| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2007 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-PapeRed Rhone Blend more |
8/23/2018 - jkoenen wrote: 95 pointsWow... this might be the best 2007 Ch9 I ever had in my glass... (although I recently liked Mont-Olivet's Cuvée du Papet quite a bit, as well...). |
| Red |
2003 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/19/2016 - jkoenen wrote: 93 pointsDark cherry, soft tannines, mocha, so accessible and easy to love. Beautiful! |
| Red |
2008 Château Léoville BartonSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/23/2015 - jkoenen wrote: 90 pointsToo young to assess. Slightly unbalanced and bitter at the moment, searching for a direction. The fruit is good, structure too. It's just not the right moment. |
| Red |
2000 Château Gruaud LaroseSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/2/2019 - jkoenen wrote: 94 pointsPop n pour. Reticent and stubborn upon opening. Revisit tomorrow. |
| White - Sparkling |
NV Krug Champagne Brut Grande CuvéeChampagne Blend more |
2/3/2017 - jkoenen wrote: 94 pointsWonderful complexity, very cerebral, yet so damn tasty and easy to drink. A great effort. |
| Red |
2004 Château Léoville BartonSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/31/2013 - jkoenen wrote: 94 pointsBordeaux 2004 - an overview (Restaurant Bottles, Sas van Gent): This is really beautiful. Seems Merlot-dominated to me: plumcake, strawberry-yoghurt. Some astringency in the back, elegant woody aromas of treebark, undergrowth and cedar. Long, persistent finish. Very, very pretty! 18,5/20 (groups scores: 90-96) 4 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
| Red |
2005 Quilceda Creek Cabernet SauvignonColumbia Valley more |
3/14/2014 - jkoenen wrote: 99 pointsTasting of 100PP wines (Restaurant Bottles, Sas van Gent): Wow.. Those QC wines always take me by surprise... Didn't saw this one coming and it knocked me out of my boots. Blackberrypuree, kirsch, sandalwood, black tea, dark chocolate, dry-aged beef and fantastic tannines that give way to an everlasting succulence throughout the finish. Number one wine. |
| Red |
2012 Alain Voge Cornas Cuvée Vieilles FontainesSyrah more |
2/3/2017 - jkoenen wrote: 97 pointsWhat a tremendous wine... For me this was the winner of the red part of our tasting.. |
| Red |
2004 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/31/2013 - jkoenen wrote: 92 pointsBordeaux 2004 - an overview (Restaurant Bottles, Sas van Gent): Hints of smoke, fingerpaint, olives and dairy. Very long and powerful, but not giving much at the moment. Very young and backward. Great structure and potential, though. 18/20 (group scores: 91-94) |
| White - Sweet/Dessert |
1991 Avignonesi Vin Santo di MontepulcianoWhite Blend more |
11/30/2012 - jkoenen wrote: 98 pointsItalian night @ Maurice (Netherlands): What struck me first about this wine was its amazing color... A painter's palette showing radiant and psychedelic nuances of gold, orange, brown and... olive green! It made me think of the tiling of a seventies bathroom, for sure. Also the viscosity of this wine was something I haven't seen very often. Nose is extremely elegant, yet complex and impressive: roasted pecans, Turkish Delight, lavender honey, preserved lemon peel, dried apricots and a delicately spicy Asian seasoning. In the mouth thick and viscous like olive oil, followed by a kaleidoscopic array of nuts and dried fruit. Fortunately, this wine also has freshness, acidity and grip in spades. Lemon-oil, balsamic vinegar, marmelade and stone-like minerality give this elixir depth and plenty of vivaciousness. Needless to say that the finish is unbelievably well detailed and persistent. Sublime. A total wow-wine, certainly for a sweet tooth like me, one of the best I ever had. 19.5/20 |
| Red |
2009 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/14/2014 - jkoenen wrote: 95 pointsTasting of 100PP wines (Restaurant Bottles, Sas van Gent): Very intense wine, a little rough 'round the edges, probably very young. Opulent mouthfeel, sweet tannines which need to inegrate. Clearly cabernet dominated. Bordeaux or Napa...? Dunno. |
| Red |
2008 Château Troplong MondotSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/25/2022 - jkoenen wrote: 95 pointsBeautiful wine, structured and chewy. Plums, tobacco, vailla, mocha and cedar. |
