4/18/2015 - MyCellar01 Likes this wine:

Barossa Vintage Festival 2015.

Penfolds Magill Estate Restaurant.
78 Penfold Road
Rosslyn Park, South Australia, 5072, Australia.

Tasting glass arranged by Martin and Patrick.

Black impenetrable heart and dark ruby rim.
Primary fruit nose, young buoyant, vanillin.
Medium full bodied, great fruit weight, delish sweet black and red fruit flavours. Seamless mid palate with mocha tannins through the finish.

Blackberry, no Ribena, dark cherry. Enjoyable smokey aromas from 5 hours open.

7/20/2016 - MyCellar01 Likes this wine:

Out of the cellar and into the fridge for two hours.
Popped and poured at the table.
Transparent liquid gold in the glass.
Vouvray honey wafts from the get go, biscuit and bale, mandarin rind, lime zest.
Silken golden lava flows deliciously on the tongue.
Tropical island flavours sell a summer's island holiday to your palate.
One and a half hours open the juice is on song. Lightly honeyed undertones set the course, sweet dried apricots, ride over a plate of ripe orchard fruit with apples and oranges followed by a refreshingly citrus zest endlessly caressing the long finish, all at a sprightly 31 years young.

5/11/2014 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Une version plus qui parait plus travaillée du Monts Damnés, mais il est sans doute simplement plus mûr, car il est élevé en cuve.
Au nez, des notes de citron confit et d’herbes fraiches, d'estragon.
La récolte était sans doute bien mûre car ce Sancerre montre un beau fruit, une belle richesse, avec une saine acidité qui rehausse le tout et apporte la fraicheur naturelle de l’appellation. La finale est subtile et longue. C’est un très beau Sancerre, avec plus de chair que la moyenne, qui parait donc plus dodu, moins tranchant que d’autres vins de l’appellation, superbement équilibré. Avenir assuré. 93 pts

De mémoire, le Monts Damnés « régulier » était plus ouvert et minéral, j’ignore lequel je préfère, il faudrait les prendre côte à côte.

12/12/2014 - Xavier Auerbach wrote:

A pretty recent disgorgement, probably late 2013. The back label states: L 03884 1A101814. If someone can make sense of this code, please let me know. Anyway. Vinous and rich style, red apple fruit from the Pinot Noir, complex and masculine but also silky and stylish, hint of honey and nutty evolution (white walnut), very good intensity and length. Exemplary Brut Premier.

5/18/2014 - MyCellar01 wrote:

Light nose, medium fruit, nice mouthfeel, medium chalky tannins mid-palate overwhelm the fruit to finish earthy.

4/22/2013 - deverett wrote:

Drank over two days and this was significantly better on day 2. The first day was still very closed, very coarse tannins with the cabernet profile dominating. Day 2 was completely different with more balance, black fruit, liquorice, bitter chocolate, vanilla and some toasty oak with the shiraz appearing more dominant. A good 389 with plenty of gas left in the tank.

6/21/2014 - d'Artagnan wrote:

Un nez de poires caramélisées, de citron confit.
l’acidité me parait relativement basse et il est plutôt rond, davantage que tranchant. La finale apporte des sensations de pierre chaude et de craie, avec une longueur correcte, mais relativement modeste pour le domaine.
Après des Boulay en demi-teinte, ceci me confirme que 2011 est un millésime chaud dans l’appellation, qui manque de profondeur. Heureusement, il est encadré par deux millésimes magnifiques en 2010 et 2012.
En bref, un beau vin mais pas au niveau des meilleures réussites du domaine. 89 pts

5/28/2014 - MWiking wrote:

fin näsa, aningen fet i doften, smörkola, mörk frukt, mörka körsbär, hallonlakrits, violer.

smak, lätt mjukt vin, mycket körsbär, mycket taniner som klistrar sig i gommen, väldigt stiligt och kommer nog utvecklas till nåt stort längre fram. Behöver tid

6/30/2012 - Paul S wrote:

Loire Odyssey, Part V - I did it my Huët (Absinthe, Boat Quay): The youngest wine of the night, and I thought the best. This was pretty special stuff. It had an amazing nose, going off like fireworks in the glass, with an explosion of honeyed aromas and ripe red apples, flint and smoke, white meat and earth, and lifted accents of freshly mown grass with touches of lanolin and a hint of spice. Beguiling stuff, expressive, yet with a mellow gentleness to the way it came together in beautifully integrated whole. The same could be said about the palate. Soft, melting, luxurious, it glided across the mouth with golden honeyed tones and pure flavours of ripe red apples, fresh apricots and sweet lemons ,edged with a touch of burnt creme brulee and butterscotch at the fringes. Absolutely complex and delicious. It was so very creamy and velvety, yet was at the same time lifted by a beautifully integrated stream of acidity that kept the wine incredibly pure and perfectly balanced. A profound wine, complex yet effortless, deep yet weightless, mature yet ageless, and all underlined by a tremendous minerality that gave the it a great sense of defintion. A very complete wine. Good when first poured from the decanter, this just grew and grew in the glass too, opening up in generously fleshy white fruit flavours across the mid and back-palate. To top it all off, it was a mindblowing pairing with a simple but perfectly executed dish of foie gras and white truffles on toast over a bed of caramelised onions. Something just clicked as the savoury food and the honeyed fruit of the wine came together - the heavens opened, angels sang, and we fell into a blissful silence. One of the best pairings I have ever had. Great food, brilliant wine. Wow. It was such a moment that it almost made be give up my notes and quite forget that the wine is actually very, very young. It was drinking beautifully now, but like so many of these Huëts, it is probably indestructible and will last for decades more.