REPORT FROM ROGERS & COMPANY TRADE PORTFOLIO TASTING OCTOBER 2025

REPORT FROM ROGERS & COMPANY TRADE PORTFOLIO TASTING OCTOBER 2025

The Event: Portfolio tasting of Rogers & Co wines
The Venue: George 
The Target Audience: sommeliers, wine media
The Availability/Catalogue: a good looking list of wines available to taste, with notes and prices (licensee)
The Quote/Background: 125 wines were available for tasting. The Bollinger mini-tasting of four sparklers was the absolute highlight of the event: Champagne Bollinger Special Cuvee NV @$85.99 licensee, with scores in the mid-90s; followed by Champagne Bollinger PN TX 20 NV @$144.99 licensee, score of 94 from Decanter; followed by Champagne Bollinger La Grande Annee 2025, rated 96 just about everywhere, @$248.99 licensee. All three are also available in magnums (1500ml). Pricewise -- the best deal appeared to be the Champagne Bollinger Rose Brut NV, rate about 93, @$118.99 licensee (only 750ml bottles). 
The Wines: sadly I could not taste all the wines, and I tasted mainly whites.

**** BEST -- Four Stars (91+ in Quality/Price Rating terms):
-Chateau Haut Roc Blanquant de Belair-Monange AOC Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2019 $70.99
-Domaine Gautherin Chablis 2023 $35.99 licensee
-Domaine Luquet Macon-Villages Le Pavillon 2024 $27.99
-Champagne Valentin Leflaive Sigma Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs NV $64.99
-Champagne Valentin Leflaive Avize Grand Cru Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs NV $115.99
-Olivier Leflaive Freres Puligny Montrachet 2022 $194.99
-Domaine Gachot-Monot Cote de Nuits-Villages 2023 $56.99
-Annonce de Belair-Monange AOC Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2022 $104.99
-Chateau Grand-Puy Ducasse Dauphin de Grand-Puy Ducasse Paulliac 2019 $53.99 [my fave red]
-Tenuta Cocci Grifoni Tara Falerio DOC Pecorino 2024 $18.99
-Lis Neris Jurosa Chardonnay 2021 $54.99  [my fave white]
-Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve IGT 2022 $168.19
-Produttori Del Barbaresco Montefico Riserva DOCG 2020 $89.99
-Astrolabe Marlborough Chardonnay 2024 $23.99
-Truchard Vineyards Carneros Chardonnay 2024 $43.19
-Buehler Chardonnay Russian River Valley 2022 $30.99
-Shafer Red Shoulder Ranch Chardonnay 2024 $100.49
-Shafer One Point Fiv Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 $162.99
-Shafer Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 $534.99
-Vina Cobos Felino Chardonnay 2024 $19.29
-Vina Cobos Felino Cabernet Sauvignon 2023 $19.29
-Paul Hobbs Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2022 $79.69
-Paul Hobbs Coombsville Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 $142.49

***1/2 BETTER -- Three and a Half Stars (86   89 in Quality/Price Rating terms):
-Olivier Leflaive Freres Montagny 1er Cru Bonneveaux 2020 $76.99
-Domaine Vacheron Sancerre Blanc 2024 $54.99 licensee
-Auguste Thevenaut Bourgogne Chardonnay 2023 $24.99
-Chateau Peymouton Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2028 $33.99
-Chateau Chantalouette Pomerol 2019 $48.99
-H.Cuvelier & Fils AOP Bordeaux Rouge 2023 $20.99
-Tenuta Orestiadi Molino a Vento Grilo 2024 $14.49
-Tenuta Orestiadi Catarratto DOC Sicilia 2024 $16.99
-Organized Crime Winery Limestone Block Chardonnay 2023 $18.62
-Flowers Sonoma Coast Chardonnay 2024 $52.99

The Food: cheese board, biscuits, grapes.
The Downside: the cheese board seemed to be freezer cold
The Upside: a chance for some mini-tasting of wines (e.g. Bollinger)
The Contact Person: m.barr@rogcowines.com
The Event s Marketing Effectiveness and Execution (numerical grade): 89.

Dean Tudor,  Prof Emeritus T'karonto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) School of Journalism

Treasurer of Wine Writers' Circle of Canada http://www.deantudor.com
http://gothicepicures.blogspot.com
https://twitter.com/gothicepicures

Virus-free.www.avg.com