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Profile
Member since June 2007
Locale: USA
Favorite region: Bordeaux (esp. Sauternes/Barsac), Northern Rhone, Cote de Nuits/Burgundy, Brunello, South of France, Vintage Champagne
Dream wine: 1982 (birth year) Latour; any Yquem from a great year - '21, '37, '45, '47, '49, '55, '59, '67, '75, '83, '89, '90, '01, '03... or, of course, 1811, 1825, 1847, 1869, 1871, 1893, or 1899... hell, I'd take any Yquem.
I am a wine enthusiast who began my journey in 2005, after realizing the beauty of a good wine while sampling from a family friend's cellar. Those sips I had in the cellar were my first, and I haven't looked back since. Since then, I have done my best to go to local tastings each week. I have (as of January 2021) tried around 7500 wines, reaching Cellartracker a few hundred in, and keeping only halfway decent track of what I've tried here only since the end of 2007.
The only thing better than discovering and learning about wines (and, of course, trying new wines whenever possible) is enjoying wine with friends. It's always a good time to get ahold of something new, that less common varietal or blend from yet unexplored areas of the world.
Misc info: Completed medical school in May 2008, residency in Internal Medicine in June of 2011, and completed fellowship for Hematology and Medical Oncology in 2014. Currently practicing as a hematologist/medical oncologist. Outside of wine and medicine, my other passions include good food (cooking, baking, or just plain eating it), college football, tennis, and music.
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2021 Joseph Drouhin Mâcon-Villages
4/14/2024 - Rossodio wrote: 88 Points
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2018 Château de Mercuès Cahors
4/14/2024 - Rossodio Likes this wine: 89 Points
Ready to go and easy drinking. Would appeal to new world and old world drinkers alike. Does benefit from a decant. Rich malbec fruit with enough acidity to keep it from being flabby or too plush, with enough restraint on the acidity to keep it from being astringent or sharp edged. I have a bottle of this producer's higher end cuvee 6666 that I look forward to trying one day.
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2015 Johann Michel Cornas
4/13/2024 - Rossodio wrote: 92 Points
On opening this wine screams old poop french rusticity and is enjoyed by people like me who are into that sort of thing. After about 2 hours in bottle after opening this gradually has evolved into a delicious drink with more wide appeal even among new world drinkers but maintains a distinctive sanguine and garrigue edge. Pretty excellent. Doubt it will improve but I would think this will hold for another few years. Consistent with when I had it a year ago.
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