One of my unicorn, dream wines I never thought I would taste, wow, wow, wow! Truffles, smoke, herbs, dried leaves, dried flowers, cigar box, and kirsch aromatics were in your face. The wine is bright, vibrant, and almost brisk, as well as offering sweetness to its fresh, red fruits, olives herbs, and spices. Medium-bodied and focused on its vibrant core of kirsch and peppery, earthy, raspberries, this is a true wine legend in the glass. It is not a wine to hold. But it is a wine to experience! Drink from 2024-2029.
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What a wine the 69 La Mouline is with its sweet and sour red fruit nose with a seemingly endless range of blood, meat, coffee, and pepper nuances. Yet as masculine as those notes sound, this wine has arrived at such a place of maturity that it carries a certain elegance, a light touch. And the combination of those factors renders it so rare; unforgettable.
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KC. Another terrific bottle following 82. Great color with black fruited, fresh and chocolatey aromatics, the latter standing out for me more than roast meat. Still very concentrated with a liqueured palate.
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initially a bit closed and steely, with a very sweet fruit core underneath. Amazing ripeness. Was there eucalyptus in the nose? More structure compared to the Jadot, with a slight acidic finish.
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Reddish colour, only faintly brown at the rim. This wine had an incredibly intense flavour-core, like melted English licorice. Great concentration and depth here. Scents of bacon frying in butter seemed to mingle their way into the taste of this and mix with licorice and chocolate flavour. Packed with ripe fruit, and a perfectly mature delivery, this wine had nearly everything. A hair more length on the aftertaste, and we would have been back out in the stratosphere. As is, a brilliant wine.
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2/4/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 Points
One of my unicorn, dream wines I never thought I would taste, wow, wow, wow! Truffles, smoke, herbs, dried leaves, dried flowers, cigar box, and kirsch aromatics were in your face. The wine is bright, vibrant, and almost brisk, as well as offering sweetness to its fresh, red fruits, olives herbs, and spices. Medium-bodied and focused on its vibrant core of kirsch and peppery, earthy, raspberries, this is a true wine legend in the glass. It is not a wine to hold. But it is a wine to experience! Drink from 2024-2029.
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8/10/2021 - englishman's claret wrote: 97 Points
What a wine the 69 La Mouline is with its sweet and sour red fruit nose with a seemingly endless range of blood, meat, coffee, and pepper nuances. Yet as masculine as those notes sound, this wine has arrived at such a place of maturity that it carries a certain elegance, a light touch. And the combination of those factors renders it so rare; unforgettable.
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12/16/2017 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points
KC. Another terrific bottle following 82. Great color with black fruited, fresh and chocolatey aromatics, the latter standing out for me more than roast meat. Still very concentrated with a liqueured palate.
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5/12/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 94 Points
World's Greatest - Night II (Daniel): Rich cranberry and blackberry nose. Perfumed and dense but doesn't have the same expression of earth as the '76.
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1/18/2012 - All about the wine wrote: 96 Points
In perfect condition. Darker than the 1978. An amazing wine that is still quite young and vibrant.
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10/8/2010 - BradE wrote:
Lumber in the Mountains Update - Days 1 and 2. (Day 3 in progress).; 10/7/2010-10/8/2010 (Beaver Creek): Money. Words are inadequate to describe how good this was. Elegant, rich, opulent. Again, words aren't adequate. The 66 and 69 pairing is the best Rhone experience I've ever had.
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12/27/2009 - Peech wrote: 96 Points
initially a bit closed and steely, with a very sweet fruit core underneath. Amazing ripeness. Was there eucalyptus in the nose? More structure compared to the Jadot, with a slight acidic finish.
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11/7/2003 - Joe Belmaati wrote: 96 Points
Reddish colour, only faintly brown at the rim. This wine had an incredibly intense flavour-core, like melted English licorice. Great concentration and depth here. Scents of bacon frying in butter seemed to mingle their way into the taste of this and mix with licorice and chocolate flavour. Packed with ripe fruit, and a perfectly mature delivery, this wine had nearly everything. A hair more length on the aftertaste, and we would have been back out in the stratosphere. As is, a brilliant wine.
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