Welcome Drink: * Champagne Devaux Coeur de Nature Champagne NV
There is superb concentration to the big-bodied and intense flavors that coat the palate with dry extract that does a fine job of buffering the exceptionally firm tannins shaping the brilliantly persistent and fantastically complex finale
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Chateau Montrose 2020 Loire Valley Welcome Drink: * Champagne Devaux100 100 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate Surpassing the 2019 and rivaling the 2016 as this estate's finest vintage of the last few decades, the 2020 Montrose is a monument in the making. Wafting from the glass with aromas of violets, dark berries, licorice, loamy soil, black truffle and subtle spices, it's full bodied, deep and layered, with a seamless, elegantly muscular profile, terrific purity and energy, beautifully powdery tannins and a long,