4/27/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Nose: Immediate black currants that give way to a deep and dark purple flowers - imagine lavender with the floral aspect turned down a bit, while the herbaceous quality is turned up. Deep and aromatic earth that reach far down into some black minerals, just scratching the surface of some tar.

Palate: Awesome black and dark red fruits. A tasty ripeness that gets properly suppressed by bitter minerals, black earthy soil, and a clean black graphite that lingers into the finish, providing a tasty savoriness that just hangs around. As it sits on the palate and finishes up, you're left with a gentle impression of a tree slowly shedding its bark. With some time, a gentle but firmly spiced oak comes through, with dark cocoa too (and I mean 75%+). The savoriness also takes a step back with some time, letting the gently ripe fruits to come out to perform, as well as some nice freshness for a guest appearance.

Thoughts: A flavorful, savory, brooding beast that knows how to grow and flower - I love it. I love the strong savory aspects of this, and with some time, this shows it can be disciplined and tasteful about how it wants to show itself with awesome balance. This and another Kinsman bottling was overshadowed by a different wine in a previous tasting, so I had to re-taste this to give it the proper treatment it deserves.

Treatment: Juice stayed ~58°-64° throughout the entire tasting of ~7 hours. Pulled corked, poured a glass, recorked right after (rinse and repeat). Slow-ox'd, no decanter used. Might wanna serve at cellar temp for an added freshness effect.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Biggest fruits of the night with ripe blueberries but with an orange citrus note, softening the blow big time. A bit boozy.

Palate: Dark and flowing earth with dark fruits, blackberries, currants, and dark blue fruits. Tons of fruits. The boozy heat from the nose lingers on the finish.

Thankfully this was served at the end, almost like a dessert. Needed some air for sure, or just wait for another handful of years before opening. 96+

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Fresh red fruits, dried stones, and a spiced and prickly forest floor.

Palate: Similar on the plate, completely different than the 09. Crazy how much younger this seems. Fresh red fruits and fresh minerals. Clean minerals and the fresh fruits linger on the finish. Nicely fruited steeped tea on the the finish as well.

Preferred the fresh youthfulness of this over the '09. Did not drink like there was only a year's difference in age, but more like 8-10 years of difference. The '09 was an old soul, this '10 is a young soul.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Spiced and red fruited confectionery with a light touch of vegetal notes.

Palate: Soft red fruits, along with soft forest floor, and gentle berries providing a lightness to the wine.

This was pleasantly soft, given the number of big boys everyone's been tasting. I was curious if given the time, would this have gained more weight or continued on with its softer style. I will never know sadly.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Big red fruits, a nice and welcoming whiff of clay, and deep earth.

Palate: Dark red fruits and a nice blend of bitter earth and minerals.

Definitely could've used a ton of air. Don't think this had much, if any, at all. Hard to rate at the moment. Big and delicious, but could use some extra space to spread out.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Sweet, ripe red fruits, and deep earth.

Palate: Also ripe on the palate, deep earth with a nice bitterness. There is a soul of dark minerals, giving the flavors a bit more depth.

It drank fine, but for some reason, this gave off the impression that it was a little lazy? As if, it could've given off a bit more. Could've benefited from more air for sure. With the initial ripeness that I detected, I am just truly thankful it did not have that manipulated feel/taste.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Sophisticated tightness of red and black fruits, soft but stern tree oak with a bit of dampness. Wet earth and a fresh whiff of dark green undergrowth.

Palate: Black fruits with bitter, black graphite, bitter earth and dark minerals lingering on the finish.

I wonder how this would've done with more time. I loved the seriousness of this: deliberate but controlled. The flavor delivery was quite tasty. Should've spent more time with this.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Dark red fruits, a bit manufactured, almost like confectionery type of dark red fruits.

Palate: Dark, ripe red fruits and deep dark earth.

The two are on the same page. Bonnie and Clyde doing slutty crimes together. A strong ripeness that some people might dislike. The nose gave something away that reminded me of the Caymus we had the day before.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Nice restraint of red fruits, aromatic light red and white flowers.

