Egly-Ouriet, Les Vignes de Vrigny Vintage:N.V.

Egly-Ouriet, Les Vignes de Vrigny Vintage:N.V.Based on the 2019 vintage and disgorged this year with three grams per liter dosage, the NV Brut Premier Cru Les Vignes de Vrigny wafts from the glass with aromas of green apple, white flowers, freshly baked bread and crushed mint. Medium to full bodied, pure and fleshy, it's vinous and precise, with racy acids and a sapid finish.

The very punchy and much more mineral-inflected medium weight flavors possess first-rate delineation as well as fine length on the balanced and saline finish

and it has plenty of time ahead of it

mace and chocolate

How you evaluate this will depend on what you most want in Port

Soft and gentle

There is excellent detail and volume to the mineral-inflected big-bodied flavors that possess a sleek muscularity on the moderately austere and hugely long finish

This is a lovely

88% Cabernet Sauvignon

there is structure here for the long term and the wines should be cellared for a least a few years

and word gets out

This too could use better depth but Virondot seemingly always ages extremely well

(from the upper part of Charmes)