December 29, 2023 - lovely good fruit
August 9, 2023 - Developed wonderful over the past 2 years. Its now in a perfect drinking window, powerful not just in the nose, but also when drinking. In the nose still very fruity, but one smells also tertiary notes. Long finish - lots of pleasure.
September 4, 2022 - Good value for money but too watery for it to be a really good wine. Will not get better from here.
Nose: raising expectations that can not be fulfilled once on the palate
black fruit both fresh and ripe, graphite and at one stage musc
Palate: quite thin, in addiction to the fruit green pepper, medium finish, acidity a little too present
June 25, 2022 - Purchased a case of 12 halves at release,
pnp this one tonight to pair some meat on the grill at my girls home at the baltic Sea,
Great nose now, a whiff of mineral, dark cassis emerges, makes you feel good,
on the palate fully blossomed, just the right amount of fine ripe tannin, deep, delicate cassis, all fine woven, spicy, with depth but the perfect structure is particularly striking, long+
best bottle of this one so far, enjoy over the next few years,
November 8, 2021 - Juicy, rich without being over ripe. Very enjoyable, not into tertiary but still fully resolved.
July 13, 2021 - Ripe, round wine with a touch of smoke and vanilla oak. The wine is nicely integrated and beautifully ready to drink. Holding it longer is perfectly fine, as it has years to go, but why wait?
June 20, 2021 - 92+ points
February 11, 2021 - Second bottle from a case bought upon release. Drinkable but really not good. Compared this to a budget Cote du Rhone a year ago but this has too much acidity for Rhone. Highly rated by Parker, Suckling and co. on release but this is not a good wine, and a poor Bordeaux. No structure whatsoever, noticeable alcohol, glycerin, overripe dark fruit- sorry. 87-88
February 5, 2021 - From a half-bottle, cork in good shape. Nice dark blood red colour with slight bricking but still looks rather young. Timid nose, aromas of creamed corn, coffee and cenovis - some ink. On the palate, the attack is somewhat fragmented with bitterness, acidity and a bit of very black fruit/black olives/coffee and ink as well as aromas found on the nose. But it doesn't really mesh and seems out of balance. None of the fruitiness and balance that this had in 2018 and the years prior. It had already started a bit of a decline in 2018. This was a bottle I had lost and just found today. Too bad, would have been better 2-3 years ago. The creamed corn aroma is a sign of Dimethyl Sulfide which is a defect, but I don't think it is specific to the bottle, but the wine in general. Quite advanced on the downward slope. No official score, but at opening about 70, with a couple of hours of air, about an 82. Interesting, but this isn't a wine that evolved naturally to tertiary aromas, but rather a wine that got a short-circuit from a problem with sulfur. Drink up! Already too late for half-bottles in my experience.
December 22, 2020 - Very intense nose, red berries, good palate but the finish does not live up to the expectation, is quite short. Nevertheless, elegant wine, good value for the money.