| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2007 Domaine de la Mordorée Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée de la Reine des BoisRed Rhone Blend more |
11/9/2018 - sawira wrote: 94 pointsDeep and luscious. Super notes of deep bing cherries, some wood, and a superbly long finish. A keeper. |
| Red |
2012 Carlisle Zinfandel Papera RanchRussian River Valley more |
10/23/2017 - sawira wrote: 94 pointsBottle #1 of 4. Laser-like focus, deep purple and black fruits, classic creosote/bramble notes, great clarity and persistence, and a walloping finish. Very bright wine, and even better after being opened a few days. Killer. Will last another 4-6 years.
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| Red |
2008 Thierry Allemand Cornas ChaillotSyrah more |
10/15/2017 - sawira wrote: 95 pointsDecanted two hours. Silky, perfectly balanced, sweet fruit, dry supremely long finish, meat juice, delightfully polished wine. Has another decade, but ready now. WOTN for me.
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| White - Sparkling |
2010 Ruppert-Leroy Champagne Brut Nature Fosse-GrelyChampagne Blend more |
10/1/2017 - sawira wrote: 93 pointsStill young, very chalky, and brightly acidic, which will hold this for a long time. Good for another decade or two. Easily another couple points of upside. HOLD!
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| Red |
2009 Coudert Fleurie Clos de la RoiletteGamay more |
4/13/2017 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 94 pointsDeep and dark nose with wonderful perfume. Dark florals, minerals, sappy blackberries. Some great sniffs where the pure fruit is sweet with great sève. Nice savory game and minerals almost creamy. The palate shows emerging maturity. Lots of the savory game and minerals. Great mouthfeel with a little bit of tannins still in reserve. The age and the vintage make this more plush and accessible then my favorite recent vintages of this - this is a different interpretation but beautiful in its own way. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 17/20.
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| Red |
2009 Coudert Fleurie Clos de la RoiletteGamay more |
4/11/2017 - sawira wrote: 93 pointsBottle #4 of 7. Deep and rich, still youngish. This is rapidly becoming one of my favorite 09 Cru BoJos. It's spicy, long and delicious, with lots of time in hand. I'm going to have to slow down my planned drinking schedule. Total score.
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| Red |
2008 Westrey Pinot Noir Oracle VineyardDundee Hills more |
12/9/2016 - sawira wrote: 93 pointsBottle #11 of 18. Ridiculously good. Still bright and deep purple red, no bricking. Great acidity, complexity, with the structure still asserting after being open three nights. Deep ripe black cherries, plenty of Oregon bramble, and beautiful precision - all in a suave, subtle and elegant package. I don't know what rickspicks was drinking, but it wasn't this. Stored since release in a quite cool cellar. This has many years to go - at least 10-12, and may go longer than that. This is still young and improving. Total score.
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| White - Off-dry |
2001 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese AuctionMosel Saar Ruwer more |
8/27/2016 - uritr wrote: 100 pointsDrop Dead Amazing Not surprised by Mosel Fine Wine Rating it 100 |
| White |
2011 Alzinger Riesling Smaragd SteinertalWachau more |
4/25/2016 - Rieslingfan wrote: NRTotal mistake to open this, as it was shut down tight. Not much showing except acidity and minerality. Very little in the way of fruit. Too early for developed character, so it was largely an empty shell. Stay away from this. Stay far away.
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| Red |
2002 La Pousse d'Or Volnay 1er Cru Clos des 60 OuvréesPinot Noir more |
4/17/2016 - johnh1001 wrote: 90 pointssweet ripe red fruit. Upfront nose, but this is a bit thin on the palate and a bit short on the finish. Very pleasant but I won't be holding |
| Red |
2001 Icardi Barolo ParejNebbiolo more |
4/7/2016 - sawira wrote: NRInteresting. (I'm being generous.) This shows lots of brown in its coloration, is deeply extracted, and heavily oxidizing. At first it's a unique style but the second evening this was DOA - bitter finish, imbalanced, cracking up. Barely noticeable as Barolo, and not much of a finish either. This was bought at auction, so maybe had storage issues. Judgement deferred.
