Murakami, Japan – sharp, smooth with hints of citrus in the nose and a dry finish best served chilled Makiri, Extra Dry, Junmai Ginjo17 (300ml) ![]() Kyushu, Japan – elegantly medium dry sake with an aroma of honey and refreshing green apples Junmai Ginjo 菊水 Kikusui "Chrysanthemum Water", Junmai Ginjođ6 (300ml) Hiroshima, Japan – full-bodied medium sweet with a fresh and light acidity taste 七田 Shichida, Junmai 45 (720ml) Nagano, Japan – dry and smooth, very refined for a junmai 酔心 Suishin, Junmai 19 (300ml) / 88 (1.8L) ![]() Hyogo, Japan – full-bodied sake with aroma of rice, using 100% yamadanishiki premium rice くろさわ Kurosawa, Junmai19 (300ml) Yamagata, Japan - lightly dry and medium body with aroma of cantaloupes and bananas 白鹿山田錦 Hakushika Yamadanishiki, Junmai13 (300ml) Hyogo, Japan - Smooth and refreshing, light aroma of sugarcane and subtle flavor profile of fruits Kikuisami 36 Samurai, Junmai 14 (300ml) Of the non-Bordeaux wines currently listed, there are as many with no French connection at all.Junmai Hakutsuru Chika, Junmai 10 (200ml) But – to go back to Chadronnier’s dictum – as long as a wine has history and pedigree, La Place will be interested. The French connection also explains the slightly odd addition of L’Aventure in Paso Robles, which is highly-rated but you might think has neither history nor pedigree until you realise it’s owned by Stephan Asseo, who used to own three right-bank properties including St Emilion Grand Cru La Fleur Cardinal. Bordeaux runs through the DNA of many of the wines, from Cheval des Andes (Cheval Blanc) to Dominique Portet (he’s the son of André Portet, the former régisseur of Lafite-Rothschild), to Jackson Family Wines’ Verité (winemaker Pierre Seillan also runs Château Lassegue in St Emilion), to Inglenook, whose wine director Philippe Bascaules is managing director of Château Margaux BV is part of Treasury Wine Estates which recently bought Cambon la Pelouse. Bordeaux has never looked more global.ĭo you have to have a French connection to join La Place? With these, and the 50 or so non-Bordeaux wines, the year’s new releases at the beginning of September have become a fixture in the global wine calendar. Last week came more New World icons: John Riddoch from Wynns Coonawarra, and fellow Aussie classics Jim Barry The Armagh and the cultish Cloudburst, plus California’s Beaulieu Vineyard’s Georges de Latour, and on 10 September Uruguay’s Bodega Garz ón will release three vintages from its top wine, Balasto.Īs well as non-Bordeaux wines, La Place is also selling mature vintages of icon Bordeaux: we’ve just seen a re-release of Latour 2009 for example, Palmer 2010, older vintages of Léoville Las Cases, Château d’Yquem 2018… Italy’s Masseto and Solaia were listed in 20, Château de Beaucastel’s Hommage à Jacques Perrin was the first non-Bordeaux French wine a couple of years later, then over the last decade we’ve seen Clos Apalta, Catena Zapata, Cheval des Andes from South America, Verité, Inglenook, Joseph Phelps from California then Luce, Caiarossa, Bibi Graetz and Vin de Constance. ![]() This was the 1996 vintage of Viña Almaviva, the joint venture between Château Mouton-Rothschild and Chile’s Concha y Toro that was followed by another Mouton collaboration, Napa’s Opus One, in 2004. For the best part of a millennium the négociants sold only wine made in Bordeaux, until in 1998 the first “foreign” (i.e. And just like the British Royal Family, the system may be ancient, but it is endlessly adaptable.
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