| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| White - Sweet/Dessert |
NV Equipo Navazos La Bota de Pedro Ximenez 12Montilla-Moriles Pedro Ximénez more |
4/20/2024 - salil wrote: 94 pointsGrand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): Apparently I had this wine ~12 years ago - my descriptors for it are very similar to my CT note from then - motor oil, yep. Intensely powerful, yep. Raisiny, chocolatey, figgy, etc - yup, all of the above. But I found myself enjoying this one a lot more, as this was absolutely delicious and I even reached for a second glass (something I rarely do with PX, given the sheer intensity). |
| White - Off-dry |
1995 Müller-Catoir Mußbacher Eselshaut Rieslaner AuslesePfalz more |
4/20/2024 - salil wrote: 95 pointsGrand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): A dinner with Seth, Jay, and I - of course, Seth brought an old Catoir, and the only question was whether he'd bring a Riesling, Scheurebe, or Rieslaner. Ludicrous amounts of sweetness and richness; absurdly high acidity; somehow it all comes into balance and it works. I have no idea how, other than that Hans-Gunter Schwarz is a wizard. It's packed with ripe tropical fruit, those fiery spicy notes of Rieslaner (and the slight rough phenolic texture I usually associate with it), layers of botrytised honey and caramelly sweetness, and the whole package is just spectacular - intensely rich and sweet, yet feeling absolutely electric and shockingly light on its feet. A Cronenberg of a Rieslaner, and a goddamn delicious one. |
| White - Off-dry |
2017 Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Auslese GoldkapselNahe more |
4/20/2024 - salil wrote: 94 pointsGrand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): Quite the contrast to the Grünhäus that preceded it - whereas that was all crackling electricity and vibrancy, this is a gentler, quieter wine. Beautiful aromatics - riper peach and white cherry mixed with tarter lime and pear fruit, and gentle floral and honeyed accents. The palate is very similar, dominated by the youthful fruit with a mineral undercurrent that becomes more apparent on the back end. Lovely wine, the kind of Auslese that's perfect at the table with food, rather than a botrytis-heavy dessert wine. |
| White - Off-dry |
1990 Von Schubert Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
4/20/2024 - salil wrote: 97 pointsGrand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): Spectacular Riesling. I'd say this is near the platonic ideal of aged Spätlese for me, but Seth kept insisting that he had a bottle recently from the same lot that was somehow even better (!!!). But this was just thrilling; the fruit still remarkably fresh and vibrant with that electric '90 acidity beneath giving it plenty of lift, layers of more savoury smoky, honeyed, and creamy flavours, and those more herbal, faintly minty, and pine cone-like notes I always find in older Von Schubert. Incredible balance and depth, very much a wow wine. |
| White - Off-dry |
1993 Von Schubert Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Riesling AusleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
4/20/2024 - salil wrote: flawedGrand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): Seemed heat-damaged, or at the very least unreasonably advanced and not representative of what this wine should be. Tastes more like stale apple juice than anything I would expect in a mature Riesling. Shame, because old Von Schuberts can be so thrilling. (WineBid sticker on the back.) |
| Red |
2001 Bruno Giacosa Barbaresco Santo StefanoNebbiolo more |
4/20/2024 - salil wrote: 94 pointsGrand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): Seth's bottle - he said he decanted this around 9 AM, and about 9 hours later it was only just starting to open out. First impressions were of a wine that was still somewhat tight, showing a beautiful core of red and dark fruited flavours accented by savoury herbal, floral, and tarry notes, but with a firm tannic spine dominating on the back end. Still more air helped ease out the tannin a bit more (though it never entirely relents), and brought out more aromatic depth as the various non-fruited elements became more prominent around the core of bright fruit. Lovely wine - even if it needs a lot more time to be 'ready', I'm glad for the opportunity to drink it now. |
| Red |
2006 Domaine Robert Chevillon Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Saint GeorgesPinot Noir more |
4/20/2024 - salil wrote: 96 pointsGrand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): Just a stunning bottle of Burgundy - a hauntingly complex and beautiful fragrance, a palate that's so graceful and polished with fine grained tannin beneath, and somehow it keeps getting better and better with air. There's no sense trying to describe the various flavour components, because this is so much more than the sum of all the various flavours - I'll just say it seems to show equal parts fruit, earth, and more savoury developed tertiary notes, with everything coming together into a seamless whole. |
| Red |
1982 Château Prieuré-LichineMargaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/20/2024 - salil wrote: 89 pointsGrand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): Leftovers from the bottle that Seth posted his 4/19 note on. It's still holding up quite nicely, though doesn't show quite the same array of aromatic depth Seth described. The red fruited flavours here are quite gentle and play a supporting role to more savoury dried floral, herbal, and faintly leathery elements. Feels fully mature and perhaps slightly on the downslope, with the structure fully integrated here, and a graceful, silky texture on a mediumweight frame. |
