| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2005 Simon Bize Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Les FournauxPinot Noir more |
10/28/2023 - Junior wrote: NRWith time and air this was just very very nice. Woody and shroomy with a fine and subtle high note of red fruit. It shows its age in the best way. |
| Red |
1959 Nino NegriValtellina Superiore - Grumello Nebbiolo more |
2/16/2020 - Junior wrote: NRFrom the year my father graduated college. Remarkably fresh (if subtle) red fruits and flowers and maybe a hint of tar, gracefully framed by a surprising brightness, smooth tannins, leather. Old but not at all gone. Who’d have thought? |
| Red |
2009 Bruno Debize Beaujolais-Villages EcoiretsGamay more |
11/24/2019 - Junior wrote: NRGoodness. This was good. Found it in a box that had been lost in a pile. Shows the vintage but handles the fruit well, with mellow tannins and a bright edge to some plummy richness. |
| Red |
1970 Cantine Fratelli Francoli Ghemme Riserva "Expo"Nebbiolo more |
1/12/2019 - Junior Likes this wine: NRDecanted over three hours. The nose was savory with tar and mushrooms but plenty of bright fruit and roses as well. The palate was full and bright though it thinned a bit over time. Really, really nice. Drunk with a bowl of Furlough Pintos. |
| Red |
1994 Benton-Lane Pinot NoirOregon more |
12/29/2015 - Junior Likes this wine: NRThis was quite nice. A wine drawn from an old cellar (my mother-in-law's fridge in the garage). Ancient but lively, elegantly fruited. Lovely with pork roast. |
| White |
2007 Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine sur lie Vieilles Vignes Clos des BriordsMelon de Bourgogne more |
2/1/2014 - Junior wrote: NRRock and salinity and a citrusy freshness. Nothing characteristic of age that I can detect, but it's been a while since I had one. And just as good after a week in the fridge (don't ask why I didn't finish it the first night). A why-don't-I-have-more wine. |
| Red |
2005 Wyncroft Pinot Noir Avonlea VineyardLake Michigan Shore more |
1/4/2014 - Junior wrote: NRI have had three bottles of Wyncroft's 2005 Pinot noir and they have all been excellent. Lovely and refreshing, with a slightly smoky and earthy cherry nose, a spritely palate, and near-fully integrated tannins. Probably for drinking sooner rather than later, but these were still in very good shape. |
| Red |
2005 Eric Texier Côtes du Rhône Villages St. GervaisGrenache Blend, Grenache more |
10/19/2013 - Junior wrote: NRI know this wine used to have a good dollop of carignan in it with about 10 percent syrah--does it still? It seems to. Good fruit, a little savory, and a little green around the edges too, but nothing untoward. I'd like to say something like, "It's a pretty nice wine for a crisp fall night," but it's 70 degrees and as humid as July, so, I'll just say it: it works all right for me. |
| Red |
2005 Michel Tête Juliénas Domaine du Clos du FiefGamay more |
11/6/2012 - Junior wrote: NRA serendipitous discovery of an unlogged bottle led me an even more pleasant surprise--this was really good. It's developed some richness over time, poise and balance. Sweet, ripe fruit, but bright and elegant as well. |
| Red |
2005 Michel Tête Juliénas Domaine du Clos du FiefGamay more |
9/16/2012 - Junior wrote: NRI like these wines, both the Prestige and the regular cuvee, but they are never among my favorite Beaujolais vintage-to-vintage. That said, I have enjoyed following the evolution of the 2005s over the last few years. Last night, I chose wisely, for once. |
| Red |
1999 Eric Texier Côte-Rôtie Vieilles VignesSyrah more |
9/1/2012 - Junior wrote: NRThis was q |
| Red |
2010 Vinya Sanfeliu Costers del SegreTempranillo more |
6/25/2012 - Junior wrote: NRPretty natural, that's for sure. Savory and tart and fizzy when you pour it. Chill it and drink it in the heat. |
| Red |
2006 Georges Descombes Chiroubles Vieilles VignesGamay more |
6/17/2012 - Junior wrote: NRThis wine has come a ways: From very good to elegantly brilliant. From intense and a little bloody to graceful but still confidently rich and savory. The development is not incremental, but the wine remains youthful-seeming in its purity of fruit. My last of three bottles, but I think this had some years to go. |
| Red |
2006 Anthill Farms Syrah Windsor Oaks VineyardRussian River Valley more |
4/8/2012 - Junior wrote: NRLovely, lovely bottle, beautifully structured, everything in the right place, syrah in a California mode, neither wholly Rhonish, nor spoofed or overripe. Very, very fine. |
| Red |
2005 Georges Descombes Morgon Vieilles VignesGamay more |
4/8/2012 - Junior wrote: NROh, golly. With lamb. |
| Red |
2007 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon La Croix BoisséeCabernet Franc more |
3/24/2012 - Junior wrote: NRDeep, warm nose over a palate that, while rich, remains taut and lean by comparison. Leafy green and herbal, but with deep fruit. Very elegant mouth with slightly gritty tannins. Just beautiful. |
| Red |
2006 Domaine de Bellivière Coteaux du Loir Le Rouge-GorgePineau d'Aunis more |
3/1/2012 - Junior wrote: NRThis was gorgeous and still so young. My last bottle. I wish it weren't. |
| Red |
2007 AR.PE.PE. Rosso di ValtellinaNebbiolo more |
12/24/2011 - Junior wrote: NRBeautiful for Christmas Eve dinner, nearly weightless fruit and vegetal and brushy undertones. Very nice. |
| Red |
2005 Château RoquefortBordeaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/27/2012 - Junior wrote: NRNot good. |
| Red |
2007 Clos Roche Blanche Touraine Cuvée CôtMalbec more |
1/26/2012 - Junior wrote: NROh my, what a lovely drink. Ripe and round berry fruit, dirt, a warm, rainy wind over a back road in the summertime. Something like that anyway. |
| Red |
2005 Catherine et Claude Maréchal Bourgogne Côte d'Or Cuvée GravelPinot Noir more |
11/25/2011 - Junior wrote: NRThis may have turned some so of corner. Leaner, sterner (in avoid way) with an altogether more mature air. The fruit is still ripe, but the wine seems to have developed something of a spine. Spicy and bright. |
| Red |
2009 COS Sicilia Pithos RossoRed Blend more |
11/24/2011 - Junior wrote: NRBeautiful wine, light-footed, but with great depth and character. Bright fruit, with a spicy, savory note, and good acid. A great match with NC bbq. |
| Red |
2007 Domaine Dupasquier Mondeuse Vin de Savoiemore |
11/24/2011 - Junior wrote: NRFresh, minerally, with a deep, crisp plum flavor and aroma. Structured for some aging (and the word is that they will go a ways). Very, very nice. |
| Red |
2004 AR.PE.PE. Valtellina Superiore - Grumello Rocca de Piro RiservaNebbiolo more |
11/24/2011 - Junior wrote: NRA clear, clean, restrained expression of nebbiolo, harmonious, integrated, elegantly structured, quietly expressive of it's place. |
| Red |
2005 Georges Descombes Morgon Vieilles VignesGamay more |
11/24/2011 - Junior wrote: NRA fantastic bottle, beautifully proportioned, just turning the corner into adolescence without losing any of its youthful exuberance. Fine, full fruit with a graceful touch of spice and dirt and a clean, gravelly minerality. |
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