| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2002 Domaine Jacques Prieur Clos VougeotClos Vougeot Grand Cru Pinot Noir more |
8/28/2016 - tcosgriff wrote: 84 pointsBurgundy color with a bouquet and flavor of raspberries with beef bouillon and some earthy notes toward the end. The fruit was quite meager and not as prominent as the other flavors. Overall good balance but with modest nuance. The winemaker is highly regarded and the appellation is renowned. So why do Burgundy wines have trouble making it to scores in the 90's with any kind of reasonable rating? |
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2006 Winter Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
8/12/2015 - floridawinedrkr Likes this wine: 93 pointsExpected this to be better than the 2004 and it was not at all. The 2006 was weaker, thinner, flatter, and had less dimension that the 2004. I was not impressed and it was not a memorable wine. The 2004 was a "WOW" wine.
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| White |
2012 Aubert Chardonnay Ritchie VineyardSonoma Coast more |
7/27/2015 - Double D wrote: 95 pointsI only buy 2 chardonnays each year, this is one of them. The 95 rating is one of the reasons I buy Aubert and have for many years.
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| Red |
2009 Rhys Pinot Noir Family Farm VineyardSan Mateo County more |
6/28/2015 - BobS Does not like this wine: NRBrett - 4 of last 4
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| Red |
2007 Mayacamas Vineyards Cabernet SauvignonMt. Veeder more |
6/2/2015 - tlarge Does not like this wine: 84 pointsVery disappointing for an otherwise excellent year for Napa cabs. Poured two small glasses. Opened very green and herbal. My wife thought medicinal and mentholated. Let the glasses sit a couple hours, no change. Not good at all. Light bodied, good acidity but out of balance and flavors not food friendly. 74 at this point. Next night it was much improved, there was light dark fruit on the nose and palate with a little lingering bell pepper. 87 at this point, rounding up to give it the benefit of the doubt that this was not a good time for this wine. Will wait several years for next bottle.
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| Red |
2005 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/29/2015 - Jojala wrote: flawedOpened one and slowox for some 6h, stored cold. Nice complex nose but thin and coarse palate, must be an off bottle. Just no sense of the balance I remember. So, open a second bottle with much hopes for different experience. Straight from bottle but 100% similar to the first bottle. What is wrong? These are pretty close to undrinkable. very long taste actually but nothing in the pleasant sphere. Dare not open a third!
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| Red |
2005 Quilceda Creek Cabernet SauvignonColumbia Valley more |
5/28/2015 - Dmax808 wrote: 92 pointsMay have been damaged.
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| Red |
2009 PromontoryNapa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon more |
4/17/2015 - spotaha wrote: NRDark and unctuous. New wine from the Harlan family!
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| Red |
2008 Tenuta dell'Ornellaia Bolgheri Superiore OrnellaiaRed Bordeaux Blend more |
2/3/2015 - King JR wrote: 88 pointsSurprisingly almost undrinkable at this point. Very rough, alcohol present, highly tannic and acidic. Very surprising. Decanted for 3 hours with almost no improvement. Will wait a few more years before opening another.
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| Red |
2010 Parusso BaroloNebbiolo more |
1/4/2015 - pianist718 Does not like this wine: NROk .. maybe this is just not my kinda wine as I am noticing high sensitivity to acid and tannin. For me this was light on the nose, too much tart, and avg finish. Consider that I am no wine pro though. Maybe I'll grow someday to these kinds of wine but for now, this is just too dry for me. Maybe it would have went better with high fats food like a filet mignon or something.
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| White |
2011 Kistler Chardonnay Trenton RoadhouseSonoma Coast more |
1/1/2015 - Magnum Bill Likes this wine: 94 pointsI cracked this open New Year's eve. Splurging with friends at the club (thank goodness for corking privileges!). Given the occasion, this was the first of many classy wines we enjoyed, including other top-flight Cali chards. This bottle was the top performer. A perfect combination of Old and New worlds, melding the best attributes of each. That said, and to my surprise, it wasnt the runaway winner. It beat the others only by a step at the finish line. Im not sure how to interpret that...Kistler's reputation is second to none, right? Im concluding that California's best chards are more closely bunched than I thought. It also tells me I can save $30 or more per throw, sacrificing only one or two rating points, for a high quality purchase. So what were the other wines? Cakebread Reserve was one. The other, said to be a Cali, was poured blind, and I forgot to get the name. Hey, it was New Year's eve!
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| Red |
2010 Parusso BaroloNebbiolo more |
12/31/2014 - El Guapo wrote: 87 pointsInitial tasting - Balanced and elegant. Red fruit on the entry, long tannic finish. Not overly done on the tannins.
