Feb 2025: 2021 Sangreal By Farr Pinot Noir, 2015 Fontanafredda Serralunga Barolo, 2021 Peccavi Chardonnay…

2021 M Chapoutier Crozes-Hermitage Blanc. Popped and poured at Crab At Bay, 08 Feb 2025. Luminous. Fullish, imbued with longans and chalky white tones that impart dryish intensity, underscored by a firm minerally line. Drinking well.

2016 Domaine Thibert Père et Fils Puilly-Fuissé Menetrières. Tasted over dinner at home after some brief aeration, 10 Feb 2025. Pale golden. Concentrated presence of clear and yellow citrus imbued with sleek acidity that exert palpable tension with exquisite intensity, finishing with a dash of understated ferrous elements.

2021 Sangreal By Farr Pinot Noir. Aired in bottle for an hour ahead of dinner at the in-laws, 21 Feb 2025. Classic pinot tint with a brownish hue. Very lovely bouquet of red plums, lychees, haw and rose petals, showing fine precision and supple intensity with a ripe warmth on the medium-full palate, veering towards a tad of sweetness. Highly burgundian. Difficult to place in a blinded tasting.

2015 Fontanafredda Serralunga d’Alba Barolo. Popped and poured from magnum at the Wild Rice Ball, Shangri-la Singapore, 22 Feb 2025. Displaying a clear ruby transluscence, this wine exudes feminine rosy hues and bright cherries, softly contoured with cool restraint and fine acidity that lend a bit of supple intensity. Almost burgundian in character, drinking superbly. Very lovely.

2014 Château La Gaffélière. Popped and poured at the Wild Rice Ball, Shangri-la Singapore, 22 Feb 2025, courtesy of Herr Knut Unger. Fairly deep garnet, proffering a fleshy presence of mulberries, raspberries and dark currants within a sheen of créme and smooth velvety tannins. Classically proportioned and balanced with restrained acidity. Entering its drinking window but still a little tight.

2021 Peccavi Chardonnay. Popped and poured at Kam Boat, 28 Feb 2025. Very pale greenish, exuding a white floral fragrance with a suggestion of oily density. Quite full, generously imbued with notes of orchard and tropical fruit laced with slick acidity and sweetish undertones, imparting a lovely tensile mouthfeel. Huge potential here.