Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2012 Bodegas y Viñedos del Contino Rioja Contino Gran ReservaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
10/25/2019 - Timbalimba wrote: 92 pointsTasted at the domain. Yes, it is more mature and more developed than the other specimens, but it still does not dominate the others. There is an abundance of toasted fruits and herbs on the grill, but it just doesn't possess the the power or purity of its peers. In the end, this is a great, individual, and different Rioja. But it suffered from the comparison to the other horses from the same stable. Great Rioja. Even greater peers. |
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2016 Penfolds Shiraz St. HenriSouth Australia more |
10/25/2019 - Timbalimba wrote: 94 pointsPerhaps a bit more muted than in previous vintages, the Henri still brings all the raw fruit and freshly cut herbs that you could have wanted, with sloe and blue fruit aromatics, showcasing the virtual grassy knoll of everything herbal, mints and basil, toasted oak, fabulous viscosity. Fab intro to the greats of Penfolds although it's getting more expensive every year.
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2011 Château Pichon-Longueville BaronPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/11/2015 - Timbalimba wrote: 93 pointsRipe, juicy, good perfume. Fantastic lift on the palate, raspberry fruit. Drinks like a Burgundy. Extraordinary performance in this vintage. Very very attractive at this moment.
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2006 Château TalbotSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/11/2015 - Timbalimba wrote: 93 pointsOne of the best '06s I've had. Smoky, cassis fruit laced with gunpowder, lean, balanced, fine. Doesn't seem to suffer the lack of stuffing that others do. Long, harmonious. A great drink. Will keep
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2006 Château BeychevelleSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/11/2015 - Timbalimba wrote: 91 pointsGood representation of St Julien, not the ripest specimen, but classic. Balanced and ready.
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Red |
2005 Bodegas Mauro Vino de la Tierra de Castilla y León Vendimia SeleccionadaTempranillo more |
4/11/2015 - JimmyBubbles Likes this wine: 95 pointsLo mejor del 2015 hasta el día de hoy. El culmen de la tempranillo en Castilla y León. Vega Sicilia style me susurran.
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2003 Château Léoville BartonSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/6/2015 - tp096255 wrote: 85 pointsI like it because I can drink it, but I hate it because I have been cellaring this freaking punk-a** bottle for a decade and just now realized this is the same stupid kind of bor-dough plonk I've been wasting my time on all along. How did James Suckling rate this a NINETY-EIGHT in 2006 and then change that to a 92 (NINETY-TWO!!!!!) in 2011?!? It's not even a 92 in my book. This is drinkable but it has the same ol stupid bor-dough funk in the nose, insipid ash-tray mouth muddled with some blackberries, followed by more ash tray in the mouth. Oh man, I am angry. I am so glad I stopped buying any bor-dough wines about 5 years ago. I know, not all of them SUCK, just most. Yikes. What an utter disappointment. I am going to sell off every single bottle of bor-dough in my cellar. Left-bank, Right-bank, and all the other banks. Oh, that's what it is! They are all used to going to the "bank" after I buy their wines en primeur! Well, maybe in some future century when bor-dough catches up to Napa in the making of fine wines I will entertain a purchase or two. Pretty sure I'll be dead by then.
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2012 DuMOL Chardonnay Russian River Valleymore |
4/24/2015 - Timbalimba wrote: 90 pointsIntensely aromatic on the nose, with expensive oak, butterscotch, cardamon, cumin seed, greengage. When the palate doesn't back it up with proper acidity and backbone it becomes cloying, unbalanced, and in the end annoying. Nope, doesn't do it for me. Overrated and overpriced.
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2004 La Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva 904Tempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
4/29/2015 - Timbalimba wrote: 91 pointsStarts off with plum and tobacco, heavy and ripe, then building up flowery notes of rosehip, violet, and cherry fruit, shifting gears. Medium to plus on the palate, with fierce acidity and grainy tannins, red fruit, tobacco, ethereal flowers. Still very young but the layers of complexity are there. With aeration it determinedly builds strength and impact in the glass. Keep. 91+
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2009 Viticultor Goyo Garcia Viadero ValdeolmosRibera del Duero Tempranillo more |
1/9/2015 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 98 pointsRavishing beauty of a tempranillo. And not at all what I expected. Wine & Spirits did a feature on this producer recently and here is what they said about one of his other bottlings: "Viñas de Anguix may be the most concentrated of the García Viadero wines, the least floral, the most intense. However, in the context of any Ribera tasting, it would taste like a rosé from the Loire." So that prepped me to expect something practically gossamer here. But that is not the case at all. It is full, generous, sweetly fruited and even hearty. The texture is like sinking into a waterbed. This is pampering, spa-treatment-for-the-palate stuff. The experience is different from a Rioja because with Rioja the focus is often more on the effect of the elevage. Here there is no oak signature at all, neither the toasty signature of a modernist nor the autumnal, tertiary flavors of the traditional long elevage. (Obviously not, since this is a 2009.) The result is ultra-pure and ultra-seamless and frankly offers pretty much everything--elegance and richness in one.
