5/5/2024 - Alexei_A wrote:

I am not ashamed to say that I love Barthod's wines. She is a true queen of Chambolle (for me), who makes classical CM wines, even if she does not hold GC plots.
This particular wine is unquestionably great, but only for 30 minutes: dark cherry/violet/young leather/fresh raspberry on the nose + porcini/griotte/leaves on the palate.
After that - it fades into pure earth/dust. Clearly, the sign of early picking in a poor year. But those 30 minutes!

5/5/2024 - winewitch59 Likes this wine:

Very nice. Went well with roasted salmon.

5/5/2024 - Yuchen Likes this wine:

浸皮风格很强烈，有一些红果Berry的感觉
酸度不错但也不是很高，朋友说很酸我没觉得

5/5/2024 - chairmanzian Likes this wine:

Very mature at this stage, accessed via Coravin. Raisin and candied cherries on the nose. Cocoa powder, dark chocolate, and cherries on the tongue. Medium finish. Well-integrated and pleasant, but not particularly complex. Likely past prime.

5/5/2024 - JLCFan wrote:

Nice nutty almond brioche nose. Resonant with more ripe citrus verging on tropical notes; bursting with fruit. Nice body and a resonant finish. I respect this wine, but I’m not spending $100 retail on it.

5/5/2024 - SpenceP wrote:

Immediately after opening, citrus, flowers, mangos, fresh bread, almonds, oak, minerals, but mostly in the front of mouth, fading away in mid-mouth, and then coming back to life with a lovely long aftertaste. After maybe 20 minutes in the glass, the wine filled the whole mouth with a wonderful richness, and moved toward barely ripe peaches, with the faintest hint of pineapple, but also with some loss of that initial complexity. At about the 30 minute point this became a strikingly rich wine, with notes of oak, yeast, almonds, and barely ripe peaches, with just a hint of pineapple, followed by an exceptionally long and pleasant aftertaste. And after about an hour, the oak and yeast morph to caramel. [Tasted from the Jancis Robinson glass. Also briefly tasted from the Conterno glass--equally good but with a different flavor profile, one that emphasized caramel and tropical notes-- and from a generic Burgundy glass, which gave disappointing results. The score represents a composite of the various phases, not any one phase by itself.]

5/5/2024 - JLCFan wrote:

Quite peppery and cherry-fruited. Hint of barnyard. Medium bodied, powdery tannins, nice acidity. Not as special as other producers, but plenty drinkable.

5/5/2024 - Coachron13 Likes this wine:

Two hour decant. Excellent, but a little jammy. Plenty of life left.

5/5/2024 - JLCFan wrote:

Nice aromas of melon and flint. Lacks power and resonance, although it doesn’t seem too hot.

5/6/2024 - JLCFan wrote:

Continues to be enormous, with dark plum fruit and a forbidding, alcoholic structure, although perhaps it’s lost a bit of immediacy. I won’t be touching my other three bottles for many years, although where it goes from here I don’t know.

5/3/2024 - Aravind Asok wrote:

This is gorgeous chard for the price. Notes from 48 hrs open. On the nose: mineral clay and meyer lemon, soft leesy notes. On the palate: fantastic acidity, lovely density, crushed rock, mineral oil, pepper, lemon, lemon oil. Tang and soft spice on the finish. Excellent.

5/5/2024 - Wicker Parker Likes this wine:

Hint of salinity, taut dialectic between gently bitter melon rind, apricot, and generous peach fruit, a wine of contemplation and some good length – I really like the texture here, too, there's density without undue weight. It's almost too easy to like, you have to spend time with it to better understand its subtle depths and charms.

5/5/2024 - il_diavolo wrote:

I thought this was an excellent wine and felt less "forced" than some Sottimano of prior years. Not sure it's a style change or a one -off. Gracious nose of dark cherry and earth. Elegant and complex on the palate with distinct savoury component - black cherry with tar, smoke, forest floor influences. Very appealing and interesting.

