concentrated and traditional style Pinot with high levels of fruit tannin and relatively little new French oak (20%)
Directly across the road from Domaine Chanzy sits the domaine of Aubert et Pamela de Villaine
Gault Millau annual guide to German wines named Ernest Loosen German winemaker of the year in 2001
92 points James Suckling
with striking energy and freshness
Fougeray de Beauclair, Bonnes Mares 1997 California concentrated and traditional style Pinot95 Points CellarTracker (Paley's Place, Portland, OR): Opened about 1. 5 hours before drinking, not decanted. Good, garnet red color with only a hint of bricking at the edge. Magnificent, elegant, complex nose of roses, tea, spice, cherries and a host of other perfumy aromas that seemed to flow from the glass. I couldn't keep my nose out of it. Quintessential mature pinot noir on the palate with flavors that echoed the aromas but were somewhat less