“Shows power and length, with an alluring mix of orchard fruit and creamed apple flecked with sweet hay and honeysuckle. Still refreshing and vibrant, with fresh-cut chive, smoke and flint shavings on a persistent finish marked by brioche and fleur de sel. Drink now through 2027.”

“This wine has benefited from time in bottle. Lemon tending towards gold in color, it has a complex nose of golden apple, brioche, toast and dried oak. On the palate, the wine has youthful acidity with a mature texture and some herbal hints. Drink now, but can age for two to three years.”

“Lemon-gold in color, this wine has a nose of brioche, vanilla and clove baking spice, Bosc pear, golden apple and hay. On the palate, it is impressive and complex. Limestone on the midpalate is bolstered by toast and wet stone. Drink now, but the wine could also benefit from one to three years of additional aging.”

“This is a bright, mineral-driven Sancerre with flinty aftershocks. The nose suggests green apple, brioche, crushed shells, toast and white blossom. On the palate, racy acidity rests on a limestone base that enhances florality.”

“The 2018 Pouilly-Fumé “Baron de L” from Chateau de Ladoucette is a nicely ripe wine, but in this hot summer, its 13.5 percent octane is quite refreshing. The bouquet offers up a complex nose of lime, tangerine, fresh-cut grass, flinty minerality and a topnote of citrus blossoms. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and complex, with a good core, fine soil signature and bounce, sound framing acids and a long, beautifully balanced finish. This does not 42 have the cut of a cooler growing season, so I would suspect that drinking this wine over the next handful of years will pay dividends. Fine juice. 2022-2027.”