Nose: The nose is gorgeous and flowing with rose petals, red cherries, licorice, roasted herbs, tar, raspberries, earth, truffles, balsamico, and some mint. The nose is perfumed and elegant with excellent depth.
Taste: Medium bodied with high tannins and high acidity. The feel is elegant with the tannins being silky backed up with red cherries, rose petals, leather, truffles, tar, raspberries, balsamico, and some mint notes.
Overall: This is a pretty, refined, and mature barbaresco.
Nose: The nose is well balanced and poised with waxy notes, red apple, brioche, baking spices, honeycomb, spiced pears, doughy tones, pears, and roasted nut.
Taste: Full bodied with high acidity. The feel is regal with red apples, roasted nuts, brioche, doughy tones, and baking spices.
Overall: This is a fantastic Champagne. It's full bodies, but, it's deft and shows off a good amount of lees aging. This is from a 2010 base.
Nose: The nose is wide open after two hours with a classic backdrop of black cherries, animale, rawhide leather, black pepper, black raspberry, earth, and tobacco tones.
Taste: Full bodied with medium/high acidity and medium/high tannins. The tannins are silky and fine grained with black cherries, Violets, black pepper, tobacco note, and animale tones.
Overall: This needed two hours to open, but, it's absolutely gorgeous now. Quite frankly, I don't see much reason to age it further, but, that's not to say it won't last for a long time.
Nose: The nose is fresh and aromatic with white peaches, green apples, pears, acacia flowers, nectarines, crushed rocks, quince, limes, and some lemon zest.
Taste: Medium bodied with high acidity. The feel has a fatness to it with refreshing acidity and white peaches, green apples, acacia flowers, quince, crushed rocks, and some saline notes.
Overall: This is a fantastic young riesling. Everything is fresh and favors the white spectrum. I'd love to see where this goes with age.
1996 Ca' del Baio Barbaresco Asili 92 Points
Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barbaresco
(3/24/2017)
Nose: The nose is gorgeous and flowing with rose petals, red cherries, licorice, roasted herbs, tar, raspberries, earth, truffles, balsamico, and some mint. The nose is perfumed and elegant with excellent depth.
Taste: Medium bodied with high tannins and high acidity. The feel is elegant with the tannins being silky backed up with red cherries, rose petals, leather, truffles, tar, raspberries, balsamico, and some mint notes.
Overall: This is a pretty, refined, and mature barbaresco.
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2015 Domaine Jomain Puligny-Montrachet 89 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Puligny-Montrachet
(3/24/2017)
Nose: The nose is balanced and fresh with pear, saline, white peach, white florals, a touch of cream, and yellow fruits.
Taste: Full bodied with medium+ acidity. The feel is fat, but balanced with pears, apples, white peaches, some creams, and yellow fruits.
Overall: This is an excellent Puligny-Montrachet. It's well balanced with good definition and fresh acidity.
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NV Soutiran Champagne Grand Cru Collection Privée Brut 91 Points
France, Champagne, Champagne Grand Cru
(3/24/2017)
Nose: The nose is well balanced and poised with waxy notes, red apple, brioche, baking spices, honeycomb, spiced pears, doughy tones, pears, and roasted nut.
Taste: Full bodied with high acidity. The feel is regal with red apples, roasted nuts, brioche, doughy tones, and baking spices.
Overall: This is a fantastic Champagne. It's full bodies, but, it's deft and shows off a good amount of lees aging. This is from a 2010 base.
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2007 Domaine Vincent Paris Cornas La Geynale 92 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Cornas
(3/24/2017)
Nose: The nose is wide open after two hours with a classic backdrop of black cherries, animale, rawhide leather, black pepper, black raspberry, earth, and tobacco tones.
Taste: Full bodied with medium/high acidity and medium/high tannins. The tannins are silky and fine grained with black cherries, Violets, black pepper, tobacco note, and animale tones.
Overall: This needed two hours to open, but, it's absolutely gorgeous now. Quite frankly, I don't see much reason to age it further, but, that's not to say it won't last for a long time.
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NV Jérôme Prévost Champagne La Closerie Extra Brut Les Beguines 92 Points
France, Champagne
(3/25/2017)
Nose: The nose is quite expressive with toast, red apples, white florals, pears, mineral tones, biscuits, and a good dose of roast nuts.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with high acidity. The feel is refined and deep with toast, red apples, mineral tones, roast nuts, and biscuits.
Overall: This is a lot from 2013. The bubbly is sexy and refined with a lot of depth and expression.
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2015 Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese 93 Points
Germany, Nahe
(3/25/2017)
Nose: The nose is fresh and aromatic with white peaches, green apples, pears, acacia flowers, nectarines, crushed rocks, quince, limes, and some lemon zest.
Taste: Medium bodied with high acidity. The feel has a fatness to it with refreshing acidity and white peaches, green apples, acacia flowers, quince, crushed rocks, and some saline notes.
Overall: This is a fantastic young riesling. Everything is fresh and favors the white spectrum. I'd love to see where this goes with age.
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2015 Patrick Piuze Chablis 1er Cru Butteaux 91 Points
France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis 1er Cru
(3/25/2017)
Nose: The nose is balanced with lemon peels, smoke, gun flint, apples, custard, pears, and a good amount of floral tones.
Taste: Medium bodied with high acidity. The feel is somewhat on the plush side with lemon peels, gun flint, apples, and some custard notes.
Overall: This is drinking perfectly right now. The acidity is fresh and youthful, but, it isn't too overpowering.
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