| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2022 Domaine Serge Laloue Sancerre RougePinot Noir more |
12/27/2023 - yofog wrote: NRA real contrast to the '21, this has a bit more color, and a profile much more on the primary fruit. Ripe strawberry, tart blackberry, a hint of game and soil in the background maybe but this is ultimately a generous and friendly example of Sancerre rouge, with depth, ripe fruit, and fine tannins. Great balance. |
| Red |
2021 Château Les Carmes Haut-BrionPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRQuite a bit more immediately luxurious than everything else on the table (though I'm a Cab Franc fan and biased). Cassis, chocolate, tobacco, all very dark and lush, the tannins fine and creamy. There's a savory element underneath it all, and a real vein of acidity woven into the whole. |
| White |
2021 Château Smith Haut Lafitte BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRHighly aromatic nose of classic grass and grapefruit here showing the high SB, but with a certain richness to it that had me confused at first. On the palate this certainly had plenty of driving acidity, but felt very focused on concentration and texture, which may be bode well, though in the moment I found it a bit of a head-scratcher. |
| Red |
2021 Domaine de ChevalierPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRReally appealing to me personally, this is all aromatic old-school Bordeaux refinement, Cab-driven wild berry scents and savory smoky elements, very tweedy. |
| White |
2021 Domaine de Chevalier BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRComplex and energetic, with lush fruit, salty minerals, a subtle touch of oak, long and commanding. This feels really filled out, everything at a just-so level of ripeness. May be the best vintage of this wine I've had. |
| White |
2021 Château Latour-Martillac BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRExtremely delicious but very compact and really best put in the cellar I think. |
| White |
2021 Château de Fieuzal BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRAgain really bright, zippy, crisp, an extra dimension over previous years but not as much of a leap over its base quality level as some of its neighbors. Lightly pithy and grippy but just moderate volume. Still, a really good result. |
| White |
2021 Château Larrivet-Haut-Brion BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRJust amazingly complex, with real volume, a sense of layers. Very ripe citrus fruits here, a touch of lanolin, distinct mineraltiy and a long, grippy finish full of energy and promise. Easily the best I can recall from here. |
| Red |
2021 Château CarbonnieuxPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NREasy to like, this shows a smoky raspberry and currant leaf profile that feels familiar to me for Carbonnieux, with a very soft structure and nice savory elements, without veering into overtly green. Tannins are a little drying but this is meant for food, afterall. |
| White |
2021 Château Carbonnieux BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NROne of the most immediately delicious Carbonnieux I can recall in years, very brightly aromatic and forward, really showing its (imo) Sauv element (with some lime that's really probably the semillon). There's mid-palate concentration, and a good clean, confident finish, this feels all very together and energetic. |
| White |
2021 Château Malartic-Lagravière BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRThis was as ripe as you'd want in in this vintage - still back up by tremendous acidity to be sure - but felt relatively quiet and I think will just need some time in bottle to flesh out. |
| Red |
2021 Château BouscautPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRInteresting to see so much Malbec in a blend, this was showing plummy (not saying that's the Malbec!) and soft, with a certain richness. Open, toasty, a little leafy, this was easily to like and though it lacked some concentration and definition, will make good drinking I think. The classic "restaurant" Bordeaux |
| White |
2021 Château Bouscaut BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRNot the only time I thought this going through the dry whites, but I really can't recall the last time I had such a good Bouscaut Blanc. The slight waxiness of the high semillon content really very fresh and classy, backed up by a nice salty crushed rock element and good weight. Top notch, playing with the big guns here. |
| White |
2021 Château Pape Clément BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
1/23/2024 - yofog wrote: NRHighly aromatically expressive, layers and layers of every citrus fruit I could think of. Linear, crisp, and phenolic, I might have guessed there was even more SB in this. Would be interesting to follow but if you like a punch white it might be hard to not just drink it all. |
| Red |
2021 Domaine Serge Laloue Sancerre RougePinot Noir more |
12/27/2023 - yofog wrote: NRSmells great, so much spice and tart strawberry, almost Gevrey-like. Has a quality I usually call mustard-seed, which I think is related to what is also called game or woodsmoke, or maybe these qualities tend to go hand in hand. Idk, all our receptors are a bit different, right? This is light-bodied and pale, as you would expect, but there's a sneaky sweetness to the ethereal fruit, and it does not feel lean at all. |
| Red |
2021 Haden Fig Pinot NoirWillamette Valley more |