Palate: Brooding while keeping a nice class to it. Gentle twigs and soft but firmly spiced oak, black earth and fruits. A nice touch of ripeness on the finish with good restraint.

Again.. would've been amazing with some time. Something about this wine, might be the essence of oak and wood, reminds me of an incense, but if you can take away that distinct incense note.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Quiet and soft red fruits, white flowers, and wet mulch.

Palate: Brooding, ripe, dark red fruits, dried and bitter minerals, graphite and wet soil on the finish with some drying tannin.

So generous on the palate, but this might've needed some time to really shine (I'm like a song on repeat right now). The tannin seemed to have indicated that there was plenty underneath all that fruit that is waiting to surface. Take score with a grain of salt.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Fresh red fruits with a bit of citrus like tangerines, kinda surprising there.

Palate: Dark, spiced and bitter earth with fresh red fruits. Gentle tree bark and wet stones.

A bit generous in the fruits department, which is kind of a shock to me. I would've expect this to be a bit more elegant and fresh. Again, might've just needed some more time. The score may not be fair.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Ripe, dark red fruits, fruited earth, pleasantly earthy soil, and some spiced oak.

Palate: Deep and dark but light red fruits, deep earth and tasty bitter minerals.

Generous and fun at the moment. You can tell it wants to be serious, and I'm sure with even a couple of hours, it would've been. Should've spent more time with this.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Deep, big and ripe blueberries, nice dry earth and a bit of spiced tree bark.

Palate: Dark but light red fruit profile, nicely gripped and a bit tight but not too much in a bad way. Firm and clean spiced oak.

This is one of those where you just know it would be stellar with some air time. This didn't get the air it might have needed.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Dark red currants, barely ripe black cherries, lightly spiced clean oak, and fragrant earth.

Palate: Intense and brooding fruits but with surprising class and sophistication, no kinda sleaziness here. Lifted earthiness and dark minerals help keep the flavor profile proper and regal. Ridiculous amounts of oomf in this, really tasty. This shows solid restraint, only showing off if need be (don't need to at all, honestly).

This was the first bottle of the blind, and as we began tasting, the silence was deafening. The murmuring that followed that silence continued to arouse my curiosity, as I'm sure it did the others. More excitement was built as talks of what this could possibly be was being discussed, and especially being this tasty as the first wine of the blind.

The reveal seemed to came to no ones' surprise. This was that good. I couldn't be for certain that this was the MacDonald because I couldn't find the olive note. Didn't need it though, as this still killed it. Set the bar damn high for this blind.. might've screwed me as well.

Double decanted for ~18 hours.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Bright and airy forest floor, lithe mushrooms, used leather and light red fruits.

Palate: Tannins seem completely integrated, light mushrooms and soft light red fruits. Damp soil and rotting tree leaves.

Only had a taste from the dregs of a remaining bottle. Definitely already deep into the tertiary realm. Or, possibly just variation, or maybe it has dove deeper into the tertiary side after getting loads of air from being open the previous night.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Intense dark red flowers and generous black lotuses (tap to add three mana of any one color), dark red and black fruits, damp earth and gentle and subtle tree bark with morning dew. Beautiful autumnal forest essence in the wake of everything.

Palate: Dark red and black fruits with a velvety, soft, yet gently rich texture. A streak of dark graphite, shiny black minerals and tree bark surface on the finish, with of course, tasty black olives to top it off. A nice bitterness of cranberry skins provide nice contrast to the intense and ripe earthy fruits.

So dark in the minerals and earth, yet so intense and giving in fruit. The softness amongst the dark profile makes this beautifully haunting. Decanted in advance for ~20 hrs.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Sweet oxidation, graham crackers with a bale of wet hay and earth.

Palate: This was a bit flat but had good fruits of ripe, aged orange slices, with its stem and leaves. Gently bitter orange skins that seem to give off the impression of dried stones.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Light pink cherries, a bit of quiet tartness, decent freshness with a gentle sea breeze.

Palate: Ripe yet light note of blood oranges, clean watery minerals and light earth.

Something on the palate gave this a watered-down aspect, not sure what, maybe the minerals?

