| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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1999 Château MargauxRed Bordeaux Blend more |
3/6/2023 - jmoon Likes this wine: 98 pointsAbsolutely beautiful dark fruit, perfect balance, earthy journey and as a consequence a very lit up internal dialogue amazed by it all and trying to make sense of the universe and it’s powers to create such as this. So magic. |
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2014 Château Pape ClémentPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/5/2023 - Skotto wrote: 93 pointsDark fruit and a touch of petrol, the nice petrol that touches your nose with a guilty satisfaction. Decanter ~1hr with a decent amount of sediment. This bottle typified decent, rich Bordeaux.
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2008 La Spinetta (Rivetti) Barolo Vürsù Vigneto CampèNebbiolo more |
1/22/2023 - AlanM68 Likes this wine: 92 points[edited] In beautiful shape right now but still plenty of life ahead of it. Decanted this 1L bottle 2 hours ahead of time. I may be biased as I can’t recall a bad wine from La Spinetta, and this one stays true to that. Don’t rush if you have only one, but if you have a few, trying one now won’t be a let down.
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1990 Château Grand-Puy-LacostePauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/8/2023 - Ianjaig Likes this wine: 95 pointsCork completely crumbled upon opening which had me worried, but I needn't have as this was quite beautiful. First glass was all cigar box, red currants, milk chocolate with a finish that lasted several minutes or more. Decanted the rest of the bottle and this became fuller bodied, tannic, and yet so elegant and wonderfully balanced. This is an old school, classic that still has plenty of time on its side, but which is drinking wonderfully now. Pure joy. (12.5% alcohol). |
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1989 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de LalandePauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/3/2023 - Nutty08 Likes this wine: 95 pointsLow neck fill. Moldy cork but wine sound. Mild bricking with deep color. Splash decanted. Awesome 34yo bdx that’s just a hair behind some prior bottles. Explosive pipe tobacco and mink aromas mixed with black fruits. Rather suave palate with integrated tannins. Black currant notes with sweet tobacco notes and a mix of mint. Lengthy finish. Just fantastic. After 2hrs in the decanter developed a thinness to the mid palate, less intensity and nose faded a bit so might be right at its apogee. One of my favorite Lalande’s.
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2010 Château Fleur CardinaleSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/5/2023 - JimHow wrote: 87 points2010 Fleur Cardinale: This is a very unexciting wine. The good: The color is a rich deep ruby, quite beautiful. The nose is modest but pleasant. The bad: This is flabby, boring, un-thrilling. No acidity. Hard to imagine how anyone would think this will improve with another five or ten years of aging. Yuck. This is nothing like the crazy 16% Tropling Mondot that Jacques and Jill brought to my house a couple summers ago, which was crazy and alcoholic, but certainly not flabby, it was racy and voluptuous, over the top. This Fleur Cardinale was certainly not sensuous or sexy. It was droopy, flabby, a relic of a Parkerized era that is hopefully behind us. An alcoholic, Parkerized mess. Australian-like. Rating: 87 points.
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2017 Château Smith Haut LafittePessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/30/2023 - jmoon Likes this wine: 91 pointsNothing like the bottle I loved in 2020. Now the fruit has retreated and quite generic red and black fruits. Hopefully comes right.
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2014 Antinori SolaiaToscana IGT SuperTuscan Blend more |
2/14/2023 - d.f.c Likes this wine: 97 pointsWe drank this after a bottle of Leflaive Bienvenues-Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru, and accidentally before the DRC St, Vivant. The truth was that this Solaia far surpassed the ones after it. It was full bodied, well strucured, well balanced and fully aromatic. The St. Vivant afterwards was weak. The Masseto later was fine, but lacks the structure. Then the Sassicaia, considered the best of the Super Tusca, still didn't stand up to this Solaia. Then we tried another Masseto, and again, it didn't come close to it.
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2018 Domaine Henri Gouges Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les VaucrainsPinot Noir more |
6/6/2021 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 95 pointsTremendous Vaucrains. This is not one of the Gouges wines I buy every year but it would appear the style transition from the austere and metallic Barolo-tannin wine it used to be is now complete. This needs some CO2 shaken out but then is plush and brimming with succulent black-cherry fruit which polishes the tannins down to fine powder. It's even sweeter and more harmonious the next day. All told, it's close to grand cru level in its richness and in how seamlessly it's put together - though longtime Gouges buyers have to be at least a little perplexed by a Vaucrains so easy and open-knit.
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2014 Marchand & Tawse / Pascal Marchand Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Les MillandesPinot Noir more |
7/28/2019 - vide wrote: 90 pointsThe wine began after two hours of decanting as a no more than light, rather acidic wine, with a pleasant if unlifted nose of dark cherry. Some mouthfeel, but the texture was overall rather thin. Not unpleasant, but lacking body or texture. My initial score was 89. After three hours, it is starting to acquire, through oxidisation, more depth and personality, if a slightly gloomy one. Final score: 90.
