| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| White - Off-dry |
2009 Peter Lauer Riesling Barrel X feinherbMosel Saar Ruwer more |
4/22/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRAbsolutely lovely! The nose is mostly secondary now, very mineral, but there is good fruit still, and it’s quite complex and pungent. Good balance on the palate and although not super impactful or long, it’s got good intensity of flavor and it’s entirely delicious. And it’s 15 year old barrel X. Very cool. |
| White |
2022 Ameztoi Getariako TxakolinaHondarrabi Zuri more |
4/19/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRAs always and in every vintage, I love this wine. The old vines intensity brings verve and subtle complexity to the very mineral and salty fruit. It’s slightly effervescent, refreshing and gulpable, and very delicious. |
| Rosé |
2020 Château Pradeaux Bandol RoséMourvèdre Blend, Mourvèdre more |
4/15/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRMedicinal and a bit simple upon opening, seemed like maybe past its prime. But it just needed a bit of air - not something I remember from previous bottles. After maybe 45 mind open in the bottle it showed the same vibrant spicy fruit, herbal and mineral influences that I remember, and now with a bit of a savory streak running underneath everything. Lovely, joyous wine. |
| Red |
2006 Domaine Ghislaine Barthod Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les CrasPinot Noir more |
4/6/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRPulled the cork at 4:30 and poured off a taste. Seemed expressive enough so that I didn’t decant. We got into it at about 7:30. This is a truly lovely wine that is expressive and harmonious on both the nose and the palate, and also shows a real sense of place. The wine is more mineral than anything else, on both nose and palate. Smoke inflected stone, and a forest floor element permeate the dark blue and black fruit. It’s a cylindrical and focused nose and it’s suave rather than explosive. This all carries through to the palate which also has this wonderfully firm structure. This is definitely of the Bonnes Mares family of chambolle. I loved it. But those looking for a panoply of fruit and flowers will be disappointed. |
| White |
2009 Immich-Batterieberg Enkircher Steffensberg RieslingMosel Saar Ruwer more |
4/6/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRAn expansive, airy, and heady perfume that shows vibrant floral, stone fruit, and intense mineral elements. It’s a gorgeous nose, one that created a quiet at the table when it was first poured. The palate, oddly, doesn’t show the energy that is suggested by the nose, nor the complexity. It’s perfectly fine, but indistinct. We popped and poured and finished the bottle in an hour so maybe it needed more air time? My instinct is no though, and I would open and enjoy these if I had more. |
| Rosé - Sparkling |
NV Filipa Pato 3B Extra Bruto RoséBairrada Rosé Blend more |
4/2/2024 - brooklynguy wrote: NRGained a bit of aromatic complexity after an hour open, showing some hard spices, but this is a one-dimensional fruity bubble wine. It's not too sweet, it's perfectly drinkable, which is the best I'll say about it. |
| White |
2022 Gilbert Picq & ses Fils ChablisChardonnay more |
4/2/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRTight upon opening Double decanted, got into it a few hours later, and it was lovely and prototypical chablis, with marine inflected and bright green apple fruit and white flowers. Balanced, good density and body, energetic and refreshing. Lovely. |
| Red |
1979 Château FigeacSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/2/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRAnother fantastic bottle. The aromatics glow with gently pungent truffle-y forest floor, tobacco, cassis, and leathery scents, and the whole of the nose is complex, absolutely alluring, and worth the price of admission alone. Balanced on the palate and with a dollop of sweetness that isn't fruity, somehow. It's more articulate on the nose than on the palate, but it’s a delicious and expressive wine that shows the roundness of the right bank and offers the beauty of a mature Bdx. We were three-for-five on this wine, however - other bottles were not as great. |
| Rosé |
2021 Clos Cibonne Tibouren Côtes de Provence Cuvée Tradition Rosé Cru Classémore |
3/31/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRI love this wine. It takes maybe 15-30 minutes to harmonize but when it does it's a beautiful rose. Even those who do not find joy in the gentle flor-induced tang will enjoy the tiny mountain strawberries on the nose, the freshness and purity, and the complexity of the aromatics. The palate is snappy with acidity in an elegant way, and the flavors finish in the marine and savory realm. This is high class wine. |
