5/2/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Fresh red cherry and some bacon smoke aromas.

5/2/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Day 2 and still not filling out for me. Today, distinct iceberg and freezer burn aromas. Wanting more.

Day three more enjoyable and more ‘perm’ than iceberg and apple-y palate, but not too off putting. Still a pretty mineral underbelly. Smoother today too. Where’d that extract bump go?

4/29/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

dialed back next to the 2022 Missouri Hopper Cab. loads of freshness, more purity of black fruit, with less oak and spice showing than the 22MS.

4/29/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

toasty aromas, generously styled with loads of spice cake to the palate.

4/26/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

At the office…
bricking (drying blood), sweet fruit, complex and in a nice spot. pollenesque sweetness and pleasantly, showing it's maturity.

4/26/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

At the office…

Ruby color, shows more floral acumen vs the 2009 with more fruit. here, mineral first, then fruit and floral. feels more classic

Later that evening. More astutely black fruit aromas and more concealed than the 2009 Palmer. Grilled bread aromas. Medium plus tannin still, really coiled. Ripe tannin, but still generous and in need of time to resolve. Approachable all the same. Mineral laced palate and loads of freshness, not feeling hard, but just in need of space/time/air.

Day 2, wonderfully harmonious. Just needs air/time to come together: blackberry fruit palate, medium plus acid.

4/26/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

At the office…

garnet color, more primary and dark fruit, a little earthy, more than 3 years worth of difference between this and the 2006.

After half of the day open, this is just singing…red and black fruit aromas, mingled with emerging mature notes. A little earth, not too mineral. Much more harmony over the 2012, still relatively wound up. Here, almost the richness of coconut oil, but coming up short of it. Earth, sillage, fruit, lightly gunflint tinged. This is excellent Palmer…

4/22/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Modest and crispy tree fruit and mineral palate. Not blisteringly dry.

4/20/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Honied and mead-like. Pollen and salt. Medium minus straw color. More than I’d expect.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Made in amphora, reductive and mineral, pear and quince. Mostly Treixedura. Excellent and I’ll have to ask for more.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Thanks to Henry for bringing. Really earthy at the cork pull, with time really steps into the barnyard note and gets quite straight poopy to the note and palate. Still enjoyable all the same. Big and rich, hedonistic and not to hard edged.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

With time open this gets into that harmonious and character driven tango of rhubarb and chrysanthemum. Sweet fruited palate, with some stems underpinning the palate. Seemed to be favorite at the table tonight. AKA Tango Sur.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Thanks to Andrew for bringing this one along from his cellar…fresh as a daisy, pepper and meaty palate, citron, and with time open dives into a mouth-watering celery seed note. Loads of time ahead

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Lots of buttery aromas. Honied and rich to the palate, soft and generous. 60% PN, 40% Chard 49m, disgorged March 2023

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Tickly mineral palate with some light TDN aromas. Lots of ripe pear, love drinking this.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Marmite aromas and cherry pit to the palate. 2021 Disgorgement. Excellent Champagne. 70% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay, 84m on lees. 10% new barrel

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Wild cherry aromas, again supple palate. Fresh m/- tannin, earthy and shows light and pleasant steaminess.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Delicate and supple palate, not too dry or hard at all. Leans into rhubarb. Excellent and this wants to go side by side with some Folk Machine Vecino PN.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Approachable, dark red cherry, m/- tannin. Dry, not band-aid, but close.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Most enjoyable of the non-Chablis wines in this line up. Well composed structure, light oak, not too much spice. More subtle and charming than the Beaune Marconnets Blanc 2019.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Palate is more golden in flavor, snappy, light oak, really good and pleasantly aldehydic. Again, almost out of character for Boisset, but I’m loving what they’re putting forward here.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

More serious than the subtlety to the 2020 JCB Monthelie Blanc, but not seriously more my style. Solid expression.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Nice and subtle. Cleaner than the Bouchard Marconnets Blanc 2019, and on the palate creamier too. Charming and easy to drink white burg. Value for what it’s worth too.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Aromas are a little too keyed up. Getting into tire burnout territory, a little flint behind that, but too distracting. Solid palate, but that sharp oaky tone leaves a mark.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Creamier, yeastier nose, not oaky aromas. More acidity than the 2020 Vaucoupin. A little extract, more seashell than any oak imprint.

10% Barrel ferment and barrel aged, not noted as new.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Clean, probably a little oak (10-15%?), some easy pear fruit, a light flintiness (nice, but almost a little out of character for what’d i’d expect from Moreau.

Yes, 15% second and third fill barrel for 12m.

4/10/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

@ Rootstock. Saline, picks up on the French fry aromas. Fresh. Mushroom, good acid, but not ripping to hard. Dry honey comb palate.

4/9/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Holy Smokes. This is dynamite at the cork pull. Fruit, structure. !!! Red red red cherry aromas. Pronounced aromas. Medium plus acid & medium fine tannin. Not overbearing, not full full bodied. Med plus bodied. Chewy and f*** a duck this is marvelous.

