Philippe Charlopin-Parizot, Chassagne Montrachet Vintage:2020 white ginger and salted butter

white ginger and salted butter notes flow through seamlessly

The most mineral-driven of this year's set of Ermitage bottlings from Chapoutier

it needs another 5 years or so in the cellar

The 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape is a blockbuster

with excellent depth to its red and blue fruit and floral pastille flavors

Philippe Charlopin-Parizot, Chassagne Montrachet Vintage:2020 white ginger and salted butter(from Les Benotes). A funky nose of reduction and lactic elements is borderline leads to exceptionally rich if slightly flat flavors that lack the same verve and appeal. This may well clean up but at present, it clearly has issues.