French Vintage White Wines over £80
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From the very good 2007 vintage and scoring 93/100 Parker points, "Girardin's 2007 Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatieres mingles aromas of malt and toasted brioche with sea breeze, fresh citrus, ripe white peach, and myriad floral perfumes. Vivaciously and brightly brimming with primary fruit, yet silken in texture and suffused with salinity and notes of toasted grain, this finishes with almost startling grip and tenacity. Anything it might lack in complexity today vis a vis the very best of the vintage it compensates for in sheer energy and in promise. Expect more excitement over the next 7-10 years." Drink now - 2024. A delicious gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 2012 vintage and scoring 93-5/100 Parker points, "Veronique mentioned that the 2012 Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrieres is one of the first to be picked, constituting one of her most consistent vineyards. 'I don’t know what we could wish for more,' she enthused. It already sports a sophisticated, well-defined bouquet. It is taciturn at first. Then upon the sixth or seventh swirl, there is an explosion of intense orange zest and apricot fruit with a touch of almond. The palate is beautifully balanced with wonderful acidity and balance. So suave and complex with superb balance and grace on the finish, this is one of the finest 2012 Meursault Perrieres that I have tasted." Drink now - 2030. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the outstanding 2014 vintage, this stunning Meursault 1er Cru has a light citrus and limestone-scented nose. The palate is well balanced with crisp acidity, touches of orange rind and mineral and it is nicely weighted on the finish. Drink now - 2030. A stunning anniversary gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the outstanding 1959 vintage, this stunning sweet Bordeaux white wine is a gold honeyed colour and has great richness, super glycerin content and a long, alcoholic, heady finish. Drink now - 2025. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the outstanding 1976 vintage and scoring 87/100 Parker points, " the 1976 is drinking gorgeously now. Charmingly fruity, with an expansive bouquet of ripe fruit, fresh honey, a vanillin oakiness, and some subtle herbal notes, this medium-bodied wine has average acidity, and a plump, soft texture." Drink now - 2029. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the outstanding 2000 vintage, this Grand Cru Le Montrachet has a lovely pear and light gooseberry-scented bouquet. The palate is crisp and lively with fine acidity, harmonious and it is graceful with a very poised and charming finish. Drink now - 2026. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 2001 vintage, this Grand Cru Criots Batard Montrachet is medium-bodied and lively. this is a fresh, crisp, white wine that possesses a searing minerality in its character. Its finish is long, pure and silky. Drink now - 2024. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 2004 vintage and scoring 17/20 by Jancis Robinson "Lovely sulphide lift to the nose and no shortage of ripeness on the nose although the palate reveals a certain leanness. This is one of those less-than-fully-ripe vintages that Burgundy can withstand for its whites but you need to be a member of the club. Good balance and a really complete wine very much in the Leflaive style". Drink now - 2024. An excellent gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 2006 vintage is made by the stunning Wine Maker Diddier Dagueneau and is fabulous and starts with creamy citrus - lemon and lime ice cream. Then dives into really lovely complex tropical and secondary overtones. Drink now - 2028. An excellent gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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Scoring 94/100 points from Wine Spectator and from the outstanding 2005 vintage, this white wine is focused and elegant, with complex pear, lemon, spice and oak aromas and flavours. Beautifully balanced and delicate on the finish. Drink now - 2024. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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Scoring 94/100 points from Wine Spectator and from the very good 2006 vintage,this white wine is deep and ripe, with tart acidity, good, rich, fleshy fruit and has a lovely full body. Drink now - 2026. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 2012 vintage and scoring 99/100 Parker points "The 2012 Ermitage Cuvee de l'Oree is still firing on all cylinders, sporting heavenly notes of powdered rock, white flowers, honeyed orange blossom, white currants and a saltiness that keeps you coming back to the glass. Full-bodied, voluptuous and decadent, drink it anytime over the coming 2-3 decades." Drink now - 2042. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 2014 vintage and scoring 89-91/100 Parker points, "The 2014 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Clavoillon had a slightly muted bouquet: flinty at first, straight-laced with just a touch of dewy green apple. The palate is fresh on the entry with a bright opening and then it hunkers down towards a more stony, precise, flinty finish. Understated perhaps, but there is good length here." Drink now - 2027. An excellent gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the good 1969 vintage, this sweet white wine has an intensely fruity bouquet suggestive of pineapples, fine depth and concentration, an unctuous quality and crisp, fresh acidity. It is a very fruity, moderately sweet, well-knit Sauternes. Drink now - 2024. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the outstanding 2005 vintage, this is an intense wine with loads of buttered minerals, hazelnuts, and spices. It is focused, detailed, and beautifully balanced. Drink now - 2026. An excellent gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 1962 vintage, this sweet dessert wine is "orange, amber, lovely barley sugar nose; still sweet, good flesh, with orange blossom flavour and marvellous acidity" **** M Broadbent. Drink now - 2029. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the good 1969 vintage, this lovely sweet white wine is a very good Sauternes for the vintage -- rich, round, open knit, with a great deal of juicy, sweet, candied fruit. Drink now - 2026. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the outstanding 1988 vintage and scoring 98/100 Parker points "The 1988 d’Yquem has an incredibly profound nose of orange marmalade, dried apricots, honeycomb, musk and dried pineapple with hints of marzipan and crystallized ginger. The palate is seamless with a great line of crisp acid cutting through the densely packed dried tropical fruit and honeyed flavour layers. The finish just goes on and on.." Drink now - 2050. