| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| White |
2017 Shadybrook Estate Sémillon Platine BlancNapa Valley more |
6/11/2022 - PMDias wrote: 88 pointsNot what I'd hoped for - a California take on Semillon that allowed the grape to show. Overoaked, though not horribly so. Some at the table with more tolerance claimed to enjoy this more than I did, but the bottle wasn't in much demand even so. Tropical fruit, vanilla, pineapple yadda yadda. |
| Red |
2000 Cosentino Winery The PoetNapa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/17/2020 - PMDias wrote: 90 pointsCork broke, but no harm done; the wine was still a deep opaque purple, no bricking or fading. Pure Cabernet nose, fairly fresh and primary. Same on the palate, surprisingly unevolved. Tasty, if fairly simple. Good start to Quarantine Days, all told. |
| White |
2006 Bodegas Naia Rueda NaiadesVerdejo more |
5/15/2016 - PMDias wrote: 81 pointsDrank a bunch of these over the years, with consistent impression: there might be decent fruit somewhere under all the oak, but who can tell? Previous bottles were mainly vanillin buoyed by some acidity. Held on to one last bottle for a couple of years, wondering if something interesting might happen. No such luck: fruit mostly gone, oak still very present. The score represents my aggregate take on this wine, since this last bottler was far past its feeble prime. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
| Red |
2013 La Stoppa Trebbiolo Rosso Emilia IGTRed Blend more |
3/18/2016 - PMDias wrote: 90 pointsStrawberry and raspberry, a little petillance for the first pour. Delightful. |
| Red |
2006 Livia Fontana BaroloNebbiolo more |
1/22/2016 - PMDias wrote: 86 pointsLight, clear, transparent ruby. Nose of fresh strawberry and rosewater, with a bit of alcohol. Light, dilute strawberry-cherry palate, evolving after about an hour to sour cherry, without really putting on adequate weight. Odd to meet a Barolo with this light a presence. Not terrible, but did not earn even the fairly low tariff. |
| Red |
2006 Giuseppe Quintarelli Primofiore Veneto IGTCorvina Blend, Corvina more |
12/20/2015 - PMDias wrote: flawedBrett is tricky - not so very long ago, I actually expected it, and enjoyed it, in Cornas, for instance. Here... The fruit and acid were nicely integrated with the barnyard, and if I'd been in a different mood, I might have rolled with it. As is, I have a bunch more Quintarelli from this vintage, at various levels, and I'm mostly hoping this is not a pervasive problem. |
| Red |
2006 Château SansonnetSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/27/2015 - PMDias wrote: 88 pointsSuch Merlot! Wow oak! Actually, not as bad as that might sound, if you have some tolerance for oaky merlot, that is: spirity nose of brandied cherries, palate of ripe sour cherries, with a little sweet vanilla on the medium finish.- bordering on overripe, really. Not necessarily my cup of tea, and a bit of a throwback to a bad California winemaking moment, but drinkable. |
| Red - Fortified |
1998 Fonseca Porto Guimaraens VintagePort Blend more |
1/17/2015 - PMDias wrote: 90 pointsBlackberries, chocolate, notes of mocha. Quite a bit better than some Port I've spent a good deal more on, but, still, relatively simple. Good bargain, though. |
| Red |
2010 Louis Jadot Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les FuéesPinot Noir more |
1/17/2015 - PMDias wrote: 89 pointsSecond bottle. with consistent impressions: nose of cherries and loam, nice but hardly transporting. The palate carries those impressions through, with good delineation, medium length, and good acidity. Decent wine, but really not seeing either the massive brute of some notes or the lacy, silky, impressively long tuxedo-wearing ladykiller of the professional reviews. Good burg, not really living up to its press. Either substantial bottle variation at play, or very minor heat damage. |
| Red |
2001 Château de la Négly Coteaux du Languedoc La Clape Porte du CielSyrah more |
1/17/2015 - PMDias wrote: 92 pointsBig and extracted without being jammy or syrupy. Blackberry, blood and earth on the nose. Black fruits, charcoal and a bit of gamey funk on the palate. Quite good. |
| Red |
2011 Mt. Boucherie Gamay NoirSimilkameen Valley more |
11/9/2014 - PMDias wrote: 87 pointsVery light color, just a shade past some darker roses. Charming raspberry and cherry nose and palate. Slight petillance, no tannin to speak of, but good acidity. A bit sharp at fifty-five degrees, charming and quaffable a bit warmer, at maybe sixty-five. |
| Red |
1996 Morin Pere et fils Maranges 1er CruPinot Noir more |
5/30/2014 - PMDias wrote: 90 pointsQuite good: nose is light, but quite pretty, with strawberry and sous-bois; quite evolved on the palate, but enough fruit to balance the acid, and a bit of spiky bramble to pique the interest. Very nice, if not really, absolutely, premier cru grade. |
| Red |
2003 Meinklang Pinot NoirBurgenland more |
