| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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| White - Sparkling |
NV Veuve Clicquot Champagne BrutChampagne Blend more |
12/23/2011 - Headless wrote: 80 pointsTasted at a retail tasting. The first nose was interesting; yeasty and cinnamon rolls but it blew off quickly and became rapidly dull. On the palate, this has quite fine mousse but the flavors are diluted, almost watery. Acidic and almost tart. Easily forgettable and if anybody drinks this as their first champagne and thinks this is representative, they will likely never come back to bubbles. |
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2007 Cooperativa Agricola do Távora Távora-Varosa Terras do Demo ReservaRed Blend more |
6/12/2012 - Tarrant wrote: 91 pointsNot sure if I'm blinded by the fact that I'm loving Portoguese wines at the moment, or that I've stumbled on the best Opimian bottle we've ever had - Dark, full bodied with a nose of extreme plum, raisin, cherry, spice and vanilla, very nicely structured and balanced, complex, sweet, very smooth on the palate with terrific length, awesome! (91 Points).
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| Red |
2008 Torres Ribera del Duero Céleste CrianzaTempranillo more |
5/28/2011 - pcarmich wrote: 89 pointsThe nose is tobacco layered with leather and cedar. The palate is a red fruit core surrounded by animal notes, tobacco, mushrooms and cedar. The finish has some fine, soft tannins balanced by acidity that brings sour cherries to mind. A good once a week wine, as you could get tired of this particular profile.
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| Red |
2007 Agricole Vallone Salice Salentino Vereto RiservaNegroamaro more |
6/1/2013 - Robert Pavlovich wrote: NRThe fruit has seemed to have started fading into the limelight at this point, though there remains plenty of acidic freshness, along with some bitter, earthy flavors. Strictly a food wine at this point, and while an interesting try at the price, it's not one I'd recommend seeking out.
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| Red |
2010 Errazuriz Carménère Single Vineyard Max Reserva Estates Aconcagua Valleymore |
2/26/2013 - riskun Likes this wine: 90 pointsNose fairly closed but opened over time to a sweet dark cherry and heavy pomegranate. A bit of must on the nose that cleaned up over time. Nice entry and very fruity and flavourful mid-mouth. A bit candyish with quite primary fruit. Finishes with a nice touch of pepper and very light tannins. A touch of leafiness on the finish as well. Clearly a new world concoction with the sweet primary fruit and very light wood complexity; well balanced and tasty overall.
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| Red |
2008 Apothic RedCalifornia Red Blend more |
9/29/2010 - crogers106 wrote: 60 pointsDon't know if I got a bad bottle or what. Absolutely undrinkable. Poured down the drain.
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| Red |
2008 Apothic RedCalifornia Red Blend more |
11/22/2010 - River Rat wrote: NRThe kids brought a bottle over last night. It unfortunately followed a 2009 Seghesio Sonoma County Zinfandel. I popped it, poured a taste, took a sip and made the sound of a bomb dropping from an airplane and then exploding on the ground. Plonk. Someone rolled the grape juice truck up, added some mega purple and bottled it as wine. Son said Gallo's target market is 25-35 year old women. Uh, yup. No nose, all fruit, no structure whatsoever no acidity, no tannins. RS had to be 4-5%. Great guzzling wine. Should have come in a 1 gallon jug with a thumb ring. Nice label, catchy name.
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| Red |
2009 Pio Cesare Barbera d'Albamore |
12/30/2011 - mreinitz wrote: 87 pointsA pleasant simple fruity barbera. Red cherry is the main flavor with a hint of licorice and enough acid to keep it interesting.I didn't get any of the barnyard that another reviewer referred to.
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| Red |
2009 Layer Cake ShirazSouth Australia more |
7/22/2011 - tourproto wrote: 80 pointsNormally I like big, jammy wines (like Ridge) but this was way over the top. Way too thick/heavy on the palate, it overwhelms the taste buds. Not enjoyable at all.
