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Last Friday, we were really taken by surprise. We've been featuring Matt Cline's voluptuous old vine reds for over a year on WineAccess, and it seems a lot of our customers are as enthusiastic about Matt's work as we are. We just never thought that in the middle of August, so many people would be this enthusiastic.

Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte

Our recent tasting of top 2005s featured a stellar array of gorgeous wines from Bordeaux's Pessac-Leognan appellation. It was just one more reminder that when looking for the perfect combo of early accessibility wrapped around highly mineral wines built to go the distance, the top 2005s from Pessac-Leognan are tough to beat. Haut Brion, the market maker, stole the Pessac-Leognan show -- and well it should -- with current prices topping out at a cool $1,400/bottle!

Saumaize-Michelin

Quite a bit has changed in one of Pouilly Fuisse's top cellars since we first met Roger and Christine Saumaize in the early 1990s. At the time, the tiny, dimly lit cellar was full of singular barrel-fermented Chardonnays. The wines were intense -- maybe a little too intense -- made from steep hillside holdings beneath the breezy hamlet of Vergisson. The marriage between fruit harvested at peak ripeness from warm vintages (like 1989 and 1990), new wood, and frequent lees stirring (putting the juice in greater contact with solids, thus further fattening up the wine), often produced wines that were 'over-the-top' and brioche-like, better for tasting than for drinking.