| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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NV Pol Roger Champagne Brut RéserveChampagne Blend more |
8/9/2023 - forceberry wrote: 84 pointsA blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir in equal proportions. 12,5% alcohol, dosage 9 g/l and 6 g/l acidity. No disgorgement date, but the wine is a recent purchase, so probably based on relatively recent vintages. Tasted blind. |
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1986 Château Léoville BartonSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/1/2022 - nskelsey wrote: 90 pointsI opened this up to celebrate the life of the great Anthony Barton who sadly died a couple of weeks ago. Leoville Barton has always been a classic, 'old school' claret that I've regularly bought for 50 years although along with other Chateaux has begun to change over the last few years in making slightly more approachable wines for drinking at a younger age. 'Old style' consists of tannin, long maturing and notes of tobacco, leather, cedar (pencils) and so on, whereas 'new style is a little bit more fruit driven and ready for consuming earlier. Due to past experience I gave this 8 hours in a decanter, but with hindsight maybe it should have had 8 days. My God the '86 is 'Old School'. I bought this wine when I was 33...and I'm now 68 and the bloody thing still isn't ready; I'm going to be dead soon! Now in its 36th year the first impression is the dry layer of tannin that thickly coats your palate. Fortunately there is still the fruit to give you hope that it can sort itself out, but it is barely in the drinking window. Every 2-3 years I consume a bottle and every 2-3 years it has barely budged. When I'm 71 I'll let you know what the next one is like, but don't hold your breath. So far I am 8 bottles down and still not a lot to show for it. Back in the mists of time Parker said this wine was a monolith that could possibly last 50 years. He was wrong; at this rate it still won't be ready to start drinking until it's at least 50! Mr Barton you are a legend and every time I open up one of your wines I will be celebrating a life well lived in bringing so much pleasure to me. On a bright note the 1990 is drinking very nicely. Happy days!
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| Red |
2009 Château BelgraveHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/7/2021 - auldalliance wrote: NRDecanted 2-3 hours before dinner but the fruit was still shimmying shyly behind a curtain of tannin. A slightly offputting sourness to it at first, but mellowed a bit. I think this wine still needs some time, despite 11 years of age. The colour was still deep crimson with no sign of browning. It was a good foil for the rich sweet lamb (more like hogget, and all the better for it), and the last half glass showed promising signs. Half of this bottle left - will be interesting to see if it mellows further or closes up.
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2015 Clos du Jaugueyron Haut-MédocRed Bordeaux Blend more |
8/25/2019 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 92 pointsActually a bit fruitier than my last bottle. Otherwise not hugely different in flavor but definitely in a better place in terms of integration and general satisfaction, because when I went to pour another sip to come up with something clever to say in a note, there wasn't any left.
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2004 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña TondoniaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
5/19/2019 - Pluecht wrote: 88 pointsPast its prime
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1986 Château Léoville BartonSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/9/2018 - Eudemis Likes this wine: NR12% alcohol. The level is good, at bottom of the neck. The cork is soaked through, and it breaks up two thirds of the way upon extraction; no problem getting the other third out by the usual technique of tackling it at an angle. No idea why people are spending good money on specialist corkscrews. Decanted a short 30mn ahead in view of the venerable age of the bottle.
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| Red |
1988 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de LalandePauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/1/1997 - sdr Does not like this wine: 84 pointsHollywood Wine Seminar. Medium color. Hard oaky spicy nose. More cool and classic than the ‘89. Firm and tannic. Doesn’t have enough fruit for the structure.
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1990 Vieux Château CertanPomerol Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/4/2016 - kevin h wrote: 88 pointsThin, dumb and a bit lifeless at first. A three hour decant brought out some character but still a nonedescript nose. Better flavour, polished fed fruits and some dry tannins. Not much to like here, rather disappointing as it was for a special occasion.
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2001 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña TondoniaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
3/10/2015 - EhrlichDY Likes this wine: 91 pointsA 2003 Bosconia Riserva that showed well piqued my interest and I decided to try one of these. i found this wine to be more feminine and based on finesse. It's aged dusty quality was less prominent than the Bosconia. In fact, everything was playing at a lower volume in this wine. Perhaps the wine is in a shy phase or it's just how it is. Tannins are well integrated and this has entered its drinking plateau.
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2001 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña TondoniaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
10/29/2014 - Drankard wrote: 90 pointsThis light, balanced red delivers mature flavors of dried cherry, medicinal cherry, and leather. Fresh and lively boosted by zesty minerality. Classic Rioja but a bit uninteresting. I would drink up.
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2010 E. Guigal Côtes du RhôneRed Rhone Blend more |
5/1/2014 - monahanchris wrote: NRBottle variation worked out for me on this one. I generally like this CdR as a value proposition, but have found the 2010 to be a little thin and out of balance. This appeared medium/dark with a nose of raspberry and pepper. Good amount of fruit on the palate and medium to long finish with well resolved tannin and decent acidity. It showed really well.
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2009 Abbaye de Lérins Mediterranée Vieilles Syrah Saint Sauveurmore |
11/27/2013 - Vintomas wrote: 91 pointsAbbaye de Lérins wines tasted from WIT glass tubes (Stockholm): Dark red colour, rather deep hue. Deep and powerful nose with ripe dark cherries, some liquorice, some tar and smoke, a hint of animal notes and toasted oak with some vanilla and brown butter. Full-bodied, palate with very dark cherries and blackberries, powerful concentration of fruit, rather good acidity, medium+ tannins that show some polished style, aftertaste with rather tart berries and a lot of tannin. Young, 91(+) p.
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Comment posted by johnnyrichardson:
2/11/2024 7:34:00 AM - Hi Forceberry, I don't normally comment on champagne but I think perhaps you had a faulty bottle? Pol is one of our favourite NVs and we must have had hundreds of bottles over the years with few disappointments, but on New Years Eve I opened a bottle with what I can only assume was excessive reduction - all the "symptoms" you mentioned. I thought at the time that double-decanting would perhaps improve the wine somewhat, but this wasn't really an option with other things going on that night, so we opened a Moet 2012 to replace it which delivered very nicely. We have had a few disappointments with Pol over the years but not very many (3 or 4 in several hundred), this was purchased about three years ago in a French supermarket, no idea of disgorgement date (in a box so it wasn't bottle-shock), a bottle opened last weekend however did deliver the required Pol experience. I wouldn't give up on Pol just yet!