5/5/2024 - soyhead wrote:

somewhat dark in color
nose - rich, brown sugar, nuts, baking spice
mouth - confused, because the nose is oxidative but i get a decent hit of sulfur in the mouth which leads me to think it's reduced. this may be one of those problems for a chemist to explain away; to me it comes off somewhat disjointed. lots of elements here - honeyed richness, peaches and sulfur (a potential new yoghurt flavor?), brown sugar, tangerine tart... all in all it strikes me as an error in sulfurization which seems quite odd for a Ganevat, and thus nudging me to into believing the problem is in fact rather with me. Odd. worth trying but a pricey experiment.

5/5/2024 - rshah123 Likes this wine:

Raspberries and plums on the nose and pallette. Notes of ginger and spices. Long finish.

5/5/2024 - boillatm Likes this wine:

Another very good 1978 from this producer. I would suggest drinking in one service as the wine lost its appeal after a few hours of air

5/5/2024 - Ed in Inverness wrote:

PNP over 2 hours. Very good. Expressive fresh nose of red currant and some wood. Big body Napa mouthfeel. Mocha, ripe plum, blueberry, leather Long finish. Fully mature. Drink now. Some sediment. Great value at $36 from WInebid. I was worried that it would be undrinkable based on the previous review.

5/5/2024 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

Accessible and charming. Smoked meats, cherry, raspberry and musk. Some Gevrey sauvage and nice underlying minerality. Fleshy and silky, balanced and long.

5/5/2024 - WineKnut Likes this wine:

This was fun. Reminding me of many of the affodable 1er cru wines I tasted on my trip to Burgundy last year.

For the simple minded like me, yes, that is a huge compliment.

Buy, then drink, or hold. Either way it's a win. 91+ and the future is bright

5/5/2024 - Floyd77 Likes this wine:

Wow! This was a limited bottling, a project of Haridimos Hatzidakis before his death in 2017. Incredible assyrtiko — bright, balanced and oh so easy to drink. From vines over a century old.

5/4/2024 - Tay JR wrote:

Lovely nose up front - intensely floral, ripe black and red fruit, gravelly

Follows through on the palate with an intense bouquet but also a certain lightness to the texture. The tannins are soft and velvety and the wine overall feels like it has a certain weightlessness at first. Imagine my surprise when I found out this was 15% ABV!

I had this at a tasting of the 9 Southern Rhone crus and while all of them had much less acidity than i'd like (I understand that's how it is in these parts), this is one of the few that showed some semblance of balance.

I'm still not sure how to accurately describe it but the aromatic profile of this wine seems to give an impression that it's juicier than it actually is.

5/4/2024 - linkin22luke Likes this wine:

White blossoms, slate and stone, with lemon and petrichor. Beautiful wine. Dry and high acitidy.

5/5/2024 - ploher wrote:

Raspberry lollipop on the nose with lots of bright freshness; crunchy palate, super fresh, transparent, light to medium bodied, quite some structure on which to age. Lovely minerality on the finish. Really nice and better balanced / more interesting than the Godefroy in this vintage for me. 17/20

5/5/2024 - monkeybanana Likes this wine:

masked by VA, and maybe reduction at first, then opens beautifully with lime recitations, of juice concentrate, zest, floral accents, pure oils weeping from the skin, and spent hulls, tasteful hits of saline, and a pleasant, fading bitterness on the finish, linearity and finesse coaxed out with air, temp, and time

5/5/2024 - ploher wrote:

Oak and blue fruits, very drying on the palate, soulless. 14/20

5/5/2024 - Alexei_A wrote:

This is my staple Burgundy red - not that it is affordable, but rather because this is the wine that continues to impress me without the prior need of making the local bank heist. I had 3 cases, and every time I pop up a bottle - I got new experience (during the past 10 years). The same (price/value) experience is shared with Faiveley's Corton 2010.
This wine - classical good aged Volnay: old leather, violet, griotte and autumn leaves on the nose + sweet cherry/leaves/plum/minerals on the palate.
Will hold for many years. 94+

5/5/2024 - Ponuppy wrote:

Drinking nice. 92-93

5/6/2024 - MaJeKu Likes this wine:

In der Nase minimal stallige Reduktion, das mag ich hier. Dazu ein sehr animierender und frischer Mix von Waldbeeren, dominiert von Erd- und Himbeere mit etwas Brombeere dahinter. Außerdem etwas Waldboden, ein paar sautierte Pilze und deutlich floral.

