Nose: Youthful and balanced tones of black pepper, roasted meats, black cherries, leather tones, and black licorice. It is wound a little tight a bit, but is showing quite well too.

Taste: Full bodied with youthful tannins and medium+ acidity. There is very good balance and depth to the tones of black pepper, roasted meats, black cherries, and leather tones.

Overall: This is a really good young Chave. There is a real nice dark red fruit core to it with an expected youthful quality to the tones.

Nose: This is wound a bit tight, but had a perfumed yet robust with tones of violets, dark red cherries, black fruits, and meaty tones. There is really good depth with good layering already.

Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity and chewy tannins. Very youthful with stylish and deep tones of violets, dark red cherries, black fruits, and some meaty tones.

Overall: This is just a baby. While it's really good right now, it is just barely showing what it can do. There is a great wine that is waiting to come out, but with more time.

Nose: This is very open and aromatic with deep tones of black cherries, incense, earth, leather tones, black fruits, and lots of black pepper tones as well. There is really good depth and layering on the nose with good style as well.

Taste: Full bodied with medium+ acidity and silky tannins. There is real good intensity to the deep tones of black cherries, roasted meats, incense, black pepper, leather, and some spice tones.

Overall: This was gorgeous. There was a good dark red fruit core with a good raw power to it as well. It's pretty open right now and was showing great.

Nose: Elegant and flowing nose with well balanced tones of roasted meats, black cherries, violets, bacon fat, and some black pepper. This is a really expressive and a more refined Chave.

Taste: Full bodied with medium acidity and nice supporting tannins. There is nice youth to the tones of black pepper, black cherries, leather, violets, black cherries, and some roasted meats.

Overall: This is a gorgeous and elegant Chave. While there is youth to it, it is also very open to drink right now too.

Nose: Absolutely loaded and deep with layered tones of black cherries, leather, roasted meats, loads of black pepper, earth tones, and some spices. This has some real power to it, but it also seems like it's slightly holding back.

Taste Full bodied with medium+ acidity and some youthful tannins. This is deep and layered with great tones of roasted meats, black cherries, black pepper, earth, and black olives.

Overall: While this was drinking great, it feels like it can get better. This was a special wine and one of the better Chaves on display.

Nose: Very well balanced with classy tones of black pepper, roasted meats, dark red cherries, some bacon fat, and wild game tones as well.

Taste: The medium/full feel is very polished with nice medium+ acidity as well. There are some tannins, but they are more in a supporting role along with tones of black pepper, roasted meats, dark red cherries, and some wild game tones with a touch of olives on the back end.

Overall: This is just lacking some of the depth that exists in the other Chaves. Still, it's a lovely Chave that plays more towards the burgundian side as opposed to raw power.

Damnit, corked

Nose: Absolutely gorgeous, flowing, and perfumed with layered and deep tones of violets, roasted meats, incense, dark red fruits, earth tones, and some black olives. The nose was a bit of a moving target, but lovely at every point.

Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity and silky tannins. The feel is very refined and sexy with a feminine take to the tones of violets, roasted meats, dark red cherries, earth, some leather, and black olives.

Overall: This was absolutely gorgeous. This needed the air it received as it kept unraveling in the glass. This was the definition of poise and class with a real savory take to it as well.

Nose: Gorgeous and perfumed with pretty and savory tones of violets, roses, dark red fruits, roasted meats, incense, black cherries, and some black pepper tones as well. There is really nice layering and depth to this as well.

Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium acidity and silky tannins. The feel is lovely and refined with pretty tones of violets, roses, black cherries, roasted meats, and some black olives.

Overall: The only difference between this and the past two times I've had it is that I wasn't able to spend as much time with it. This is a gorgeous Chave that demands your attention as it plays more towards nuance as opposed to power.

Nose: Very open and aromatic nose with fat tones of hot wax, peaches, oils, marzipan, lanolin, and some honey tones, along with some red apples.

Taste: Full bodied with a richness to it, but well balanced as well. There is very nice depth with flowing tones of hot wax, red apples, lanolin, honey, peaches, and hot oils.

Overall: This is a wonderful Chave blanc. It comes off as mature, but still with a ways to go. There's a lot of class and richness to it with really good balance.

Nose: Wide open and balanced with tones of white peaches, oils, nectarines, red apples, marzipan, and some hot wax. There is very nice depth, but it does seem wound a bit tight right now.

Taste: Full bodied with nice medium acidity. There is a layered quality to the tones of white peaches, oils, hot wax, red apples, and some nectarines.

Overall: This was a really good young Chave blanc. It definitely needs some time to fully come together, but it's hard not to enjoy it a lot right now.

Nose: Well balanced with rounded tones of quince, green apples, white fruits, peaches, and white florals. There is nice depth to this with it being fairly open right from the outset and gaining more with air.

Taste: Light bodied with refreshing medium+ acidity. The feel is very smooth and polished with lovely tones of green apples, quince, white florals and peach tones.

Overall: This was a real lovely donnhoff. There was still a freshness to the tones while it seems like it's working towards maturity.

