| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2016 Paolo Bea Santa ChiaraUmbria White Blend more |
12/21/2023 - thesternowl wrote: 93 pointsPoured into a Boa decanter about 30min prior to service. The 2016 “Santa Chiara pours a brilliant, deep and slightly hazy copper gold color with medium+ viscosity. On the nose, the wine is developing with desiccated apricots, dried apples, yellow flowers, and curaçao. On the palate, the wine is dry with medium- tannins. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is super long and super amazing. This is such a wonderful bottle of Bea. When his whites hit, well…they really hit. Drink now with a short decant or over the next 3-5 years. Bottle 1641/6133 |
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2013 Foradori Teroldego Sgarzon Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGTmore |
8/5/2023 - Klugi Wine Likes this wine: 92 pointsevolves at a glacial pace. Similar to last note, still on the younger side. Will easily hold another decade.
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2018 DeLille Cellars Chaleur Estate BlancColumbia Valley Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
12/7/2022 - hiker_guy wrote: NRNose has very prominent oak notes still. There’s some brightness of fruit underneath it though
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| White |
2014 Domaine Economou AssyrtikoSitia more |
1/21/2022 - forceberry wrote: 94 pointsA naturalist Assyrtiko from Crete, aged for approximately 4 years before release. 13,5% alcohol.
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| White |
2017 Domaine Billaud-Simon Chablis 1er Cru Mont de MilieuChardonnay more |
7/16/2022 - 2mwine Likes this wine: 56 pointsThis was far over the hill….
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2017 Viña Otano Rioja BlancoViura, Macabeo more |
2/1/2022 - DragonflyCellar Likes this wine: 90 pointsIt's like a Chardonnay and a Sauvignon Blanc got married, made sweet, sweet love and had this wine baby
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| Red |
2016 Fattoria di Fèlsina Berardenga Chianti Classico RiservaChianti Classico DOCG Sangiovese more |
5/1/2022 - Kris G wrote: flawedAs usual a bottle from Felsina showed a very rapid decline in the glass and ended up down the drain after 10 minutes in the glass. I really don't understand what is going on with my Felsina-bottles. The bottles which are consumed by my buddies in the wineclub suffer from the same issue (yesterday 5 Rancia's from 2011 and 2013 went immediately down the drain). PS : they are stored at 12 °C.
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| White |
2018 Harken Chardonnay Barrel FermentedCalifornia more |
6/19/2021 - ABOVETHEINFLUENCE wrote: NRits a 10 dollar barrel fermented chard and its hard to find any edges...flat painless round some orange juice like acid and its not overtly sweet to my senses... i did mix it with grand marnier however which was excellent...the note claims.buttery big styles chards are gone.
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2018 Alain Gautheron Chablis 1er Cru Montmains Vieilles VignesChardonnay more |
1/2/2022 - Musigny1955 Likes this wine: 93 points{Bought on release, first of 12. Diam cork} Has the incisive cut that I like in 1er Cru Chablis, and this wine's major strength is the volume, breadth, and persistence in the mid-palate through finish. Lees-y, sophisticated Kimmeridgian limestone soil derived fruit without any overt oak. Lots of minerals too, but unlike many other excellent Chablis this has the sophisticated mid-palate to match the quality of the minerals. Opened last night, consumed most over the evening, then a glass today at lunch. 80 year old vines from 0.66 hectare plot, allowed a year in old wood with no interventions. Superb. Drinks well at room temperature as well as chilled.
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2019 Viñedos Bernabeleva Vinos de Madrid Camino de NavaherrerosGarnacha, Grenache more |
12/19/2021 - Mimesis Likes this wine: 89 pointsI had always turned my nose up at this "starter" Bernabeleva made for the US market, but I recently bought a couple of bottles online by mistake thinking they were the "regular" Navaherreros. Either the 2019 Camino is way better than usual, or I've been an idiot all these years. It's a delight. Really clean, pure grenache; a perfect house wine that will guard the single-vineyard wines as they age.
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2018 Vie di Romans Pinot Grigio DessimisFriuli Isonzo more |
8/1/2021 - JJYoyo Likes this wine: 93 pointsWhat a wild Pinot Grigio! Unexpected orange color. Nose that is half Riesling, half oxidated who knows what. Delightful edge of raspberry to it all. It’s like a Ramato but it is not rose in attitude , more like a cross between regular Pinot Grigio , rose, and an Alsace VT (although it has only a touch of the exoticism of a real VT). Something that seems vaguely familiar but totally out of the blue. Wow. A thrill!
