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White - Fortified

NV Valdespino Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Fino "Inocente" Macharnudo

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5/8/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 points

NOSE: almond, seafoam, wildflowers, baking chocolate. MOUTH: remote, sun, coast, sepiated, upholstered, stictly dry, seasoned timber arches, alkaline mineral, seeping pools of macerated cress.

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2022 Clos du Tue-Boeuf Cheverny La Gravotte

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5/8/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 96 points

12.89% abv. 70% Fié Gris (aka Sauvignon Gris.)
EYE: very hell, pastel gold and green-silver.
NOSE: plump, ready to rupture with sweet musk-lemon; tangerine; tall grass and wildflower; bracing chalk-peppermint; brined rose.
MOUTH: pretty much a perfect drink. It glances across several beloved genres at their best. The pacing is like hydrated cucumber, green tea, lime tonic. A loft of exotic orchard fruits (apricot, sumac, almond, preserved lemon) are bound with detailed stitching of tidal pond and igneous rock. This is as abundant as it is spontaneous, with natural acidity meeting fluent ripeness. It is ideologically expansive to the limit of zero. How to pair it with food? Can it be falsified by a dimly lit loin chop?—after a liquor-based aperitif? And if not, certainly it couldn't survive service of preciously molded cheese courses. Presumably. On that basis I am deducting four points.

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White - Off-dry

2022 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese

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5/5/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

cinco hace sixto (rodriguez): 7.5% abv. AP 06. I sense a great degree of coherence, accomplished work, and mediation in this latest series of MFR, culminating in a Spätlese. Substantially, this drink amounts to buoyant floral perfume, fallen, adhesive, waist-deep, and attached to bulks of roasted/superficially mature, lightly salted berries—green/amber/blush* colored, berries. A core clad in pistachio dough suggests material for benign cellar processes. Very pastel-translucent. Acidity stitches the roots/soil stratum to piled starch/pear/muscat. Wait 2-5 years to open another.
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24 hours later, Herr Brewer reads pear. Me too. I loudly test this against the piña/fraise hypothesis, and discover all of it is confirmed, both sides of the argument. If I can't cellar this, I can hope someone does.

*Ethiopia

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2021 Louis-Antoine Luyt País Pipeño Carrizal

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5/5/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 points

cinco hace sixto (rodriguez): 5/7. Dang. I didn't mean to drink these so fast. But it's a holiday..., so. Straight out of the fridge—45°F in the pour, with a spicy kale burgoo—this wine resembles the stained glass windows highest in a tower, viewed from inside. As it warms, there are shades of Château Le Puy, and 1990s Foillard. Casually hypnotic fruit emerges from ether stuck in caves.
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24 hours later: devastating; problematic; sap weeping; cartoonish appeal leads to troubling theocentric/aesthetic insights.

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2022 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Riesling Estate

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5/5/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 89 points

cinco hace sixto (rodriguez): 10% abv. AP 26. Very floral and dryish. Potassium and calcium. Lime peel. Lilac. Russet apple skin. Acidity is withdrawn, allowing lobes of appetizing bitterness to influence the drink. Hyper-useful as a reception wine in any colloquium of souls. open minded, unrehearsed sensitivities preem 89-90.
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24 hours later it tastes just as good.

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2021 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Veldenzer Elisenberg Riesling Kabinett

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5/5/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 points

cinco hace sixto (rodriguez): 7.5% abv. AP 30. NOSE: utmost restraint in the expression of flamboyantly mature Riesling berries. There's a rakish pulse of ruptured blueberry in its core. It's a transparent matrix, surrounded with salt-marsh mead, stiff flowers, strawberry, milled seashell, and MOUTH: classical, with a lunge in the direction of mouthwatering salt and solar acidity. A roughly hewn front of primordial rock advances over earnest piles of diverse, ripe fruit—nothing dominates; not pineapple, not apple, not citrus, not apricot. Acidity here is determined to press the action forward. Sugar rises to the occasion, directing traffic, while preserving an articulated drinking experience. I want to sit with it for a day or two. For now: 92-93.
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24 hours later, it's still good, but like most MFR wines I drink these days, it's best on day 1. No collapse; just, it's ready to go when it's open. It's already warmed up and ready to pitch.

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White - Off-dry

2022 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett feinherb

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5/5/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

cinco hace sixto (rodriguez): 9.5% abv. AP 04. NOSE: rainwater meanders chirping lazy lightweight floral sensations; roses, limes, and sliced ginger bob in iced stone tea; with a curiously tender mix of citrus zest—orange, kumquat, pink lemon. (I could take over the world with a bath soap that smelled like this.) MOUTH: structure gripping with calcium, amused with lax strands of acidity, and weightless. There is no taste of sugar, really, or not until a pour rises above 63° F. The event insists on returning to a precisely earthy, appetizing bitterness, like something turned with a garden shovel in gravel. Pretty cool. Pretty unusual.
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24 hours later, it's interesting to compare this to an otherwise similar MFR Estate Riesling. One tastes like a sketch of the other. This Weh. Sonnenuhr is differentiated by it's concentration, texture, and endurance, more than by its flavor/aroma and sugar/acid character. And it tasted better yesterday, barely.