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Red - Fortified |
1863 Taylor (Fladgate) Very Old Single Harvest Port Limited EditionPorto Port Blend more |
11/22/2014 - Timbalimba wrote: 100 pointsTaylor's Port: Bottled from cask, on demand. Surprisingly deep colour, like Oloroso but finer, with layers of amber and gold, and a tint of blueish green at the rim that I've never seen in a wine before. Profound nose: strong, strong. Smoke, nail varnish, dried apricot, bergamot oil. From the nose alone I can sense the soaring acidity: there's such a bite to the bouquet, such smoking mineral intensity. Great attack, fierce acidity, some tannin too, orange zest, walnuts, oak, and a wave of other exotic aromas. The finish is incredible. And it gets better in the glass, by the minute. I wish I had an entire bottle of this to myself because it is building a crescendo here. I check back to the Colheita 1965 and that wine feels ridiculously young now. I cannot see anything missing or anything I'd like to take away. This is a perfect wine.
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2007 MastroJanni Brunello di Montalcino Vigna LoretoSangiovese more |
12/9/2014 - Timbalimba wrote: 92 pointsObvious age on the nose, with figs and dates, good spicy complexity, warm and toasted notes. Full bodied, settled, yet still youthful with crisp acidic red fruit and Morello cherry, fine tannins. Lip-smacking acidity on the finish, fruit pips, spice. Very nice, complex, developed, supercharged by the take-no-prisoners acidity.
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Red |
2008 Penfolds Shiraz RWTBarossa Valley more |
9/25/2014 - Harley1199 Likes this wine: NRPicking some Australian Shiraz (plus a private dinner) (Vila Viniteca - Madrid): Really strange at the first sight.
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2010 Château du RetoutHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/27/2014 - kevin23610 Likes this wine: 93 pointsI'll go 93, since people seem to be bashing it for being on the WS top 100. I felt this wine, for the price, is a fantastic buy. Dark purple, complex and full bodied. Notes of dark fruits, black cherry, tobacco, currants, plum and slight pepper. Drinks very well now (albeit a bit aggressive) and will do well in a cellar for a few years. At $20 a bottle, I'll go grab a case and stick it in the cellar and forget about it for a while.
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2006 Feudi di San Gregorio TaurasiTaurasi DOCG Aglianico more |
1/20/2013 - Timbalimba wrote: 84 pointsNot sure about the provenance, but this felt borderline cooked, like a ripasso. Raisiny and balsamic notes dominate the nose, cooked fruit stew then battle sharp acidity on the palate. Overripe and too young at the same time. Nope. I used to loved the Feudi wines that Oddbins introduced to the UK in the 90s, but judging by this specimen, I'm not so sure. Maybe poor storage.
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2001 La Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva 904Tempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
10/4/2013 - Timbalimba wrote: 93 pointsPlenty of action here. At first, there's the overt American oak aspect, toasted spice, aniseed, plum and strawberry fruit. After a couple of whirls, there's more secondary development, manure, leather, a strong lactic note. Meanwhile, bizarrely, the fruit gets fresher and fresher, wild raspberry leading the way. The palate is buzzing, medium to full, great acidity and vibrancy, a hint of tannin, fresh fruits, yet silky. A long, quality finish gives leather, raspberry pips, surging acidity. Very, very nice. Some Trackers have indicated that there's a Burgundian feel to it, and it's correct, at least as far as the nose. The palate speaks a different language, with sturdy, crunchy red fruit, fantastic acidity, tobacco, and tannin. More like a middle aged, premium Barolo. Either way, there are waves and waves of complexity here, more than enough to justify its price tag. Excellent. Drink or keep
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2009 Château Lilian LadouysSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/18/2013 - Timbalimba wrote: 87 pointsWhile showing a lot better than last time around, the '09 is still far from outstanding. Tannic, massively oaky, and waves of toasted fat fruit, bordering on baked Christmas cake. Doesn't quite possess the breed to shed the rustic St Estephe character, either. I may be completely wrong of course but I very much doubt these super charged '09s will survive their 15th birthday. Harvested too late. Well--- those were his famous last words... Time will tell.
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2009 Château Cos d'EstournelSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/24/2012 - Collector1855 wrote: 90 pointsBordeaux 2009 vs. 2010 - Check in on 50 well known Chateaux: I tasted this wine during the 2009 arrivage. Having tasted many Cos before I am not impressed by this wine. It is far to hot, oxidative and "cooked" for me. Right next to the 09 Montrose it was more like a Provence wine. I am not a "religious" opponent of fruit forward Bordeaux, as a matter of fact when you taste Bordeaux from the 80ies and early 90ies you do wish for more fruit, but this has gone too far for my taste. The more extracted the wine, the less aromatic complexity and freshness, that is the trade off... A recent retasting of 03 Cos vs. Montrose confirmed this. Try and compare yourself before you follow the lofty points.
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2010 Montirius Vacqueyras Le ClosRed Rhone Blend more |
1/4/2013 - Timbalimba wrote: 88 pointsBlackish purple, good concentration. Youthful nose, mute, backward, with Syrah violets and white pepper dominating. Full bodied, tannic, bacon fat and black fruits, sweet toasted aromas. Modern in style, heavy extract, lots of potential but needs time. 88++
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Comment posted by Timbalimba:
11/6/2020 11:11:00 AM - Most kind. Thank you!