Am Gaumen ist das sehr schlank, sehr elegant und sehr frisch mit sehr animierendem Säurezug. Eher dunkel in seiner Mineralik, insgesamt sehr klar und transparent. Auch hier sehr beerig und mit guter Spannung.

Sehr guter, mittellanger Ausklang.

Der Wein öffnet und verschließt sich immer mal wieder über Stunden, scheint mir trotzdem jetzt in einem guten Trinkfenster.

5/5/2024 - Ponuppy wrote:

Had some slight oxidation going on. Not excessive but I'm sensitive to it. Maybe a bad bottle. Would've been really nice without the oxidized notes.

5/5/2024 - DTK Rockstar Likes this wine:

Red fruit. Nice balance.

5/5/2024 - Alexei_A wrote:

Anne Gros' Vougeot '93 - that was the bug that bit me and converted to burgundies 17 years ago. I visited her domain many times, and always go to the cellar to check 20-30 y.old wines. Mesmerizing experience with old Riche or Vougeot.
This particular wine is a different story. Was very much open 8 years ago but today it feels like it is as shut down as a fresh oyster. Given the decent acidity and unobtrusive tannins there is still hope that it opens up in time (10-15 years, no less) but right now - don't uncork. 91+(?)

5/4/2024 - mxpbuy Likes this wine:

High shoulder fill. No signs of seepage. The cork clearly took a disproportionate sampling of this wine - the bottom 1/2 inch was complete soaked through and the remainder of the cork had its out 1/8 of an inch of completely soaked. A strainer into a decanter was needed to separate the cork bits, even after use of an ah-so. Total sediment however was only about a half teaspoon. Color was just beginning to show signs of bricking and no orange. Initially a lot of Oak on the nose, which blew off within 15 minutes in the decanter. Back into the bottle for a second aeration with a rubber stopper inserted until dinner. At dinner, a couple hours later, it took the wine another 30 minutes to come around in the glass. The nose was interesting but far from exotic: ripe blueberries, some hints of mocha, tobacco, cedar, and hard leather. The palate was more expressive and if blind tasted I probably would have guessed a quality Right Bank wine of only 10 - 15 years. Ripe blueberries followed by a wave of slightly sour blueberries. Lurking throughout was the hard leather, tobacco, cedar and mocha. Velvety and lush on the center of the tongue with a simultaneous touch of nice food acidity on sides of the tongue - an distinct experience I don't recall with any other wine young or old. After the first 30 minutes, the wine did not change for the next 90+ minutes. My score includes 2 extra points for ageworthiness as I suspect this bottle would have showed similarly on its 70th birthday. My wife loved it more than I did, which is great because it was her birthday wine and she would have given it 97 points without any kicker points.

5/5/2024 - GuanYu Likes this wine:

Opaque ruby red with bluish-purple rim. Blackcurrant, plum, cassis, dark cherry, fennel, paint thinner, anise, graphite, baby corn, and black pepper. Full bodied, medium-high acidity, medium-high fine-grained tannin, medium-high structure, high alcohol (15.3%) and long finish. Bold, powerful and well-balanced. Usually, a youthful dense cabernet sauvignon would taste bitter due to the tannins. This wine did not have any of the bitterness, but instead, it was fluffy and flamboyant in the palate. Clearly an artisan cab.