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| White - Off-dry |
2001 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese AuctionMosel Saar Ruwer more |
3/22/2016 - salil wrote: 97 pointsA few good men, many great wines (My place, CT): AP #14. This is on another level compared to any of the other regular Fritz Haag wines I've had. It's basically a ripe, botrytis-free Auslese, packed with an array of orchard fruits, vivid slate and stony mineral flavours beneath, and all sorts of other sweeter floral, creamy, and vanilla accents that keep emerging with more air. There's amazing acidity beneath that keeps it feeling incredibly light and racy, and an absurdly long finish. Still incredibly youthful - but this is already amazing.
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| Red |
2008 Amalie Robert Pinot Noir Vintage DebutWillamette Valley more |
1/26/2015 - sawira wrote: NRBottle #9 of 12. Tried over three nights. This bottle subdued, seems on the downhill slide. More sassafras and older fruit flavors, with a thin mid-palate and very short dilute finish. Did I wait too long? Next bottle soon to verify. Off bottle?
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| Red |
2003 Giuseppe Rinaldi Barolo Brunate Le CosteNebbiolo more |
10/9/2014 - sawira wrote: 93 pointsStarting to just barely brick in color. Beautiful subdued, building nose with tarry florals and sensuous sweet cherries. Just starting its movement to leather and pleasant varnishy nuances. Soft and easily approachable at first, this shows it's Nebbiolo heritage over time in glass by revealing more backbone, depth and still present though hidden tannins. Great fruit, acidity and especially balance. Delicious now and will easily hold.
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| White |
1996 Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling KabinettMosel Saar Ruwer more |
7/3/2014 - sawira wrote: 94 pointsBrilliant gold color. Nose of baked red apples (Schaefer trademark for me), laden with brown baking spices, yellow fruits, talc, lime, brown sugar, lanolin, all the usual tertiary suspects. Teeth searing acidity roars to the fore on the palate and lasts through the lengthy, extremely persistent and very dry finish, with the beautiful ripe yellow fruit more as an accompaniment. For my palate this is a balanced wine, as I love the acidity of the 96 vintage, especially with a substantial mid-palate like this. Grows in the glass, though so tasty this bottle didn't last long. If you own this, you have a gem, and it will last for a decade plus, though no reason to defer, this is very slowly subsiding. For me, Kabinett doesn't get much better, and this is at a perfect peak. Awesome.
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| Red - Fortified |
1998 Noon Grenache Vintage PortMcLaren Vale more |
5/23/2014 - sawira wrote: 84 pointsHmmm. Interesting. I've saved this bottle for years, thinking it would be a treat. Maybe too young, but I doubt it. The fruit is fading, and this is such a cough syrupy, alcoholic, hot finish, mess. Just not my thing. I'd say this is falling apart and was better in 09, when last tasted.
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| Red |
2002 Carlisle Zinfandel Dry Creek Valleymore |
1/16/2013 - sawira wrote: NRThe last of nine bottles, I've chased this since release every time it shows up on wb.c or elsewhere. A great wine comes to the end of its run. This remains, after many years on Mike's list, my single favorite zin he's ever produced. (Some have been close.) This bottle is just beginning to fade, and lose its Pet oriented structure. Still outstanding however, with huge, fat, almost cab-like notes of red and black fruit with deliciously granular tannins fading to the background. Mike, if you're reading this, go for the high Pet formula at Dry Creek again when the vintage permits. This wine is a revelation, thank you for the great run. Drink up, and enjoy!
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| Red |
1995 Dehlinger Pinot Noir GoldridgeRussian River Valley more |
5/8/2012 - sawira wrote: 93 pointsVibrant, deep burgundy red, shading to mahogany at rim. Slightly candied black cherrries initially on the nose. Delicious, perfectly mature CA PN. Understated balancing acidity, some earth, excellent mid-palate, outstanding length. Minimal, but noticeable, sassafras/element. Outstanding mature New World pinot. This isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but not improving either. At at a perfect peak now. Drink up, unless you're a tertiary fiend like me :-)
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Comment posted by sawira:
11/12/2018 3:31:00 PM - I'd hold for another year or so. Still more to come.