4/8/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Orange zest, fresh whipped cream, still loads of freshness. Light flintiness. Drink to 2030, no doubt…

3/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Elegant, but bursting red cherry flavors. Such a delightful drink.

3/16/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

blue fruit aromas. Medium bodied, light tannin. Medium plus acid. Fun to drink as always. Bring on the pizza!

3/16/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

12.5% ABV. Feels carbonic. Still ripe plum fruit.

3/14/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Dark raspberry, bacon and black pepper aromas, and palate. Fresh, light tannin.

3/5/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Light garnet color. Distinctly truffle aromas, and fresh mushroom.

3/2/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

At pop and pour, very mineral and nuanced (and very pleasant) Cab green aroma. Classically styled. 13.8% ABV
Very blackberry palate. Medium / medium plus bodied. Medium tannin.
Elegant and harmonious aromas. Not distinctly mature. Not going to be the biggest wine in the room, but…
2 hours of air and really just getting going. Next time give it much more time open.

2/29/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Light floral and peach. Mineral, verges o reductive, but not. Really good.

2/24/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Much softer aromas than the 2020. Caramel. Light tannin.

2/24/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Deep dark tobacco palate. Medium minus palate. Light tannin. Grill marks.

2/24/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Big and rich PN, lots of generous fruit to the nose and palate. Some tasters call out plum. Drinking great for 12 yr old CC PN. Mineral, rich, but dry. Light tannin. 5-6 more years if you wanted.

2/24/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Dark berry fruit and volcanic notes, very mineral, medium minus body;

2/22/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Medium bodied, fresh acid. Dark berry fruit. Light tannin. Some sediment and tannin polymerization

2/20/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

thanks Steven!
medium/- copper color. not turbid. apricot liquor aromas. high acid, obv. lots of freshness of fruit to the aromas. 'tobacco' is noted. light gingerbread.

2/20/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Scharzofberg was the site of a Cloister of Nuns. but then that part of Germany became French and Napoleon sold the site off to Egon Muller I. now 6th Generation Egon Muller. It's said that the daughter of the 2nd generation gave her portion back to the Church after 20 years. Eventually the Cloister was moved to Trier.

Their cellar master, Hans, has been there since 1977. used to be lots more oak used back then. 1000 casks in cellar in 1977, and around only 250 casks currently. Their cellar dates back to 800AM and wine has been made there since 1590.

Here, light struck match aromas, and a nuanced pepperiness. mineralogy here is very pronounced, but not pointedly so. Very much a rounded tip. less apple aromas. more quince into pear fruit. f*** this is good.
glassy textured palate, extract here feels less pronounced than with the 2019 Brut. high acid, a little extract and a chewy palate. lots of clarity of flavor framed by structural elements.

w/ time in the glass, plump and round melon aromas. 11.5% ABV and picked at an Auslese level of ripeness. Rheinhessen/Rhiengau can get GGs upto 13%...

BWT were a founding member of the VdP in 1910, but withdrew in 1971

2/20/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

w/ Aurelie of BWT...
2019 was a warm year in the Mosel

they've been making Sekt at BWT since 1950, but then it had to be processed in the Rhienhessen. Only at estate in Trier since 1961.

soft and mineral aromas. baby powder. lots of extract on the palate, shows wonderful texture. kinda Mineral h2o on steroids. some green apple and light baking apple. but not too much baking apple too come off less appealing. Very much ARUGULA pepperiness with lime and chalk notes.

2/17/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Medium ruby color: dark raspberry and plum aromas. Engaging. Light tannin. Ink and grill marks. Savory.

2/16/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

TDN aromas. Petrol, fresh leather. Palate is off dry, I’d quess 12-15g/l??

2/14/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Valentines 2024 solo Coravin, pnp.
Aromas of black raspberry. Medium garnet color. Palate is still dense and lots of opacity to the flavors. Iodine, medium plus acid freshness. Balanced by that density. In a good spot to start, let’s see where it goes…
Coming up on 20 min in glass and this is OOS (not out of stock). The darkest black cherry aroma. Harmonious. Depth, and breadth. Earth, licorice, truly marvelous.
An hour in, now doubt this is astounding. Aromas sur point.

Day 2 from a left over. More rustic. A wall of tannin today, may I say a full of tannin. More maturity shows too. But still pleasant.

Finished the coravin'd bottle a week later. Excellent at the end of tomato pasta. Still in the same frame as Day 2. Day 1 was extraordinary and leveled out after that.

Color gets a little gravelly.

2/11/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Mostly Zin, w/ Carignane and PN. Light ruby and turbid. Natty, carnation palate. Bitter floral.

2/11/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Definitely not opaque transparency. Fresh and lively, raspberry and cranberry. Spritely and piquant.

2/10/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Aromas at pnp are a little long in the tooth, quite sweet corn. Palate is more sur point. Clove is so softened.