| Red |
2014 Pierre Gonon St. JosephSyrah more |
3/31/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRTasted and it felt a bit tight, so double decanted about 90 minutes before serving. Then it was just gorgeous on the nose, with a floral component that permeated everything, from the red and dark fruit to the savory mineral tones, to the meaty and olive-y scents. A complex and very pretty nose. Palate is balanced, shows good density of flavor without excess of any sort, and is long and impactful. Without the detail there compared to the nose, but this is a lovely wine with many, many good years ahead of it. |
| White |
2021 Domaine Jean-Marc Pillot Chassagne-MontrachetChardonnay more |
3/26/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRDecanted four hours before drinking. Really a lovely villages wine, complexity and depth on the nose and the palate, the richness and density one wants and also the balance and articulation. Just a classically styled and very mineral delicious wine. The finish is where the wine shows its limitations - a bit thinner and without the complexity or articulation. But that's not a knock, it's in comparison to a 1er cru or higher, which this is not. I'd happily buy this again |
| White |
2022 Lasalde Elkartea Hondarrabi Zuri Getariako Txakolina Baleamore |
3/24/2024 - brooklynguy wrote: NRThis is perfectly drinkable, and that the best that can be said about it. Won’t scratch the Txakolina itch. Kind of like a very dry wine cooler. |
| White |
2010 Domaine Huet Vouvray Sec Le MontChenin Blanc more |
3/24/2024 - brooklynguy wrote: NRSlow to open on the nose but got there beautifully with orange oil, eucalyptus honey, candle wax, and that particular slightly funky and pungent minerality of this place. All of this, though, is delicate, not explosive, mature. The palate is not as articulate as the nose and while I want to say that it’s because it’s perfectly harmonious, I think it’s more that the wine just isn’t very strong any longer on the palate. It’s a bit salty in its mineral expression. There’s no fruit whatsoever, which is fine, but there isn’t enough detail to be compelling. |
| Red |
2018 Domaine Lafouge Coteaux BourguignonsBurgundy Pinot Noir more |
3/24/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRVery pretty nose, bright red cranberry raspberry and a leafy complexity. Good acidity and balance, juicy and vibrant in the mouth but after 45 mins open loses some brightness, particularly on the palate. Drink now and very enjoyable, art that. |
| Red |
1983 Château CanonSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/18/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRDecanted less than a half hour before drinking. Beautiful nose showing menthol, tobacco, leather, cassis, and with another 15 minutes a candied floral aspect. A fully mature and gorgeous nose. Balanced and delicious - sweet, on the palate and quite complex. But the palate begins to tail off about 45 minutes in, becomes drying on the finish. Nose stays strong though. I’d decant as I did if I were serving for 4 people but would get into it earlier for 2 - palate falls off. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| Red |
2017 Dulcinea Santos Ferreira Bairrada Sidónio de SousaBaga more |
3/17/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRDarkly fruited like a Crozes hermitage or something, almost black licorice in aroma, with mushroomy scents that emerge on day two. It’s quite an interesting, balanced, and drinkable wine at this price. Not a solo sipper though, this wants to sluice your palate while eating lamb or other bold food. |
| White |
2022 Feudo Montoni Grillo Sicilia Del Principato Di Villanova Vigna della Timpamore |
3/17/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRNeeds air. And then it’s a fine wine with truly vibrant aromas of green herbs like tarragon, lemongrass, and scallion. Also grapefruit zest and lime rind. It’s a complex and rewarding nose, just enticing and lovely. The palate is well balanced and focused, and had a delicious bitter edge on the finish. Very high quality. |
| Red |
2009 Pierre Gonon St. JosephSyrah more |
3/17/2024 - brooklynguy wrote: NRI’ve had this wine several times in the past few years and this bottle showed least well. The fruit is less vibrant and there’s been no emergence of interesting mature characteristics to compensate. Comes off as a bit simple actually. Two and three years ago the fruit was bright and complex, and the wine well balanced with acidity. It’s still good but the fruit is quieter and in this vintage perhaps there’s not a whole lot else going on. Or maybe I caught it on an off night. Based on this, I’d enjoy these sooner rather than later. |
