Larmandier-Bernier is one of Champagne’s benchmark grower-producers
with distinct stoniness and a lovely herbaceous quality we find in fine Portuguese wines
Demand is immense and allocations are tiny
Gahier prefers this cuvée with four to five years of age
Eduardo Ojeda (Equipo Navazos/Valdespino) and partner Nicolas Palazzi (PM Spirits) decided it deserved a bottle all on its own
Dal Forno Romano, Valpolicella Superiore Vigneto Monte Lodoletta, 2014 moving_liquidation Larmandier-Bernier is one of Champagne’sRomano Dal Forno turned Valpolicella from an easy weeknight red into one of Italy's most obsessive wines, and Monte Lodoletta is where he does it. Corvina led, farmed at punishing yields, partly dried before fermentation and then given years in barrel, this is a wine built on a scale that has nothing to do with the Valpolicella of your average pizza night. 2014 was cool and rainy in the Veneto, a genuinely difficult year, and Dal Forno's fanatical