Very nice fresh and persistent finish. A delicious wine that is drinking very well right now. Fantastic vibrant red berries, some nice spice and earth. Excellent buy.
Beautiful Pinot with tons of life and focused acid. Silky smooth tannins on the finish. Reminds me of being at the beach. Clean pure and showing beautiful finesse. New World in style. My first Marcassin experience. Bravo.
First La Turque. Gorgeous streamlined spicy raspberries and dark cherries. Heady and voluptuous. High acidity with firm tannin structure. A distinct flavor of star anise is interwoven in the dark fruit and roasted and expansive espresso bean driven finish. Fantastic bottling. If I could afford it, I would purchase an '01 to put away for ten or more years.
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Juicy fruit driven Crau. New World in style. Candied red berries with a perfume of rose petals. Some nice expressive components with an approachable palate for a wine this young. This was reminiscnet of a cultish New World Syrah or even Cabernet. I don't feel it was overly spicy. It had nice white pepper components but the floral bouquet was what made me come back to this bottling. Excellent.
Deep dark royal purple color. Completely opaque black at the center. Enormously aromatic. Funky and terroir driven displaying neatly wound leather and menthol aromas. Black truffles, balsamic glaze and some dark tomato soup mixed with blackberry liqueur. Barnyard flavors mixed with hay and dark blackberry pancake syrup. Yummy and delicious. Drinking very well at this age. One of my favorite Lynch-Bages of all time. An excellent showing in a world class vintage. Cheers!
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
My favorite Rhone wine to date. It was an honor to sample a glass of this wonderful juice. Sexy and hedonistic. Capo was a malange of aromas. Dark sweet berries, shrooms, char-grilled meat, vanilla, mocha and dark purple flowers. The palate shows lovely baking spice with some dark earl gray tea components - very enjoyable. It took me at least five minutes of enjoying the aroma before I took my first sip. This was one of the best expressions of "sex in a glass" that I've ever put to my lips. One of my favorite Old World wines of all time. I would love to see this in fifteen or twenty years. I cannot think of enough descriptors for everything that was leaping out of the glass. This elixir was overwhelming, elegant, yet a full throttlle bottling topping just above 15.5% alcohol - though it was barely evident. Once again I must humbly say...thank you Keith.
Massive viscous super young wine. Lovely Alban juice every time I have the privledge to try some. Chocolatey, and incredibly expansive on the palate. Finish goes on for over a minute. Gorgeous stuff. Huge alcohol content yet coming across silky smooth on the palate. Round opulent and richly textured. Try my bottle in the next five to seven if I can wait that long.
Rosey, cherries, leather with some nice gravely rocks underneath on the back end. Licorice, spicy but still very well structured and elegant. No rough corners whatsover. An all around great bottling showing impressive depth. Layered fruit lead to a full bodied though well integrated finish.
2007 Bodegas Juan Gil Monastrell Jumilla 89 Points
Spain, Murcia, Jumilla
Very nice fresh and persistent finish. A delicious wine that is drinking very well right now.
Fantastic vibrant red berries, some nice spice and earth.
Excellent buy.
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2004 Marcassin Pinot Noir Blue-Slide Ridge Vineyard 94 Points
USA, California, Sonoma County, Sonoma Coast
Beautiful Pinot with tons of life and focused acid.
Silky smooth tannins on the finish.
Reminds me of being at the beach. Clean pure and showing beautiful finesse.
New World in style. My first Marcassin experience.
Bravo.
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1961 Château Lynch-Bages 93 Points
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac
Nice life still. Very enjoyable.
Some nice reductive notes here. Lots of stewd red fruit and vegetables.
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1985 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon Flawed
USA, California, Napa Valley
Fruit was completely dead. Oxidized. Strong reductive brown tea notes.
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2001 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie La Turque 93 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Côte-Rôtie
First La Turque. Gorgeous streamlined spicy raspberries and dark cherries.
Heady and voluptuous. High acidity with firm tannin structure.
A distinct flavor of star anise is interwoven in the dark fruit and roasted and expansive espresso bean driven finish.
Fantastic bottling. If I could afford it, I would purchase an '01 to put away for ten or more years.
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2007 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau 93 Points
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Juicy fruit driven Crau. New World in style. Candied red berries with a perfume of rose petals.
Some nice expressive components with an approachable palate for a wine this young.
This was reminiscnet of a cultish New World Syrah or even Cabernet. I don't feel it was overly spicy.
It had nice white pepper components but the floral bouquet was what made me come back to this bottling.
Excellent.
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1990 Château Lynch-Bages 96 Points
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac
Deep dark royal purple color. Completely opaque black at the center.
Enormously aromatic. Funky and terroir driven displaying neatly wound leather and menthol aromas.
Black truffles, balsamic glaze and some dark tomato soup mixed with blackberry liqueur.
Barnyard flavors mixed with hay and dark blackberry pancake syrup.
Yummy and delicious. Drinking very well at this age. One of my favorite Lynch-Bages of all time.
An excellent showing in a world class vintage.
Cheers!
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2003 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée da Capo 97 Points
France, Rhône, Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
My favorite Rhone wine to date.
It was an honor to sample a glass of this wonderful juice.
Sexy and hedonistic. Capo was a malange of aromas.
Dark sweet berries, shrooms, char-grilled meat, vanilla, mocha and dark purple flowers.
The palate shows lovely baking spice with some dark earl gray tea components - very enjoyable.
It took me at least five minutes of enjoying the aroma before I took my first sip.
This was one of the best expressions of "sex in a glass" that I've ever put to my lips.
One of my favorite Old World wines of all time. I would love to see this in fifteen or twenty years.
I cannot think of enough descriptors for everything that was leaping out of the glass.
This elixir was overwhelming, elegant, yet a full throttlle bottling topping just above 15.5% alcohol - though it was barely evident.
Once again I must humbly say...thank you Keith.
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1975 Château Palmer 91 Points
France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Margaux
Super stinky. Still some nice life underneath the funk though.
A little past its prime.
Displaying nicely aged robust dark fruit.
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2001 Hospices de Beaune Mazis-Chambertin Cuvée Madeleine Collignon Henri Boillot 93 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Mazis-Chambertin Grand Cru
Rich waxy and aromatic.
Nice fuller bodied Chambertin.
Beautifully structured with great acidity and beautiful silky creamy mouth feel.
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2006 Alban Vineyards Grenache Alban Estate Vineyard 95 Points
USA, California, Central Coast, Edna Valley
Massive viscous super young wine.
Lovely Alban juice every time I have the privledge to try some.
Chocolatey, and incredibly expansive on the palate.
Finish goes on for over a minute. Gorgeous stuff.
Huge alcohol content yet coming across silky smooth on the palate.
Round opulent and richly textured.
Try my bottle in the next five to seven if I can wait that long.
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2004 Tuck Beckstoffer Dancing Hares Vineyard 94 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Rosey, cherries, leather with some nice gravely rocks underneath on the back end.
Licorice, spicy but still very well structured and elegant.
No rough corners whatsover. An all around great bottling showing impressive depth.
Layered fruit lead to a full bodied though well integrated finish.
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2004 Finca Allende Rioja Calvario 92 Points
Spain, La Rioja, La Rioja Alta, Rioja
Very rich and well extracted.
Excellent. A little overpriced maybe.
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1994 The Hess Collection Cabernet Sauvignon Mt. Veeder 88 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley, Mt. Veeder
Showing some excellent age.
Muted berries overall but still some nice life. Enjoyable for a mid-level Cab in a fantastic vintage for Napa.
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