| White |
2020 Schloss Lieser Graacher Domprobst Riesling Kabinett AuctionMosel Saar Ruwer more |
4/20/2024 - salil wrote: 93 pointsGrand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): Kabinett my ass, there is some serious prädikat creep happening here - this has the weight and intensity of a rich Spätlese, bordering Auslese. But labeling aside, this is delicious. The fruit flavours span a spectrum ranging from riper white cherry and peachy flavours to the more classic Mosel apple and citrus notes, augmented by an array of floral, lightly honeyed, and gentle mineral notes. Generous sweetness here but it's balanced by bright acids, and the whole package is incredibly easy to drink. |
| White |
2018 Wittmann Westhofener Brunnenhauschen Riesling Großes GewächsRheinhessen more |
4/20/2024 - salil wrote: 89 pointsGrand Sichuan, Jersey City edition (Grand Sichuan, Grove St.): This needed a lot of air and popping and pouring this wasn't the wisest move - a glass much later in the night showed much better and provided more interest, even though the wine was quite a bit warmer by that point. It's an impressive wine with plenty of ripe white fruited flavours, sweeter floral notes, and a firm stony mineral base underneath, showing more richness and sweetness than I typically expect from GGs. Even then, I'm still left wondering how much more I might have enjoyed a Kabinett, Spätlese, or Auslese instead - this is well made, but doesn't show any of the sheer joie de vivre or provide the visceral enjoyment I got from the Wittmann Morstein Kabinett recently (at a fraction of the price of this wine.) |
| White |
2009 Alzinger Riesling Smaragd SteinertalWachau more |
4/12/2024 - salil wrote: 97 pointsIncredible wine, one of the most thrilling experiences I've had with dry Riesling. The sense of lightness is hard to put into words here. It has a lightness of touch and a weightlessness that reminds me of great, classic Mosel Kabinett, even though it has the alcohol levels of a dry Riesling. There's an intense stony mineral character here, fresh green verdant and herbal scents, and a core of pale citrus and pear fruit beneath that plays a supporting role to the mineral and herbal/floral notes. The balance is impeccable and it still feels very fresh and quite youthful - I'm glad I have a couple left, but it'll take some effort to not open another one soon given how good this was. |
| Red |
2020 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon Le Clos GuillotCabernet Franc more |
4/8/2024 - salil wrote: 91 pointsLovely wine; very much what I look for in Chinon with the green leafy and forestal notes front and center, and a palate that's full of bright dark berried fruit and more savoury tobacco and earthy elements that emerge on the back end. There's lively acidity and grainy tannin underneath, and the whole package is quite elegant and very easy to drink. Definitely need to get more. |
| White |
2015 Maverick Wines Riesling Trial HillEden Valley more |
4/4/2024 - salil wrote: 93 pointsOff the wine list at Cherry Circle Room. Tremendous, just an outstanding expression of dry Riesling with floral, smoky, and herbal scents leading into a palate that's all fresh citrus fruits and intense, vivid stony minerality. The flavours here might need a geologist to do them justice. Love the balance here - it's bracing and tart with plenty of acidity, but there's also a generous richness to the fruit, and it has a sense of lightness and refreshment that I don't often find in the heavier Smaragds or GGs from Austria/Germany. |
| White - Off-dry |
2005 Joh. Jos. Prüm Graacher Himmelreich Riesling SpätleseMosel Saar Ruwer more |
4/2/2024 - salil wrote: 90 pointsAP #11-06. A bit disappointing considering the producer and vineyard, I remember liking this a lot more several years back. It's still quite delicious with lots of ripe Mosel fruit and florality, a faint honeyed tinge to the aromatics, and plenty of more savoury developing/developed notes. But it also comes across somewhat soft and extremely sweet, lacking the crispness and definition I regularly find from Himmelreich, and the finish is a bit odd - showing a faintly bitter tinge, not unlike what I find in some drier wines with botrytis. |
| White - Off-dry |
2005 Zilliken (Forstmeister Geltz) Saarburger Rausch Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel #8Mosel Saar Ruwer more |
3/31/2024 - salil wrote: 96 pointsOpened many decades too early, because I saw a raised capsule and slightly raised cork and worried this may be a leaker. Silly me, this wine will almost certainly outlive me. This is a jawdroppingly beautiful Auslese. Incredibly clear, fresh fruit tinged with bright floral notes, and lighter honeyed and faintly herbal accents, so complex and fresh, with a round, silky texture and lifted by bright acids. Impeccable balance. The sense of purity and clarity here are amazing - whatever botrytis is here is incredibly clean, this really feels like an Auslese to drink at the table rather than a big dessert wine trying to be a baby BA/TBA. Just an outstanding (half) bottle of wine. |
| White |
2006 Bouchard Père et Fils Meursault 1er Cru Les Genevrières DomaineChardonnay more |
