After a long hiatus, we recently paid Jean-Pierre Frick a visit in Alsace, and we’re now proud to say that we have 5 new wines from the domaine in the list. They are the product of patience and pragmatism, but also of risk, and an approach that dictates every vintage is an experiment.
Jean-Pierre’s first proper vintage was 1970. The fact that he’s still open to such experimentation, searching for personality in each and every vintage, is testament to his (& Chantal Frick’s) endless energy.
In our world of wine we can often focus on who’s the hardest to get of the brand-new-stars, and sometimes forget about who’s still exciting amongst the oldest. We’ll make a trade tasting with the new wines soon, and we hope there’ll be a lot of enthusiasm to taste Frick again.
Newly arrived:
2022 Crémant d’Alsace (204ex list price)
2023 Auxerrois (180ex)
2024 Riesling Marnes & Loess (204ex)
2023 Bergweingarten Sylvaner Macération (192ex)
2022 Pinot Noir Strangenberg (240ex)
JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL EVENING 🍷
NEXT WEEK - March 12th | From 5:30 PM
Join us for our Double Winemakers Dinner — a night where wine takes center stage.
Two winemakers, Jean Baptiste from Les Bottes Rouge and @wurdemanjohn from Pheasants Tears, will be personally pouring their wines and guiding you through a special wine pairing experience built around our 6-course tasting menu.
Expect unique bottles, stories behind every pour, and for the occasion, a curated selection of special labels — plus exclusive wines available by the glass.
Reservations are required for the dinner and are now open via our website (link in bio).
Guests without a dinner reservation are warmly welcome to join us for drinks. 🍷
Stéphane Tissot, Crémant “Classique”, and his BBF - “Blanc de Blanc en fût”.
We have a great deal of focus on Stéphane’s whites here in Copenhagen, which is completely understandable. But his sparkling wines are also quietly masterful, with some crucial innovations in recent years. Stéphane has moved away from the use of Champagne yeast & refined sugars for the second fermentation, now using his own cultured yeast and grape must from the domaine for the liquer de tirage. All of his wines are thus now 100% of domaine origin, a fact of which he can be rightfully proud, not least because of the technical expertise necessary to make it (successfully) happen.
The ‘Classique’ bottling we’ve just received is composed mostly of the 2023 vintage, with a little ’22 that was still resting in barrel when the ’23 arrived. Disgorged in October ’25, the wine is aged in both barrel and steel, and has no dosage.
The current release of ‘BBF’ is composed of a blend of the 2019 & 2020 vintages. Pure Chardonnay, aged only in barrel, aged sur latte for 4 years before disgorge (Jan. ’25). No dosage.
We’ll be pouring both at our trade tasting tomorrow (18.02).
First trade tasting of the year next week. Industry mates welcome.
Gammel Kongevej 33b (again). As of now - restaurant @belanja_cph 💣
11-14.00 drop in.
(A little lunch too from @belanja_cph )
Following a meeting at an off-tasting from Le Nez dans le Vert this year, Anne Petitot offered to send us a tiny order - her first ever export. We knew we would then have to wait patiently for the next releases, all of which were resting in barrel in her tiny cellar in Bersaillin. Those wines have now have arrived, and they’re showing a great deal of potential.
Anne grew up in Franche Comté, but gained her first experiences in winemaking in the Touraine, Chinon, and in Chilé. From 2017 onward Anne worked for various winemakers around the Jura, settling to establish her own domaine there, La Bouchaude, in 2020. Her initial 0.7ha has grown to a total of 2.5ha now, with further plantations of hybrids on the way. Her current parcels are spread between the clay-rich, deeper soils of Bersaillin (home also to her cellar), and the limestone-rich around Poligny.
Her whites from 2022 have all undergone three years of aging in barrel, which she felt was necessary after the problematic fermentations that were so typical of the vintage. The result are wines of great complexity that now wear their struggle beautifully; with a balance of acidity and breadth that we all love to find in whites of this region. They’re also wines that will certainly benefit from longer aging in bottle before being enjoyed.
The wines are non-allocation, currently listed, and also available to buy under the bridge.
Lalanne post
Benoît Lalanne has come relatively late to winemaking, having decided in 2019 to end a successful career in pharmaceutical biology and follow his passion for wine. As a first step he wrote to some of his favourite winemakers in search for work experience, one of whom was Richard Leroy. Remarkably, Richard invited him into the cellar, and they worked together between ‘19 & ‘21. Shadowing Leroy cemented Benoît’s love for Chenin, and ensured Anjou would be his new home.
During this time he also met Christine and Joel Menard of Domaine Des Sablonnettes, who kindly offered him two parcels from their land on the hill of Montbenault. 2022 was then Benoit’s first vintage, producing only two wines: Les Noëls de Montbenault, and Les Quarts des Noêls, the latter being a plot adjacent to Montbenault, with a concentration of clay and quartz soils over a bedrock of schist.
In the cellar Benoît prefers neutral barrique, with a period of natural clarification in steel before bottling. Fermentations are indigenous and no sulphur is used.
We counted just 20 barrique in the cellar in December 2024, so we felt ourselves fortunate to receive a few cases on Tres Hombres this summer, which have now been allocated amongst our clients.
