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• 2019 Pieropan Soave Classico

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  5/22/2024 - mouton45 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  As soon as I opened the bottle, I could smell an inviting fragrance of citrus fruits and fresh-cut flowers. On the palate, it was well balanced, light bodied and refreshing with nutty undertones. I love all the Soaves that Pieropan produces from this entry-level Classico -- great QPR under $20 at Total Wines -- to the even better single-vineyard wines of Calvarino and my favorite of them all, La Rocca,. I was delightfully surprised how well it paired with the rich flavors of homemade chicken veloute - which I usually have with a great California chardonnay like Mount Eden Reserve or Martinelli Zio Tony. FWIE, I added the plus to my score because it surely has a promising upside as it gets older.

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• 2013 Bruno Paillard Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut

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  5/21/2024 - mouton45 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  One of my recent Last Bubbles Fizz Fest purchases. I brought this to my Tuesday night wine group dinner at Two Chefs, partly because I bought two more bottles last week and they arrived Tuesday too. The Bruno Paillard BdB Extra Brut has all the right stuff to be a top 5 c vintage champagne from a great vintage, and it still has years to get better and better. Very concentrated and medium body now, though it likely will continue to mature splendidly into a full-bodied champagne over the next 6 years. The nose smelled like lemon curd. It was very balanced and minerally on the palate and had a long finish. I continued to sipped it slowly over the first half of the dinner, and it more than held its own (it is 100% chardonnay, after all) with 3 delicious table wines brought for the first two white-wine-friendly courses - a 2000 Pichler Gruner Veltlner, a 2020 single-vineyard Aussie chard and 2015 Meursault Les Perrieres from Jean-Michel Gaunoux. FWIW, the four red wines were equally fantastic with the last two meat courses: a 2008 Aalto from Ribera, a 2003 Branaire Ducru from St. Julien, a terrific off-year 1977 Lafite Rothschild from Pauillac and my 2013 Paradigm Napa cab made by Heidi Peterson Barrett. A half-bottle of 1983 Graham port closed the evening. Another great meal specially conceived and prepared by Danish chef-owner Jan Jorgensen, and none of our dishes are on his main menu. We all have tremendous gratitude for him and his excellent staff and are even more fortunate that we get to do this again every two weeks.

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• 2015 Hanzell Chardonnay

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  5/17/2024 - mouton45 Likes this wine: 93 Points

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