3/15/2023 - yofog Likes this wine: NRReductive for sure, in the new wave, Walter Scott-esque sense, but not aggressively so and it blows off in an hour or so. Loads of berries beneath, tart and restrained, with that reductive character showing in a flinty/marine quality to the fruit. Palate is full of retronasal aromatics, light-ish in body but with the tannins making themselves known on the close. An old-school forest floor aspect emerges later in the day. Super pretty. |
| Red |
2021 Bow and Arrow Pinot NoirWillamette Valley more |
12/27/2023 - yofog wrote: NROnly 12.5%, but quite dark and ripe-feeling fruit. Intense on the attack, polished purple fruit, hints of Willamette undergrowth. Low to moderate tannin, a little coarse. Lots and lots of VA, a bit much for me personally, and I think it's the real driver of the energy and balance here. A fun wine all the same. |
| White |
2021 Wade Cellars Chenin Blanc Three by WadeCalifornia more |
12/15/2022 - yofog wrote: NRI'm as skeptical of celebrity wines as the next person, but D Wade seems earnest, and has hired people I have a lot of respect for and whose other wines I have loved (Matt Naumann of Newfound, and Jonathan Keyes of...so many things, but especially POE). This is 95% Chenin, 5% Viognier, from Clarksburg, with malo, but all stainlesss. A little restrained at first, but this has good texture -- medium-bodied, round, cut with a subtle acidity. Some ripe orchard fruit comes out, fresh, clean. Hints of orange blossom in the background. Had this in the fridge for a few days and it stayed solid. |
| White |
2021 Domaine Fichet Mâcon-Igé Château LondonChardonnay more |
2/20/2023 - yofog wrote: NRFaint, hazelnut aroma, a little too cold. With time, apple and a squeeze of lime are added, and a bare trace of oak. The palate is light and fresh but with a certain concentration, and something to the flavor profile that almost speaks of dehydrated, or in any case very concentrated, late-season berries. Not overly complex but good, wholesome, characterful, and compares favorably to similarly priced Macons. |
| Red |
2020 Wade Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Three by WadeNapa Valley more |
12/15/2022 - yofog wrote: NRFor 2020, this is really a different wine, *not Napa appellated*. Some good, wholesome toasty oak on the nose, for sure. Not OTT, though. Plum, red currant, and leaf. Smells real. Palate could be a bit finer, but feels unadulterated, full but not fake lush. I like this. |
| Red |
2020 Domaine Arnoux Pére et Fils Savigny-lès-Beaune PimentiersPinot Noir more |
2/20/2023 - yofog wrote: NRDeep color typical of Savigny, rich purple, saturated. Powerful and very primary nose, all berries. On the palate, well-structured, high in tannin, but round and with little apparent astringency. Certainly lives up to the characterization of 2020 reds as "rich and concentrated." Although there is flavor in reserve here, to be developed in time, there is plenty to enjoy now and does not come off as austere -- quite the opposite. My label (US) declares 14.5%, but unlike the other taster I do not detect any. I had this over 2 days and would say that after maybe 5/6 hours, I begin to detect a hint of VA -- well within normal levels, not a problem or flaw level, but there if you look for it and was really nicely intensifying this vibrant black raspberry quality. |
| White |
2020 Château Beauséjour (Puisseguin-St. Émilion) Empreintes BlancSémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
12/15/2022 - yofog wrote: NRAn interesting take on Bordeaux blanc, from the other side of the river. Ch Beauséjour (this one...there are seemingly dozens!) has been farming organically and working naturally for a long time, but the kids have started their own side project here, to make their mark. Older vines, but approachable wines. The white is generally 50-60% Semillon, the rest split between SB, Muscadelle, and Ugni blanc. There's not much oak presence here (mostly tank, but some older demi muids too), the primary note on the nose is Semillon stone fruit, and yeast esters, a hint of tartness almost reminding me of gueuze. Despite the implied tartness the palate is friendly, engaging, but fairly mild in terms of acid. A refreshing zip to the finish but an almost mellow mid-palate. Though estery, does not come off as unclean wine and the fruit really is very expressive, but the focus here is texture and structure over fruit or wood. Cool wine for low 20s usd. |
| White |
2020 Weingut Seehof Westhofener Steingrube Riesling TrockenRheinhessen more |
9/20/2022 - yofog wrote: NRSlightly golden on the nose, very pretty, on the palate racy, superfine, closing long and phenolically astringent, promising. Fun now if you like it snappy, but I think there's good upside here over the next 10. |
| White |
2019 Sybille Kuntz Lieser Niederberg-Helden Riesling Spätlese trockenMosel Saar Ruwer more |
1/10/2023 - yofog wrote: NRSubstantial, even slightly creamy, with a real vein of energy running through. Very aromatic, tropical. A favorite in this lineup. Lots of potential |
| White |
2019 D'Alfonso del Sordo Bombino Bianco Catapanus Puglia IGTmore |
8/18/2021 - yofog Likes this wine: NRA ripe vintage for this wine, I think, almost verging on heavy. The honey is more forward, followed by stone fruit, then that lemon balm quality, and a slight hit of phenolics on the finish. Not as aromatic as I'd like and a little clumsy, but it's still solid qpr and a characterful, good wine for the money. |
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