5/4/2024 - TDV Likes this wine:

Just terrific. Perfect balance of acid and sugar. Drunk at Wild Flor with fried rice pudding parcel and rhubarb.

3/11/2024 - TDV Likes this wine:

This is good. Slightly closed, reductive on opening. Soon opens up to reveal nice fruit, classy oak, fairly restrained and fresh. Quite long. Only 12.6%. Chassagne would be the call blind I reckon.

2/29/2024 - TDV Likes this wine:

Plush brambly nose. Ripe fruit but not too ripe. 2017 acidity. Incredibly drinkable. 13%

2/27/2024 - TDV Likes this wine:

Unripe pear, a little bit of lemon blossom on the nose. Really pretty. Palate has good tension - enough weight to give it some substance, nice little mineral streak on the finish. Nice, fluid texture. Feels a bit young but it’s lovely now too. Not your sister-in-law’s Sauvignon Blanc (just me? ok). 13%

2/24/2024 - TDV Likes this wine:

Delightful. Served blind. Everyone was in Bordeaux, right bank. Smelled like expensive Pomerol. Exotic, complex, rich. 25 year old Merlot from Collio!

1/29/2024 - TDV Likes this wine:

This is excellent. Nose is quite broad and ripe, baked quince, pastry, some kind of spice - nutmeg? Palate more of the same with a bead of generous acidity. Fine mousse. Apparently zero dosage but it’s not missed at all.

1/20/2024 - TDV Likes this wine:

Not particularly profound or sophisticated but very typical and characterful. Grilled meat, iodine, dark fruit, pepper.

1/1/2024 - TDV wrote:

Really bright, strawberry, orange peel nose. Clear Pinot fruit. On the palate the acidity is high, and a touch sour. Dominates the palate a little. Interesting attempt at a maceration rosé sparkler.

12/25/2023 - TDV wrote:

Christmas Day with rib of beef. Archetypal. Not too much ripe fruit any more. Structure and freshness to the fore. 12.5%. (From magnum.)

11/3/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Actually delicious. 20 years old. Mellowed. Fresh enough. More in balance than a Charvin CNDP 2007 drunk alongside.

10/30/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Dark berries. Bit of sous bois development. Really fresh acidity. Good wine but not much classic pepper, iodine etc.

9/24/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Well this is terrific incredibly pure nose of blackberries, touch of spice, a little dried fruit. Palate lithe and fresh.

9/3/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Really interesting. Dark salmon pink. Orange character carries through to the nose wifh bitter orange and sweet mandarin notes, candied strawberries. Palate fairly substantial weight, fresh, quite long, only 12.5%. Surprised by this. Really like it. £13 from the Wine Society. Cannot argue with that.

7/13/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Lovely northern Rhone nose. Licorice, meat, herbs. Palate lots of dark fruit, fairly ripe, touch tiring without food. But that nose is great.

7/9/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Nose was a little odd at first. Touch of volatility, maybe a slightly stewed note. Opened c3 hrs before dinner by the time we drank it it had cleaned up. Dark, brooding savoury notes. Huge contrast with the Burgundian Monprivato 2009 alongside. (At Wild Flor.)

6/18/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

This is delicious. Purchased early 2021. Disgorged 2020. Lemon shortbread nose. Really focussed palate and quite long. Hard to fault

6/10/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Really very expressive nose - dark fruit, rose, violet, incense. Palate fresh and correct, good amount of fruit but certainly an acid driven wine. Delicious.

6/3/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Delicious. Lightweight sparkling burgundy. Beautiful colour.

4/20/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Not the most complex but delightful. Ripe fruit but fairly light in body, good fresh acidity. For drinking in the short term

3/11/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Finally seems to have come round. No longer tough as nails. It has filled out - now very classic, raspberry-ish fruit, earth, tar.

3/9/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Lean, clean, fresh, taut - other words like that. Very English. Quite good with fish pie.

2/20/2023 - TDV Likes this wine:

Final bottle. After a long sleep this is proper Cornas. Meat and gravy. Dried olives. Savoury and umami rich. But the palate is very correct and fresh. 13%

2/7/2023 - TDV wrote:

Sneaky this. Not grand but delicious bright fruit, 2017 freshness, only 13% alcohol. Drinks incredibly well.

8/29/2022 - TDV Likes this wine:

Explosive berry nose soars out of the glass a moment after the bottle has been opened - raspberry, cranberry, touch of blackcurrant. Palate has a very slight prickle. All the fruit plus a firm, cleansing dry kick of minerality. So good, so complete

8/7/2022 - TDV wrote:

Guests said it was “like boozy Shloer”. They weren’t wrong. Barely a wine, more an alcoholic pop. Quite pleasant all that said.

7/14/2022 - TDV wrote:

Just that perfect balance of weightlessness and substance that Prüm are so good at.