5/5/2024 - MicklethePickle Likes this wine:

Popped/poured. Better than my last bottle two months ago. Good color and nose, palate could be better. 5-12-15-7: 89/100.

5/5/2024 - dyasbek1 Likes this wine:

Black cherry, dark fruit, anise, menthol, tar, and a slight gaminess on the nose, with dark cherry, red fruit, pepper, leather, and some cedar on the palate. Very enjoyable!

5/5/2024 - Adam Pritzker Likes this wine:

Nice ruby color. Bouquet of perfume, floral notes, and black berry and blue berry notes. Medium bodied, supple, beautifully balance with good concentration, ripe fruit some tannins, great balance, delicious flavors. Flavor of dark berries, tangy berries, floral notes, lots of spice and a long finish. Drinks beautifully now, so drink now to 2026, possibly 2027. Great example of a beautifully balanced approachable Rhone. 60% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 20% Mourvèdre. 13% ABV. A Must try. Delicious. QPR - fair. As for GSM - the real deal

5/5/2024 - Barcab Likes this wine:

Really good - doesn’t taste like a flat Malbec

5/5/2024 - lung2297 wrote:

Stone fruit, honey, citrus, peach in nose
High acidity, full body.

5/5/2024 - Oberhau wrote:

Pleasant wine with a mixture of dark fruit and earthiness on the nose. Body feels light though legs are significant. It is a bit acidic on the palate, but went well with an instant pot roast with rich gravy.

5/5/2024 - Alexei_A wrote:

I love Guy Amiot's wines. Met him several times at annual fetes in Beaune - a humble master who produces wines that are a bit under radar here in US (although he is well respected in Burgundy).
Les Macherelles '19 is a wonderful wine, full of rich and powerful apple pie/lemon/chocolate/sea breeze notes, accompanied with brilliant but nervy acidity. Slowly opens up in the glass, and after 2-3 hours it shows what it will become in 5 years. GC status, for me. Don't miss! 93+

5/5/2024 - 23haro wrote:

Lost potency. Finish was long but hollow and without flavor.

5/5/2024 - tolecnal2k2 Likes this wine:

Full body

5/6/2024 - Ordinary Pants Likes this wine:

Very crisp and direct. Delicious white fruit. Smooth on the palate, medium finish. I think it is not diminished and last in the cellar for a bit longer. Recommend.

5/5/2024 - drinkinsailor wrote:

Spectacular. Right. Now. Beautiful in the mouth to open and then, 2/3 of the taste in, a voluptuous fruit pulse pours out chewy deep cherry that you keep tasting for the rest of the song, and don’t want to end. Really, my best Turley zin ever. Opened (“slow ox”) an hour before, with grilled double pork chop and roasted cauliflower Siciliana.

5/5/2024 - Doblk wrote:

Remarkably similar to 5 years ago. Not so distinct fruit but still has density and balance. For daily drinker Bordeaux, this serves very well.

5/5/2024 - akadanieljames Likes this wine:

Still alive and in decent shape! Fully mature, the tannin is well integrated and the wine is showing some good tertiary character. Smokey tobacco, graphite. Fruit is diminished as expected. Not quite over the hill, but I wouldn't wait much longer to get to them. Had never seen this producer before and I'm not sure if they still make wine.

5/5/2024 - jmcmchi Likes this wine:

Softened significantly in the last six years

Moderate sediment, best stood a couple of days, open a few hours to get the sweet black acidity

5/5/2024 - akadanieljames wrote:

Premoxed. Bottle was pretty dead, no fruit left and just some yeasty, nutty character left but there was no finish or freshness or complexity to be had.

5/5/2024 - G SQUARED wrote:

Excellent but high in acid so decant for a few hours beforehand.

5/5/2024 - Brian Glas Likes this wine:

Tasted after 45 minutes of air. Starting to open a bit. Apricot. Stone fruits. Lively acidity provides excellent balance. Some mineral. Plenty of richness here and a very full mid palate. Peach pit on the finish.