| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| White - Sparkling |
NV Diebolt-Vallois Champagne Cuvée Prestige Blanc de Blancs Extra BrutChardonnay more |
3/2/2024 - Goldstone wrote: 88 pointsFrom the wine list at Ami Restaurant in Hong Kong. Underwhelming. Lacked attack. Seemed far sweeter than its 4/gl dosage. Maybe my taste buds have evolved towards zero dosage. |
| White - Sparkling |
2000 Dom Pérignon ChampagneChampagne Blend more |
12/31/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 94 pointsDrank at friends as the clock struck Midnight and the 12-minute fireworks display began over Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. Almost identical notes as the bottle we took to share with friends in Seattle over Christmas. Gorgeous mid-range bright jewelled gold colour. Brief mousse followed by persistent streams of micro-bubbles. Nose is still very primary… brioche, lemon skins, crushed limes. Palate is super-fresh, very primary, dilute by any DP standard but still a lovely indulgence. Has a lovely final resonance and reverberance at the back of the head on the finish. Happy New Year! |
| White - Sparkling |
2000 Dom Pérignon ChampagneChampagne Blend more |
12/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 94 pointsGorgeous mid-range bright jewelled gold colour. Brief mousse followed by persistent streams of micro-bubbles. Nose is still very primary… brioche, lemon skins, crushed limes. Palate is super-fresh, very primary, dilute by any DP standard but still lovely over Christmas holiday eggs Benedict late breakfast. Has a lovely back end resonance and reverberance in the back of the head on the long finish. A nice way to say thank you to our friends who hosted us over a chilled Christmas in Seattle along with Angela cooking the Eggs Bebedict for them. |
| Red |
2016 Puchang BeichunXinjiang more |
12/25/2023 - Goldstone Does not like this wine: 83 pointsChristmas Day Family Lunch in Seattle (Friends' House, Redmond, WA): Decanted for 6 hours based on a bottle I test drank a week ago. Deep opaque ruby with a translucent edge. Nose is slightly candied, coffee grounds, boysenberry. Palate is bitter Chinese green melon and mothpuckeringly astringent black Chinese medicine. Brought from Hong Kong at my Seattle friend’s insistence as he hasn’t drank a Chinese red for 15 years and wanted to see if they have improved. He won’t ask me again...ha,ha. |
| Red |
2019 Rosa dell'Olmo BaroloNebbiolo more |
12/25/2023 - Goldstone wrote: 86 pointsChristmas Day Family Lunch in Seattle (Friends' House, Redmond, WA): Our hosts' bargain from the promotions rack at their local Trader Joe's. Totally transparent. Nose is very light strawberry and coal...which allows you to know it is Barolo, if a bargain basement one. Palate is tart and astringent.Unmemorable and one glass was enough for me. |
| White |
2020 DeLille Cellars Sauvignon Blanc MargueriteColumbia Valley more |
12/25/2023 - Goldstone Does not like this wine: 83 pointsChristmas Day Family Lunch in Seattle (Friends' House, Redmond, WA): Quite pronounced silver gold. Nose is elderflower tea. Palate is immediately overpoweringly alcoholic (14.7%) and mainly sour apples and other sour white fruits like peach and pear. Almonds on the back end. Painfully heady and a bit of a hoodlum on the finish..almost sugary. Tried to give it respect as a very locally produced wine for our hosts, but I couldn't finish even the first glass. |
| Red - Fortified |
1966 Quinta do Noval Porto VintagePort Blend more |
11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 95 pointsDaniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): Drank sippingly over post-lunch cigars. Incredibly brightly jewelled totally transparent perfect ruby gemstone in colour. Nose is quiet because of no pre-decant but whispers of Christmas cake spices and a lovely deep almost but not quite confit red currant fruit. Palate is sharp-cutting fresh and light acidity that segues very quickly into a deep, rich and powerful resonance and reverberance inside the head on the very long finale. The palate sums up that this is still at a very young if harmonious stage of its life. Even better than when we drank it in a similar mode a year ago. Thanks again, Hans! |
| Red |
2001 Paolo Scavino Barolo Bric dël FiascNebbiolo more |
11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 91 pointsDaniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): My contribution. Dark, brilliant jewelled semi-transparent ruby. Nose is immediately seductive but in an unexpected alpine cheese first note before some beautifully subtle alpine berries cut in. Wow, this really is unfolding into multiple layers very quickly. It would have been better with a 2-hour decant.. as it proved two hours after pouring...but the sommelier at Michelin*** Otto Y Mezzo overruled me (Lesson = trust your judgement over a sommelier). Palate is lightly jewelled red/black fruit but overbalanced by still too young tannin. Very promising resonance and reverberance on the finish and it improves but not enough to merit opening a bottle for another 5-8 years. 91 but will go to 94-95 at its apogee. |
| Red |
2012 Rocca Barolo Barolo, Nat Chan versionNebbiolo more |
11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 88 pointsAlmost transparent jewelled ruby gemstone. Nose is seductive but slightly dilute rosewater with a back end of wild strawberry/raspberry seeds. Palate is tart and a bit dilute but possibly from insufficient age. Come back in 3-5 years? |
