favorite wines Archives – Terroir Review

Ten Favorite Wines of 2014, Number Ten: 2003 Domaine Jean-Marc Brocard Chablis Grand Cru “Bougros”

An expansive tasting at Domaine Brocard crystallized the taste of terroir.

Wine is not one thing, it’s many, always shifting and evolving.

How do you remember a place, once you have returned home?

Philippe Chavy farms some of the best vineyard soil in the world. But making an age-worthy wine takes more than just good fruit.

Wine Number Six is not really one wine, it’s two.

The best time to buy Bordeaux is twenty years ago.

A Nero d’Avola from Sicily taught me something about my own garden.

A chance encounter with an older non-vintage sparkler led to Lesson Number Three.

A wine both chiseled and delicate, with a framework of bones and iron bedecked in pale flowers—it’s Burgundian, but from somewhere new.

After my second or third sip, the wine started to work on me—What is this wine about?

My favorite wines of 2014 charged at my palate, changed my mind, and taught me something wonderful.