Cote de Nuits-villages, France

Wine: Cote de Nuits-villages

Producer: Joseph Drouhin

Region: Burgundy

Country: France

Colour: Red

Year: 2011

Grape: Pinot Noir

Supplier: Wine Warehouse                                                                  

Restaurant: A

Price (VND): B

A<500K B<1M  C<1.5M D>1.5M

Points: 88/100

Pairs well with: Good pair with smoked cheeses, smokes salmon, fried chicken and chicken soufflé.

Notes:

This wine has a beautiful nose, a blossom of dark cherries, smoke and liquorice.

On the palate, this wine is rather elegant, red cherries, raspberries, and a good balance between tanning and acidity.

Good pair with smoked cheeses, smokes salmon, fried chicken and chicken soufflé.

Valentine's special: Rully, Burgundy, France

Wine: Rully

Producer: Joseph Drouhin

Region: Burgundy

Country: France

Colour: White

Year: 2012

Grape: Chardonnay

Supplier: Wine warehouse                                                                   

Restaurant: A

Price (VND): A

Points: 84/100

Pairs well with: This wine is great on its own and a good pair with smoked salmon, oysters and mussels and almost anything in butter sauce.

Notes:

This is a really gorgeous wine. Beautiful uniform gold colour and a nose that brings delicate scents of honey, caramel and some tropical fruits.

On the palate is long and elegant matching the honey and caramel from the nose. A great discovery

This wine is great on its own and a good pair with smoked salmon, oysters and mussels and almost anything in butter sauce.

Montagny Premier Cru, France

Wine: Montagny  Premier Cru

Producer: Joseph Drouhin

Region: Burgundy

Country: France

Colour: White

Year: 2012

Grape: Chardonnay

Supplier: Wine warehouse                                                                   

Restaurant: A

Price (VND): A

Points: 79/100

Pairs well with: oysters, smoked salmon and salads

Notes:

This wine offers a light gold colour with pale green tonalities.

The nose is beautiful and characteristic of great Burgundy wines, nuts, apples, and a hint of vanilla.

On the palate, it is fresh while delicate, medium length, complex and the right level of acidity, making it an ideal pair with oysters, smoked salmon and salads.

Saint Veran, France

Wine: Saint Veran

Producer: Joseph Drouhin

Region: Burgundy

Country: France

Colour: White

Year: 2012

Grape: Chardonnay

Supplier: Wine Warehouse                                                                  

Restaurant: A

Price (VND): 575.000 VND

Points: 73/100

Pairs well with: Great pair with grilled seafood, oysters, and mussels cooked in tomato and chili sauce.

Notes:

This wine has a beautiful gold colour. The nose if beautiful, very aromatic with scents of melon, mango, lychee and musk.

On the palate you may find it too acidic if drunk on its own (I did but the other two people I was tasting it with did not), but is crisp and punchy with medium length delivering a well balanced mix of  melon, mango and musk, with medium length.

Great pair with grilled seafood, oysters, and mussels cooked in tomato and chili sauce.

Joseph Drouhin Macon Lugny, france.

Wine: Macon Lugny

Producer: Joseph Drouhin

Region: Burgundy

Country: France

Colour: White

Year: 2012

Grape: A

Supplier: Wine warehouse                                                                   

Restaurant: A

Price (VND): 680.000 VND

Points: 79/100

Pairs well with: crab, and spicy clams.

Notes:

Pale yellow in colour, the nose of this wine is subtle and delicate bringing white flowers and citrus.

On the palate is equally delicate, with no acidity and very well balanced. Citrus, white flowers making it an ideal pair with crab, and spicy clams.

Pouilly Fuissee, France

Wine: Pouilly Fuisse

Producer: Joseph Drouhin

Region: Burgundy

Country: France

Colour: White

Year: 2011

Grape: A

Supplier: Wine Warehouse                                                                  

Restaurant: A

Price (VND): 780.000 VND

Points: 76/100

Pairs well with: Ideal as an aperitif, with seafood and white fish dishes.

Notes:

Pale gold in colour, this is a very delicate and delicious wine.

The nose brings lots of citric fruits, elder flower and vanilla.

The palate is delicate, fresh and crisp, bringing lemons, white flowers and a light bitter touch at the end.

Ideal as an aperitif, with seafood and white fish dishes.

Reserve de Vaudon - Chablis, France

Wine: Reserve de Vaudon

Producer: Joseph Drouhin

Region: Chablis

Country: France

Colour: White

Year: 2011

Grape: Chardonnay

Supplier: Wine Warehouse                                                                  

Price (VND): 620.000

Points: 71/100

Pairs well with: Goes fantastic with prawn salad, steamed prawns, fish, oysters and seafood in general.

Notes:

Bright gold colour, full of life.

The nose is smooth, bringing lemons, and a light scent of mangoes and nutmeg.

The palate is soft with medium to long length, bringing lemons, a touch of vanilla and rather flowery.

Nice and a bit acidic at the end.

Goes fantastic with prawn salad, steamed prawns, fish, oysters and seafood in general.