| White |
2021 Paul Pillot Bourgogne BlancChardonnay more |
3/15/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NROpened 90 mins before drinking, decanted for a half hour of that time. Reduced to the point where it was hard to tell what else was happening with the wine, at first. It’s a vaguely skunky kind of reduction, not off putting, but definitely distracting. With time some green herbal scents emerge, and mineral aromas of chalk too. Three plus hours in, the reduction fully blew off and the wine showed some lovely floral aromas. It’s a complex nose at this level. Palate is just barely medium bodied, well balanced, and quite elegant, a pure expression of mineral. It’s a very good wine, albeit one that requires a real decant, and one that loudly carries the producers signature. |
| Red |
2017 Olga Raffault Chinon Les PicassesCabernet Franc more |
3/13/2024 - brooklynguy wrote: NRVery, very tight on day one, coiled and constricted. Not much less so on day two. I can smell and taste the potential but the wine is turned inward. The day two lack of change worries me. I want to love this wine at 12.5% but it’s not lovable now. That said, at some point with every vintage, I realize that it’s great and I should have bought more. Maybe it’s a bottle shock issue right now? |
| Red |
2017 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon Les GrézeauxCabernet Franc more |
3/9/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRReally great. Pulled the cork and tasted at 5, let sit til drinking at 7. Beautiful nose showing very floral and also with dark fruit, gravel, and hints of cocoa. Day two even more harmonious but less pungent. So well balanced on the palate, perfect harmony of fruit, structure, and mineral elements and it’s just lip smacking delicious. Great now with a little air but lots of life ahead. Should have bought more…. |
| White - Off-dry |
2009 Weiser-Künstler Enkircher Ellergrub Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
3/13/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRReally fantastic showing. Fragrant with a blend of tropical fruit like guava and passion fruit, and also mineral and slight petrol notes. A complex and vibrant nose and stayed that way for three days. Balanced and delicious on the palate, comes off as full bodied and richly fruited but not sweet. Long, pungent, delicious wine. |
| Red |
2006 Domaine G. Roumier / Christophe Roumier Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Clos de La BussièrePinot Noir more |
3/9/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NROpened and poured off a taste at 4:30, first glass at 7. Lovely wine but quiet, no spark to it, no real vibrancy on the nose. It’s delicate and elegant and classy but also not complex articulate or pungent. The palate - similar. Balanced, suave, not super detailed, and the tannins are a bit harsh on the finish. It’s hard because you’re sitting there drinking Roumier and it’s easy to criticize when it isn’t great. This is not at all great. But it’s good. At current price it’s not close to good value. But it’s still good wine and quite surprisingly the last bit was the best by far on the palate. Perhaps this does need a decant for an hour before drinking. |
| White - Off-dry |
2010 Weingut Clemens Busch Pündericher Marienburg Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
3/7/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRThe nose was flat upon opening and that along with the golden brown color - I thought I missed the wine by five years or so. But a little air and it’s quite alive, an hour in and it’s vibrant even. It’s very intense on the palate with sweetness and stone fruit, and also acidity. Good wine that I found myself not wanting to drink a lot of - just so sweet at this stage. |
| White |
2021 Domaine Jean-Marc Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les VergersChardonnay more |
3/3/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRI love this wine. It was never reduced but it was pretty tight at first so decanted for about two hours before drinking. The nose is so elegant, so fine and delicate in expression, it requires attention, would be lost at a tasting or a dinner with multiple bottles open. But it’s just beautiful, very savory with sea water and white flowers that turn musky after another hour open. This delicacy and gentleness sets one up for a surprise on the palate because it really pops with energetic and vibrant flavors that have real impact and length. This is classically styled and just an excellent wine. That said, there’s no fruit to speak of and no richness and no gloss. Stripped down essence of white burgundy mineral beauty. |
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