12/20/2013 - PMDias wrote: 90 pointsGood fruit, a little earth, medium acidity. Pleasant pinot that won't make anyone forget great Burgundy, but would fit in nicely with village burgs at a fraction of the price. |
| Red |
2009 Tedeschi CorascoVeneto IGT Corvina Blend, Corvina more |
11/16/2012 - PMDias wrote: 89 pointsWhat an odd little wine... Big sweet nose of candied dark fruits which follows through on the palate. Prunes, brandied cherries, cooked black-and-blue-berries. Not a description that would normally attach to something I like, but I kind of do: think of the difference between nasty fruit candy and really good fruit confits. No tannin to speak of, but very decent acidity. This is not a ripasso, and it has none of the brooding darkness of Amarone, baby or otherwise. If those are Port-like, think of this as more like a light, lively Ruby. Part of me wants to rate this higher, but then I'd worry about the implicit promise of a seriousness that just isn't there. But it's really easy drinkin'. |
| Red |
1997 Badia di Morrona Vigna Alta Toscana IGTSangiovese Blend, Sangiovese more |
10/25/2012 - PMDias wrote: 90 pointsPretty darn good: oddly thin and acidic on opening, but quickly put on weight and morphed into a very good Sangiovese of a dense, dark, brooding sort. |
| Red |
2000 Acacia Pinot Noir DeSoto VineyardCarneros more |
10/19/2012 - PMDias wrote: 91 pointsPicked up at auction on the cheap, very pleasant surprise: much more Burgundian than California, with juicy dark cherry and a loamy mushroomy note, no hint of heat or overripe sweetness, good acid, smooth tannin. |
| Red |
1993 Domaine Thierry Mortet Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Aux Beaux BrunsPinot Noir more |
10/7/2012 - PMDias wrote: 82 pointsMarginally drinkable. Quite aside from being well past prime, there was little of the varietal character I might have expected to find even past maturity. |
| Red |
1999 João Portugal Ramos Vinho Regional Alentejano Marquês de Borba ReservaRed Blend more |
9/22/2012 - PMDias wrote: 92 pointsNo vinegar. Amazingly smooth, mellow, fully resolved, mature wine. Blackberries, ripe blueberries, spice box, a very friendly attitude. At that sweet spot when the tannins are no longer visible, but you don't have to start talking about the wine in terms of memories of what it once was. |
| Red |
1998 Domaine Alain Burguet Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles VignesPinot Noir more |
4/4/2012 - PMDias wrote: 90 pointsAgain, consistent. Making it five-for-five, and the *only* Burg in my limited experience to achieve anywhere near that level of consistency. Tempted to add a point or two for just that. |
| Red |
1999 Domaine Prieuré Roch Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Le Clos des CorvéesPinot Noir more |
11/12/2011 - PMDias wrote: flawedCorked. Insert expletive. |
| White |
1997 Pascal Jolivet Pouilly-Fumé La Grande CuvéeSauvignon Blanc more |
10/23/2011 - PMDias wrote: 93 pointsThis... This is just messed up. So my bottle of 6/15 was a wreck, so why not just crack open another one on my own tonight, after-midnight research expedition-type little glass of somethin'-somethin'. For science, you understand. And right from the first sniff I know this is a tragic mistake: the nose is glorious, intense, like the quince-and-honey you get from Sauternes, which I always thought was from the botrytis - guess not. And the palate is *so* pretty, like nothing I've tasted, like a mature Chenin Blanc without the lanolin, with the bearing and intensity and texture of a really good Spatlese, but tasting like nothing else - again, the only close analogue is a Sauternes, but bone-dry. And I'm sitting here with no-one to share with, no food, conversation, context, none of what a bottle like this should have. |
| Red |
2005 Alberto Longo Capoposto Puglia IGTNegroamaro more |
8/28/2011 - PMDias wrote: 88 pointsInteresting flavor profile of cherries, plums and olives. Goes away a bit mid-sip, though. |
| White |
2001 E. Guigal CondrieuViognier more |
8/17/2011 - PMDias wrote: 89 pointsNose was still beautiful, but the palate was a bit wrung out, fruit fading. Opened a bit as it warmed in the glass, with honey and marked floral notes as well as delicate white pit fruit, but clearly declining. |
| White - Off-dry |
1997 Feiler-Artinger Ruländer Brigitte Ruster AusbruchNeusiedlersee-Hügelland more |
8/17/2011 - PMDias wrote: 91 pointsLush for an off-dry, lean and very direct for a dessert wine. Lovely aromatics of peach and caramel, good acidity. Delicious with a peach/berry desert, not as great with Jack's chocolate panna cotta. |
| Red |
2005 Puzelat-Bonhomme KO In Côt We TrustTouraine more |
7/30/2011 - PMDias wrote: 90 pointsbrambly, earthy blackberry and plum fruit, good acidity, no tannin I could spot. Perfect match for Peking Duck, Hong Kong style pork chops, and brisket hot pot with tofu skin. |
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