spent a weekend there a few years back, with Philip the galent host taking our small group to various wineries and restaurants. We will of course be exploring further gems from my cellar. who runs a very charming Inn called La Madelene with his wife (and chef) Jude in the Southern Rhone. You can read about it below. link]. MORE >>

Neal showed me his root cellar, where he grabbed a bunch of his potatoes for our lunch. NR: Of course. NR: The only way to understand what we do is face to face, not in a mass group tasting experience. More conversation with Neal Rosenthal: Finished with our tour of the grounds, we went inside the house for a look around. MORE >>

As a whole, the wines showed fantastically well, just an excellent group of wines. Both were excellent wines, approachable in their youth, and both grew in depth over the course of their first hour open. The 09 might be more of a wine to drink young, and the 2008 seems to be a great candidate for the cellar. MORE >>

must say, I was quite disappointed with how the wines showed, as a group. But if this tasting is representative of the wines as a group, then perhaps Eric Asimov was right when he said after hearing about my theory, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Hmm, I don't think I agree. some do not. But what are the basic German Rieslings? MORE >>

The French insurance group AXA bought the estate in 1987 and is the sole owner of the 33-acre vineyard with vineyards including Grand Cru Romanee St. Sylvain points out a cage for birds (they must have been chosen for color and beauty) and a potato cellar, as well as some alters carved into the rock that one can enter for a few feet. MORE >>