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| Red |
2009 Rhys Pinot Noir Family Farm VineyardSan Mateo County more |
12/2/2014 - grafstrb wrote: flawed-- popped and poured --
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| Red |
2009 Rhys Pinot Noir Family Farm VineyardSan Mateo County more |
12/1/2014 - pjhr wrote: flawedLess Brett than the last bottle, but the palate and finish were a bit thin.
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| Red |
2003 Colgin IX EstateNapa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/3/2014 - pifcho Likes this wine: 93 pointsEven though the wine was decanted for 4 hours beforehand, I did find it somewhat closed at first and it was slow to open up. Very little on the nose. Very restrained and balanced palate relative to the 2005 Shafer Hillside Select next to it. Black fruits and strong eucalyptus notes on the palate. Stylistically, I did enjoy this better than the Shafer, although the Shafer did have more of a wow factor in the end. I think that this is at least 5-10 years away from prime drinking and has very good upside. 92-95
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| White - Sweet/Dessert |
1946 Bodegas Toro Albala Don PX Convento SelecciónMontilla-Moriles Pedro Ximénez more |
10/31/2014 - G_H wrote: 96 pointsI really don't trust the statement that there are only 825 bottles produced, as this wine appears all over the place here in Switzerland alone. I myself have already drunk 4 bottles, so I really can't think that it is true.
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| Red |
1990 Château Lynch-BagesPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/6/2014 - coremill wrote: 90 pointsDunn Comparative Cabernet Tasting (Chez John Morris): Served double-blind, I guessed a 1991 Napa valley floor cab. Intense, powerfully pure casis/raspbery fruit that turns darker and more graphitey and smokier/cigarish with air. The fruit in the mouth is superripe, bordering on overripe, and it's dense and thick and lush and a bit glossy and slick, a giant smooth round ball of smokey black fruit. Low-acid, the concentration and suave tannin character is impressive but it's not that complex and it's oddly a bit short on the finish. This is rather modern and 1990ish in style. I preferred the Dunn.
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| Red |
2001 Domaine Pierre Usseglio & Fils Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée de mon AïeulGrenache more |
10/4/2014 - Wine Canuck wrote: 85 pointsYear 2 - Super Tasting 4 of 5 - Chris does 2001 Chateauneuf-du-Pape: (tasted blind, wine #9) Oddly, this initially had a slightly yeasty, lactic note. Following that there were confected notes of powered candy, confectioners sugar, sweetened blackberry syrup and just a slight touch of rustic leather. The palate enters sweet with some bright mixed berry fruit. The alcohol comes across as elevated on the nose and finish. An okay, palatable wine, but nothing special and not to the liking of those in our group.
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| Red |
2009 Dominus EstateNapa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/2/2014 - The Wine Geek wrote: 88 pointsOne of the greatest bottles of wine I have ever had was a magnum of 1991 Dominus. Drank on New Years Eve 1999 for the millennium. It was spectacular. This was kind of nondescript, not much up front, not much finish. Drank it at LouCas in Edison with a Caymus 2012 cab and a 2009 Leonetti cab. It came in last. Kind of disappointing.
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| Red |
2009 Rhys Pinot Noir Family Farm VineyardSan Mateo County more |
9/16/2014 - Lanny21 wrote: NRGreat bottle
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| Red |
2009 Rhys Pinot Noir Family Farm VineyardSan Mateo County more |
9/13/2014 - zscheiner Likes this wine: NRDecanted an hour before dinner and followed over two more. Dark berry fruit, mix of ripe and tart, layered with savory Indian spices. Maybe a touch darker and riper than my favorite Rhys Pinots but still delicious. Was looking for brett and didn't find it. I guess some of the savory, Indian spices could be brett but they could also be whole cluster influence.
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| Red |
2008 Aubert Pinot Noir UV VineyardSonoma Coast more |
8/15/2014 - gbbwino wrote: 85 pointsHate to do this, but this wine was somewhat painful to drink over 2 days. Unbalanced, alcoholic and oaky. Big fruit with some nice nuance and flavors, but overall not very enjoyable. I was at a loss and almost poured it out save the $80 price tag guilt thinking it would improve. Have 2 left and hope this was an off bottle.
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| Red |
2001 Domaine Pierre Usseglio & Fils Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée de mon AïeulGrenache more |
5/31/2014 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 pointsThis is just cranking on all 12 cylinders now! The wine is dense, intense, full bodied and deep, with layers of fresh, perfectly ripe cherries, black raspberries, jam and licorice. The finish goes on and on. I am happy to have a few bottles in the cellar.
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Comment posted by BUBBA DAWG:
9/1/2016 10:21:00 PM - you appear to have a new world palate - stick with domestic PNs and save yourself a lot of $