1/7/2023 - DanH wrote:

Fantastic. Jammy, purple, graphite. Beautiful.

12/21/2022 - DanH wrote:

I love this wine. Finesse, silky tannin, substantive yet restrained. Beautiful fruit character and complexity of flavor.

4/9/2022 - DanH wrote:

Blackberry, blueberry, rich, lightly scratchy tannin, beautiful vibrant ruby or even purple color. Much better the second day.

4/9/2022 - DanH wrote:

Super yeasty and bready. Substantial flavor that can compete with food.

12/4/2021 - DanH wrote:

Way too woody

1/2/2021 - DanH wrote:

Luxardo cherry, plums, prunes, big body, high abv, soft tannin, nothing like an Oregon pinot, curant. Solid wine and it competed easily with a strong goat brie.

1/2/2021 - DanH wrote:

92 Super solid. Great fruit, thick body and high abv.

7/7/2020 - DanH wrote:

Ripe/over-ripe cherries, currant, hint of blueberry, silky but gripping tannin, medium acidity.

11/15/2019 - DanH wrote:

Brandied cherries, leather, gripping tannin, dark ruby, light and rich all at once.

10/25/2019 - DanH wrote:

Really good

10/9/2019 - DanH Likes this wine:

Chocolate, oxidized cherries, good acidity, balance and flavor. Rusty ruby color.

9/6/2019 - DanH wrote:

When this opens up it has nice fruit, furry tannin, good not great.

7/13/2019 - DanH wrote:

Bubble bath mousse, lemon cyrd, heavy yeasty aromatics, straw color, nice and tight acid, very high minerality, short but finessed finish.

7/8/2019 - DanH Likes this wine:

Ruby red with a hint of rusty color from age, ripe cherry, cranberry, anice, chocolate, leather, small dash of farmyard, prominant structure is furry, bold and lasting, unctuous mouthfeel.

6/26/2019 - DanH wrote:

Lemon curd, granite, tight and well-married flavors, fruit forward with a touch of offsetting grapefruit bitterness. I love this.

6/25/2019 - DanH wrote:

This is so good! Ripe nectarine, apricot, botrytis?, flowers, melon, sauternes, golden raisins, sweet but really well balanced.

6/16/2019 - DanH wrote:

Strawberries and cream, rhubarb, strong minerality, great mousse, soft yet tart, fruit forward yet yeasty, wonderful.

6/11/2019 - DanH wrote:

Pineapple, apple, meyer lemon, honey, sticky sweet, some hot alcohol character, Thick, viscous. Calls for rich or even spicy food to help offset.

6/11/2019 - DanH Likes this wine:

Lemon, pastry dough, graffite, grapefruit, petrol, full bodied, age is showing in oxidative character, but still lively and good. Minerality, fruit and acid well balanced. Sulfur nose, but blows off a few minutes after decanting. Electric gold, kind if like vitamin pee color.

5/7/2019 - DanH wrote:

This has a strong raw wood character that is off putting, sort of like the the lumber aisle at Home Depot. Behind it, there is a lot of depth and good varietal character. Nice acidity and fruit. Thick, nearly oily mouthfeel.

3/19/2018 - DanH Likes this wine:

Heady, rich aroma. Chocolatey, mouthfilling tannins, a little rough but interesting, dark cherry, long oak finish, black currant, astringent.

1/30/2016 - DanH wrote:

Disjointed, rough tannins and too acidic. Some redeeming qualities therein

3/10/2015 - DanH wrote:

Bright acid and fruit tempered with powerful oak and chocolate. Very nice. Sort of the 'Malbec' of cab sauv

2/14/2015 - DanH wrote:

Very interesting, never tried a late disgorged Pinot noir. Def original. Strong orange- citrus character (even the bitterness of the peel), a little raspberry and lot of breads/ yeasty notes.

1/6/2015 - DanH Likes this wine:

I know this is supposed to be among the most celebrated chanpagnes, but I think it is very overrated. The blend certainly shows signs of deep and complex elements, but the main flavor profile is agreessivley grapefruity to the point of being disjointed. I would forgive such unbalanced 'youth' in a single vintage that should age longer, but in the case of a blend, the winemaker has plenty of flexibility to produce an immediately balanced champagne upon release without compromising ageability.

1/3/2015 - DanH wrote:

Very high quality, as one would expect. This vintage had an appley quality that I really liked.