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| Red |
2010 Alvaro Palacios Priorat Camins del PrioratGrenache Blend, Grenache more |
9/16/2012 - oyvihle wrote: 91 pointsLove this wine, albeit it is too young and needs a lot of air to open up. Medium bodied, and very dense. Cherry, plums, toffee, herbal and mineral. I'll get a few boxes and let is sit for 4-8 more years.
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| Red |
2009 Umani Ronchi Lacrima di Morro d'Alba Fonte del Remore |
10/27/2011 - YWG Wine Guy Does not like this wine: 84 points17$ @ mlcc - new grape for me - Lacrima - not common. This style here is ooold school! Funky old world to say the least - nose its you like a ton of bricks with musty barnyard and some locker room? Palate has light tannin and acid and lots of that earth and must. Some hints of dark brambly berry perhaps. Smoky coffee notes on finish. This is kind of a unique taste - havent quite had this dramatic musty/earth experience in all my tasting memories! I am going to let this air out for 24 hrs and try again.
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| Red |
2007 Sartori di Verona Regolo Veronese IGTCorvina more |
12/17/2010 - honest bob wrote: 82 pointsHave you heard the one about Ronald Macdonald, Walt Disney and Arbuck Macstarbucks getting together to start the ultimate wine bar franchise? No, I didn't think so, but it was worth a try. This is a completely inoffensive, neutered, sanitized, easy-iron version of Italian red wine. Yes, it is from Verona. No, it doesn't have the cheeky cherries of Valpolicella and if you are looking for tannins, balsamic characteristics or any characteristics at all other than a kind of soupy sweetish 13,5% alcopop, then you are in the wrong cinema, man, this is not arthouse. But there are no real faults, and it slips down without really offending... 82P
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| Red |
2003 Bodegas Montecillo Rioja Gran ReservaTempranillo more |
8/11/2011 - starbird wrote: 60 pointsFourth bottle. Even worse. I bought these bottles THREE different places. Montecillo: What the F is going on?
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| Red |
2003 Campo Viejo Rioja Gran ReservaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
8/28/2011 - bg3034 wrote: 87 pointsPnP through Nuance Wine Finer. Dark purple color. On the nose, plums and heavy vanilla (I also got marshmallow?). On the palate, plums, dark berries and toffee. Light bodied with moderate tannins, but a pretty decent finish. Interesting wine. 87 pts. Aloha!
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| Red |
2008 Clayhouse Wines Adobe RedPaso Robles Zinfandel Blend, Zinfandel more |
8/15/2011 - jvanasco wrote: 80 pointsIn NYC. This was on sale for $12 from $15. Nothing bad about it, but nothing great. Tasted a bit rough and hot, even after decanting for 90 minutes. I've had better wines for around $7. Someone here noted a comparison to the Prisoner - I don't get that at all.
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| Red |
2009 Gnarly Head Old Vine ZinfandelLodi more |
4/9/2011 - Xfactor wrote: 76 pointsNot bad for $8, but too syurpy.
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| Red |
2009 Ghost Pines Cabernet Sauvignon Winemaker's BlendNapa / Sonoma more |
10/9/2012 - YWG Wine Guy Likes this wine: 88 pointsYa, i like this, great low price and hence perfect QPR. Reminded that this is lighter style than i expected. Nice balance of fruit/tannin/acid, but perhaps is lacking a little backbone. Fruit is nice and subtly complex. Great without food and mix with variety of fare. Drinking fine just now, would be nice house wine, but would not cellar any. Will likely last at least 2-5 more years, but again is smooth and drinks fine now.
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| Red |
2010 Mitolo Cabernet Sauvignon JesterMcLaren Vale more |
1/20/2013 - Bumbanian wrote: 88 pointsMed ruby-black. N: vegetal and herbal, blackberry, char, and a bit of tire rubber. P: good acidity and intensity on the entry. Aggressive and taught black and blueberry. Bit of a hole on the mid-palate, then re-emerges with caramel and pine needles. Good length on the finish. Medium weight. I like a lot of things about this but the overall package is a bit awkward at this point. Reasonably good value.
