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New French Cellar

Today at Flickinger Wines we would like to showcase a recently acquired cellar of just wines from France. Do not miss out on 2010 Chateau La Fleur Morange St. Emilion Mathilde, 2003 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Chenes, the 2010 Domaine de la Vieille Julienne Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve or the 2021 Lucien Le Moine Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots. Happy Hunting!!

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Bordeaux Red

Ch. Gazin Rocquencourt

2016

Pessac Leognan

$32

VM 94 (1/2019): The 2016 Gazin Rocquencourt is gorgeous, radiant and incredibly inviting, just as it was en primeur. Blackberry jam, chocolate, cloves, spice and new leather are all fused together, but it is the wine's textural depth and impeccable balance that make it absolutely irresistible. This is an especially overt, racy style. What a joyous wine this is. Antonio Galloni.

JD 89 (2/2019): The 2016 Château Gazin Rocquencourt is also solid, yielding some lifted notes of cassis, spice and violets in a bright, upfront, slightly modern style. With a charming, rounded texture, good complexity, and a clean finish, this high-quality Graves is going to have 10-15 years of longevity.

WA 88 (11/2018): The 2016 Gazin Rocquencourt is medium to deep garnet-purple colored with baked berries and stewed plums scents with touches of black tea, tobacco and new leather. The palate is medium to full-bodied with a chewy texture and bright freshness lifting the spicy fruit on the finish.

Ch. La Fleur Morange

2010

St. Emilion Mathilde

$50

VM 91 (7/2013): Good bright medium ruby. Aromas of blackberry, dark raspberry, licorice, minerals and dark chocolate show liqueur-like ripeness. Sweet, lush, velvety and deep, but with good ripe acidity and violet lift to the flavors of black raspberry, menthol and chocolatey oak. A bit less high-toned and sweet than the "regular" La Fleur Morange, but finishes with noble fine-grained tannins and serious length. Very impressive merlot. Stephen Tanzer.

WA 93 (2/2013): The 2010 Mathilde is 100% Merlot in 2010, and the alcohol is at 15%. The wine is a blockbuster, a delicious, hedonistic St.-Emilion fruit bomb with loads of blackberry, raspberry, black currant and cherry notes intermixed with some cedar wood, forest floor and a touch of toast. The interesting thing about Mathilde is that it is bottled and put on the market much earlier than most of the serious wines of Bordeaux. The Mathilde is probably best consumed in its first decade of life.

Ch. Lafite Rothschild

1989

Pauillac

$725

WS 93 (12/2009): Subtle, yet rich and decadent, offering meat, sweet berry and fresh leather on the nose. Full and very soft, with velvety tannins and a long, fruity finish. This has so much ripe fruit. Reserved and firm, this is turning to a very fine and shy Lafite. This is fresh and structured, but still holding back. I wouldn't wait, though.—'89/'99 Bordeaux blind retrospective (2009). Drink now.

WA 90 (2/1997): As I suspected, the 1989 and 1990 vintages of Lafite-Rothschild have gone dormant. Both wines were among the more closed, backward examples in my blind tasting. The 1989 Lafite is also Outstanding, but closed, with the tannin more elevated, and the wine so stubbornly reticent as to make evaluation almost impossible. Lafite's 1989 was far more easy to taste and understand several years ago. It appears to have gone completely to sleep. This medium ruby-colored, medium-bodied wine reveals new oak in the nose, and a spicy finish. It is a quintessentially elegant, restrained, understated style of Lafite. Anticipated maturity: 2006-2025.

1990

Pauillac

$875

WA 96 (6/2009): Interestingly, a bottle of 1990 Lafite Rothschild I pulled from my cellar for a video blog on my web site was still buttoned down, tight, and even with extended decanting was not showing as much as I would have hoped. However, a bottle tasted, of all places, in Seoul, Korea in February, was only a few points short of perfection. That amazing performance motivated me to pull another bottle out of my cellar and follow it over the course of two days. Sure enough, by the second day the wine was roaring from the glass. The 1990 Lafite has turned out far better than my early assessment. While it still possesses some firmness, and performs like a late adolescent in terms of its evolution, it boasts gorgeous aromas of cedar, tobacco leaf, cassis, and lead pencil shavings. The explosive aromas are followed by a fleshy, full-bodied wine that should hit its peak in 5-8 years, and last for 25-30 more.