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| White |
2020 Allan Scott Sauvignon BlancMarlborough more |
6/13/2021 - wayfarer Likes this wine: 89 pointsEnjoyable
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2017 Doro Princic Ribolla Gialla Colliomore |
4/25/2021 - Buff Tannen, USXFel Presidente Does not like this wine: 81 pointsReminds me of Sancerre, and not in a good way, like when yer high and Sancerre's telling you to take out the trash and yer like oh man, which one of us is underwater right now
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| White |
2015 Domaine Huet Vouvray Sec Le Haut-LieuChenin Blanc more |
6/11/2021 - pa1966stang wrote: flawedOxidized or at a minimum super advanced. Down the drain. |
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2015 Domaine Chandon de Briailles Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Les LavièresPinot Noir more |
4/25/2021 - vide wrote: 90 pointsThis is my second Beaune wine in the same number of weeks, and my impressions are the same. My advice is: stick to white wine. Smoked dark fruit on nose and palate, pleasant but saying very little. No real depth on the palate (and this is for a 1 cru). The wine is just too light, and without personality.
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2019 Cà dei Frati Lugana I FratiTurbiana, Verdicchio more |
3/13/2021 - Omar Khayyam wrote: 88 pointsEarly days for this one. very aromatic on the nose with verbena soap, mandarins, fresh lime peel. On the palate sweet mandarin fruit attack followed by a little bitter grapefruit kernel and peel finish. Perfect texture! good freshness. Not all together yet. Save for 3-5 years and drink with food, perhaps grilled swordfish or tuna with some fresh salsa. Like many of these verdicchios the qtr is great compared to many other famous white wines of the world. 88 now but potential for 90 points later on for sure.
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2019 Agro de Bazan Albariño Rías Baixas Granbazán Etiqueta Verdemore |
3/20/2021 - druhf01@yahoo.com wrote: 91 pointsThis is a Chairman's Selection in Pennsylvania, for a measly $12. An appealing nose of apple and osmanthus (or maybe a little dried apricot). On the palate, zesty acidity and more orchard fruits. The finish is elegant and lovely, and this was fabulous with sushi. In a few months, we'll be in the Outer Banks, cooking pristine fish, fresh off the boat. I told my wife, we need to have a few bottles of this wine, because it's a stunner.
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2016 Weingut Pfeffingen Scheurebe DryPfalz more |
3/3/2021 - Aparritz Likes this wine: 93 pointsSpectacular. A brand new experience with a scherube and I couldn’t be happier. It tastes as of a Sauvignon blanc and a viognier got together with some super delicious results.
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2019 Gérard Boulay Sancerre ChavignolSauvignon Blanc more |
1/9/2021 - Bob H wrote: NRConsistent with previous notes - I have to admit that I’m starting to have a real appreciation for this entry level wine, as it is an effective way to keep your hands off of the single vineyard wines and allow them a little bottle age. Given that, the kind of wine where if you like Boulay’s style, this should be a mandatory case purchase in most vintages.
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2018 Claude Riffault Sancerre Les BoucaudsSauvignon Blanc more |
11/13/2020 - theboot Likes this wine: 92 pointsSancerre isn’t typically a “wow” wine for me but this is an exception. Crazy concentration of citrus, almond, and underripe peach both nose and palate. Acid where it should be, alcohol in check and finish long long long. I’d serve this to anyone wondering what Sancerre is capable of delivering.
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2012 Domaine Billaud-Simon Chablis 1er Cru Montée de TonnerreChardonnay more |
8/28/2020 - chablis28 wrote: 93 pointsTonight with pan seared halibut. Pale gold green. Sea breeze nose. Vibrant and exceedingly fresh lemon citrus with hint of tangerine with classic minerality and salinity. Ran into some premox with a recent 2010 Mileu VV causing me to open this sooner than planned. No regrets, its drinking great now. Happily this btl was in excellent condition and I have a couple more.
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2010 Château La Louvière BlancPessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
7/4/2020 - wayfarer wrote: NRSadly this has not aged well since last bottle. Tertiary flavors are now tired and old--meaning a bit of funk and sock. The palate still has plenty of good structure as far as acidity and fruit, but the nose is not so pleasant. Too bad. Opened something else for dinner and have continued to finish the bottle off over several nights as an experiment. Fwiw, a week later, a final half glass, funk gone leaving that rich aged mix on the tongue, with bit on the nose. Curious.
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| White |
2014 Daniel-Etienne Defaix Chablis Vieilles Vignes du Vieux ChateauChardonnay more |
7/11/2020 - tunaguy Likes this wine: 93 pointsstunning and a mesmerizing evolution over the course of the night. as good as it gets for village chablis.
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| Red |
2010 G.D. Vajra Barbera d'Alba Superioremore |
6/18/2020 - Rechrom wrote: 91 pointsForgot I had these. Opened with low expectation, as I thought this would be tired. It was not. Vibrant fruit, remaining good acidity, nice balance. A great wine with a red sauced pasta, not complex, but very flavorful.
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Comment posted by wayfarer:
12/27/2023 7:45:00 AM - Love Bea Whites--have had the Lapidus and Arboreus and have Chiara in celler. Unique and intriguing, beguiling... Cheers!