| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
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| Red |
2019 Château SénéjacHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/21/2024 - wine&roses wrote: NRPerfectly okay, but nothing special. A little too thin, too sweet, too colorless. |
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2016 Château Haut SelveGraves Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/18/2024 - wine&roses wrote: 88 pointsSweet and characterless. |
| Red |
2016 Château MalescasseHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/29/2023 - wine&roses Likes this wine: 91 pointsThis is very beautiful classic claret, rich and opulent, with some complexity. But note: it requires at least four hours airing in the decanter. Six is even better. Drunk too soon, it is overwhelmingly tannic. I expect it will be long lived. |
| Red |
2016 Bodegas Manzanos Rioja Voché ReservaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
12/5/2023 - wine&roses wrote: NRThe 93 WS score is doubtless based on a cost/benefit calculation. Here is a $15 wine that is dependably consistent, with its nice note of boysenberry and nothing offensive about it. But that is all that can be said. It is a mass produced product, tasting more of the factory than the vineyard. There is no terroir here, not much indication that this is made from tempranillo. A naive wine. |
| Red |
2016 Castello di Meleto Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna PoggiarsoChianti Classico DOCG Sangiovese Blend, Sangiovese more |
10/13/2023 - wine&roses wrote: NRTremendous bottle variation, from classic sangiovese to corked. Perhaps it's because the corks are so bad, but perhaps something else went wrong as well. I would never buy this wine again. |
| Red |
2019 Château Les Grands ChênesMédoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/3/2023 - wine&roses wrote: NRThere's a lot going on here, and maybe it will all come together with time. But for now, this is disjointed and seems overoaked. I know Magrez is a wizard, but will this prove magic or illusion? |
| Red |
2016 Castello di Meleto Chianti Classico Riserva Vigna PoggiarsoChianti Classico DOCG Sangiovese Blend, Sangiovese more |
9/20/2023 - wine&roses wrote: 89 pointsNice, classic Sangiovese, a little on the lean side. I think it will decline with more age. Needs 2+ hours to breathe. |
| Red |
2015 Château SiauracLalande de Pomerol Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/9/2022 - wine&roses wrote: NRToo sweet, even for Merlot, and insufficiently tannic. Not to my taste. |
| Red |
2015 Château Fourcas DupréListrac-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/9/2022 - wine&roses wrote: NRThis bottle was nice, if unspectacular, classic claret, but most of these two cases have been very disappointing, seeming degraded rather than developed by time. I wouldn't buy this again. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
| Red |
2015 Château Cantelaudette Cuvée PrestigeGraves de Vayres Red Bordeaux Blend more |
9/23/2022 - wine&roses wrote: 87 pointsPerfectly serviceable claret--though pretty generic claret. Drinkable but not worth buying ever again. |
| Red |
2015 Château SénéjacHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/28/2022 - wine&roses wrote: 90 pointsVery nice classic claret, mature but not terribly complex. |
| Red |
2015 Château LarrivauxHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/13/2022 - wine&roses wrote: 89 pointsNice enough, but a little too sweet. Oddly, it loses character as it breathes. |
| Red |
2015 Tenuta di Arceno Chianti Classico RiservaChianti Classico DOCG Sangiovese Blend, Sangiovese more |
6/15/2022 - wine&roses wrote: 90 pointsVery nice traditional Riserva, lacking only a tang of barnyard and terroir. But lovely. |
| Red |
2015 Château SénéjacHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/20/2022 - wine&roses wrote: NRCompletely primary, so it's a shame to drink it this young. Its rich fruit augurs well, and there's a hint of complexity on the nose. In a year or two, this will be a very nice claret. |
| Red |
2014 Château La Vieille CureFronsac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/3/2022 - wine&roses Likes this wine: 91 pointsWonderfully rich, unctuous, mouth-filling claret, packed with fruit and with some secondary notes registering both on the nose and on the palate. The richness comes at the expense of a certain finesse, but it is amazing that the winemakers got so much out of merlot. |
| Red |
2015 Clos du RoyFronsac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/24/2022 - wine&roses wrote: 87 pointsTrying--and failing--to be good claret. They have the right idea but can't make it a reality. |
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2014 Château CantemerleHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/21/2022 - wine&roses wrote: 90 pointsThis will be a mature, classic, 92-point claret in two years. Wish I had had time to wait. |
| Red |
2015 La Sacristie de La Vieille CureFronsac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/17/2022 - wine&roses wrote: flawedTwo out of seven bottles from Saratoga Wine corked. I'm not buying from them any more. And I am dubious about the contention that a TCA taint--or something like it--can come only from the cork itself. Can any CTer shed light on the question of how wine spoils? I know that entire cellars get tainted, but can anyone explain "the science?" Would much appreciate. |
| Red |
2015 La Sacristie de La Vieille CureFronsac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/17/2022 - wine&roses wrote: 89 pointsRich, luscious, fruit laden, if a little one-dimensional. Still, there is nothing not to like about this wine. |
| Red |
2015 Château de la DauphineFronsac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/28/2022 - wine&roses Likes this wine: 90 pointsWonderfully fruit-rich, with a fine nose of cedar and black pepper, this is a lovely claret, about a year or two short of maturity. Well done. |
| Red |
2014 Château CapbernSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/17/2022 - wine&roses Likes this wine: 93 pointsGorgeous, classic claret. With none of the feminine softness you'd expect from a St. Estephe, this is an assertively masculine wine, as if each grape had two little grapes hanging off it. Rich, complex, viscous--I love this wine. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
| Red |
2014 Château Sociando-MalletHaut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/9/2022 - wine&roses Likes this wine: 91 pointsBeautiful, classic claret, earthy, honest, and old-fashioned. It's not grand cru, sure; but I could drink this every day. |
| Red |
2014 Château Lafon-RochetSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/26/2022 - wine&roses wrote: 90 pointsOpulent strawberry fruit without a lot of added complexity makes a very nice but unspectacular claret. I'm not sure what time will do with this. Certainly the fruit will endure, but whether there is some hidden magic in the oak that I can't perceive, who knows? |
| Red |
2014 Château d'AiguilheCastillon Côtes de Bordeaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/13/2022 - wine&roses Likes this wine: 91 pointsLovely wine, more characteristic of what this winery can do than Bordeaux as a whole. Succulent fruit, a nice degree of complexity, mature at 8 years. Delicious. Smack more of the winemaker than the terroir, I'd say. |
| Red |
2014 Château Ormes de PezSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/2/2022 - wine&roses wrote: NRHard to comment on this case bought from Vintry. Stored with the rest of the 2014 clarets I've been drinking, this one was off. Three bottles went straight down the sink, one leaving a faint whiff of TCA behind, but I'm not sure that's the main problem here. The other nine bottles varied from drinkable to pretty good old-style claret, but none of it was nearly as good as the excellent Capbern and very good Lilian Ladouys I've been drinking from this vintage. Bottom line: I'll never buy from Vintry again, and I hope to try a bottle of this wine from another merchant, just to see. |
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