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Oxidative aromatics here, like cut peaches that’s been left in the air for a while to bruise, almost dried orange skins, and even a bit of pickle too.

Palate: Similar oxidative notes can be found on the palate, with the addition of clean minerals with a bit of saline. The salinity of the minerals is what really helped make the oxidative notes more tasty.

I should've spent way more time with this. Gonna be saying this a lot..

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: A bit of a sour starfruit note, and bit of a stink like slightly sour grapes. Maybe a bit oxidized as well. Loved that.

Palate: Reflected on the palate completely. A bit tart and sour not in a good way. A bit of bitterness from something like the pit of a stone fruit on the palate help soften the sour blow a bit, keeping things a bit more afloat.

This kinda reminded me of a starfruit that's a baby face, turned heel, and then back to baby face with scars. I should've let this sit for a while. Would've loved to see how this would've evolved with some time.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Clean fruits, fruits laden with crushed minerals, light white flowers and a fresh airiness.

Palate: Nice salinity from the crushed minerals, prickly and lightly ripe, crisp white fleshed stone fruits.

This had a nice plus-up since the last time I've had it, with a more intense delivery of the flavor profile. Very clean, fresh and crisp.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Floral fresh and light fruits with white flowers, nice minerals.

Palate: Fresh and gently ripe green apples, nice drying hay and dried earth. Clean fruits on the palate here, along with a distinct, dried, spiced herbal note which adds nice complexity.

Not sure if I would like this with a touch more age or a bit younger. Nice now but also seemed to be missing something, not sure what.

4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Gentle sea breeze, light yellow fruits, grass and clean subtle minerals.

Palate: Deep yet gentle, ripe yellow fruits, and clean minerals. The saline note is nice here, giving the flavors a nice expansive feel. However, the finish was slightly flat.

The inviting type of champagne, one that lures you in and makes you want more. The salinity here really did it for me. Wish I was tasting this on a cliff overlooking the sea.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Light and fresh red fruits. Class and elegance shows beautifully. White and soft red flowers accompany the fruits, providing additional grace. Clean earth here accompanied by fresh, gentle undergrowth.

Palate: Great elegance on the palate as well, just like the nose. Fresh red fruits, clean minerals, light graphite and airy forest notes. A light coating of graphite to keep things tidy and serious, without completely coating the fruits.

Amazing pristine purity to everything at the moment. Gotta love 'em young.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Subtly ripe flavors of clean red and blue fruits, with a clean forest floor, soft hints of stone and gentle aromatics.

Palate: Clean, generous earth, beautiful minerality and balanced dark fruits with tons of freshness. Amazing balance and finesse.

Wine of the night for me. This is just as good as the last time I've had it and it's been a minute. Surprised this is still holding up strong. I hope this juice still continues to carry on like this when it gets the bottle and in the future.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Soft cranberries, a really subtle soy note, damp earth and slightly damp tree bark.

Palate: Great dark red fruits with a bit of shine, giving it a lift, showing no kind of age. Beautiful integration of tannin where it just shows no kind of flatness or harshness. Awesome purity and grace here.

This has to be one of those good bottles where it was stored perfectly, with little to no bottle variation. This is what I look for in aged wine, where it doesn't just dive straight into the tertiary realm and knows how to preserve its precious, tasty fruit. It's kinda rare to come across perfectly preserved bottles like these. This reminds me of the '61 Lalande so much. Ugh, just so beautiful and graceful.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Ripe on the nose, with dark fruit but more put together. There's also a bit of chocolatey earth.

Palate: Good ripeness with a bit of drying oak. A glowing joy of ripeness, like the kind of joy you see from someone that is living in the moment. This showed nice integration, especially with the fruit and earth.

I can't score this fairly. This showed a ripeness that reminded me of the Caymus this was had next to. That is not to say this is as sweet, but the fcking sweetness from the Caymus carried over, coating the palate a bit too much. I tried using some water but it didn't quite help (maybe sparkling would've done the job). One take away from this bottle though, is that it did not have that manipulated taste/texture, and to my relief, it was obvious why it didn't after the reveal.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Sweet red fruits, tons of sweetness. Not ripe, just sweet.

