| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2005 Oriel IconicBordeaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/27/2010 - wine&roses wrote: 86 pointsFine for the WTSO price, but, while this is an adequate claret, with nice tones of plum and wild cherry on the nose & palate, along with the requisite tang of tannin, there is too much acid, and it becomes more pronounced as the wine airs. |
| Red |
2009 Château PasquetBordeaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/21/2013 - wine&roses wrote: 86 pointsToo sweet, could come from anywhere, not even a hint of France. But largely inoffensive, & we contentedly drank a case here in the White Mountains. |
| White |
2005 Château La Tour Carnet BlancBordeaux Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
8/22/2009 - wine&roses wrote: 79 pointsPleasant bouquet gives way to taste of oaky water. Very disappointing to fans of theexcellent red La Tour Carnet. |
| White |
2011 Château Guiraud Le GBordeaux Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
12/21/2013 - wine&roses wrote: 86 pointsSmells & tastes like tinned grapefruit juice, if any other CTers are old enough to remember what that was. Cheap the price, & cheap the wine. |
| Red |
2005 Domaine de ValmengauxBordeaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/4/2010 - wine&roses wrote: 91 pointsThis was a bright & charming youngster in 2008 & 2009, fruity & tannic, and this last bottle of my two cases has matured into a serious claret, dark, deep, rich, & harmonious. How I wish I had more, for it still has years of development left. |
| Red |
2005 Château DubraudBlaye Côtes de Bordeaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/11/2010 - wine&roses wrote: 86 pointsA typical cheap claret: oak and alcohol, with a little fruit beneath. There's nothing wrong with it, nothing at all--but life is short. It makes you understand why people say, with so much good wine in the world (and let's just stick to Europe), why bother with this? |
| Red |
2009 Château de MacardBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/22/2013 - wine&roses Does not like this wine: 83 pointsOkay for cooking. |
| Red |
2010 Château Jean FauxBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/17/2018 - wine&roses Likes this wine: 91 pointsAstonishing QPR--which is why there's none available. Fresh fruit and much claret complexity, with a lush mouthfeel and a long finish, make this a classic for us budget-minded claret drinkers. Kudos to Derenoncourt, who consulted. |
| Red |
2005 Château Fleur Haut GaussensBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/27/2010 - wine&roses wrote: flawedYuk! Two out of three bottles corked--and the third barely mediocre. Zachy's shouldn't sell such crap, at any price. |
| Red |
2005 Château Fleur Haut GaussensBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/17/2010 - wine&roses wrote: 86 pointsCharmless. |
| Red |
2005 Château Fleur Haut GaussensBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/23/2010 - wine&roses wrote: flawedWine had leaked through the cork. Not yet vinegar, but not drinkable. |
| Red |
2005 Château Rauzan DespagneBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
6/7/2017 - wine&roses wrote: 87 pointsMine are pretty mediocre & pretty much past it. |
| Red |
2005 Château Rauzan DespagneBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/16/2017 - wine&roses wrote: 89 pointsMatured amazingly. Lovely decade-old + claret. No, it is not complex or subtle; but it is real claret, with a taste of the terroir, and a pleasure to revisit after several years' absence. It is going downhill and has only a few years (or months) left in it. |
| Red |
2003 Château Le Conseiller (Jean-Philippe Janoueix)Bordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/3/2012 - wine&roses wrote: flawedTwo bottles from WineBid grossly corked & undrinkable, making this a very high-risk way to buy wine. The third, however, was big, powerful, and satisfying, showing what Derenoncourt is trying to achieve at this chateau, with all his oak. Great when he succeeds, but it's a hit or miss proposition. And the third bottle was hardly worth the $60 I paid for the trio. |
| Red |
2009 Château Saint-Michel Bordeaux SupérieurRed Bordeaux Blend more |
11/17/2010 - wine&roses wrote: 89 pointsMuch too young, of course, but after decanting you can taste lots of fruit and some cedar and tobacco-tinged sweet tannins (perhaps too sweet), all accompanied by a mouth coating richness and a lovely wild-cherry nose. I'm not experienced enough to know how this will mature, but I'm guessing that in a year or two, those who paid $12 for this wine will feel like Solomons. Beyond that, que scais-je? as an owner of Chateau d'Yquem liked to say. Will it achieve complexity? Let me know. |
| Red |
2005 Château Le Conseiller (Jean-Philippe Janoueix)Bordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/18/2015 - wine&roses wrote: NRIt was interesting to see this develop from when I first tried it in 2010, when it was in its ungainly youth, through 2011, when it began to show signs of (rather muscle-bound) maturity, until its spectral senescence now. An interesting experiment, though I wish I had tried it in 2012 or '13. Still, a very minor claret, though it tries so hard. |
| Red |
2005 Château Le Conseiller (Jean-Philippe Janoueix)Bordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/30/2011 - wine&roses wrote: 88 pointsIt turned out to be a fine Bdx Superieur, though nothing more. For $20, with its reasonably smooth & complex interchange of fruit, terroir, oak, and age, it's a lot better than most other countries or regions can produce--though Bordeaux, mes amis, can do much better. |
| Red |
2005 Château Le Conseiller (Jean-Philippe Janoueix)Bordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/19/2011 - wine&roses wrote: 90 pointsMaturing into a fine claret as the tannins resolve and the fruit re-emerges. |
| Red |
2005 Château Le Conseiller (Jean-Philippe Janoueix)Bordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/24/2011 - wine&roses wrote: 88 pointsThis may turn out better than I feared. On nose & palate, there's wild cherry, cigar box, and black pepper. It would be nicer with more fruit & less oak, but things are moving in the right direction. It will never be a great success, but it may end up creditable. |
| Red |
2005 Château Le Conseiller (Jean-Philippe Janoueix)Bordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/28/2010 - wine&roses wrote: NRQuery: what was a brawny, brutal, tannic wine with plenty of fruit a year ago now tastes mostly of the barrel it aged in. Should I assume the wine was badly made and didn't have the capacity to develop, or, as so many commentators on 2005 clarets have written, is this merely a stage through which the wine is passing on the way from being "closed down" to opening back up? |
| Red |
2006 PezatBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/23/2011 - wine&roses wrote: 89 pointsClassic claret; lovely. |
| Red |
2003 Château de LaunayBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
9/12/2009 - wine&roses wrote: 80 pointsA perfectly acceptable claret--but by a whisker. Any more tar, leather, or tobacco notes, any less of the rather simple fruit, and you'd taste nothing but the oak barrel, with a hot alcoholic finish. But it all comes together to provide enough complexity and rich mouthfeel to call it claret. A bargain at the $10 sale price but not at the $20 original price. |
| Red |
2006 PezatBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/16/2011 - wine&roses wrote: 88 pointsAn honest cru-bourgeois claret. Cigar box, licorice, and a hint of wild cherry on the palatte. No over-extraction; no over-oaking--so it's an everyday pleasure, with its tang of bordelaise terroir. But don't expect grand cru. |
| Red |
2005 Château GalandBordeaux Supérieur Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/22/2009 - wine&roses wrote: 79 pointsThin and sour, better for cooking than drinking. |
| Red |
2005 Château Haut GuiraudCôtes de Bourg Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/21/2013 - wine&roses wrote: 89 pointsOn its last legs now, this wine is a lovely, simple, classic claret, redolent of the bdx terroir, when the corks are not shot. But they are going, so drink up soon. |
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