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White

2021 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett trocken

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5/5/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

cinco hace sixto (rodriguez): 9.5% abv. AP 28. NOSE: serene and subtle, with high-pitched lime/chalk and caper salt. Very clean. Adjustments and air open up sensations of orange filet, lemon blossom, and white lilac. MOUTH: sheer, impacted with information, sinuous, uncommonly transparent, with waves of saline smashing on jagged rocks. Acidity is like a bloom of assassins' daggers. A drink is hyper-mouthwatering, lean, and zealously dry. Flavor/mass quotient is off the charts. It's a little unusual.
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24 hours later, the shoe-lacing shows a bit more loosely. When I drink it immediately after feinherb or lieblich, it tastes like celery. I'm glad I could grab another bottle.
48 hours later, it's still servable, but all that time open gains it not. Weigh a barely diminished wine against 48 hours for urself.

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Rosé

2012 Joseph Swan Vineyards Syrah The Vineyard Next Door

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12/11/2015 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 94 points

I'm still holding a torch for this cuvée in 2024

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2018 Pierre-Luc Leyvraz Chasselas Grand Cru Les Blassinges

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12/28/2020 - Putnam Weekley wrote: NR

Certainly this wine is more demonstrative in aroma when compared to 2019 Chateau de Ripaille. Here there is honeysuckle, almond—no doubt. All of the things that David notes are clear and obvious. (Except maybe for iris, it’s not a reference point that I can use.) But I want to notice something else about the way this $40 wine smells: circus peanuts. (a confection unrelated to biological peanuts, and a mark of chemical reduction.) This may be an indication of healthy, youthful processes, and it confirms one of the intrinsic traits of Chasselas. The drink is pleasant. It is soft, malolactic silken, and completely without edges.
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I was surpised over the next few days when the reductive qualities refused to budge. It's an interesting, academic experience that I couldn't enjoy enough to repeat.

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2013 Château de Ripaille Vin de Savoie Ripaille

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1/14/2015 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 90 points

deceptively neutral when first open, especially <50°F/10°C. It takes a few days open to really come into focus, and even then it's virtue lies in its ambience and texture more than volume of aroma or flavor. Very clean and soulful.

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2019 Château de Ripaille Vin de Savoie Ripaille

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12/28/2020 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 88 points

Verging on neutral. Perfectly clean, nutty, creamy, green apple filet, bitter stone. It has texture, and round edges. Green tea and velvet shank mushrooms. Chewing on it rewards with freshness.

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White - Off-dry

1997 Freiherr Langwerth von Simmern Rauenthaler Baiken Riesling Spätlese

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1/25/2018 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: NR

left unfinished after riesling fleiover jeeb, three days later I was very surprised. It improved greatly, with an interesting balance of sweet and savory, with cheeky acid. Meticulous. Illuminated. Excavated stone. The last few drops: precious.

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2019 Julie Balagny Cayenne

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10/28/2021 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 96 points

13.5% abv. NOSE: inspiring sincerity in invitation. Inky cascades of fresh black berries. Bones entwined with flowers (deadhead aesthetics taken to an extreme of accomplishment.) Plum. MOUTH: a sweet subfloor surrounds the drink at a striding pace. There’s a lone fracture of peanut, and then its gone, overwhelmed by aerated releases of flavor more vinous. The event of taking a drink swells gradually with flavor and texture, until a breach: edges of black, ash-dry tannin surrender in a weightlessly thick juice infill. The mouth-filling frame of flavor is decorated around the edges with bespoke selections of spring herb, salted roots and peels, and juniper. Expert acidity is relevant, and submerged. The finish is teased with a thread of succulent spring herb fronds.

"𝘊𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘦'𝘴 3.2 𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭 (granite) 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘵. 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 2018 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘕𝘈𝘖 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘝𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦." —LDM

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White - Fortified

NV Valdespino Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Isabela Cream Sherry

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4/30/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

imagine Don Gonzalo (smoldering sour root sap) blended with El Candado (400 g/L drinkable sugar). There were times when this bottle of Isabela was lost in neither expression of its parents. Tonight, from the remains of an open pantry bottle, it beams with flavors of walnut, anise/pruneaux jam, west African comida, steel baking sheets, salted nougat, and toasted almonds.

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Red

2022 Strekov 1075 Bob

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4/30/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 points

Initial contact produces sensations of finely finished black grape slurry. It's tannic. Nothing sticky. Then gradually as it warms, various temperamental blooms of flavor action occur, starting with iodine/bouillon, then cave stone. Before long, a campaign of black raspberry acidity advances into focus. The event follows a pulsing artery of plain blue fruit sugar, though the wine is dry (and barely salted.) Surrounding this I find a busy environment of aromatic leaf (sage, yerba buena, eucalyptus,) seed (poppy, maraschino, caraway,) and mineral (I'm not a geologist.)

