| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2006 Monteviejo Lindaflor Petite FleurValle de Uco Malbec Blend, Malbec more |
2/23/2010 - kenhoeve wrote: 88 pointsDrinks very well. Huge blueberry and fruit nose upon opening. Medium bodied and impeccably balanced. Very nice combo of Cab franc and merlot characteristics. JJB purchase at $16 per, great value! |
| Red |
2006 Monteviejo Lindaflor Petite FleurValle de Uco Malbec Blend, Malbec more |
6/10/2010 - kenhoeve wrote: 88 pointsExcellent malbec. Pop and pour. Too long, no notes. Check in on next ones. Drink now to 2014. |
| Red |
2008 Foxtrot Pinot Noir Foxtrot VineyardNaramata Bench more |
3/19/2012 - kenhoeve wrote: 90 pointsReally impressed and not expecting to be. Starts off with rather loud and effusive cherry fruit, but not jammy or overextracted, and just when you think it will become soft and boring this sucker hooks you and starts reeling you in. Suddenly it leans up and takes off with some crazy fine tannin structure drawing to a long finish with earth notes. This stuff drinks smooth as silk. We only had a couple hours over dinner to sample this but boy did it keep getting better, can't imagine what a day might do. Interesting and well worth seeking out. A couple next to us who drink only Pinot, had gone through a case on their two week vacation to Whistler! |
| White |
2011 Badet Clement & Co Chardonnay RevelationFrance more |
7/24/2013 - kenhoeve Likes this wine: 87 pointsUp front orchard fruits, transitioning to lemon, a little butter and a little minerality with an acidity that carries the wine to the med-short finish of spice. At first you really expect the alcohol to show but the acid brings it back and there is no heat, then you think after the butter you are going to get smothered with oak but you don't. After all that it sits in the fridge with a cork for a day, and still tastes great. Serve at 45-50°. This is not going to knock any socks off, but I rate it "very good" and honestly think it drinks like a decent $15-$18 chard. It's seriously quaffable, smooth, and un-spoofed. $5.99??? Back up the truck. |
| White |
2011 Badet Clement & Co Chardonnay RevelationFrance more |
10/5/2013 - kenhoeve wrote: 86 pointsConsistent, good balance. Serve chilled. |
| Red |
2005 Château Smith Haut Lafitte Les Hauts de SmithPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/7/2016 - kenhoeve Likes this wine: 88 pointsLots of barnyard on day one. After being open for a day, much better. Still plenty of barnyard on the nose but the palate does not show it. Smooth and open knit with subtle earth and a fresh perfumed berry finish. Not a lot going on, not good for the price (this was a gift), but it is well made. This actually needs a couple years if you don't decant. |
| Red |
2002 Château La Vieille CureFronsac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/6/2010 - kenhoeve wrote: 85 pointsUpon opening a delicious nose of blackberry, tobacco, oak. The fruit just never shows up on the palate where you have some muddled fruit with tobacco and some nice tannins that give body but are unobtrusive. On it's own pretty one dimensional and very unremarkable. Well made for food with good acid, accenting the food rather than the wine, here it shows it's best. This one is not going anywhere from here, drink/cook with now for rustic faire. |
| Red |
2002 Château La Vieille CureFronsac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/4/2011 - kenhoeve wrote: 83 pointsNo fruit and all oak spice? Bingo. While the wine retains balance, and is really good for cooking, it is certainly not enjoyable as a drink. At least the tobacco was gone on this bottle but my assessment remains. |
| Red |
2006 Domaine Fayat-ThunevinPomerol Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/11/2012 - kenhoeve wrote: 84 pointsSomeday there might be a wine here. For now there is foremost some barnyard, followed by plum and cocoa, and if you look hard enough a little berry in the finish. It is hot and tannic and unyielding. This bottle showed leakage at the cork top which I actually hoped would advance it's age. Just not a pleasant drink. |
| Red |
2006 Château Haut-Brisson La RéserveSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/15/2013 - kenhoeve wrote: 92 pointsLot of bottle variation here. First bottle was hot, tannic, disjointed. This bottle was excellent on a pop and pour but quickly clamped down after about 2 hours. While it was open the front was dominated by some sweaty horse that was surprisingly not objectionable. Palate switched gears to dark plum, then some floral pastille combined with some fresh berries. There is a ton of structure with med+ length. Lots of tannins that started to overpower everything at 2 hours. Not sure where this one is going but it was darn good for an hour. |
| Red |
1982 Château Sociando-MalletHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/16/2013 - kenhoeve Likes this wine: NRAlfert's bottle. Great looking bottle shape. Pretty spiffy showing here, no evidence of tiredness in the bottle. Whether a good example, I have no idea as it is my only experience. Slow ox'd in bottle for 4 hours. Bit dry, tart, and grassy initially, but with volume and tannin, and boatloads of leatherbound book aged character. At one point, while following a pour off sample, I got a really strong savory/umami impression on the backpalate that was really impressive. Anyway by the time we were ready to drink, it was obvious this really needs food to peel back the layers. Everything brings out a different character in this wine, with the most common being a really deft floral lifted berry note on the midpalate, and a medium long finish where the texture gets really silky and savory (veal jus?). I don't have any experience with aged bordeaux, so it's hard to put into words the stature that the wine seems to convey aesthetically, which seems more important than any manner you could describe the taste. What I will say is that if I had some provencal herbed butter, olives, and a fresh baguette, this wine will be recalled, in amorous detail. |
