11/25/2023 - VinceRime Likes this wine:

Coravined over 2 months and opened the bottle for the two last glasses.

When tasted with coravin, I found it rather simple. But the two last glasses were very enjoyable when I opened the bottle, on the sour cherry, pepper, and forest floor. A good acidity makes it well alive. Tannins are well integrated and the mouth feels very smooth and elegant. Not over-complex but an interesting barrel-aged wine. I would say it lies on the higher bound of the price range I would pay for it (CHF 30).

As a separated note, I always find the wines giving much more when we open the bottle. I have the impression that the coravin is neutralising the wine, which does not impact too much when the wine is young but it is a disadvantage when the wine is already aged. It would be great whe other members would give their experience on coravin!

3/6/2024 - d'Artagnan wrote:

À l’ouverture, il est riche, savoureux et…massif! Un peu rustique, pas très long non plus. C’est bon, il n'a pas la plénitude des meilleurs.

24 heures plus tard, il a clairement gagné en harmonie, longueur et dans l’expression du fruit. Gourmand, épicé, poivré, il est irrésistible! Tellement savoureux. Un profil aromatique très similaire au Côte du Rhône du domaine, mais en plus raffiné. Je ne dis pas que c’est un vin fin, mais une telle bombe de saveurs doit être célébrée et soulignée. Seule la longue aération permet de révéler cette plénitude, il faut le répéter.

Merveilleux Vacqueyras qui sent bon la Provence. 92-93 pts

12/1/2023 - Alexander Smith wrote:

A lot has been said about this wine, Neal Martin and William Kelley certainly questioned this wine. Tasting blind this is far from a Paulliac, and honestly a Bordeaux, maybe a Californian Syrah, Napa Cab or Rhone varietal. Certainly a little messy, not a bad wine just very far from a 99-100 point wine which certain critics have stated. There is certainly no terroir aspects to this wine. Nil.

Notes of dark spicy cherry, bruised plum, kirsch, cassis and currents, along with spice, dark bitter chocolate, nutmeg and bay leaves. The palate shows some sort of Syrah style current, fresh herbs, Christmas cake spices , melting tannins, yet the mid-palate struggles to properly fill out leading a medium style of finish. This wine just feels a little messy for the quality. To repeat the wine is fine, I just don't think this is a true representation of the estate.

9/8/2023 - Sanlucar wrote:

Too sweet and sticky for me, although after 2 days it seemed to balance out a bit. It tastes of sweet apple cider and looks nearly like "big city" tap water.
The high scores from RP and so many others are baffling and total BS. I appreciate Riesling wines but never with so much sugar! For $50, I'd say this has a terrible quality-to-price ratio. IMHO, it's worth less than half that amount; perhaps $20. Serve it only slightly chilled, otherwise the fruit disappears, then it tastes like Gatorade.

7/27/2023 - macaujames Likes this wine:

94/95. Profound. Has lovely aromas of blueberries, blackberries, leather, sandstone, mint and clove hints. The best silky Tondonia ever. Its layered medium bodied palate has a taffetas texture, impressive depth and lightly cloved blue, black and red fruits and great freshly fruited length . I have ordered half a case. 13%.This is my Château Petrus. Can be drunk with pleasure PnP but improves with 7-8 hrs aeration with the blue fruits coming out. Improves on day 2. Lay down 10-25 years easily. This Pinotes a little.

5/12/2023 - SMHalps Likes this wine:

Once again a big hit with my wine group. No changes from my previous notes on this wine, I just wish I had bought more!

1/2/2023 - VinceRime Likes this wine:

Stunning wine with the fattiness of Semillion in a sunny vintage. Sill very young, it does not get the complexity from tertiary aromas yet. To forget 10-15 years

11/6/2022 - vide Likes this wine:

On day 2: there is touch of maderisation, but the palate has deepened out. What great depth of dark flavour! What vertical integrity! Time to buy more, but perhaps not from this vintage.

9/16/2022 - Brolawa Likes this wine:

This wine is phenomenal. Drank with a 2000 Chapoutier Ermitage Le Pavillon and 2013 Bionic Frog and it was the WOTN. Unbelievable nose of black and red fruit, earth and graphite. So fresh on the palate and finish with added elements of pepper and smoke. Everyone picked it as their favorite, and it stood up to something as big as the Bionic Frog. UU4

11/23/2021 - Nanda wrote:

Glorious aromas of crisp black cherry, smoke, potpourri spice and musk. Ripe but cool and crisp black cherry has serious Grand Cru concentration. Silky structure is more refined than you might expect in Pommard. Seamless and delicious. At peak, and should hold for a decade+

7/17/2021 - Ghoulardi Likes this wine:

Whoa. Laser beams! Sharp, tingling acidity, ripe fruits, and a richness that almost borders on oxidized notes. Super intriguing chenin, immediately went out and bought more.

5/20/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Deep garnet in hue, the wine shoots from glass with tobacco leaf, currants, spice box, cigar wrapper, blackberry and cassis. Elegant, fresh and vibrant, the wine is silky, long and precise. There is a cool spicy note that rides along with all the layers of soft, polished fruits on the mid-palate and in the finish. This is a refined vintage for COS. You find lower alcohol and the wine feels more energetic on the palate and in the finish, even though the pH is high at 3.9. Let it sleep for at least a decade before popping a cork. Produced from a blend of 62% Cabernet Sauvignon and 38% Merlot, 13.46 % ABV, the harvest took place September 10 to September 24. 97-99

4/22/2021 - MC wrote:

I defaulted to PNP for this wine given poor experiences with decanting (shuts down on me). Not bad after warming up, with dark ripe fruit and ripe chewy tannin. Not as complete and complex as I was hoping it would become when I tasted it on release, but shows it's fruit better this way than my experiences with decanting it to date. B+/A-?

12/19/2020 - WineGuyFL wrote:

A 91, at best. Disappointing. This wine has still not evolved to what it should be. One-dimensional with not a lot of fruit or depth. I hope it comes around. I made a note to not try it again until 2022. I sense that others are having a similar experience because the auction price for this wine has not performed along with other Bordeaux wines I own with similar vintages and price ranges.

10/30/2020 - csimm wrote:

As great as it was last year. Chocolatey blackberry and earthy, spicebox notes make for a sultry St. Emilion; drinking this puppy early is all too easy. Drink now or hold for a few years to shed some of the wood treatment. Love this wine.

4/26/2018 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Deep and shiny in color, tobacco leaf, cedar wood, pencil shavings and dark fruits appear with no effort at all. Full bodied, lively, vibrant and juicy fruits, this wine is long and intrepid with a strong tannic backbone. The tannins are perfectly polished and there is an established purity of fruit and a structure to age for decades. Like all the top vintages of Montrose, you will need to allow it time in the cellar, at least 10 to15 years, which in the world of Montrose is almost forward. The wine was made from blending 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Montrose, 3% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, reaching 13.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.65. The Grand Vin was made from 37% of the harvest, which took place September 12 to September 29.