2017 Domaine de la Janasse - Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Prestige BlancColour : White Producer : Domaine de la Janasse Label Name : Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee Prestige Blanc Country : France Region : Rhone Sub Region : Chateauneuf du Pape Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 2017 Capacity : 750 ml Standard Bottle Rating : Robert Parker Wine Advocate 93 Tasting Note : Roughly 60% Roussanne, with the balance a blend of Grenache Blanc and Clairette, the 2017 Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc Cuvee Prestige offers up subtle hints of

Colour : Sparkling Producer : Vergnon Label Name : Eloquence Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Country : France Region : Champagne Variety : Chardonnay Vintage : NV Capacity : 750 ml - Standard Bottle Ratings : James Suckling 93 pts

licorice and Provençal herbs

Colour : Red Producer : Haut Brion Country : France Region : Bordeaux Sub Region : Pessac-Leognan Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 1989 Capacity : 750 ml - Standard Bottle Rating : RP100 - Robert Parker Wine Advocate Tasting Note : This continues to be one of the immortal wines and one of the greatest young Bordeaux wines of the last half-century

The wine offers plenty of dark fruit

Colour : Red Producer : Dalla Valle Label Name : Maya Napa Valley Country : USA Region : California Sub Region : North Coast Appellation : Napa Valley Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 2018 Capacity : 750 ml - Standard Bottle Rating : RP100 - Robert Parker Wine Advocate Tasting Note : The very deep garnet-purple colored 2018 Maya is shy and restrained to begin

which means the finished wine is different from what was originally conceived

fertile loam

Colour : White Producer : Domaine Marc Morey Label Name : Chassagne Montrachet les Vergers Country : France Region : Burgundy Sub Region : Cote de Beaune Appellation : Chassagne-Montrachet Variety : Chardonnay Vintage : 1999 Capacity : 750 ml - Standard Bottle Note: All images are for illustrative purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product

in the middle palate

crème de cassis and forest floor

Bright and chiselled

but a wine that borrows the structural elegance of the former and the terroir precision of the latter while remaining distinctively Moselian in its mineral identity