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Red

2010 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon La Croix Boissée

Cabernet Franc more

7/10/2013 - christyler wrote: NR

I knew this would be too young, but I opened it anyway. It's a little difficult to enjoy now - even after a four hour decant it's tightly coiled, the wood is noticeable and the tannins are a little rough. It still has that beautiful acidity that Baudry's 2010s all display, and I think it has tremendous potential. My remaining six bottles won't be touched for at least 5 years.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    7/13/2013 1:13:00 PM - Definitely lay off Croix Boissee as the wood will obviously take more time to integrate. They must have known given the endowment of the vintage. It will pay dividends in the future and will be a pleasure to drink aside the Grez as a slight stylistic foil.

Red

2012 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Grézeaux

Cabernet Franc more

12/18/2014 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NR

A good vintage for this wine, it would seem. Balanced and fresh in character, although also infused with an earthy gravelly minerality that is interesting, although not always viscerally pleasing. Not a fruity wine, even at this very young state. This is good - it drinks well with food, it's a lovely little wine. But it costs $28 now. That's more than what a lovely little wine should cost. I love Baudry, but I'm just saying, I think we are in territory now where as good as the wines are, Grezeaux may cease to merit the price, relative to other wines of similar quality.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    12/18/2014 12:43:00 PM - Interesting perspective. I don't think we've breached the value spectrum. I think it will become more apparent as the recent vintages age. These wines have more upside than most think.

Red

2009 Domaine de Chevalier

Pessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more

1/25/2012 - Faryan wrote: NR

UGC 2009 Bordeaux Tasting - NYC - 1.25.12 (New York City): Last tasted a year ago almost to the day via barrel sample. The wine has “grown up” quite a bit. Before it was primordial, backward and embryonic. In this setting it has calmed down and begun to settle into infancy. The wine shows far more class on the nose compared to the prior Graves. More floral lift (almost Margauxesque) and a beautiful red berry element to the fruit. I can’t wait until the telltale smoke begins to develop with more time in bottle. D d Chevalier rouge seems to be nipping at the heel of the 2nd tier graves rouges. Excellent. (92-96)

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    11/26/2021 2:43:00 PM - Would love to crack one open alas all I have are the Blancs 😁

Red

1966 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more

1/12/2016 - dcwino wrote: 95 points

66 Bordeaux dinner (Ripple Restaurant in DC): This is a very complete mature claret and very PB, ie more black fruit driven, round and generous. Beautiful harmonious nose displaying cassis, lead pencil, cedar and caramel. Excellent concentration, warm and round, sweet opulent cassis driven palate impression and lovely long finish. Very harmonious and exceptionally balanced wine that is drinking beautifully. According to Ken, very poor ratings by critics. I highly recommend. The dry red wine of the night for me.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    1/18/2016 9:39:00 AM - Good to hear. The one I brough to the Pichon dinner we had many years ago seemed off, as I had high expectations of the wine. Mouton was quite nice in 66 as well iirc.

Red

2004 Château Rayas Côtes du Rhône Château de Fonsalette Reserve

Red Rhone Blend more

8/12/2017 - EhrlichDY Likes this wine: 92 points

Rayas wines age so effortlessly at any level. This is no exception as it has hardly budged since my last bottle more than two years ago and is drinking incredibly young for a Cote du Rhone at age 13. Stunning fruit perfume and a delicious balance of fruit, mineral, acid and tannin that remains. On day two it all integrates with a pillowy soft texture.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    8/15/2017 5:53:00 AM - great stuff, still sitting on mine. hope all is well

White

2002 F.X. Pichler Riesling Smaragd Loibner Berg

Wachau more

5/19/2013 - tooch wrote: 92 points

Chicago Berserkerfest; 5/18/2013-5/19/2013 (Chicago, IL): This was definitely the best bottle of this I've had. The nose was floral, and elegant. Tones of lychee and lanolin wafted out of the glass. The palate was soft in a way, but still complex. Perhaps some acidity has been lost over time, but what remains is floral, soft and delicate.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    5/25/2013 12:10:00 PM - had one a few weeks ago with Ross and Mike over at Ross'. It showed the best out of the batch we had. Definite upswing!

