| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2009 Château BatailleyPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/25/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRLovely pencil lead nose, a hint of heather, of spice. Palate is in great balance, medium fine tannins, middle weight and lovely structure. This is just a little better than it should be. Very welcome after a tough day and a rainy commute. |
| Red |
2017 Domaine Treloar Le RescapéCôtes Catalanes Carignan more |
4/21/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRSaturday night - burgers and Starship Troopers: Interesting contrast to the 14 Le Soula which preceded it. Clean as a whistle, just a hint of grip and more of the ribena-adjacent fruit I'd perceived last time. This is a solid wine and amazing QPR but doesn't have quite the addictive qualities of the preceding vintage. |
| Red |
2014 Domaine Le Soula Le Soula RougeCôtes Catalanes Red Blend more |
4/21/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRSaturday night - burgers and Starship Troopers: A very welcome 12.5% abv. Some funk on the nose - never quite blows off, not quite meaty but brett or brett like. Slightly confected fruit, parma violets? Gentle tannins, this is more than the sum of its parts, but not a *lot* more. |
| Red |
2013 Le Grappin Beaune 1er Cru BoucherottesPinot Noir more |
4/20/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NR"Running" Club Oregon vs the World - Chardonnay & Pinot Noir (Al fresco in leafy West London): Well. The age maybe makes it an unfair comparison but clearly the top of the reds. Real depth there, lovely cherry / bramble on the nose. The palate has some structure to it, real savoury character and just a hint of cherry stone on the finish. My wotn and the table's #2. Interestingly the table was evenly divided between people who preferred this and those who preferred the Hundred Suns. |
| Red |
2019 Riverby Estate Pinot NoirMarlborough more |
4/20/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NR"Running" Club Oregon vs the World - Chardonnay & Pinot Noir (Al fresco in leafy West London): Lovely - really engaging, delicate brambly nose. Hints of savoury strawberry on the palate, just ever so slight jamminess but with a kind of herbaceous character that balances it well. My best experience with this wine I think. My #5 wotn and the table's #7. |
| Red |
2017 Hundred Suns Pinot Noir Old Eight CutWillamette Valley more |
4/20/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NR"Running" Club Oregon vs the World - Chardonnay & Pinot Noir (Al fresco in leafy West London): First sip was really engaging but - perhaps because i so rarely drink New World pinots, it's charms quickly faded for me. Some raspberry fruit there, a bit of jamminess, the oak bite is apparent, not clumsy in any way but the kind of thing that you have to be there for, and I wasn't there for it. Interestingly this was the most divisive wine at the table, being one person's clear favourite and others least liked. |
| White |
2021 Riverby Estate ChardonnayMarlborough more |
4/20/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NR"Running" Club Oregon vs the World - Chardonnay & Pinot Noir (Al fresco in leafy West London): This is a banker and we put it in the line up as a calibration. More substance here, that lemonade ice lolly stick thing again, a hint of gooseberry bitterness at the back of the palate that maybe seems a little clumsy by comparison to the MLs, but this is a substantial wine that makes no apologies, but still manages to dance somewhat gracefully on its 14% abv feet. Mine and the table's #3 wotn. |
| White |
2016 Morgen Long Chardonnay SandiWillamette Valley more |
4/20/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NR"Running" Club Oregon vs the World - Chardonnay & Pinot Noir (Al fresco in leafy West London): Ah now, this is more like it. Again, a pale colour. On the nose, grass clippings, a hint of lemon meringue perhaps. On the palate, lovely and balanced, real line and zip with a bit more generosity than previous bottles - the oak is evident but ever so well done. The table's wine of the night and my #2. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| White |
2015 Morgen Long Chardonnay SandiWillamette Valley more |
4/20/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NR"Running" Club Oregon vs the World - Chardonnay & Pinot Noir (Al fresco in leafy West London): This is lovely - perhaps a slightly muted cousin to the 16 tasted alongside. Real line and zip to it, there's a bit of breadth on the palate but it's still somewhat tightly coiled, as if it's not fully ready to share its pleasures. My 4th wotn and the table's 8th. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| White |
2021 Morgen Long Chardonnay Seven Springs VineyardEola - Amity Hills more |
4/20/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NR"Running" Club Oregon vs the World - Chardonnay & Pinot Noir (Al fresco in leafy West London): But a pup! Again, a little more substance than the first in the flight, a little more heft here perhaps. That pleasing delicacy but again, not quite enough substance to back it up. The experience of the following flights suggests that, at least in part, these just need time. As a slight aside - I wonder if one thing the Oregonians have managed to replicate is the dumb phases of burgundy? 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| White |
2021 Morgen Long Chardonnay DurantDundee Hills more |
4/20/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NR"Running" Club Oregon vs the World - Chardonnay & Pinot Noir (Al fresco in leafy West London): Pale colour. A bit more intensity on the nose, a very gentle vanilla not perhaps? And some lemon, almost candied lemon, lovely linearity and purity. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| White |
2021 Morgen Long ChardonnayWillamette Valley more |
4/20/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NR"Running" Club Oregon vs the World - Chardonnay & Pinot Noir (Al fresco in leafy West London): Pale colour. Subtle nose, you need to really sniff, then a hint of the kind of not quite cut grass smell i associate with chardonnay. Let's be honest - it smells of chardonnay. Light on the palate, pleasing acidity and poise, but not much substance there. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| White - Fortified |