MB [***[**]] (11/2000): Despite its deceptively purple hue, surprisingly soft and easy though I much preferred the '89 alongside (at the chateau, April 1991). This attractive, easy, fragrant style noted again at the MW tasting of '90s in November 1994. A huge vote for elegance but low for power at Eigensatz's amazing blind tasting of 144 of the very best 1990 reds from around the world. Lafite's fragrance seemed to be self-generating, its fleshy ripeness exemplified by a magnum produced, not for the first time, at one of Rodenstock's annual wine weekends (1998). The Penning-Roswell '10-year' first growth tasting was much looked forward to by Jancis Robinson and me. We were not disappointed. All the wines were within a point or so, Lafite level pegging with Margaux and Latour. The Lafite was still farily deep, plummy coloured but maturing; bouquet evolving well; soft, fleshy, good length; complete- all that was needed was time, more bottle age. Its unreadiness for drinking was demonstrated at a Lafite dinner with Eric de Rothschild at Brooks's in London. The roast grey partridge was unable to compete. Nevertheless, the penetratingly lovely bouquet and flavour were appreciated. Strange though how a wine so beguiling and easy int its youth can close up. Its second wind eagerly awaited. 2015-2040?

WS 95 (2/2005): Very serious fruit, with juicy berry, tobacco and cedar character. Slightly more body than the 1989, but they are very close in character. I would give this a little more time. '89/'90 Bordeaux non-blind horizontal. Best after 2007. 25,000 cases made.

Burgundy Red

Dom. de Montille

2015

Volnay 1er Cru Champans (1.5 L)

$275

BH 91-94 (4/2017): This is also appealingly elegant with its pretty liqueur-like red pinot fruit, spice, sandalwood and subtle earth scents. The mouth feel of the slightly bigger and richer flavors remains refined, lacy and focused with a lovely sense of underlying tension that continues onto the markedly firmer finish. Lovely.

VM 92-94 (1/2017): Good dark red. Subdued but precise aromas of raspberry, cherry and flowers. Compellingly intense and lively in the mouth, offering terrific juicy cut to its red fruit and mineral flavors. This beauty boasts a firm spine of acidity and finishes with lovely ripeness and lingering perfume. Stephen Tanzer.

WA 92-94 (12/2016): The 2015 Volnay 1er Cru Champans has a very pure, very attractive bouquet with mineral-tinged red cherry and cranberry fruit that is equidistant in style between Pommard and Volnay. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin. I love the tension here, that nascent energy and salinity towards the finish that actually does veer towards Pommard in terms of structure. Excellent.

Dom. Gerard Mugneret

2018

Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Les Suchots

$259

BH 91-93 (1/2020): An intensely floral-suffused nose possesses broad ranging aromas of red and dark currant, anise, sandalwood and lavender. The racy and mouthcoating medium weight flavors possess good power on the youthfully austere finish that exhibits outstanding depth and persistence. Lovely stuff. Drink 2030+.

Dom. Marquis d' Angerville

2010

Volnay 1er Cru Fremiets

$179

BH 91-93 (4/2012): This is at once cooler, fresher and more elegant than the Clos des Angles with its ultra-pure red pinot and extract of stone suffused nose. There is fine richness and excellent mid-palate volume that buffers the otherwise firm but ripe tannins before terminating in a lacy and chalky finish. The minerality is so strong that this has an almost Chablis-like salinity to it. Drink 2020+. Sweet Spot Outstanding!

Dom. Michel Lafarge

2003

Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Chenes

$225

VM 93 (3/2006): Good deep red-ruby color. Black fruits, violet and pepper on the nose, with a suggestion of oak spice. Large-scaled, lush and vinous, with full but juicy flavors of dark berries and violet. This, too, boasts lovely restrained sweetness. A wine of huge phenolic material, with the dusty tannins coating the entire palate. Here's a 2003 that calls for a good decade of aging and may well evolve in bottle for 20 years or more. Stephen Tanzer.

Lucien Le Moine

2020

Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots

$159

2021

Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots

$149

2020

Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Cailles

$149

2021

Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les St. Georges

$179

BH 92-94 (4/2023): A brooding but equally fresh nose reluctantly offers up is cool aromas of essence of red currant, forest floor and humus-inflected earth. The sleek, intense and beautifully detailed medium-bodied flavors display focused power and an abundance of minerality on the austere, firm and complex finish that just goes on and on. This is compact but really quite stylish and like the Vaucrains, this too is textbook Les St. Georges.