Red

2012 Pierre Gonon St. Joseph

Syrah more

11/6/2014 - tooch wrote: 91 points

Decanted for about 3 hours. Smelled like a pepperoni pizza. Lots and lots of meaty notes and while this is still young, and I'm not sure it'll make old bones, this is going to be one darn delicious syrah in a couple years. I'm thinking it'll be something like 2008.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    11/8/2014 9:22:00 AM - good news the 08 is awesome!

Red

2007 Domaine Chandon de Briailles Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru Ile des Vergelesses

Pinot Noir more

1/26/2015 - Pknut wrote: NR

Disappointing. The fruit lacks richness and the wine comes across as rather dry. I don’t know whether the fruit is fading already, or if this is closed, or whether my other bottles need years longer to gain some richness and fruit sweetness. Right now, this is too dry for me. Bottle 1 of 4. Preparing for the epic snowstorm that didn’t happen.

About 1/3 of the bottle remained in the bottle, in the fridge, for the next two nights. When I tried it, no degradation. Dry raspberry palate, but a hint of richness comes through. Perhaps this just needs more time?

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    2/24/2015 7:53:00 AM - disheartening to hear.

Red

1995 Château Calon-Ségur

St. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more

3/5/2015 - Comte Flaneur wrote: 90 points

I had high hopes for this and bought a case privately. This has had some rapturous notes. Well the first two bottles from this case were...er...a bit ho hum. I thought initially one was corked, but no it turned out it wasn't. This is not a bad wine. Rather it is an expectations let down. It has a reasonable core of fruit and has some mineral, meaty and gamey overtones. The underlying wine is still quite stern, tannic...and ungracious. It isn't elegant. It has a kind of rubberiness. In fact it is furry and clunky! I think just leave it for 5-10 years. Then it might be more tertiary and leathery...but already shows some leatheriness..a sign of age like liver spots on the back of your hand. So it is a bit of an enigma this. Overall it is good, but a let down given some recent hype. It lacks charm. And elegance.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    3/6/2015 6:53:00 AM - too young

White

2012 Jean-François Ganevat Côtes du Jura Marnes Bleues Les Chalasses

Savagnin more

5/21/2015 - JOsgood wrote: NR

I wasn't a fan of the 2012 vintage of this usually excellent wine. It comes across very sweet on the palate and lacks the Savagnin funk of older vintages. Perhaps too young, let's hope.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    6/1/2015 9:34:00 AM - bummer...

Red

2009 Jean Foillard Morgon Côte du Py

Gamay more

8/5/2015 - Capt Cutlass Likes this wine: NR

Better chilled to smooth off the alcohol bite. Has some residual sugar (tasted twice - similar) but goes nicely with some pizza or other rustic fare. A bit Valpolicella-like. Drink up!

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    8/5/2015 1:09:00 PM - 09 Foillard CdP like Valpoi? Residual Sugar?

White - Sparkling

1990 Moët & Chandon Champagne Cuvée Dom Pérignon

Champagne Blend more

2/5/2016 - Pknut wrote: flawed

Began with a musty, moldy smell although not full-on TCA. Palate lacked the mustiness, but wasn't fresh, with a baked caramel note that suggested heat damage along the way. A note of coconut oil popcorn is evident once past the caramel, which R says is typical of the 90 Dom. With R.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    2/6/2016 11:40:00 AM - Had similar impression with a bottle last year. Table was torn between TCA or not...

Red

1990 Domaine de Vallouit Côte-Rôtie

Syrah more

7/14/2017 - coremill wrote: 84 points

Past its prime. What fruit is left has a roasted, figgy character consistent with the vintage, but this is noticeably volatile and turning into generic old wine. Probably better 10 years ago. Drink up.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    7/21/2017 11:38:00 AM - Had a similar impression bottle about 6 months ago. My assessment was heat damage as the label was destroyed/cork was saturated. Dunno...

Red

2010 Jean-Marc Burgaud Morgon Côte du Py

Gamay more

8/19/2012 - Bearbus wrote: NR

muted, closed?, vegtative in a stemmy way (not undergrowth and not meadow), not much fruit at all but suggestive of red blackberries and underipe cherries, a kind of dusty wood; palate is all up front, and the acid reverberates in the front palate after swallowing which is disconcerting, tannins are fluffy, strangely and awkwardly structured on the palate. Would this come around with time? I suspect not.

  • Comment posted by Faryan:

    9/28/2017 1:35:00 PM - I had great luck with this on two occasions in the last 18 months. May be an off bottle...

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