| Red |
2012 Rocca Barolo Barolo, Nat Chan versionNebbiolo more |
11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 88 pointsDaniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): Almost transparent jewelled ruby gemstone. Nose is seductive but slightly dilute rosewater with a back end of wild strawberry/raspberry seeds. Palate is tart and a bit dilute but possibly from lack of sufficient age. Come back in 3-5 years? |
| Red |
1998 Château La Nerthe Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée des CadettesRed Rhone Blend more |
11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 90 pointsDaniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): From magnum. Intense, deep purple-red, semi-opaque. Nose is is really powerful blast of boysenberry and confit raspberry with the slight feral scent of a baby wild pig…. older damp wild pig with time in the glass. Palate is tannic on entry but not overly so, just young. Green because of youth, exacerbated in magnum. Nice deep blackcurrant fruit already shows through but tannin is almost overwhelming afterwards. Heady and potentially headachey on the finale at this stage of its youth. 90 with potential for 93-95 in 10 years. |
| Red |
1979 Château Calon-SégurSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 89 pointsDaniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): Semi- transparent bright ruby stone with a small transparent meniscus. Nose is an immediate WOW! big blast of rich, ripe red fruit with a typical St Estephe smokiness and minerality. Palate is quite green and tannic and let’s down the nose big time. 92 for the nose but 87 or less for the palate. Quite stunted on the length at finale. But that nose.... |
| White |
2002 Domaine de la Vougeraie Vougeot 1er Cru Clos Blanc de VougeotChardonnay more |
11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 92 pointsDaniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): From Magnum. Very light yellow gold colour still quite jewelled. Nose is subtle lemon balm and fresh yellow meadow flowers and white fresh clover. Hint of white marshmallow. Subtle. Palate is very feminine understatement with a ‘greenish-ness’ except in yellow terms. Surprisingly tannic. But very enjoyable. Still surprisingly young and unevolved. Quite resonant . Come back in 5+ years. Thanks, Jeremy! 92+ |
| White - Sparkling |
2012 Schramsberg Vineyards J. SchramNorth Coast Champagne Blend more |
11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 93 pointsDaniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): Brief mousse. Very subdued bubbles even with swirling. Light gold colour. Nose is really gorgeous and inviting… immediately very elegant and understated lightly toasted wheat bread, nice salinity, whisps of ozone and oyster shell. Palate has a lovely immediate tension, a lovely single violin string high note, gorgeous chalkiness , dry, very refreshing and more-ish. Excellent tensioned structure. Nice long buzz on the finale and light- toned church bells ring inside the head. Thanks, Olivier! 93+ |
| White - Sparkling |
2002 Pol Roger Champagne Cuvée Sir Winston ChurchillChampagne Blend more |
11/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 94 pointsDaniel's White Truffle Birthday Lunch (Otto Y Mezzo, Alexander House, Landmark, Central, Hong Kong): No detailed notes as everyone was thirsty and it disappeared in no time. But this was stunningly good - fresh, lifted nose and a vinious, deeply satisfying palate. Lots of reverberance inside the head on a very long finish. So nice after a disappointingly sub-par bottle two weeks ago. To the extent that I may have over-scored it this occasion relative to the J Schramm that followed it. Thanks, Hans! |
| Red |
2005 Glaetzer Shiraz Amon-Ra Barossa Valleymore |
11/12/2023 - Goldstone Does not like this wine: 86 pointsLunch at Shane & Caroline's (Their Place, Hong Kong): Decanted for 3-4 hours. Deep impenetrable red-purple colour just lightening at the meniscus. Nose is big, welcoming open blast of caramel, dirt, espresso grounds, and blackcurrant/redcurrant jam. Palate has good immediate acidic freshness, but followed by sour red fruit. Surprisingly thin and rather vinegary. Has fallen off a cliff since last drank in 2016, when it was very jammy and rich and needed more cellar time, but obviously not this much. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| Red |
1996 Château Lagrange (St. Julien)Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/12/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 95 pointsLunch at Shane & Caroline's (Their Place, Hong Kong): Decanted for a couple of hours then re-bottled to take to lunch. Gorgeous deep garnet colour with a very small transparent meniscus. Nose is… WOW! Absolutely gorgeous warm damp earth, forest floor, cedar shingles, nutmeg, confit blackberry and blackcurrant…. absolutely mesmerising. Palate is an almost seamless segue into a gorgeous softened but still structured tannin frame with lovely fresh and bright acidity. A super combination of deep, rich but mellowed ripe blackcurrant and blackberry with a gorgeous forest floor, etc. tertiary backing band. Great resonance and reverberance inside the head on a very long finish. Man, this is good and has started to repay the patience of buying it en primeur. Lovely. Totally accessible now but no rush to drink. |
| White |