Palate: A bit of confectionary sweetness and candied red fruits. A bit fake, seems quite manipulated.

I never enjoyed this kind of manufactured taste/texture in wines. It's okay but it always bothered me. This also fcked up the next wine for me in the lineup, completely bombing the palate with a coat of sweet fruit. Kinda bummed me out.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Clean and slightly intense red fruits, nice roundness and buoyancy of berry type fruits.

Palate: Ripe red and black deep fruits, awesome earthiness that blends well with the fruits, with a brightness that comes from sparkling minerals.

Give this another year or two for it to gather up some prowess. This can deliver just a bit more if given the chance. 94+

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: This wine funks. Light red fruits like gently ripe raspberries and a subtle cranberries, grass and wet mulch. Still funks with time.

Palate: Fresh and clean juiciness, pleasant red fruits, thankfully drastically less funk than what you get on the nose. Gentle energy is found here, giving this a bit of an exciting, prickly texture.

I figured this one was mine cause of its stink. The palate showed more friendly than the nose and continued to improve as the day went on. I know I'm sounding like an ad on repeat here, but give this some air if opening now, it does get better. 95+

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Gentle funk, clean red fruits, a bit of grassy and mulch type earth.

Palate: Very similar on the palate, this funk and grassiness is very juicy, kinda reminds me a bit of those wheatgrass shots at Jamba Juice. The red fruits are strict and even a bit lean.

Some air time would've helped this a lot. The fruits seemed light but it was still there, just a bit tight and shy unfortunately. Again, air time would've really helped this one. 94+

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Forest floor funk, with gentle ripeness of black and red fruits. The funk calms down with time, leaving behind a cleaner forest floor trail.

Palate: Pleasantly intense red and black fruits, deep earth and a black graphite that holds onto the fruits. Tasty finish of dark minerals and classy, dark fruits.

The most put together and classy out of the lineup for me. There is a way this presented itself that I really enjoyed, nothing over-gushed. It held itself together with a consistent delivery, undisturbed, like laminar flow. My favorite of the lineup, beating the '10 Thorevilos by just a bit, only because this gave a tastier oomf for me.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Aromas are delivering a fresh and buoyant round nose of gentle red berries. Dried but fresh earth and a hint of new oak.

Palate: A well rounded sweetness to it, I mean like an innocence, not in terms of ripeness. A nice polished red fruit overall, not too dark, with a bounce of floral excitement. This kinda shouted youth to me. So much fun but a bit wild too.

After the reveal, I wish this had a bit more time. Would've loved to see this unravel with more nuance. 96+, please give it some air time if you're planning on opening now, you will be so glad you did.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Dark and intense red fruits, deep earth, and with a bit of dark minerals. While the nose gives a lot, it's never overbearing.

Palate: Similar on the palate from what you get on the nose. Rich with fruits and great intensity. This is dark red and almost black in fruits, brooding while keeping a cool attitude. The integration here is what makes the flavor profile work well. There was a bit of heat early on, but thankfully it blows off with some air.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Clean and fresh raspberries and exciting cranberries, clean new oak, red and purple flowers, clean forest floor with a gentle and exciting spiced tree bark. So aromatic on the nose here with fruits and flowers while maintaining nice elegance.

Palate: Clean all around. So well polished with seamless blending of fruits, minerals, earth and clean oak. A precise strike of light graphite and minerals that lingers nicely in the mid palate and onto the finish, providing a nice savoriness. The crazy part is the build up of the energy as it finishes. Awesome gains on the finish here.. it's like it ramps up the more you keep tasting.

My first Lafleur - I mean Latour - ever and boy, it did not disappoint.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Fresh white and yellow fruits, with clean, dry and wet sparkling minerals. Quite lively and exciting. The fruits here are quite aromatic.

Palate: Clean and refreshing on the palate. Lots of clean fruits, light hay, minerals that are lightly sweet yet dry, as if it there were tropical fruit juices splashed onto a dried stone.

This was like a well needed, refreshing shower for the tongue after a long day. Cleans the palate very nicely.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Deep golden pineapple flesh with intense and fresh pear skins. Great aromas of wet minerals on the nose. Dried, clean oak adds a bit of prickliness to the aromas.

