December 11, 2022 - Nice. Big blackberry and cassis fruit. Med tannin. Still aging well. Has not peaked yet.
April 23, 2022 - For it's age it very much impressed my non Bordeaux fans it maintained significant fruit and definitely evolved over the 3 hours of charcuterie and meal of Italian pot roast with veggies, sautéed in malbec. Actually tasted along with a 1994 Quilceda creek Washington cab, which was also impressive.
November 27, 2019 - What a beautiful wine. Drank with Vito and Nancy over chocolate, parmesan, and steak. So many layers. Leather, earth, mushroom, forest floor, soy, worcestershire sauce. Decanted for 2 hours and then drank over 3 hours. it continued to nicely evolve the whole time. Sad this was my last and only bottle. It's drinking perfectly but is far from the end of its life.
August 11, 2019 - This medium/full bodied claret was mature and quite luscious with rich round complex fruit, some depth as well as decent acidity and backbone. Not quite jammy, popular round the table and very good.
February 26, 2018 - Overall a very good St Emelion experience at 23$!
June 26, 2017 - As absolutely delicious as my last note would indicate but this time with a more pronounced sweet vs dryish persistent licorice note on the finish. Really nice and in a great place right now.
April 20, 2017 - Excellent
September 19, 2016 - Finally a cooler day and looking for something with a little zip to go with a steak salad: Deep, dark purple colored; very open , fragrant nose of classic Bord with plummy secondary fruit aromas wrapped in cedar, lead pencil, leather and tobacco. A cigar lover's dream. Very balanced and savory on the palate with soil-inflected mature Cab qualities oozing out on the fairly long finish. A very nice surprise!
August 16, 2013 - Forest fruits, tobacco, then dark cherry and plum on the nose. A very silky mouthful of dark cherry, blackberry and plum, with a touch of mint. There's a refreshing crispness from the acidity which tightens the grip, giving the wine a sense of nobility lacking in so many 98s, for example. This is much better than it should be!
December 19, 2011 - Drank out of a Melchior, which definitely helps this wine. Classic BDX but with leather and a bit of dust, rather light though.