2008

Volnay 1er Cru Les Caillerets

$125

WA 92-93 (6/2010): Slight reduction in the nose of Le Moine’s two barrels of 2008 Volnay Caillerets gives way with an airing to smoked meat and to cherry and red currant whose tart freshness invigorates the palate. Chalky and saline notes typical for this site are present in spades, along with clean, marrow-like meatiness, and there is a sense of lift and energy in the finish that add to the impression of a red Riesling. I suspect this will perform beautifully for 12-15 years. Having finished its malo already in May, the additional time this wine had to get its act together should not, Saouma reminds me, be discounted in considering the enthusiasm expressed in my tasting note.

BH 90-92 (4/2010): Presently the nose is dominated by reduction and wood though there is good intensity and freshness to the delicious mineral-driven flavors that possess fine precision and plenty of punch on the balanced, classy and impressively persistent finish. There is real style here and the natural class of Caillerets is on display.

VM 91-93 (4/2010): Bright medium red. Pungent, sexy, wild aromas of raspberry and smoked meat. Then ripe, sweet and tactile, with a silkiness and mineral perfume that reminded me of a Chambolle Amoureuses. The long, rising finish features a captivating floral topnote. Stephen Tanzer.

Burgundy White

Lucien Le Moine

2021

Corton Blanc Grand Cru

$299

Rhone Red

Dom. de la Vieille Julienne

2020

Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve

$264

JD 99 (11/2022): Lastly, the 2020 Châteauneuf du Pape Reserve is probably the wine of the vintage. You're not going to find a richer, more concentrated wine out there, especially one that's also flawlessly balanced and as seamless as they come. Almost all Grenache from a single parcel of sandy soils, brought up in foudre, its dense purple hue is followed by a mammoth-sized bouquet of black and blue fruits, herbes de Provence, graphite, ground pepper, and liquid violets. Full-bodied, powerful, and opulent on the palate, it has building yet sweet tannins, remarkable purity of fruit, and a huge mid-palate, all of which give it some approachability even today. Nevertheless, this incredible wine deserves 4-6 years of bottle age and will cruise for two decades in cold cellars.

VM 96 (6/2023): The 2020 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Réserve is a seductive wine of mindboggling intensity, bursting with vivid redcurrant, strawberry, licorice, mint, white pepper, exotic spices and crushed rock aromas. Full-bodied, highly expressive, wrapped in ripe tannins and extremely well-balanced despite all the horsepower - this is a terrific wine built for decades to come. Like in 2019, only 2,900 bottles were produced. Nicolas Greinacher.

Dom. Thierry Allemand

2005

Cornas Reynard (1.5 L)

$1,000

WS 96 (2/2009): Densely packed, with tar, olive and maduro tobacco notes up front, holding the massive core of braised fig, plum sauce and tar at bay for now. The muscular finish shows flashes of iron, garrigue and graphite. Very, very long. Best from 2011 through 2024.

Jean-Louis Chave

1991

Hermitage Cuvee Cathelin

$12,500

JD 98 (10/2023): Made by Gerard Chave with help from his son Jean-Louis, the 1991 Hermitage Cuvée Cathelin is an incredible treat to taste today, now at 31 years after the grapes were harvested. As always, this is a tiny cuvée that's pulled from the Bessards lieu-dit on the western side of this magical south-facing slope. Fully mature and clearly at its peak, it's considerably richer and more layered than the classic Hermitage and has an almost seemingly Burgundian elegance and nuance in its red and black fruits, flowers, rose petals, crushed stone, and subtly gamey nuances. Remarkably complex, it's medium to full-bodied on the palate and is flawlessly balanced, has resolved tannins, and a gorgeous finish. This heavenly, singular Hermitage isn't going to get better, but it will certainly have a gradual evolution going forward. As Jean-Louis has often told me, the wines don't exist until the bottles are opened, so if you have these, come up with a special occasion and pop a cork.

VM 95+ (7/1999): Full ruby-red. Knockout aromas of cassis, roast coffee, bacon fat and minerals. Incredibly sweet in the mouth, but with brilliant clarity and delineation of flavor. Superripe yet shapely and light on its feet. Endless, fruit-driven aftertaste. Tannins and acids are covered by sheer material. An extraordinary achievement, even for this very good and somewhat underrated vintage.

WA 98 (4/2002): The 1991 is a sleeper. I suspect many readers have forgotten how spectacular this vintage was in the northern Rhone, particularly Cote Rotie.

Bordeaux White

Domaine de Chevalier

2021

Pessac Leognan Blanc

$99

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Burgundy Red

Dom. de Montille

2015

Volnay 1er Cru Taillepieds (1.5 L)

$279

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