| Red |
2001 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/20/2012 - kenhoeve wrote: 93 pointsExcellent showing, very youthful in color. Lifted currant and cherry fruit on the very elegant palate, with tobacco and green notes on the finish. Such stupendous balance on this that there is simply no food it cannot add color to, and it is great solo. It is ready to drink but certainly will improve for many more years as this showed quite primary but with noticeable tannin. |
| Red |
2004 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/23/2012 - kenhoeve wrote: NRNR. Decanted for 3 hours and double decanted back into bottle for 2 hours. Mouth puckering dry tannins. Food helped some, but it took quite some time before I could taste anything. There is firm structure, and very nice fresh berry on the long finish, but boy is this wound up. 5 years, 10 years??? Ouch. |
| Red |
2005 Château Valrose St. Estèphe Cuvée AlienorRed Bordeaux Blend more |
9/9/2013 - kenhoeve Does not like this wine: 84 pointsConsistent with last note. The fruit is dried out but it is still technically sound wine. Hit it with pasta sauce/high acid dishes to bring out what little fruit remains. Unfortunately this was one to drink young. |
| Red |
2005 Château Valrose St. Estèphe Cuvée AlienorRed Bordeaux Blend more |
6/19/2013 - kenhoeve wrote: 84 pointsKnew this was tired and tannic, so matched it with some pizza/pasta and crushed red pepper. Actually made this quite drinkable and smooth, enjoyable even though the food brings out just a hint of fruit after cutting the tannins. Treat this like a chianti and you'll be fine. But drink up. |
| Red |
2005 Château Valrose St. Estèphe Cuvée AlienorRed Bordeaux Blend more |
12/2/2012 - kenhoeve Does not like this wine: 84 pointsSometimes things just don't work out. My first note was full of promise. This bottle was disappointing. The fruit has massively faded, and yet the tannins are still there. It has dried out and become dime a dozen sub $20 bordeaux. |
| Red |
2005 Château Valrose St. Estèphe Cuvée AlienorRed Bordeaux Blend more |
6/5/2010 - kenhoeve wrote: 91 pointsWe have a winner. Nose has nice smokey embers, but is a little reticent on the strawberry, blueberry preserves unless swirled but very focused and beautiful berry notes once you do. Cassis, dark fruit palate with some cedar and a very nice hint of spice in the background that should come forward. Still quite dry and tannic, but nice firm structure and gives up just enough to be palatable for now. Nice earth finish work in progress. This has some years ahead of it. Next bottle 2012. Fantastic QPR at $23, retail $35 is still good. |
| Red |
2001 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/29/2013 - kenhoeve wrote: 93 pointsDouble decanted immediately back into bottle. Initial whiffs of horse dung, promising! Really lovely and still primary, it is slender and elegant. Licorice, forest floor, fresh berries. It gets a slight upgrade with food, the acid/tannin balance is so spot on that different dishes provide little pops of flavor. Lots of evolution left in this one. (93-95). |
| Red |
2000 Château Branaire (Duluc-Ducru)St. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/16/2011 - kenhoeve wrote: 91 pointsPnp then decanted and consumed over 3 hours. Lovely if reticent nose of black cherry and oak. Full and immediately powerful on the front palate, plum with depth, red/black cherry on the midpalate as a very coy green(slightly vegetal?) note moves through quite nicely, with mild oak omnipresent. Slightly drying tannins that are well hidden. And the finish, oh my. Long gripping finish of dried cherry, dried strawberry, with florality, that lingers, even after a drink of water. Unfortunately this wine could not stand up to food of any kind, acid laid bare the alcohol while sweetness of any kind flattened the wine squeezing any life out of it. If you can't enjoy St. Julien with duck and blackberry gastrique, well, something is wrong. On it's own this wine is solid A material. Due to balance issues, B+/A-. Will continue to improve though. |
| White - Sweet/Dessert |
2005 Château ClimensBarsac Sémillon more |
5/29/2013 - kenhoeve wrote: 95 pointsInfinite length. Tremendous balance and acuity. Outstanding. |
| Red |
2008 Louis Jadot CortonCorton Grand Cru Pinot Noir more |
3/20/2012 - kenhoeve wrote: 88 pointsPnp. Very reticent, showing a lot of unintegrated oak. Shows brief hints of great depth on the palate, but they are fleeting. This will not be ready for quite some time, and is currently hard as a rock. |
| White |
2005 Domaine / Maison Vincent Girardin Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Champs-Gain Vieilles VignesChardonnay more |
6/3/2014 - kenhoeve wrote: 93 pointsMan, the last bottle of this was just incredible and taught me why people risk aging burgundy. Very rich, but with a tremendous line of acidity that left it rich but rewardingly lean through the finish. Never would have guessed it would get there, but this was one of the best chardonnays I have had. |
| White |
2005 Domaine / Maison Vincent Girardin Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Champs-Gain Vieilles VignesChardonnay more |
1/1/2013 - kenhoeve wrote: 90 pointsTwo good bottles of this. Very rich with yellow orchard fruits and nice spice and decent acid. Nothing special, but very quaffable and well balanced. |
| White |
2005 Domaine / Maison Vincent Girardin Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Champs-Gain Vieilles VignesChardonnay more |
1/1/2013 - kenhoeve wrote: flawedlightly corked. dumped. |
| White |
2005 Domaine / Maison Vincent Girardin Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Champs-Gain Vieilles VignesChardonnay more |
7/4/2011 - kenhoeve wrote: NRNot forthcoming. It's well put together with excellent cut but not expressive at all. Let's hope it opens over time and doesn't premox. |
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