Nose: Very balanced and aromatic nose with tones of peaches, minerals, nectarines, pears, and some white fruits. There is nice depth to this with some nice polish to the tones as well.

Taste: Light bodied with medium/high acidity that is very crisp. The structure is still showing along with polished and succulent tones of peaches, minerals, nectarines, some honey, and white fruits.

Overall: This was really classy. It still feels like it has a long way to go and there was a freshness to the tones as well. It is very well balanced with nice depth too.

Nose: This is wound a bit tight, but there is a real freshness to the nose with deep tones of white fruits, cherries, tropical citrus, peaches, and mineral tones.

Taste: Light bodied with high acidity. The acidity is a bit screeching and is very imposing right now. Even with the really big structure on this, there are fresh tones of white fruits, mineral tones, cherries, and peaches.

Overall: This was from magnum and was insanely young. This can be an absolutely killer donnhoff with time, but it's really good right now.

Nose: This is wound very tight on the nose with tones of white fruits, pears, acacia flowers, and white peaches. There is nice depth, but what the nose is giving up, isn't too much.

Taste: Light bodied with noticeable high acidity. The structure is very imposing right now and is covering up the tones of white fruits, apricots, white peaches, and acacia flowers.

Overall: This is insanely young. There is some great materials here, but it just wasn't wanting to fully show.

Nose: Very classy and balanced nose with layered tones of brioche, yeast, creamed white fruits, honeycomb, and some red apples. There is very good depth as well with this showing some maturity as well.

Taste: Medium/full bodied with zippy medium/high acidity. There is a refined quality to the layered tones of brioche, creamed white fruits, honeycomb, red apples, and pears.

Overall: This is starting to become mature, but it also has some really good acidity behind it as well.

Nose: This is deep and extremely intriguing with classy tones of brioche, roasted nuts, flinty tones, warm honey, sweet peaches, and nectarines. There is a lushness to the fruit, but with a real sense of class to it as well.

Taste: Full bodied with medium+ acidity. Very finessed, polished, and rich with extremely balanced and deep tones of brioche, roasted nuts, flint, warm honey, and nectarines.

Overall: This was a wonderful champagne. While there is a richer quality to it, it really has a lot of finesse and class.

Nose: Extremely well balanced with aromatic tones of red and green apples, sweet peaches, creamed pears, white florals, and some caramel. There is nice depth to this as well.

Taste: Full bodied with medium acidity. This is very well balanced with excellent depth and tones of red and green apples, sweet peaches, caramel, and some floral tones.

Overall: This seemed ageless. Yes, it's mature, but there was still a freshness to it along with the maturity. This demanded more attention that the situation just couldn't give.

Nose: Very aromatic and perfumed nose with well balanced tones of nectarines, apricots, quince, lanolin, and white fruits. The nose was very well layered, but still with a lot of zest to it too.

Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium/high acidity. The structure is very youthful with gorgeous tones of nectarines, sweet peaches, apricots, and quince tones with some white fruits.

Overall: This was absolutely rocking. It still has a good ways to go, but it is really good right now.

Nose: This nose wasn't as giving as I expected, but there were very nice and elegant tones of apples, pears, honey, peaches, and mineral tones.

Taste: Fuller bodied with medium+ acidity. The acidity was pretty noticeable and the tones of lemon curds, apples, peaches, honey, and some real nice mineral tones as well.

Overall: This bottle wasn't showing as much as previous bottles. It was more the timing I caught it on as I had a quick taste the next day and it was gorgeous.

Nose: Very fragrant with tones of apples, sweet peaches, nectarines, lanolin, and white fruits. There is nice depth to this with a spring-like quality as well.

Taste: Full bodied with a real fatness to the feel along with high acidity. The acidity is very tart and noticeable with tones of apples, sweet peaches, lanolin, and white fruits with some white florals.

Overall: This is extremely young still. The nose just made me feel like it was springtime out with a real nice fresh quality as well.

Nose: This was a bit tight at first, but then revealed succulent tones of apricots, nectarines, honey, peaches, white florals, and some bits of caramel as well.

Taste: Full bodied with medium+ acidity. The feel is like satin with deep and succulent tones of apricots, nectarines, honey, and loads of peaches.

Overall: This was just barely revving it's engines when I finished my pour. This was from a full bottle and it has all sorts of time to keep improving from an already great base.

Nose: The nose is wound very tight with youthful tones of white peaches, pears, white florals, nectarines, apples, and some fig tones. There is nice depth showing as it starts to open up a bit.

Taste: Medium bodied with medium/high acidity. The acidity is very sharp and shows off the youth with fresh tones of white peaches, pears, white florals, apples, and some figs.

Overall: This is painfully young. There feels like a really good Prum that just needs a good amount of time to fully show itself.

Nose: Very succulent and and refined with layered tones of peaches, honeysuckle, white fruits, acacia flowers, some sulfer and a slight bit of egg tones as well.

Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity. The feel is very silky with layered and deep tones of peaches, honeysuckle, white fruits, and some egg tones.

Overall: This was a beauty. Fully mature and in no danger of going anywhere for a while.