuts and citrus.
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The nose combines lemon, lemongrass, and acacia with a bright chalky mineral edge. The palate follows with a soft delivery of Meyer lemon, candied peach, lime skin, light honey, and wildflowers. Round in texture, it finishes with a hint of sweet baking spices.
Rated: Wine Enthusiast 90 points (2022)
Pouilly-Fuissé
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Subtle chalkiness to the nose, grounded by a core of white peach, apple and clementine aromas and flavors. The medium-weight palate is round and ripe in feel, with a slight lime-rind pithiness that hangs around on the close.
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Yellow pale with noticeable green tints. Palate: Lively and very crisp, discreet but with satisfying suppleness and very agreeable, subtle aromas that linger.
Blend: 100% Aligoté
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Clear yellow color. Fresh and elegant aromas of white flowers, lime and hazelnut. Beautiful acidity balanced with some toasty and dry fruits notes.
Burgundy
Bordeaux
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Aromatic and fruity. This has yellow fruits, lychees, some grapefruit and a spicy element from new wood. It has weight, without being heavy.
Blend: 60% Sauvignon, 40% Semillon
Côtes du Rhône
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Notes of white peaches, candied fruit and nice taut acidity, shows the authentic character of the Condrieu appellation. Deep gold color, golden yellow with green lights. Very fruity nose, exotic fruit (pineapple), acacia blossom, litchee, apricot and peach. Round, full palate with good length in mouth with a final of vanilla.
Blend: 100% Viognier
Rated: Robert Parker 93 points (2021) – Wine Enthusiast 93 points (2021) – James Suckling 93 points (2021) – Decanter 92 points (2021)
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An opulent version that's showing beautifully now. A bit of bottle age has beautifully concentrated its flavors of jasmine, baked apple, ground ginger and pear. Reveals a salted caramel note, which adds a layer of richness that's expertly counterweighted by bitter quinine, savory herb, crushed flint and smoke elements.
Blend: 100% Viognier
Rated: Wine Spectator 94 points (2019)
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Pale yellow in color with a nose of flowers, melon and pear. A fresh palate with medium body, driven by peach, honey and a touch of oak.
Blend: 95% Marsanne, 5% Roussanne
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It presents a bright, golden yellow color. The bouquet is delicate and complex, with aromas of white flowers, peach, and toasted almond, all enriched with a crystalline mineral note. On the palate, it is fresh and well-balanced, with a harmonious combination of aromas and a subtle minerality that extends the lingering finish.