2022 Gonzalez-Byass Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Tio Pepe Fino 'En Rama'Palomino Fino more |
4/20/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NR"Running" Club Oregon vs the World - Chardonnay & Pinot Noir (Al fresco in leafy West London): Lovely, light, nutty - some persistence but not *too* much. Was pleasantly received by the mostly not-wine-nerd crowd. Good start to things. |
| Red |
2007 Domaine Vincent Paris Cornas Granit 60Syrah more |
4/14/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRPopped and poured at Wood Tavern. Clean as a whistle. Real depth to it. A certain savoury element. Up there with the best of these. |
| Red |
2010 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña TondoniaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
4/8/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NROn opening, lovely structure, velvety texture on the mouth, the fruit is contending well with the oak. A thrilling and balanced wine - only the slight baked character on the nose stops this from being a magnificent wine. 7 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| Red |
2019 Stark-Condé Cabernet SauvignonJonkershoek Valley more |
4/8/2024 - lozatron wrote: NRTight, tight, tight as a tiger. Some lovely floral notes, violet perhaps. A lot of concentration here - some marzipan, cherry stone, and a lot of fruit. I suspect that this would open up with a few hours in the glass. Not terribly complex but some good fruit there and I think a more than decent example of its kind. |
| Red |
2009 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña BosconiaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
4/8/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRA glass generously offered from a bottle which had been opened the night before. Took a moment for my palate to recalibrate to the style - American oak, unsweet vanilla and maybe a hint of reduction? Once I was there, I was there, lovely stuff, this is going now but I think in ten years will be in an even better place. |
| Red |
2017 Domaine de la Butte Bourgueil Mi-penteCabernet Franc more |
4/8/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRAfter a 2019 of the same wine had crossed the line from feral to fecal, wanted to see what we had going on here. Colour - purple, just starting to mellow. On the nose, a hint of spice, some red fruits perhaps, clean as a whistle. On the palate - lovely structure - no greenness really, a hint of herbaceousness perhaps? Perfectly complete in the mouth - just lovely lovely stuff. Drinking well now but I think it has some time ahead of it. |
| White - Sweet/Dessert |
1996 Château SuduirautSauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
4/7/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRKentish Feast (Petts Wood): I struggle with notes for sweet wines but here goes...gold colour (in real life not quite as deep as the pic) lovely richness and mouthfeel. A hint of apple pie with raisins in. Great length. Went very well with blood orange tart. |
| Red |
1985 Château La LaguneHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/7/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRKentish Feast (Petts Wood): Opened at the last minute when it became apparent that more red would go well with the remaining food. Again, clean as a whistle, a hint of camp fire, mushroom, lovely fruit gently carrying on underneath it all. Foolishly finished all the preceding bottle before trying this as would have been great to contrast - my sense is that this was perhaps a little less focused but it's also possible that by that stage it is I who was a little less focused. |
| Red |
1985 Château Clerc MilonPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/7/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRKentish Feast (Petts Wood): Served from magnum. Mid-shoulder level and cork totally soaked through. Colour - garnet with a little bricking, this is not showing its age. Initial taste test - this is solid, well put together. Served after an hour or so - still holding itself together. Definitely some "old wine" character - some bonfire, but still focused and together, there's tobacco and cedar and tapenade. Reading other notes - I think we were lucky with this one, and doubtless being in magnum helped, but this is lovely stuff. |
| White |
2016 Domaine de Montille Corton-CharlemagneCorton-Charlemagne Grand Cru Chardonnay more |
4/7/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRKentish Feast (Petts Wood): Colour, pale straw. On the nose - a little muted, initially some struck match, straw and a whiff on honey. On the palate - at first definitely a whiff of reduction, which blows off somewhat but never completely. There's density - a lovely core of acidity, a little bit floral, a little bit mineral but a big mouthfeel. Kept coming back to this - lovely stuff. |
| White - Sparkling |
2013 Dom Pérignon ChampagneChampagne Blend more |
4/7/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRKentish Feast (Petts Wood): A lightness to this, also an intensity. Some brioche, even a hint of honey but so elegantly done and laid over a light frame with a kind of effortless acidity. Really really enjoyed this. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (3) |
| White |
2016 Kaapzicht Estate Chenin Blanc The 1947Stellenbosch more |
4/5/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRLoire & Friends Chenin Dinner (Table du Marché): A very generous treat left by a local resident who wasn't able to join for dinner. This is super - my handwritten notes say "tension between minerality and fruit" - I can't remember if that was my idea or someone else's but it's spot on - great balance here. This is in a great spot - hard to know if the younger wine would follow the same path - I *think* it would, and got a few to test out the hypothesis. |
| White |
2022 Kaapzicht Estate Chenin Blanc The 1947Stellenbosch more |
4/5/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine: NRLoire & Friends Chenin Dinner (Table du Marché): Ah now - this is more like it. There's weight there, density - someone said "extract" and yes, on hearing it I couldn't agree more. In terms of the flavours themselves - by this stage it is hard to differentiate between expressions of citrusy acidity, but theres a lovely minerality to this and all is in balance. Yum. |
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