{"title":"French Wines","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Pierrick Laroche in Chablis to Domaine Collotte in Marsannay, Mont Redon in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Trimbach in Alsace, Arnaud Lambert in Saumur, and Gosset Champagne (founded 1584). Domaine-bottled only.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pizay-beaujolais-2022","title":"Pizay Beaujolais 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProduced from gnarled old goblet pruned vines averaging 40 years old grown on decomposed sandy granite and made from low yields of 50 hl\/ha. Winemaking is traditional with no destemming and ageing in vats with cooling after pressing to retain the perfume and freshness of pure Gamay. Jancis Robinson sums this wine up beautifully, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Chateau de Pizay Beaujolais is ridiculously cheap for the amount of pleasure it gives. 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Jerome is fanatical about quality so yields are kept very low and selections for all wines are extremely strict ensuring the highest quality in every bottle. The entire range of wines from the Mader family taste true to their grape varieties and vineyard origins and all represent fantastic value.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn June 2021 their 2019 Rieslings were both rated among the best of the vintage by Revue du Vins de France magazine who have also ranked the estate among the best of Alsace each year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis wine also contains almost 10% de-classified Grand Cru fruit from vines around 30 years old in the great Rosacker vineyard. The wine is a blend of several sites of mostly limestone based soil. 2021 has produced a fine dry Riesling with texture and depth. 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It was aged sur latte for twelve and a half years prior to disgorgement in December of 2019 and finished with a dosage of seven grams per liter. The bouquet is deep, complex and nicely refined with age, wafting from the glass in a classy blend of apple, white peach, fresh-baked bread, a refined base of chalky soil tones, dried flowers and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and beautifully resolved today, with a deep core of fruit, excellent soil signature and grip, elegant mousse and a long, complex and perfectly balanced finish. This is drinking beautifully, but has decades and decades of life still ahead of it. 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