Paul Ferrari

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[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

A.F. Gros Échézeaux 1996 - The wine is belle, lovely mature aromatics with a bouquet of fresh raspberry and red cherry accented by Vosne spice, pressed flower, light earth, and subtle savory notes. An aniseed freshness that keeps the profile lively. From lieu-dit Les Loachauses.

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

@maresmedards Certainly better QPR. Bosconia 2001 really delivers!

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

López de Heredia, Tondonia Gran Reserva 2001 - A little dampness, a core of red cherry and raspberry is layered with cassis, mushroom, spices, forest floor, and a meaty, savory character. Flashes of mint and a flinty mineral edge emerge. Very young for its 25 years.

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Chave Cathelin Ermitage 1990 - Still remarkably youthful and profoundly structured. The nose is deep and evolving with black cherry, bramble, and cassis layered with black truffle, leather, forest floor, and a braciola meatiness. Dense yet polished. Texture of velvet. A great '90

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Allemand Cornas Chaillot 2001 - Showing beautifully in maturity, this opens with an expressive nose of black and red fruits layered with cracked pepper, olive tapenade, game, and leather. The palate is elegant and finely textured for Cornas, has a fusion of iron right through it.

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Michel Gros Vosne Réas 1995 - Opens with dark and red fruits layered with spice, leather, and a touch of Vosne-like exoticism. The palate is structured and serious, with dense but very well-integrated tannins framing a core of dark, shaded fruit. Long, spicy finish.

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Margherita Otto Barolo 2016 - The nose has a good airborne purity, amarena and nuggety red fruit at the core, garlanded in lavender, roses, and a touch of rosemary. With air, more savory elements emerge, tar, black tea, smoke, meaty nuance, limestone minerality, bitter chocolate.

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Ponsot CdlR 1991 - Now firmly edging into its tertiary phase, it's beau, balanced on the head of a pin. A great ’91, I prefer it the ’90, but it doesn’t have that vintage’s staying power. Ponsot's the largest landowner by far, a whopping 3.4 ha, averaging 65 year-old-vines.

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

Vatan Sancerre Néore 2010 - A striking Sancerre, unified by intensity, minerality, and a distinctly singular feel. Aromatically, the wines range from lifted and perfumed – hay, flowers, citrus, crushed stone, and that unmistakable quinine-like edge — to more opulent expressions.

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

Arnoux Échézeaux 1996 - Aromatically, the wines move from lifted, nuanced profiles - redcurrant, forest undergrowth, tobacco, smoke, and sweet spice – to darker, more fruit-driven tones dominated by black fruit and savory spice. From lieu-dit Rouges du Bas.

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

Arnoux Vosne Suchots 1996 - The aromatics across the wines are distinctly Vosne, with dark and red cherries wrapped in sous-bois, savory spice, and faintly meaty undertones, with some bottles leaning more toward mature mushroom and earth.

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

Jadot Vosne Suchots 1996 - A compelling snapshot of 1996 through a Vosne lens. Aromatically, there’s an interplay of red and black cherry fruit with classic Vosne spice, ceding ground to secondary and tertiary notes of sous-bois, leather, tobacco. Palate is structured, energetic.

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

@BabyIVF It certainly is😘

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

Chapoutier Côte-Rôtie Mordorée 1991 - Fully mature and beautifully expressive, the wine offers a deeply complex aromatic profile marked by classic savory and tertiary notes. Smoke, cigar box, old library tones lead into layers of blackberry, smoked game, bacon, truffle, barnyard.

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

Jadot Vosne Suchots 1993 - The nose signals freshness and precision. It’s expressive yet refined, offering high-toned cherry and red berry fruit layered with vibrant spice and a subtle hint of mocha. Lithe, streamlined, it's more ’93 than Jadot or Suchots.

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Liger-Belair Vosne Petits Monts 2006 - The wine shows striking intensity and precision, built around a core of red fruits layered with vivid spice. From a small 0.14 plot on the border with Aux Reignots, produced 1.5 barrels (50 cases). Grapes are usually destemmed. 100% new oak.

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

Drouhin Vosne Petits Monts 2001 - The wine presents a striking combination of purity, aromatic intensity, and composure. The nose is electric and high-toned, offering an intoxicating blend of Vosne spice, mineral accents, and beautifully defined red, black, and dark blue fruits.

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Berthaut-Gerbet Vosne Petits Monts 2015 - Now clearly entering a very attractive phase, the wine combines whole-bunch freshness, precision, and developing aromatic complexity. From .5 ha of steep slope holdings across five plots, the oldest vines planted in '19, the youngest '08.

[Paul Ferrari @Winenoodle]

Bertheau-Gerbet, Vosne-Romanée 2015 - The aromatic profile is already expressive, offering layered red and dark fruits, cassis and ripe berries, interwoven with peonies, smoke, a developing thread of exotic spice. From 70 to 90 year old vines from lieu-dit Aux Réas and La Rivière

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Bertheau-Gerbet Fixin Clos 2015 - The bouquet is thorough, has a broad panorama, is based on a firm black fruit aroma, carries the ripeness of the vintage. More red-fruited on the palate, it’s well-filled, the fruit has élan and clarity, with live tannins running across and along