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1989 Château Pichon-Longueville BaronPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/30/2023 - JulianSkeels Likes this wine: 98 pointsHuge fennel seed, burnt orange rind nose initially, becoming plum. The cedar is there with gravel, and liquorice. Just an amazingly pungent and complex nose! More red berry in the mouth with a long minty herbal finish - rich but very fresh. Not heavy, very perfumes and outstanding. Such outstanding smooth tannins too. High acidity - amazing wine with food. Best ever Baron, easily. 98pts
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2010 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
9/13/2023 - jmoon Likes this wine: 94 pointsWas lovely, drunk alongside other wines so the rating is unfairly in that context. Fresh and delicious, good to go now from pop and pour. |
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2005 Château HosannaPomerol Red Bordeaux Blend more |
9/30/2022 - djhammond Likes this wine: 95 pointsThis is definitely heading in the right direction, but is ready for early enjoyment with extended decanting. The potential for an upper 90s rating is there and I am now going to hold off for another 2 or 3 years to allow development. It is a wonderfully rich decadent Pomerol and of course hated by the anti Parker Taliban. The nose is already heady with chocolate and ripe red berry fruits. The palate is still in development and a little light. The finish is lengthy and showing exceptional depth, but likewise still in development. A post script that this just kept improving in the glass over the night and really bodes well for the future. 95+
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2005 Clos de l'OratoireSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/27/2023 - Grinner wrote: 94 pointsBrought to The Essential in Birmingham. Cork broke, but nice recovery by staff, then decanted. HEADLINES: "An '05 Bordeaux has Integrated!"
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2010 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/12/2023 - englishman's claret wrote: 97 pointsThe 2010 Pontet Canet is a wine that’s both dramatic and classical, youngish but with great tension, Laocoon-like, full of dense, cool, intense fruit with the structure and acid to match. The cassis, blackberry, pencil, coal, and mineral notes are classic Pauillac and they linger and linger… |
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2020 QuintessaRutherford Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/14/2023 - mckillop Likes this wine: 91 pointsVery nice. Not as big as historical vintages (probably harvested early due to the fires). Feels like a bdx!
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2003 Château MontroseSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/25/2023 - Chrysostomus Likes this wine: 97 pointsThanks to the member's tasting notes here on CT! I followed the suggestions and decanted the wine 5-6 hours in advance. At opening the nose was very shy! After the recommended time of 5-6 hours and swirling this beauty in the glass, there were pure and fresh aromas of black currant, plum, white and black pepper, cardamon, flowers, herbs, tobacco and pencil shavings - WOW! No barnyard! The mid+ palate was full of the same aromas. The fruit is not kicking at you, still in the background. But the best of this Montrose out of a hot year is its unbelievable freshness and its structure. No warmth, no heat! A fresh understatement wine with an unbelievable tannin structure that's like a silk cloth on the palate that stays there for more than 60 sec. What a length! This is not the loudest, heaviest left bank Bdx, but one of the most refined, fresh, complex and longest that I've had so far.
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1999 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave HermitageSyrah more |
3/11/2023 - sdr Likes this wine: 92 pointsThere is undeniable matière here and nicely ripe meaty Syrah. Somehow though the pieces do not add up to greatness. How much you can remember a wine the next day is a barometer of its quality and I am struggling to recall this one.
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2010 Château Lafite RothschildPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
6/29/2022 - csimm wrote: 98 pointsAn obvious youngster, but with the heralded 2010 vintage backing an already top-notch first growth classification, the 2010 Lafite was destined to offer an A-lister performance. On the first pop of the cork, this presented as unsurprisingly straight and level, but ultra-refined in a way that makes you feel like your palate is a complete moron. Its execution is a twelve-year-old in a tuxedo with a perfectly cut jib who is one of those child genius virtuoso Russian violinist types who is so stuffed with discipline and exceptional brainiac-talent endowment-ness that even making eye contact with him makes you instantly feel like you’ve wasted your complete life, what with your squandered college party days that eventually led to your current place in the world as a two-time divorced dad still clinging to your assistant supervisor position at your parent’s travel agency (You studied to be a court stenographer but that fell through because it was too stressful for you). Black cherry, currant, cedar, and some pebbly notes are placed ever so correctly in fitting formation so that each flavor is exactly 3.14159 cadence sensor units from the next. It’s like watching Jeopardy! and not knowing any of the answers, or rather, question-answers. So, basically, like watching Jeopardy!...
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2005 Château La GaffelièreSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/5/2019 - jmoon Likes this wine: 91 pointsDidn’t hit previous heights despite solid decant. Prob jaded palette .
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2005 Château Haut-BrionPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/8/2022 - eschaefer Likes this wine: 97 pointsYou’ll laugh (or cry) but I had a bottle to share with friends at lunch on December 8, and it fell out of the car onto the ground and broke. I was heart broken and it was the second bottle of the same wine that suffered a similar fate at the same restaurant in the same parking lot!!! Needless to say I won’t be going there anymore ! I will say this, as I was standing above the puddle of wine, it smelled FABULOUS! Black Cherry, black currant and tobacco. I could actually smell it outside, spilled on concrete. Talk about great aromatics!! Too bad we couldn’t drink it but it smelled very good ! Highest recommendation :-)
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Comment posted by jmoon:
2/26/2024 5:34:00 PM - Now is the hour. Wont drop off a hill but why wait. At peak if well stored. I wouldn’t decant and sip it over 3 hours and watch it unfold. I’m opening my second to last tonight. Cheers