3/31/2024 - salil wrote: 92 pointsFully mature, showing just a faint touch of butterscotchy oxidation on the nose, though that clears a bit with air and gives way to an array of other savoury, creamy, and gentle white fruited flavours. Love the palate presence here - it's rich with a faintly buttery/oily texture, hefty in that old school white Burg style, but still carried by good acidity that adds nice freshness to the fruit. I think I liked this more than Ken, but agree that it's definitely time to drink up. |
| White |
2019 C.V.N.E. (Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España) Rioja Monopole ClásicoWhite Blend more |
3/30/2024 - salil wrote: 91 pointsme: what if there was a wine that had the brightness and oxidative savouriness of Valdespino Inocente, but was lower alcohol than a sherry, and also had more depth and aromatic complexity than the Inocente, and was super-easy to drink with dinner? |
| Red |
2020 Château Malescot St. ExupéryMargaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/24/2024 - salil wrote: 89 pointsA little more polished than I usually like my Bordeaux, with a rather noticeable sheen of oak around the ripe red and black fruit, though the oak does integrate with a couple of hours in the decanter and ends up playing more of a supporting role. But it's well balanced and impressively structured with plenty of fine grained tannin and bright acidity that adds a nice sense of lift, finishing with a savoury gravelly earthiness. |
| Red |
1998 Penfolds GrangeSouth Australia Shiraz Blend, Syrah more |
3/28/2024 - salil wrote: 90 pointsWCC Syrah from around the world tasting (Clifton Park, NY): Well, this was disappointing to see revealed as '98 Grange - it's a wine that I'd normally be very excited to sit down and drink but this felt a bit blocky and painfully youthful and didn't really distinguish itself from the rest of the flight. The red and black fruit here feels very dense, somewhat monolithic, though there's a high-toned minty and herbal aromatic topnote that adds a sense of freshness. There's also a lot of apparent tannin on the palate, and it still feels like a wine more about potential and promise than immediate pleasure. |
| Red |
2004 Torbreck RunRigBarossa Valley Shiraz Blend, Syrah more |
3/28/2024 - salil wrote: 87 pointsWCC Syrah from around the world tasting (Clifton Park, NY): Quite similar to the first wine in this flight (which turned out to be the same producer) with similar intensity and aromatic profile, though the aromatics here are less floral and high-toned and there's more of a savoury, toasty element here. But this also feels a bit heavier and lacks the acidity and lift of the first wine. |
| Red |
2001 d'Arenberg Shiraz The Dead ArmMcLaren Vale more |
3/28/2024 - salil wrote: NRWCC Syrah from around the world tasting (Clifton Park, NY): Came across relatively one-note with lots of black fruit, though I also didn't spend a lot of time on this - found a couple of the other wines in the flight more interesting and also kept going back to my pours from the previous flight, while this didn't really hold my interest. |
| Red |
2003 Torbreck The FactorBarossa Valley Shiraz, Syrah more |
3/28/2024 - salil wrote: 89 pointsWCC Syrah from around the world tasting (Clifton Park, NY): Powerhouse of a wine. First impressions are impressive with soaring aromatics - intense black fruited and meaty notes dominate here, though there's a surprisingly sweet floral note (honeysuckle?) that has me wondering if there's some Viognier in this blend as well. There's similar power and intensity of flavour on the palate, and surprising acidity giving it more lift than I'd expect for such a big wine - but the alcohol does stick out on the back end and mars this a bit. |
| Red |
2005 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie Château d'AmpuisSyrah more |
3/28/2024 - salil wrote: 85 pointsWCC Syrah from around the world tasting (Clifton Park, NY): Rather blocky and charmless; there's some red and black fruit here tinged with faintly meaty and spicy notes, but there's also a faint oaky element that hasn't really integrated into the wine, and some woody tannin on the back end that sticks out. |
| Red |
2013 Pierre Gonon St. JosephSyrah more |
3/28/2024 - salil wrote: 92 pointsWCC Syrah from around the world tasting (Clifton Park, NY): Double-decanted a couple of hours before serving (and it threw quite a bit of sediment already). There's a stemmy character that shows at first, but it mostly integrates with air. By the time this is poured, it's all about fresh red fruits and higher toned pepper and floral notes, with the stemmy notes playing a supporting note in the background and adding a light, fresh herbaceous character. A pretty, welterweight expression of Gonon that still has years ahead with plenty of fine grained tannin and bright acids beneath. I'll give my next bottle a bit more time. |
| Red |
1995 Domaine Barge Côte-Rôtie Côte BruneSyrah more |
3/28/2024 - salil wrote: 94 pointsWCC Syrah from around the world tasting (Clifton Park, NY): Oh hell yes, this is the real deal. Fully mature and remarkably light on the palate, there's gentle red fruit here but this is really all about the savoury developed character - layers of green olives, dried floral notes, and savoury meatiness all come together seamlessly, and it's far too easy to drink. The tannin here feels mostly resolved (surprised to see this was a '95 on reveal - given the vintage, I would have expected a lot more tannin here), but the structure here comes from a spine of bright acidity that gives it a sense of freshness and brightness. Lovely wine. I need more Barge in my cellar. |
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