| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2004 Villa Matilde Falerno del MassicoAglianico more |
5/14/2011 - Cole wrote: 92 pointssmoke, mineral, & candied walnuts on top of black plums and black raspberries. |
| Red |
2006 Salvatore Molettieri Taurasi Riserva Cinque QuerceTaurasi DOCG Aglianico more |
10/1/2015 - Cole wrote: 93 pointsNeeds two decades. |
| Red |
2001 Villa Matilde Falerno del Massico Vigna CamaratoAglianico more |
3/29/2010 - Cole wrote: 93 pointsSmoky flowers, meats, and fruit. Drank this bottle a few months ago, but am still wow'ed thinking about it. |
| White |
2007 Morgadío Albariño Rías Baixas Legado del Condemore |
5/14/2011 - Cole wrote: 88 pointsThink it needed to be drunk younger... wet lime zests, bitter herbs, sweet sea shell insides. |
| White |
2007 Eidos Albariño Rías Baixas Eidos de Padriñanmore |
3/1/2010 - Cole wrote: 86 pointsWell made. Mandarin orange pith, white flowers, and lime zest. Only slightly saline. Good baby step bottle into albarino. |
| Red |
2004 Andrea Oberto Barbera d'Alba Giadamore |
11/11/2015 - Cole wrote: 92 pointsExuberantly stomped, heavily oaked... Barbera is as good as Tempranillo when people take it seriously. |
| Red |
2009 Leo Hillinger BlaufränkischNeusiedlersee more |
5/28/2011 - Cole wrote: 88 pointsBlue fruit. Black fruit. a hint of tart red fruit. There's a bit of decomposing mixed greens scent on the nose when first opened but that turns into still living cinnamon and dried ancho chile. |
| Red |
2007 Altos Las Hormigas Bonarda Colonia las LiebresMendoza more |
6/23/2009 - Cole wrote: 82 pointsPomegranate juice. a bit of red cherry. |
| Red |
2005 Domaine Guion Bourgueil Cuvée PrestigeCabernet Franc more |
6/19/2009 - Cole wrote: 91 pointsGrasshoppers and greenflies on the nose upon first popping it... a bit of tart boysenberry jam... cranberry on the palate. After some breathing (30 min.), it has turned into a wild strawberry and black raspberry bush touched with brown leather and accompanied by star anise and a few more grasshoppers. Capsicum is probably the more proper term for "grasshoppers," but this wine seems a little more alive than a bell pepper rotting away in a supermarket. |
| Red |
2007 Domaine Fabrice Gasnier Chinon Vieilles VignesCabernet Franc more |
6/23/2009 - Cole wrote: 86 pointsNice pesticide/boxwood thing on the nose. A bit of sharp spring onion/chives/green garlic. Raspberry (very hair berries) palate. Soft finish. |
| Red |
2001 Château de Fosse-Seche Saumur Réserve du PigeonnierCabernet Franc more |
11/11/2009 - Cole wrote: 92 pointsBeet greens, roasted tomatoes, dark chocolate, cinnamon, baby poo (just a hint), carrots, and grasshopper heads. This could have gone for another five years easily. soft acidity and thick but soft tannins. Lighter side of medium in body, but a very good finish. Cranberries and sour black berries come through in the mid-palate, too, to make it food friendly. |
| Red |
2003 Château Routas Côtes de Provence Wild Boar RedCabernet Sauvignon more |
11/20/2009 - Cole wrote: 91 points$10 bottle that is full of blackberry, topsoil, crumbling tea biscuit, pomegranate, and black tea flavors. The finish is a bit like burnt grapes, and it pairs very well with chocolate (which is a rarity for me and red wine... I'm more of a port person there). |
| Red |
2005 Brampton Cabernet SauvignonStellenbosch more |
11/24/2009 - Cole wrote: 90 pointsClove, cigar, smoked eucalyptus, cassis, and a juicy Bing cherry finish. One of the best under $20 bottles I've had as far as being typical of the variety and location goes. |
| Red |
2005 Laurel Glen Cabernet Sauvignon Counterpoint Sonoma Mountainmore |
10/8/2010 - Cole wrote: 93 pointsMeaty. Toasty. Green, black, and red flavors. A little bit of Chateauneuf's clean-foot-in-topsoil aroma. Green tomato leaves. black licorice. burnt red fruit. This is what wine tastes like when winemakers don't listen to critics or customers. |