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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This white wine from the outstanding 1990 vintage scores 88/100 Parker Points, this fleshy white wine displays impressive depth, balance and length. It has excellent grip to its spicy, dried honey-flavoured character and has a long and pure finish. Drink now - 2025. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 2008 vintage and scoring 16/20 by Jancis Robinson, "Quite pure and lean and mineral with just a hint of wild flowers. A hint of bitter quinine on the finish. This should eventually be very pure and fine but one will have to wait. Our sample is from a tank with more new oak than the final blend will have." Drink now - 2026. An excellent gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 1961 vintage, this sweet white Sauternes wine has a big ripe bouquet of pineapples, peaches and spring flowers. On the palate, the wine is concentrated, full bodied and unctuous, with along sweet finish. Drink now - 2028. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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This is the dry white wine of Chateau Yquem and exhibits great length, richness and character. It is exceptionally full-bodied and intensely concentrated. Drink now - 2024. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 2007 vintage and scoring 90/100 Parker points, "The Leflaive 2007 Puligny-Montrachet Clavoillon a significant portion of which, like other crus here, is worked by horse smells of fresh apple, melon, lemon zest, and hints of brown spices. Lush and lusciously fruited on the palate it combines apple, peach, and melon with a pungently bitter-sweet suggestion of orange marmalade. With less lift and refreshment and a touch of warmth vis a vis other wines in this group, it partly compensates by dint of sheer richness of flavor and texture." Drink now - 2026. An excellent gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the outstanding 2010 vintage and scoring 93/100 Parker points, "Another of the flashier wines in the lineup, the 2010 Puligny-Montrachet Folatieres is quite intriguing. The fruit is quite bold and racy, something that is only accentuated over time as the wine opens up in the glass. At the same time, underlying veins of minerality begin to appear, providing the perfect foil to the wine’s increasingly tropical tendencies. I imagine the richer, more exotic notes will only intensify over time, yet there is plenty of acidity to support the fruit. Eric Remy told me this was the first wine to finish its malolactic fermentation." Drink now - 2028. An excellent gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 1962 vintage, this fabulous sweet white wine is a beautiful golden colour and a sweet honeyed taste. Drink now - 2024. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 2014 vintage and scoring 90-92/100 Parker points, "The 2014 Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Folatières has a crisp, floral bouquet that takes time to unwind, with hints of chalk dust littered over the bright green apple and fresh pear scents. The palate is fresh and vibrant on the entry with a keen line of acidity, though it needs to develop a touch more material towards the finish just to fill the wine out a little and create more of a presence." Drink now - 2030. An excellent gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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This sweet white wine from the fine 1943 vintage is a very deep golden colour and has a sweet honeyed taste and a rich dry finish. Drink now - 2025. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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This sweet white vintage wine is shipped in a silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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This sweet white vintage wine is shipped in a silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 1961 vintage, this sweet white Sauternes wine "a lovely amber gold; bouquet of chocolate and barley sugar, touch of caramelisation; tangy. Good acidity" Drink now - 2030 M Broadbent *** This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 1962 vintage and scoring 89/100 Parker points "Beginning to deepen in color and take on an amber/golden color, the 1962 Climens must certainly be the best Climens of the sixties. A fragrant, roasted bouquet of melted caramel and brown sugar sauteed in butter is captivating. On the palate, the wine has rich, luscious, unctuous flavors that have remained crisp and lively because of good acidity. It is a worthy challenger to the d’Yquem in 1962." Drink now - 2026. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 1962 vintage and scoring 90/100 Parker points, "The 1962 offers a very complex, honeyed nose filled with decadent apricot and peach scents that can come from heavily botrytised fruit. Very full bodied, with good acidity and opulent, rich creme brulee flavors, this luscious, full-throttle Sauternes should continue to drink well for at least another 15-20 years." Drink now - 2032. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the very good 2007 vintage and scoring 94/100 Parker points, "The Leflaive 2007 Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles offers minerality, finesse, and lift that leave behind its premier cru siblings. Seductive lily, heliotrope and iris along with high-toned herbal and pit fruit essences on the nose find their counterpart in wafting, bitter-sweet perfume and pure essence of peach and quince on a silken palate. There is a Chevalier-like sense of salt and stone shimmering through curtains of fruit in the finish. But the appropriateness of diaphanous metaphors here should not mislead one into suspecting a lack of concentration. In the end, this is implacably persistence, encompassing a tactile dimension to its sense of chalkiness. Hints of honey and toasted almond well up as this takes on air, suggesting an additional dimension of future richness. I expect this will reward revisiting for a decade." Drink now - 2026. An excellent gift. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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From the outstanding 2009 vintage and scoring 95/100 Parker points, "The 2009 Batard-Montrachet is a big wine. Today it shows its broad shoulders and structure, but also comes across as less obvious than the Criots, suggesting it has begun to shut down in bottle. There is plenty of finesse and personality in the glass, but this is a wine whose best days are still at least a few years away. Nevertheless, it is impossible to miss the wine’s exceptional harmony, laser-like focus and promise." Drink now - 2040. This vintage wine is shipped in a deluxe silk lined wooden presentation box with four wine accessories (corkscrew, wine pourer, drip stopper & wine thermometer) [worth £17.99] at no extra cost and now includes a free gift card with your personal message and tasting and storage notes.
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