Les Fils De Charles Favre
Bérêche & Fils
Reflet d'Antan Brut Champagne Blend
On a side note, I tried to visit Bérêche last November but they were in the process of upgrading the winery and were not accepting visitors until later in 2026. Oh well…hopefully on my next visit to Champagne.
@Paul K : My buddy opened that late in to the evening. I remember getting an offer and being astounded at the price. I love everything Charles Heidsieck, so to no surprise, I loved it. All the beauty of an aged champagne but in a relatively fresh profile. Not too dissimilar to old Krug Grand Cuvée bottles I’ve had. If you love aged bubbles and healthy amounts of reserve wine, it’s wonderful (that price hurts though!)
Robert Dufour & Fils
Bistrotage [b08] Dufour par Charles (Les Instantanés) Extra Brut Champagne Blend
Pure. From Mom’s vines. Dufour will be the next bottle of bubbles everyone wants. Coming to the Bay Area soon via Offshore Wines. — 7 years ago
Charles Favre
Hurlevent Humagne Rouge
Fancy wine for our late Thanksgiving! — 8 years ago
Les Fils de Charles Trosset
Symphonie d'Automn Chignin-Bergeron Roussanne 2011
Robe jaune claire
Nez abricot et floral plein mais délicat et sans exubérance
Bouche ample fraîche et pleine gourmande mais fraiche
Très belle équilibre
— 8 years ago
Les Fils de Charles Trosset
Confidentiel Arbin Mondeuse Noir 2011
Rubis fonce. Nez de fruit noire frais tres poivre avec un côté végétal mais mûre.
Attaque fraîche precise bouche qui s élargie et finale ample gourmande sur la myrtille et le poivre. Tres jeune et superbe tenue à l air une mondeuse. Combinant le meilleur de la Syrah et du gamay — 9 years ago
Domaine Charles François & Fils
Clos de la Cave Volnay Pinot Noir 2019
Pale ruby in color with medium intensity.
Dry on the palate with nice complexity.
Medium plus in body with medium acidity.
Showing raspberries, cherries, red currants, earth, red candy, spices, light oak, licorice and chocolates.
This is a delicious Pinot Noir from Burgundy. Elegant and fruity. Smooth and soft.
Nicely balanced and drinks fairly young, for a 6-year-old Pinot.
Modern in style, and feels like a Russian River Valley Pinot. So interesting.
Will continue to age nicely in the next 10 years.
Good by itself as a sipping wine.
13.5% alcohol by volume.
91 points.
$43. — a year ago
Domaine Raymond Usseglio & Fils
Cuvée Impériale Vignes Centenaires Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhone Blend 2020
2020 vintage. @ Mister A's Restaurant-San Diego-Les Caves de St. Charles CDP dinner. Medium-heavy body. Pretty nose. Plenty of richness throughout. 11.16.23. — 3 years ago
Domaine Charles Muller & Fils
Argentoratum Alsace Riesling Blend
Crisp sweetness / pear and some light spice. 🌞 — 7 years ago
Les Fils de Charles Favre
Hurlevent Pinot Gris
Quakers - sweeter than expected, but beautifully smooth. — 7 years ago
Charles Yung et Fils
Château Saintongey Bordeaux Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend 2020
Rachel and johns delicious with cake and soup. Sweet, spicy and smooth. — 2 years ago
Gosset
Grand Rosé Brut Champagne Blend
I’m in the 91+ territory here, but this is an older NV and the age pushes this up just a touch.
From 375. Easy for my wife and I to enjoy while our two littles run around on NYE.
After the Mousse Fils L’Or d’Eugene rosé from a few days ago, this is totally different. Much more classical versus the unique Mousse. Pale copper colored in the glass. Lots of similarities to Charles Heidsieck’s Brut Reserve rosé with its strawberry shortbread and toasty layers, but the fruit isn’t as layered. Slightly chalk/limestone initially but gives way to Spiced rhubarb, red berries, white peach and an orange marmalade finish (maybe dosage peeking out as well as the age helping channel some depth and richness). — 2 years ago
Charles Muller et fils
Gewürztraminer 1994
Grains nobles de 1994 soit 28 ans Impressionnant — 4 years ago
Domaine Charles François & Fils
Les Fremiets Volnay 1er Cru Pinot Noir 2014
Adi Maria Fronteiras Set20 — 6 years ago
Charles de Cazanove
Tradition Pere et Fils Brut Rose Pinot Sauvage Champagne Blend 2011
Extra brut, truly!! Super tart. Could have kept it for a couple of years more before opening — 7 years ago
Les Fils de Charles Favre
Hurlevent Dessert 2009
Tropics concentrated in a bottle. Nice almond bitters. Sweet wih a nice sour tone. — 9 years ago
Shay A
My last bottle of six purchased back in 2022. I visited the winery in 2023 and was able to taste this from barrel…that was also when they informed me that this cuvée would no longer be made in 750, only en mag. Unsurprisingly, the price (more than) doubled and I was pushed out of the market. Such a bummer because not only is this an outstanding champagne, it is (IMO) the closest you can get to Selosse.
Equal parts Chardonnay, Pinot noir, Pinot meunier; Disgorged December 2019; base 2015 vintage; 6g/l dosage. Opened alongside a Charles Heidsieck “Champagne Charlie”.
Drawn from a perpetual reserve dating back to the mid ‘80s, everything about this cuvée is lees-y, rich, powerful and haunting (in the best way). Aromatically, there is a whiff of fino sherry that exists nowhere else in Champagne aside from the Selosse lineup. More akin to Selosse’s Initial, the sherry aromatic is there to enhance (not dominate) and is mostly a thin vein throughout the wine. There is truffle honey, spiced pear, caramel dipped apple all in a balanced profile that is both aged and fresh at the same time. Honey and orange roasted cashews too at the finish where a kiss of tangy sherry reappears. Immaculate. I desperately wish these were still available in 750s. — 23 days ago