I'll pencil this in as a menu substitution for the finest foot-trod Lambrusco. If I had salumi in the house I would test it. "alk. 12.5%." This is my first drink of this Bob cuvée. Zsolt Sütó's Fred series comes to mind—by way of comparison—more than the liter of El Mismo Pais that preceded it more immediately. Alibernet vs. Blauer Port-you-geezer.

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2019 Oriol Artigas Alella La Bella

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2/23/2021 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 94 points

12% abv, bottle number 853 of 2667. $58

NOSE/MOUTH: Towering acoustic bouquet with loose strands of almonds, citron, peppermint, and chipped granite. Amazing movement; not so much and object of aroma and taste as slowly enacted texture. When the fabric rests, I notice significant, tempered, smells and tastes–and too many of them to itemize. There is no discontinuity. So where does this impressive degree of articulation come from? It's a lens of flavor. Tannins are pristine and chalky. Savory, meaty minerals. Ripe apricots cured in fleur de sel. Stone ivy mints. Crispy chicken skins. Bitter, charred bones.

“𝘓𝘢 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘪𝘴 100% 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘪𝘯𝘺𝘢 𝘥’𝘦𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘢. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥-𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 2 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘬. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 10 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘖₂.” –José Pastor Selections

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2019 Oriol Artigas Alella La Canya

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2/23/2021 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 points

11% abv, bottle number 717 of 1933. $40 in MI.

NOSE/MOUTH: Wow. Very ambient, bass-note acoustic bouquet. Lemon marmelade, salted and herbed. The unctuous, salty, glycerin texture launches singular chimes of sweetgrass and brioche. Chalky, marine tannins. Polished mineral core. Sweet stones. Thoroughly attenuated yellow and orange fruits. Fascinating and impossible to sum it up in words. (I am reminded fondly of Les Mouches ont Pied!)

“𝘓𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘹𝘢 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 1.5𝘩𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢, 𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘵-𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨-𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 (𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 “𝘔𝘢𝘴 𝘗𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳”) 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰-𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘷𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 2 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 6 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘖₂.” –José Pastor Selections

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2019 Oriol Artigas Alella El Rall

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2/23/2021 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 points

12.5% abv, bottle number 756 of 6873. $34 in Detroit.

NOSE/MOUTH: Unexpected. Savory fruit cake crust. Really unusual. It’s all meaty bass notes. Nothing feral or pungent in the smell. Plantain peels. A confident, textured mouthful. Dazzling strands of wild blackberry acids. Berry tannins seep from its pores. Pulpy and strictly dry. Savory. Chewy. Malo. Rainforest. No infections. Long. It finishes with twiggy sour ripe little berries and toasted spices. Very dynamic! It’s changing with every drink. Sensational.

“𝘌𝘭 𝘙𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘭, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘵, 𝘚𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘩, 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘹𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘭, 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘭, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺, 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.” –Chambers Street

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NV Louis-Antoine Luyt El Mismo Pais

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4/29/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 90 points

Bare sap attenuation impels tea and raspberries, weeping fluently with stone. Engaging complexity, bitter gravel roots, flushing action. After flirting with interesting leafy stem resin, It resolves in haste. Quite dry. Overbrewed iced tea tannin. 24 hours later, straight from the fridge, of course it tastes just as good, but now I notice how this amounts to a flavor-attenuated version of Luyt's red cru Pipeños—modulated, drier, a bit more carelessly drinkable.

Purchased from new inventory within the last few months—I suspect it's based in 2022 fruit, though I find no serial markings on the glass, labels, nor closure.

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2020 Tzum Zinfandel Fionn

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10/28/2021 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 90 points

NOSE: waxy floral perfume and delicate acetic acid. MOUTH: gathered, texture, combed smooth, leads to oily little bursts of sour brine and red berries. Leafy. The finish is a long stain of ambitious resin and kirsch. Very drinkable.

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2014 Heitz Cellar Grignolino

 Napa Valley more
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9/8/2017 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: NR

I adore this wine. I wish I could find some to buy. Tastes like tattoos and briar berries.

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White

2013 Reichsrat Von Buhl Riesling Kabinett Armand

 Pfalz more
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12/11/2017 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: NR

Big flavor, pristine balance of sugar and acid, 7% abv and it drinks effectively dry. I can't remember a better Armand.

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2013 Reichsrat Von Buhl Riesling Kabinett Armand

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6/27/2018 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: NR

phantastisch, how it attenuated and gained fresh mineral detail as it aged.

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Red

2012 Podere il Palazzino Stagi Toscana IGT

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8/12/2018 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: NR

Uncommonly drinkable for such ink.

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