1/3/2015 - DanH wrote:

The age adds a hint of mellow butteriness. Still has a lot of young character.

11/24/2014 - DanH wrote:

Wonderful. Round. Fruity. Not really yeasty.

10/21/2014 - DanH wrote:

From a 1.5L. Incredible dark berries, fully evolved but still fresh tasting

9/22/2014 - DanH Likes this wine:

Awesome. Perfect malbec character with a lot of finesse. Soft tannins

9/16/2014 - DanH wrote:

90, wine shows a great deal of finesse, soft tannins, beautiful and jammy

7/15/2014 - DanH wrote:

Not really balanced - too sweet, a little disjointed

4/10/2014 - DanH wrote:

Needs time. This is still too green, pardon the pun.

4/10/2014 - DanH Likes this wine:

Wonderful, super clean, completely neutral

3/5/2014 - DanH wrote:

This wine is thin, weak and lacking in character for an Argentine Malbec...I just returned from wine tasting in Mendoza and I wouldn't have gone back for more of this one. The nose has a weird funk I don't love....the palate is very balanced though.

2/5/2014 - DanH Likes this wine:

Strawberry, zingy acids. Simple and alright.

2/5/2014 - DanH Likes this wine:

Tasty - drank at the Park Hyatt Mendoza. It had a chance to open before the glass was poured. Peppercorn on the nose, jammy and spicy. It was big. Tasted of blackberry and black currant. Long but balanced finish.

2/5/2014 - DanH Likes this wine:

Blackberry, very dark fruit, maybe some strawberry. Clean finish, compliments food seamlessly. Easy to drink but complex. Delicious even without decanting, it opens to a full fruity, nearly jammy palate. Never had a better malbec in my life (and I just toured Mendoza).

2/7/2014 - DanH wrote:

Once the wine fully opened, liked it less. It was a bit thin and not full bodied. Some sort of slightly bitter component (like grapefruit) that we don't love. It takes away from the other earthy tones.

2/3/2014 - DanH wrote:

First tasting note of a wine adventure and I wanted to try some local bubbly, found this one at duty free in Santiago.

Immediately the nose is yeasty and buttery, full of malolactic fermentation but also very deceiving. The wine is of a lower callaber than the USD38 price tag and the nose would suggest. There is a weird sort of bitter finish that is perhaps way to much grapefruit. The wine has many characteristics one would want from a nice sparkler, but without the balance of flavor. Neat experience. Although not astounding, I didn't come here for sparklers.

8/14/2013 - DanH wrote:

Super well balanced clean and refreshing. Super good

8/11/2013 - DanH Likes this wine:

This was a really great and surprising wine considering where it is made. It was of very high quality, with both buttery and fresh elements integrated nicely.

6/27/2013 - DanH wrote:

I think this is an underappreciated wine. The rarer gapes (Marsanne, Rousanne) for Australian wines really adds, I think, some wonderful qualities. I thought it was crisp, supremely floral, quite balanced and most certainly unique. The second day a lot of the more distinctive qualities dulled and the wine became too one note for me.

4/6/2013 - DanH wrote:

It sort of felt like this wine never opened. Even the next day, felt like a quality wine, but the flavor profile is very tight and light on fruit.

1/11/2013 - DanH Likes this wine:

Overwhelmingly floral, musty, balanced, lychee.

12/31/2012 - DanH Likes this wine:

It seems like this wine might have once been more interesting...as it has gotten more popular, maybe a little less complex? I will say there is something I really love about a totally balanced, neutral sip. If this makes sense it is simple but it drinks like an expensive wine.

12/31/2012 - DanH Likes this wine:

Neutral, so good, tiny bit buttery, tiny bit acidic, tiny tiny little bubbles. This is a really nice wine.

12/27/2012 - DanH Likes this wine:

So round and delicate. Paper thin acidic quality, flowers, tiny tiny bit off flavors.

12/19/2012 - DanH Likes this wine:

The wine is quote good and shows it's age, albeit not as well as some of the other adjacent vintages. Still smoky with age, bizarrely nearly too acidic, a touch of medicinal funk that isn't great.

12/27/2012 - DanH Likes this wine:

Buttery, absolutely wonderful acids, just brilliant. The scent is nearly reminiscent of shellfish - something light, airy and yet complex. I can't believe I got to taste this. Hard for words to do it justice.