9/9/13, 9:36 AM - Thank you so much for the kind comment!I am glad (and jealous haha) that you were able to taste it. Its some really good juice for the money, and IMO that and Pichon Lalande are the best wines for the money in the vintage. The top few 03's (La Miss, Latour, etc) will probably achieve the highest degrees of legendary status 40 years + down the road (kind of like the 1900's, 28's, and 47's stylistically).Cheers bud!
8/25/13, 10:25 PM - There is a decent amount of bottle variation in this wine. Green-ness has long been a part of this property. I hope your next bottle shows well. I was lucky with my one tasting of this wine, and I hope your next bottle is just as good or better.
5/7/13, 11:48 PM - Could've sat on a store shelf for a while, been shipped hot or been a bad bottle. You didn't keep that last bottle above 70 degrees for the past 3 years did you? The bottle we just finished actually shut down (super suddenly) on my last glass revealing only pen ink in the nose and palate.. and based on this tasting it has a way to go in its plateau. I hope you find another bottle somewhere soon and I would urge you to retry it (although mine has been kept at 55 degrees since it left the negociant's.. Salin.. warehouse in france, so I had an excellent chance of having a supreme bottle).
8/24/13, 10:50 PM - I hope your next one rocks WM. I really hope it wasn't imported or distributed dry. Bad bottles are annoying, and I hope you have better experiences with the rest. There should be some of this left at the wholesale level (for some reason this seems to be a super under the radar name for the quality/price..). I had some last night from the same case that tasted super young so I feel there might be a bit of bottle variation going on..
4/9/13, 9:07 PM - In reference to the last sentence..just read below a bit to find the rookie.I also forgot to mention the degree to which this wine is dilineated. It should not be so easy to pick apart every nuance so easily in such a young and closed-esque wine.. Bravo Alfred Tesseron, and may you get back to back 100 PT vintages again soon (2009 and 2010).
4/16/13, 10:06 AM - Thanks guys, I appreciate it. I'm very passionate about what is happening to the wine world in general, especially bordeaux… I just wish the prices were reasonable enough for people to enjoy without spending a dis-proportionate amount of their income on bottles - which I am definitely guilty of..If you like young wines as much as I do, and don't fear choking on tannins, then I would whole-heartedly recommend drinking this one young and then finding another bottle (stored perfectly) over the next 2 decades to see how this wine evolves. Just remember not to lose your notes on it if you do this!Cheers!!!
5/14/13, 2:43 PM - Thanks bud, and I hope you do!!! Please let me know how it is as well!
1/21/13, 9:45 AM - Very true, especially about the 09- especially since they are so close to the 1982's stylistically. Catching them now is like a snapshot; unless you are an idiot-savant possessing complete sensory recall, comparing different vintages is guesswork at best because you are comparing wines of different ages. Different storage conditions (52-53-54-55-56 degrees and so on, if they are moved around a lot, dry or reefer container shipping across the distribution channels etc) also make comparisons quite difficult. Although I am not sure that a better way (more objective way) to give estimates of quality exist, as we do not know with any degree of certainty what the future holds for these wines.. We can only say whether or not they're rockin' now (speaking of rocking, go grab a bottle of 09 d'aurilhac, haut medic, or 09 lilian ladouys, st estephe if you can find it!!)That being said, I thoroughly enjoy big, bold BDX with great aging potential quite young. And if they're going to be sold to the public (most of which will be drinking them long before full maturity), we might as well give them some opinions to make an educated purpose, right?I have half of that bottle in an almost airtight half bottle at 42 degrees for tonight, as well as an 05 Corton Grand Cru halver.. If you've never done that before to try these wines a day or two later, I highly recommend it. They open up beautifully without any whiff of oxidation - I'll post the follow up on this thread.Cheers!
1/21/13, 10:30 AM - I was lucky enough to find some stock in half bottle, bottle, en mag and double mag at Total W. And surprisingly a very nominal mark-up as I didn't stock up en-primeur! I just hope I can wait 15 years before I pop open the double mag!Tried an 2010s from good producers yet? 10 Fleur Cardinal and Gloria both ROCK. Much more velvety than I would imagine than from barrel..although if you don't have a couple of people to share the bottle with the huge amount of tannin will essentially sand-paper your tongue raw.
3/28/13, 5:56 PM - The 2010s are just too expensive for the most part, and the fly-bys are all excited about burgundy due to their recent auction success..this mixed with the fact that 2012 burgundy crops are extremely miniscule will probably mean that the market will lift burg prices and leave BDX 2010 in the dust for a while imo (as money flows out of bdx and into burgs). So since the 10s are so expensive, it was probably super wise to stay out of the futures game, unless you bought some le dome (but we are still getting negoc offers low enough to sell it to my customers under $125 in the states..).The wines you're looking at are all pretty sick from what I've tasted. Please also consider Fleur Cardinale. It is really funky, the only way I can describe it is exotic, but in equal parts super rustic and new-world-hedonistic. Its a super value wine for what you pay that provides both sheer pleasure and also introspection. I put it at 94 when I tasted it in Jan and Parker has it at 95..but its just more fun than any other 94 pointers I can remember tasting recently.Popped a 2005 Goulee 20 mins ago, and on first sip it was so closed down i thought it was corked.. just took another sip and I would say its the most extracted 09 Pommard on the planet... Gotta be a weird bottle, but Im intrigued as to the direction it takes next. Cheers!
2/19/13, 8:22 PM - A fantastic salinity just emerged at just before the 2 hour decant mark..So did some slight violet tinged florals as the tannins are starting to firm up slightly, which is very typical for such a youngin with stacked phenolics. Some indian curries (durban style) as well as some wasabi singed asian spices are unfolding, although every so slightly. Its also hinting at a bit of a graphite/tar mix (totally different type than graves though). probably an 89-91 at this stage as the mid palate kind of dipped a bit..still almost makes me feel I should be punished for the enjoyment factor this wine can bestow upon the unsuspecting (soon to be) drunkard!
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