Henri Giraud Champagne

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Tasting note

The 2022 À Mi-Chemin is not a wine you should judge by its cover: initially, it seems very ripe, fruity and welcoming on the nose. But then it shows its true colors. This wine is the vinous equivalent of having a bucket of water thrown in your face while you're asleep. The tension and mineral flinty character are real wake-up calls for your palate. Its persistence and line are powerfully pushed across your palate. It has spice and momentum and holds you tight. The 2022 needs time. It was grown on a flint-rich parcel in the village of Saint-Satur, which sits below the hilltop town of Sancerre.

Score: 93

Rebecca Gibb MW, Vinous.com, July 2024

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Tasting note

The MV 20 is a wonderful bridge to the top wines in the range. Apricot, lemon confit, white pepper and crushed rocks build in the glass, filling out the layers effortlessly. The MV 20 is beautifully done, and yet I can't help thinking it is holding back quite a bit of its potential. There's certainly a lot to look forward to. Disgorged: April 2025.

Score: 95

Antonio Gallon, Vinous.com, May 2026

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Tasting note

The 1982 Léoville Poyferré continues to drink brilliantly at age 40 (and I have enjoyed three bottles this year), wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet cassis fruit mingled with notions of loamy soil, cigar wrapper, licorice, black truffle and pencil shavings. Full-bodied, broad and sumptuous, with a velvety attack that segues into a deep, fleshy core, it's generous and enveloping, with lively acids and fine, powdery tannins that still deliver a vestige of back-end grip. Today, this is a strong contender for the title of Saint-Julien's wine of the vintage, with Ducru-Beaucaillou and Léoville-Las Cases as its only plausible rivals.

Score: 96

William Kelley, The Wine Advocate, December 2022

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Tasting note

From a vintage I really love comes the Bibi Graetz 2021 Testamatta. This wine has dark fruit, cherry, powdered chocolate and chalky mineral. This vintage represents a turning point for this eccentric vintner who decided to change styles and focus on the red fruits and high notes. Nonetheless, this wine delivers good freshness and balance, and I like it better than the 2020 vintage that Bibi himself prefers. To me, the 2021 has more vertical freshness. This is a release of 120,000 bottles.

Score: 95

Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate, October 2025

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Tasting note

Krug's NV Grande Cuvée 170ème Édition is based on the 2014 vintage, complemented by some 45% reserve wines dating back to 1998, with the house drawing on, among many others, 2013 for structure and 2012 and 2003 for generosity. Opening in the glass with aromas of pastry cream, dried fruits, pear, warm spices, freshly baked bread and vanilla pod, it's medium to full-bodied, pillowy and fine-boned, with excellent concentration, racy acids and a precise, chiseled profile. But if the latter adjective could be applied to the 2013-base 169ème édition equally felicitously, the 2014-base 170ème is more giving and less tightly wound out of the gates and will offer more demonstrative drinking young.

Score: 95

William Kelley, The Wine Advocate, June 2022

Bt (750ml)

Stock Location: HK

At the foot of a gravel slope, this small parcel of 1991/92 vines produces a more lifted and energetic expression. Its clay-and-schist soil and 24 months in non-new oak frame aromas of pear, exotic fruit, lanolin and smoke. Compared with La Minée-Haute, La Minée-Basse is lighter on its feet, more aromatic and vibrant, with a taut mineral finish.