Vintage 1997

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A White for the Pantheon

Domaine d'Auvenay Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 1997 · Burgundy, France · tasted 5 August 2026

From Lalou Bize-Leroy's private 0.16-hectare parcel, a 1997 that defied everything said about its vintage — stone, salt, pear and anise, precise and impossibly long after nearly thirty years. A new member of a very short personal list.

The White That Outlives the Red

Château Musar White 1997 · Bekaa Valley, Lebanon · tasted 5 December 2024

Musar is spoken about as a red house, but the stranger bottle has always been the white — made from two grapes that grow almost nowhere else, oxidative by design, and capable of outliving the reds that made the estate famous.