| Red |
1999 Heathfield Ridge Cabernet SauvignonLimestone Coast more |
12/3/2009 - Cole wrote: 87 pointstomato-driven, almost vinegary, and quite nice... this tasted almost like baked fruit pizza. good example of letting a $20 (i.e., bottle not meant for much aging) sit in the cellar five years too long. |
| Red |
1999 Heathfield Ridge Cabernet SauvignonLimestone Coast more |
12/29/2009 - Cole wrote: 88 pointssherry-like nuttiness, blackberry seeds, cherry pits... i.e., everything but the flesh of the fruit. eucalyptus, too. way "too old," but so very nice for a $20 bottle (late 90s US dollars) I would have bought in college. |
| Red |
2005 Casa Silva Cabernet Sauvignon Gran Reserva Los LinguesColchagua Valley more |
11/5/2009 - Cole wrote: 84 pointscassis, chocolate and booze. boring but big. |
| Red |
1987 Simi Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valleymore |
7/12/2015 - Cole wrote: 88 pointsTons of structure left, but not a ton of flavor. Straightforward and comforting cassis and campfire. |
| Red |
2009 Gen5 Cabernet SauvignonLodi more |
1/13/2012 - Cole wrote: 85 pointsBlackberries dusted w/ burnt cinnamon and wrapped in leather. Super-straightforward, but very well done especially for under $15. |
| Red |
2005 Benchmark Cellars Cabernet SauvignonCalifornia more |
4/9/2009 - Cole wrote: 85 pointsI don't like it much, BUT it is everything California Cab should be. Cassis, cinnamon, and vanilla oak with the slightest bit of tannin in case you're eating a steak. There's a hint of green vegetation in the mid palate that could throw you, had you not been overwhelmed by the "yumminess" of the nose. |
| Red |
2005 Yarraman Estate Rip SnorterSouth Eastern Cabernet-Shiraz Blend, Red Blend more |
12/15/2009 - Cole wrote: 86 pointsvery good bottle for the $12 price. burnt coffee bean nose. black fruit palate. cooked top soil finish. all while being a very fruit bottle for the wine newbie. I'm not an Australia fan in general (yet... I have a feeling that their vast geography will create a wonderfully variant set of terroirs that I will be unable to resist), but this is quite nice as I've been having a glass of wine more with movies after dinner than with dinner, itself. |
| White - Sparkling |
2001 Vilmart & Cie Champagne Premier Cru Coeur de CuvéeChampagne Blend more |
6/22/2010 - Cole wrote: 95 pointsAromas and flavors of a coconut both on fire AND icy cold on the nose. Cinnamon, ginger, and dill stuffed inside of a baked pear on the front of the palate. Balsa wood and blueberry-scented markers (think just barely losing the balsa wood race car match to Kevin Mulvahue in 4th grade; yes, that happened) on the back of the palate. Lychee nut and roasted almonds on the finish as you take a deep breath and try to conjure words to describe just how perfect this bottle of wine makes life feel. |
| White - Sparkling |
NV l'Hoste Père et Fils Champagne BrutChampagne Blend more |
2/17/2024 - Cole wrote: 85 pointsLike drinking really old Burt's Bees. |
| White - Sparkling |
2004 Kreglinger BrutPipers River Champagne Blend more |
10/6/2010 - Cole wrote: 91 pointshoney. honey. more honey. then some mint leaf, a ton of quince, and roasted pineapple core on the nose. |
| White - Sparkling |
NV Brice Champagne Grand Cru VerzenayChampagne Blend more |
12/31/2010 - Cole wrote: 93 pointsGolden flower pollen, roasted acorns, and sprouted wheat on the nose. A bit of fenugreek throughout... palate of tough, brown apples and gummy fig skins (imagine figs w/ no seeds... also the spiciness and "pollen" of this wine is very much akin to the idea of wasps crawling into flowers and turning it into fruit... which is basically what a fig is so maybe I should say this wine tastes like figs, apples, and wheat?). |
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