| Red |
2006 Château Léoville BartonSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/5/2022 - jkoenen wrote: 93 points2 hrs in the decanter. |
| Red |
2006 Uccelliera Brunello di MontalcinoSangiovese more |
3/29/2020 - jkoenen wrote: 94 pointsGreat wine. |
| White - Sparkling |
2002 Bollinger Champagne La Grande AnnéeChampagne Blend more |
2/3/2017 - jkoenen wrote: 93 pointsShy nose, eloquent and well balanced palate, great mousse, wonderful wine. Could gain a couple of points when it loosens up a little in the next few years. |
| Red |
2013 Dominus Napanook RedNapa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/16/2022 - jkoenen wrote: 93 pointsAfter pop-n-pour, not giving much. Clenched, reticent. After two hours, this is still tight, but starting to show blackberries, smoke, cedar and ink. |
| White |
2016 E. Guigal Condrieu La DorianeViognier more |
12/30/2021 - jkoenen wrote: 94 pointsOutageously perfumed, flowers, tropical fruit, orangeliquor. Light and fresh on the palate. Dense aromatics, lofty use of oak. |
| Red |
2016 Fattoria Poggio di Sotto Brunello di MontalcinoSangiovese more |
11/20/2022 - jkoenen wrote: 95 pointsEtheral, Burgundian, translucent, filigreed. |
| Red |
2009 Château CantemerleHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/3/2021 - jkoenen wrote: 93 pointsWow...! Best Cantemerle I ever had... 3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| Red |
1989 PétrusPomerol Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/6/2007 - jkoenen wrote: 100 pointsBordeaux 1989 (and the rest...) @ Peter V. (Netherlands): (non blind) Chocolate, figs, cuban cigars, apple syrup, creme de cassis, macerated black berries, fresh ground coffee, I could go on and on... |
| Red |
2004 Mitolo Shiraz G.A.M.McLaren Vale more |
7/26/2013 - jkoenen wrote: 92 pointsOne grape - two expressions @ my place (Netherlands): This wine is very ripe and rich, but it stays on track and doesn't lose focus and grip. There's excellent tension, it's polished and has extraction, sure. But it's not over the top. It even has a powdery mouthfeel that I often confuse when a sense of terroir... Screaming Shiraz from the glass, this has tons of peppered blackberries, eucalypt, incense and a far echo of sweetness in the nose as well. Still tight and well defined, it's passing its turning point from primary to secondary aromatics. So, for me, this is in the sweet spot now. And it will probably stay there for a couple of years. Good stuff! 18/20 |
| White - Sparkling |
2006 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs BrutChardonnay more |
7/2/2016 - jkoenen wrote: 94 pointsDavid, me and the girls... |
| Red |
2002 Château Lafite RothschildPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
6/8/2013 - jkoenen wrote: 93 pointsDreamtasting #5 (Restaurant Merlet, Schoorl): (*) This is a beautiful, very traditional, classic Bordeaux, however only slightly impaired by the vintage. The nose was to die for... very elegant and gracefully perfumed; graphite, cedar, bright red fruit, and a very pure and intense whiff of that wonderful classic cigarbox! Alas the palate didn't quite live up to the promise of the bouquet. Allthough there is good weight, charme and precision in the mouth, it's lacking some sap, concentration and persistence towards the end. Somewhere mid-palate a vegetal hint of underripeness is peeking through, that classicists (like me) could suit, but others might find off-putting. Well, I thought this was a wonderful bottle of wine at the pinnacle of its life. 18-18.5/20 |
| White - Sweet/Dessert |
2001 Château RieussecSauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
3/14/2014 - jkoenen wrote: 96 pointsTasting of 100PP wines (Restaurant Bottles, Sas van Gent): Bright gold, fat, complex, tropical swirl, waxy, vanilla, pepper, ginger, mandarin, powerful. Drinking great now. |
| Rosé |
2018 Clos Cibonne Tibouren Côtes de Provence Cuvée Tradition Rosé Cru Classémore |
1/25/2021 - jkoenen wrote: 92 pointsPale orange color. Gorgeous and elegant aromas of mandarin, sea breeze, thyme and lavender, strawberry and crustaceans. Long saline and vibrant finish. Clean, fresh, nervous and full of finesse. |
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