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NV Krug Champagne Brut Grande Cuvée Edition 170ème
4/23/2024 - essenceofreal wrote: 93 Points
From half bottle at Wally's in Santa Monica.
Was drinking great. Took about 30 minutes to settle. Little closed at first but came around relatively quickly.
2014 base, hence probably why it was more open and accessible than other special edition Krug's I've had. This bottle was crispy, linear, clean, vibrant, all in perfect balance. Prefer a bit more complexity hence why the score is not higher. But the balance and precision are undeniably of high pedigree.
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1996 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste
4/21/2024 - essenceofreal wrote:
Decanted 45 mins, put back on the bottle and off to dinner in Santa Monica. Aroma exploded in a good way. Flavor typical lovely Bdx. Lots of tobacco, leather and mostly olive tapanade. Lovely. Great balance in super flavor. However, after an hour it started to fall apart. More tannins crept in and the fruit subsided, became somewhat course. Seemed it was not exactly ideal storage, bought this a year ago.
In perfect shape I'd say would be a great wine. This bottle was so until it wasn't! Great QPR that beats any new world cab by 1,000,000%
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1996 Dominus Estate Napanook Vineyard
4/12/2024 - essenceofreal wrote:
Wah, was decent but far from previous bottles of this vintage.
This bottle was very advanced. Very. Almost as if it was exposed to heat at some point. Not sure how long I've had this but I somehow recall I bought this online a year or so ago, Big mistake!!!!!!! Previous bottles of this vintage from my cellar were clearly a world apart from this bottle. They were beautiful, lush, full bodied, super elegant.
This had an over arching burnt flavor of tobacco, cedar, torched leather, bramble, alcoholic cassis with a dash super black licorice, black berries and heat. Kinda disjointed based on the burnt echo in all the flavor, not the 96 Dominus I know.
What a shame. Note to self, yet again screwed by wine merchants claiming to have older wines stored under in temperature control since they were purchased. What a bunch of BS!! Luckily I have enough wine and won't have to deal w this ever again. Scammers.
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