2016 Jordan Winery (Jardin) Chardonnay Cape Winemakers Guild ReserveStellenbosch more |
11/12/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 88 pointsLunch at Shane & Caroline's (Their Place, Hong Kong): Advanced yellow gold colour. Compared to the colour, the nose is surprisingly bright, fresh and lifted with yellow buttercup and melted unsalted butter, very lifted, bright and sniffable. Palate is fresh acidity but overwhelmed by a pronounced bitter almond mid palate. Drying. Nice resonant finish. Past its prime but still enjoyable. |
| White - Sparkling |
2002 Pol Roger Champagne Cuvée Sir Winston ChurchillChampagne Blend more |
11/12/2023 - Goldstone wrote: 88 pointsLunch at Shane & Caroline's (Their Place, Hong Kong): Medium gold colour. Very muted mousse and bubbles..even with swirling. Nose is inexpressive except for intermittent gusts of sea breeze and saline. Palate of Epsom salts that have been toasted, weirdly, and slightly sour,salty lime. Nice buzz and toastiness inside the head on the finish. Clearly not a representative bottle. |
| Red |
2021 Massolino Langhe NebbioloLanghe DOC more |
9/29/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 89 pointsDrank as our second red during a lovely extended lunch at the Oseteria del Buoca in Cernobbio, Lake Como. Recommended by the staff. Lighter and more transparent in colour than you'd expect but immediately delivered all the lovely aspects of young but immediately accessible Nebbiolo. Very elegant winemaking on show here at a price - around Euro 33 - much lower than you'd associate with a restaurant in the Como area. |
| Red |
2016 Fattoria Cabanon Barbera Piccolo Principe Provincia di Pavia IGTmore |
9/29/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 90 pointsDrank at the beautiful but low key Osteria del Buoca in Cernobbio, Lake Como in the run up to a family wedding. Recommended by the staff even though it was one of the cheapest wines on their list at €30. No detailed notes but beautiful with a seasonal 'Rabbit Caccicatori' main course where both wine and dish will live in my memory for a very long time. Powerful at 14.5% but immediately warming and comforting...and moreish. Scored at 90 only because I suspect it is a 'time and place' wine. |
| Red |
2006 Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valleymore |
7/30/2023 - Goldstone wrote: 88 pointsThree bottles decanted 2 hours prior to serving over a lunch of baby lamb rack followed by Italian cheeses. The purpose was to bring down my inventory, as this vintage and other recent ones has been a disappointment - to my palate it is very homogenized Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and nothing as interesting as Silver Oak was a couple of decades ago. However, it was a decent crowd pleaser amongst our guests. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| White |
2013 Domaine de la Bongran (Thevenet) Viré-Clessé Cuvée E. J. ThevenetChardonnay more |
7/30/2023 - Goldstone wrote: 85 pointsTwo bottles served from my cellar with an opening dish of Hokkaido Scallops and light Avacodo salad....previous experience has taught me not to serve this without food. Very deep gold colour reflecting its full or over maturity. Nose and palate are of the ripe tropical fruit end of Chardonnay that has made this purchase a disappointment, although not a disaster at US$22 per bottle. The palate had more acidity and verve than when I last drank it in 2021 and scored it at 80pts. I shied away from it but our 8 guests seemed fine with it. |
| White - Sparkling |
2015 Marie Courtin Champagne Efflorescence Extra BrutPinot Noir more |
7/30/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 91 pointsDisgorged in 2021. My first four from a case of six to celebrate my wife’s birthday with friends. Served in medium-sized white wine glasses. Medium gold. Fine mousse that very quickly dissipates. Microscopic bubbles. Looks almost like a still wine. Nose is high piano notes of ozone and crushed oyster shells. Palate is immediately super-refreshing blast similar to the nose. Very clean, precisely delineated, Classic Pinot Nor character of crisp red berry fruit....fresh cranberry. This definitely has high cheek bones. Definitely zero dosage but not at all austere….but gets more austere with time in the glass, yet not too much so. Very chiselled in an attractive way. A beautiful low volume 'producteur' champagne (1000 cases) if you like the style. 91+ easy. |
| Red |
1994 R. López de Heredia Rioja Gran Reserva Viña TondoniaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
7/23/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 93 pointsTotally saturated cork under wax cap but perfectly intact and easily extracted. Totally transparent and almost watery faded damask colour… looks much older than a 1994. Nose is immediately high lifted piano notes of bitter orange marmalade but mellows within 2 hours in the glass into soft, perfumed musk, dried spices and rich dried red plums fruit. Palate is sharp, tart bitter orange marmalade with high acidity and light but very dry tannins but which segue into a cranberry sharpness but with a counterpoint of rounded confit plum and less dry than earlier. Really multi-dimensional and contemplative on the long, resonant finale. Gorgeous. No rush if you have this in your cellar but is fully open for business.93+ 5 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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