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| White - Sparkling |
NV Finca Flichman Extra BrutMendoza Chardonnay Blend, Chardonnay more |
8/24/2009 - winepog wrote: 88 pointsNice, easy to drink, good qpr...bubbles, yeast to say the least...a good value, nice golden color...cheers...
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| Red |
2007 Charles Smith Cabernet Sauvignon Chateau SmithColumbia Valley more |
2/4/2011 - jclements wrote: 50 pointsCherry, jammy, fruit forward, blah blah. Getting sick of these American, especially NW, reds with no backbone and a faceful of cherry candy sappy blech. Not worth it at $17. Sure, I suppose there's minerality and cedar in there somewhere.
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| Red |
2008 Marchesi de' Frescobaldi Tenuta di Castiglioni Toscana IGTSuperTuscan Blend more |
11/18/2010 - Jhcwine Does not like this wine: 88 pointsSee my prior tasting notes on this wine. This bottle had an insufficient backbone. There was sufficient fruit, but just about no tannin and no complexity. More like a juice than a wine. Not as good as the last bottle of this batch (I bought 6). This could have come from a bad batch. Overall, the 2006 was quite good (fabulous QPR), the 2007 good and the 2008 just barely a 90.
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| Red |
2011 Bodegas Venta Morales Tempranillo La Manchamore |
5/10/2012 - Mike Kopanski wrote: 83 pointsAside from Nouveau Beaujolais, I think this my first Northern Hemisphere red wine fro the 2011 vintage. It very much reminds me of Beaujolais. We have that soft easy drinking fruit from whole cluster fermentation and carbonic maceration. Don't think they broke the skins. All stainless fermentation and settling. Not all bad, this wine is very simple. Designed to drink immediately. Light purple color. Very expressive fresh, spicy, and earthy, blueberry and cherry nose. The palate leans more toward ripe plum and soft blueberry. Not even medium bodied. Tasted blind I would have trouble identifying this as 100% Tempranillo. Not much mid palate. Silky little tannins are persistent on the palate and finish. Probably did not get full malo lactic, as there is some of that sour milk acidity. Stains the glass purple. The 14% alcohol is very well hidden. The finish is more plum skins. This is not my style of red wine, these grapes could have been used to make a more conventional and desirable wine, I'm sure others may disagree.
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| White |
2007 Chalone Vineyard Chardonnay Monterey Countymore |
8/8/2009 - Rob MacKay wrote: 84 pointsNeeded some Chardonnay for a recipe so I picked this up for $12 at a local grocery store and for that price, I was quite happy with this wine. There are some nice tropical fruits on the nose but the wine does lean toward what I call the traditional California style of oaky and buttery. Fans of these more oaky, buttery wines will certainly like this but if you don't care for that style then this might not be your wine.
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| Red |
2008 Apothic RedCalifornia Red Blend more |
10/19/2010 - bretrooks Does not like this wine: 75 pointsA friend picked this up because he liked the label, and this evening we popped and poured to sip while playing a game. This drinks like unsweetened cherry juice with a little kick to it. We picked up slight salty and bitter aspects, but in the end this is very simple, smooth, fruit juicy wine with no structure. Not quite bad enough to dump out, but not really enjoyable, either.
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| Red |
2007 Bogle Vineyards Old Vine ZinfandelCalifornia more |
11/3/2010 - boldntannic wrote: 86 pointsDecanted with the Vinturi and allowed to breathe for 60 minutes.
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Comment posted by YWG Wine Guy:
12/27/2011 6:40:00 PM - Good comment...agreed - has high reputation "value" and would tend to steer people away form Champagne per se, I would suggest. Sparkling wine is totally under appreciated outside this region! Cheers.