Palate: Beautiful earthiness with deep, fresh yellow fruits, and crisp, bright white fruits, spiced stones and nice tree bark for a bit more depth and complexity. The way this shows the contrast between the dark fruits and bright fruits, while being able to have them work so well with each other, is very impressive. Awesome display of balance here. Wine of the white blind for me, just by a hair.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Dark and deep fruits with an earthy grasp, with a peek of minerals in the earth.

Palate: Has both darks and light tropical ripe fruits, fresh grass, minerals, a bit of prickliness throughout, giving the weight giving nice excitement. Nice balance here.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Round pears with a clean freshness and gentle ripeness, something like fruited honey and dried hay.

Palate: There's some freshness here but somehow with swift and a bit more acidity to show on the palate, giving a nice juiciness. Both dry with a subtle ripeness as well. Minerality on the palate leaves a slight prickliness on the finish.

Hoping a handful of years can allow any kind of "roundness" on the palate to soften and integrate a bit, allowing the freshness to pop more. Fingers crossed.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Damn.. smelled like sailing into the Pacific with bsumoba on his boat. A bit overwhelming salinity and waterlogged corks.

Palate had light fruits that was actually there but this coating of slightly putrid sourness was slowly encompassing the fruit. It was not strong at first but with time, the corked flavors started to take over quickly. Pretty bummed about that. *chants* Diam.. diam.. diam!

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Fresh lime, clean and dried hay, crushed dried stones, and crisp peaches.

Palate: Awesome freshness on the palate with lime and stone fruits. The crispness is on point here, with fresh crisp pears and nice juiciness. There's a gentle prickliness on the palate that makes this quite exciting. This was like a searing lightning bolt from the heavens, striking with amazing precision and freshness.

4/13/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Eyes Wide Shut - Day 1 (A quiet place): Nose: Dark gold pineapples, deep fruitful grass, and subtle hay.

Palate: Rich fruits of deep pineapples with a bit of guava, providing a bit of unripe prickliness in a good way. While rich, this has a bit of elegance and good acidity to keep this moving. Spiced oak gets pronounced with a bit more time.

4/12/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote:

Nose: Already showing signs of tertiary notes of mushrooms, a bit of leather and beautiful forest floor (fyi, beautiful applies to the forest floor only). Enough tertiary to know it’s there but not enough to detract from the wine, for now. A bowl full of water that’s filled with blackberries, light raspberries and some cranberries. Dark plums with purple flowers. With air, tertiary notes fade, leaving a nice cedar note. Minerals surface a bit as well.

Palate: Dried and spiced tree bark, dark cranberries, nice dark fruits still hanging on. Bitter graphite and dark minerals linger on the finish. With air, dark fruits win and resurface. Spiced earthiness and oak. Dark earth, fruits and a strike of dark graphite cleanly comes to peace with air.

Age showing in the color, a good amount of sediment in bottle. Definitely has a good amount of age already.

3/31/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Nose: [59°] Gently ripe yet fresh, aromatic cool blueberries and raspberries. Soft tree bark, damp soil, and fresh green undergrowth. It's literally like the scents from a breeze you get while taking a stroll through an open forest. With time, dark and fresh plums surface, with a very subtle hint of milk chocolate tailing behind. Purple and dark flowers top the aromas off.

Palate: [59°] Black and dark blue fruits take over the palate, with a light dusting of graphite throughout. A tiny drop of tar taints the pond of pure fruits, in the best way, bringing a nice bitter contrast to the tasty fruits. Savory river minerals and lingering mulch rounds everything up on the finish.

Attributes: Dark, clear ruby. Dry with medium to medium-plus amounts of fine tannin. Medium to medium-plus body with medium to medium-plus acidity (the acidity is nicely integrated if it's on the higher end of the range). Good finish of at least 16-18 seconds.

Thoughts: Mighty enjoyable. Unfortunately, seems to gain a bit of a boozy flair on the mid-end palate. Would be nice to check back on again in about 3-4 years. Kinda surprised how it's showing so well still at this age now. I think it's has a good amount of age already, hitting almost 10 years but I'm sure others will disagree. If you want more leather, tobacco, mushrooms, by all means, hold it for another 15 years. If you enjoy good fruit, check back again in about 3-5 years.