5/27/2022 - TDV Likes this wine:

Slightly toasty nose. Sherbet-y strawberry fruit on the palate, like crunch unripe strawberries. Boy there’s some acid. Relatively harmonious, and not shrill or disjointed. Just a lot. Better with food (crab cakes).

4/29/2022 - TDV Likes this wine:

A mid-weight delight. Bright, refreshing. Not profound but delicious.

4/8/2022 - TDV Likes this wine:

Delicious, quite decadent, soaring nutty ripe orchard fruits. Just laying it all out. It’s about pleasure, warmth, generosity. Not going to get any better surely. Edit: I’ve finally twigged what it reminds me of: crostata d’albicocca. Sweet pastry and ripe apricots. Not nervy or sophisticated but you’ll have a good time.

2/28/2022 - TDV Likes this wine:

Final bottle of the case. 20 years. Still quite vibrant and fresh.

12/28/2021 - TDV Does not like this wine:

Far too sweet, or rather nowhere near enough balancing acidity. Not keen.

12/25/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Quince-tastic. With family at 17 DV on Christmas Day 2021

11/7/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Bright, fresh, cherry-fruited joy.

10/22/2021 - TDV wrote:

Pale, light, fresh sappy red fruit, 12.5%. Not the most complex but it’s definitely burgundy. Wish I had more. People who use the word “smashable” (ugh) would describe this as… er… smashable.

10/3/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Good for the price / appellation. Tons of red fruit, cleansing, tannic grip keeping things in focus. Maybe a touch of that Brunello earth. For £12 in a sale it’s hard to quibble.

9/19/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Gorgeous nose, wild raspberry, cherry, medicinal herbs, earth. Palate much the same with everything in place. Much more open than a bottle approx 18 months ago. No rush but I can’t see this improving - it’s laying it all out there.

9/10/2021 - TDV wrote:

Well made, very bright crunchy but the poster below that describes it as “un peu bonbon” has it about right. A bit sweet for my liking. Better with a touch of chill from 30 mins in the fridge.

9/3/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Papaya, mango, maybe a touch of spice on the nose. Palate still plump fruit first but really mouthwatering salinity. This has dried out with age and is now low sugar Kabinett level I would say. Will be great with food.

7/15/2021 - TDV wrote:

Attractive mature nose, cantaloupe, heather honey, roast lemon, quince. Palate a little less compelling. Sweetness rather overpowering what’s left of the fruit.

7/11/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Gorgeous dark fruit, leather, touch of tar classic nose. Mouth-filling, still some grip but supple. Goes on for ages. Getting ready for Italy v England.

5/24/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Slightly green nose a little like cab franc. Quite plush on the palate. Dark fruit. Touch of heat.

5/12/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Rather nice. Slight, supple, rather pure raspberry fruit. Little bit of iron. Decent focus. Lithe. 13%. Fascinating interpretation of mencia, a variety of which I have only a certain amount of familiarity - but all others I have had have been weightier.

4/24/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Slightly galling when a wine matches up to the hype. This is really impressive plush Sangiovese comparable in quality to the best chianti Classico. Ordered some more.

4/17/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Love champagne? Mixed feelings about seyval Blanc? Yes me too. But this is delicious. Bright round fruit but good focus and drive. Long finish.

4/9/2021 - TDV Likes this wine:

Thought it would be worth giving this a go to see what it’s like “on the fruit”. Answer: it’s great. So attractive and fragrant, raspberry and a touch of blackcurrant. No need to wait! But I’m sure you can if you want.

3/31/2021 - TDV wrote:

Just about still going without oxidation. Mature. White peaches and flower nose. Palate a little strict. Good but a fresh, almost slightly bitter edge, but not in a bad way. Drink up.

12/25/2020 - TDV Likes this wine:

Been sleeping in the cellar since maybe 2012. Golden colour. Touch of maturity on the nose with honey notes, but really it’s lemon, shortbread, yellow plum maybe greengage skin. Palate fresh as a daisy: lemon, barley sugar but not sweet. With hot smoked salmon from Loch Torridon, on Christmas Day.

12/3/2020 - TDV Likes this wine:

Last bottle of the case. All leather and undergrowth now, still touch of ripeness but very much on downward curve. Still enjoyable though.

11/4/2020 - TDV Likes this wine:

Second wine, 18 years old. Cr*p vintage everywhere in Italy. Should be rubbish, right? Wrong. Certainly at the riper, plummier end of things for Italy. Glossy fruit, still quite rich. But there’s enough acidity and just about tannin (though mostly resolved) to keep this on track, with grip and focus. An over-performer.

10/14/2020 - TDV Likes this wine:

In a good place. Bright fruit, cherry almost boiled sweet in character but not actually sweet. Light body, fragrant. Tannins just there but basically resolved. Very pleasurable to drink now and for the next 2-3 years maybe.