Welcome to Weygandt Wines
Since 1987, Peter Weygandt has been an importer of French wines and has gained a national and international reputation for the quality of his selections and his portfolio of top "boutique" French wines. Weygandt Wines in Washington DC is the next natural step for the Weygandt-Metzler portfolio; a retail store dedicated to showcasing all of the diverse selections, value, and quality of Peter Weygandt Selections, from both the most-well-known viticultural regions, and from lesser-known regions and up-and-coming producers. It is a place where consumers can come to be educated about the portfolio, and on a regular basis to meet the importer and our wine growers.
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Focus on Volnay
A 2006 Deal, And Rare 2005 Vintage Wines From Domaine Roblet-MonnotPascal Roblet-Monnot runs this interesting 5.5 ha domaine where the approach is completely biodynamic. Roblet explained that 2006 was a "vintage where you had to be in the right vineyard at the right time. You had to proceed very slowly, very carefully and very thoroughly." - Burghound
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Domaine Roblet-Monnot Volnay Saint Francois 2006
$57.99, $34.99/Bottle On Sale (compare elsewhere at $60.00 or more)
"A slightly riper and nicely attractive nose of earthy and slightly animale red pinot fruit aromas precedes rich, full and detailed flavors that offer up a subtle mineral streak on the balanced and persistent finish. This is really quite a pretty effort for its level and if it can add a bit more depth in time, it should merit the upper end of the range. I would suggest only 2 to 4 years of cellar time here as the flavors are quite forward." Burghound
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Volnay 1er Taillepieds 2005
$129.99, $109.99/Bottle On Sale (compare elsewhere at $161.99 or more)
"The Roblet 2005 Taillepieds displays a combination of roasted meat, wet stone, smoke, and subtle smokiness along with cherry, blueberry, ginger, coriander, and an alkaline mineral note. Rich and satiny in the mouth, this is loaded with smoky, peaty earthiness, overt wet stone character, and intensely ripe cherry and blueberry that lend it more overt sweetness than accrues to the other Roblet 2005s (or for that matter 2004s). The finish here is magnificently concentrated, with brightness of fruit, tactile spiciness, and salty savory notes maintaining a sense of invigoration and energy. Between Roblet's two parcels, there are five barrels (i.e. all of 125 cases) of this beauty, making it among his largest lots." Rated 95 Points, The Wine Advocate
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Volnay 1er Cru Brouillards 2005
$85.99, $69.99/Bottle On Sale
"From only 25 year-old vines but (like nearly all of Roblet's) selection massale rather than clones, the 2005 Volnay Les Brouilliards certainly seems to betray its borderline Pommardian origins in a nose that mingles charred meat, fresh blood, and dusty mineral nuances. Not that this wine lacks for fruit, but it is a faintly bitter, tart black fruit character laminated to the meat and mineral substrate that lends the wine its extract-rich, dense palate presence and constitutes its essence. It finishes with a rather somber, dark, but impressively deep and strikingly carnal and mineral length." Rated 92 Points, The Wine Advocate
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Volnay 1er Cru Santenots 2005
$84.99, $69.99/Bottle On Sale
"In bottle for two weeks when I tasted, the Roblet 2005 Volnay Santenots displays a deep sweetly-suggestive black cherry aroma with pungent wood smoke adjuncts. With tactile, almost sizzling cinnamon spice on the palate and a turn toward fruit skin piquancy, it finishes almost like a tart cherry pie in its fruit intensity, spice and toastiness. Less striking in texture or energy than the Saint Francois today, this wine, nevertheless, offers superior density, firm, fine tannins, and plenty of potential that is probably partly obscured by the effects of sulfuring and bottling (although - as is perhaps hardly necessary to spell out - bottling here takes place by gravity and without filtration)." Rated 91 Points, The Wine Advocate
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Volnay Saint Francois 2005
$67.99, $56.99/Bottle On Sale (compare elsewhere at $59.96 or more)
"Assembled from numerous tiny holdings, some of premier cru stature, Roblet's 2005 Volnay Saint Francois displays remarkable depth of black berries and meat with spicy, floral, chalky and saline mineral as well as nobly fungal nuances, and sticks to the gums with incipient silkiness yet remarkable alacrity. The combination of richness and density with an absence of superficial sweetness is typical of Roblet's style, and the length and refinement of his over-achievement. In both this and the 2004 vintage, I would have picked the Saint Francois blind as an outstanding Champans premier cru." Rated 92-93 Points, The Wine Advocate
Domaine Roblet-Monnot Auxey-Duresses 1er Cru Le Val 2005
$47.99, $39.99/Bottle On Sale
"From a rocky premier cru in the highest elevations of the commune that - save for the present vines (whose fruit he purchases) and some of Leroy - is planted entirely in white, Roblet's 2005 Auxey-Duresses Le Val leads with bright, faintly bitter fresh black cherry and cherry pit, covers the mouth in fine tannin, chalky mineral sensations and tart fruit, and finishes long and strikingly with meat broth, chalk infusion, wood smoke, and subtle, pure black fruit character. Try imagining what a premier cru Chablis would taste like if it were Pinot Noir." Rated 89-90 Points, The Wine Advocate
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Bonnet-Huteau Muscadet de Sevre et Maine Sur Lie Les Dabinieres 2008Loire, France $13.99 Rating: WA 91 |
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