Winery Story -The Wine Palate

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2025 Top 100 USA Wines -International Wine Report

“The 7 Best Wines to Pair With Your Thanksgiving Feast” -Robb Report

“Nid Tissé Is Making Need-to-Know Pinot Noirs” -James Molesworth, Wine Spectator

99 Points -James Suckling, 2023 Hyde Chardonnay

97 Points -James Suckling, 2023 Bacigalupi Chardonnay

97 Points -Lisa Perrotti-Brown, 2023 Hyde Chardonnay

97 Points -The Wine Advocate, 2023 Hyde Chardonnay

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#13 Nid Tissé Hyde Vineyard Chardonnay

98 Points -James Suckling

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6) 2022 Nid Tisse Chardonnay Hyde Vineyard, Napa Valley, Los Carneros - $94

Score: 97

QPR Rating: 6.03

“Some personal favorites… those from French-born newcomer Marie-Laure Ammons under her Nid Tissé label” -Lisa Perotti-Brown

THE FRENCH TOUCH IN CALIFORNIA

A relative newcomer, Nid Tisse, offered two brilliant chardonnays and a supple, finely balanced Pinot Noir Santa Rita Hills Radian Vineyard 2022. Nid Tisse owner-winemaker Marie-Laure Ammons made wine for Atelier Melka for 18 years.

Her Nid Tissé Chardonnay Napa Valley Carneros Hyde Vineyard 2022 took the highest score among California wines this week. Executive Editor Jim Gordon called it perhaps the stoniest, steeliest wine made from the much-celebrated property. It slowly opens in the glass to reveal Bosc pears, apple skin and a lingering finish. -James Suckling

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A native of the Limousin, Ammons studied wine and viticulture in Burgundy and Bordeaux before coming to California. She spent 18 years working with  Philippe Melka, after early jobs at Stonestreet and Hartford Court. Now she’s on her own with Nid Tissé. She produces non-interventionist Chardonnay and Pinot Noir using indigenous fermentations, and working with the best of the best vineyards, from Hyde Vineyard in Carneros and Russian River Valley’s famous Bacigalupi all the way down to Radian Vineyard in the Sta. Rita Hills. -Virginia Boone, New Wine Review

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“As someone constantly on the prowl for new wine discoveries, unearthing an emerging Chardonnay beauty is especially fascinating for me. Chardonnay’s textural attributes, affinity to barrel aging, and potential to become something more with careful cellaring impart the kind of multi-faceted complexity that is usually only experienced in red wines. Moreover, it allows terroir-minded winemakers to clearly express that sense of place that next-level wine lovers crave. Marie-Laure Ammons’ new Nid Tissé wines tick all these Chardonnay boxes and then some”. -Lisa Perotti-Brown

“The 2022 Pinot Noir Radian Vineyard is also off-the-hook good and shows the talent of this winemaker with reds as well as whites”. -Jeb Dunnuck

“…made by Marie-Laure Ammons, and while the quantities are tiny, the wines are utterly brilliant and highly recommended.”- Jeb Dunnuck