Serving notes: Bordeaux glass. Served one glass and kept open bottle at cellar temp of ~54° and consumed over 6 hours. Recommend serving ~54°-60° and decant as needed.

3/29/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

The Future of Wine Seminar /w Jancis Robinson (Dogpatch, San Francisco): Nose: Gentle brioche , some yeasty notes and clean, crisp white-fleshed fruits (something like crunchy pears).

Palate: Clean bitter minerals, similar unripe crisp stone fruits from the nose, and some bitter hay.

Had this at the end, surprisingly enjoyed the UK sparkling wine than this.

3/29/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

The Future of Wine Seminar /w Jancis Robinson (Dogpatch, San Francisco): Nose: Cherries, cranberries, a bit of heat, dried clean oak, and light yet intense red floral notes. Kinda crazy, with time, any heat, oak notes and cranberry notes have completely blown off, leaving behind clean fresh cherries and very aromatic and intense red flowers.

Palate: A cross of black and red cherries with cranberries, wet earth and damp tree bark, and lightly spiced oak. I love the intensity and prickliness this gains with some air. Made from old vines ~90 years old. Amazingly approachable with some time and nice complexity too. Wine of the lineup for me.

I did my best to create the new wine page for the database as accurately as I can.

3/29/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote:

The Future of Wine Seminar /w Jancis Robinson (Dogpatch, San Francisco): Nose: Oh, this wine funks. Barnyard funk, musty and damp soil, mulch, gooseberries and rotting raspberry juice soaking on leather ropes. With time, the funkiness’ intensity recedes a bit but I mean, it's still there.

Palate: Deep dark cranberries with gently bitter minerals, nice prickly texture on the palate. Nice spiced oak on the mid palate that lingers onto the finish. Slowly gets better with some air. Juiciness grows with time, making the red fruits a bit more intense.

Might want to give this some time to air out the stink, it actually kinda works with some air.

3/29/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

The Future of Wine Seminar /w Jancis Robinson (Dogpatch, San Francisco): Nose: Holy juicy starfruits, amazing! Shoots out of the glass. Even notes of the hi-chew candy show a bit (and I mean this only in the good ways). Accompanied by light grass, dried pebbles, a pleasant gentle and fun funk (minus the bad side of funkiness) like gooseberries.

Palate: Dry starfruits on the palate, crisp, nicely bitter minerals and crushed stones on the palate. A bit hay as well. Gentle juiciness. Has a bit of Ramune soft drink flavors. Ripeness slowly climbs a bit to the surface, showing a sense of generosity.

3/29/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

The Future of Wine Seminar /w Jancis Robinson (Dogpatch, San Francisco): Nose: Clean stones, crisp and lightly ripe stone fruits. White berries, distinct ripe halved mangoes, and subtle kiwi notes. Amazing nose here.

Palate: Pleasureful ripeness with awesome racy acidity that cuts through the weight, bringing nice balance. Great juiciness, lightly bitter minerals brings a lift, like puppet strings.

My bubbles on my first pour dissipated from waiting too long, and for the better! The notes were all from letting the bubbles fizz out. I had a second pour after and it was still good, but the flavors weren't as pronounced because of the bubbles. Good either way, but I'd rather have it almost slightly flat.

3/22/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Petit Crenn (Hayes Valley, San Francisco): Nose: Prickly spiced red flowers, nicely herbaceous, and notes as if you somehow managed to squeeze cranberry juice with your bare hands.

Palate: Dark and strict red cherries, I think the strictness comes from a touch of cranberries as well. Light and dried oak, soil and gently bitter minerals. The dark and nicely bitter cherries work well with the other notes. Almost carbonic but not too much, really riding that line. Great juiciness. Nice flare of dry and lightly spiced oak, it’s almost like a spark on the finish. One of the better gamays I’ve ever had. Quite tasty, both on its own and with some (steamed?) halibut. I want to get a few of these just for my non-wino friends. Wine of the night for me.