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1975 Château La Mission Haut-Brion
6/17/2021 - jdtonic wrote: 96 Points
This little darling was “found” in a box with my name on it in a warehouse Miss managed by heritage auctions Los Angeles— depending on who you believe there are 8 more bottles worth 3500 or 38 more bottles worth 43,000 dollars left at this particular auction house. It’s crumbling cork was misinterpreted TWICE as belying bad wine.
I say here absolutely for the record and all time that unless you are selling thru Hart, Spectrum, Sotheby’s or Bruun— you are an idiot, andor know more than I do about this graft-, contempt- and corruption-plagued industry.
[Yes: Getting your fully priced wines out of those salt caves and onto American soil is a-whole-nother animal, BUT THE STARK HONESTY OF THE DANES I WILL PAY A FAT PREMIUM FOR UNTIL MY DYING DAY, as will anyone who has been put through ringers named things like A.M.C. & K+L Wines ((shudder, flinch, vomit)).]
Long Live Bruun Rasmussen!!
If properly stored the ‘75 LMHB is a melange of stewed plums, baking spices, pencil lead, teak oil, bruised strawberry liqueur, singed granite, smoldering cedar and bay leaf. Outstanding.
This wine was deemed unsaleable (though apparently stealable) by some lords of HALA, and I popped it on the spot with the warehousemen therein. COUNTERPOINT EFFECTED!
Delicious.
Superb.
-Dillard.
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2014 Melville Pinot Noir Emery's
4/6/2021 - jdtonic Likes this wine: 94 Points
From OC
Perfect.
Hazy Ruby to the Rim.
This beauty is singing right now.
Elevated floral notes and raspberry cobbler on the nose, and her notably LIFTED palate follows exactly with bits of thyme, duff, flowers & plum.
Thumped a trio of pinots at 2-3x her price point, but no surprise here: Melville, like Calera and Brewer-Clifton and still Hitching Post, is one of the houses who does the heavy lifting to keep the following statement safely and utterly true:
“The Top Deal in Fine Wine is Californian Pinot Noir.”
The 2016 Sandys is similarly stunning.
94
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2005 Domaine Armand Rousseau Père et Fils Chambertin-Clos de Bèze
4/5/2021 - jdtonic wrote: 98 Points
A behemoth.
Probably the best burgundy I’ve ever tasted.
If it’s cherries here, they are very dark and very sweet, but my previous note is closer on flavors..
(She just kicks the shit out of the 2005 La Tache.)
98-99 pts.
*An absolutely must taste wine —like a 1996 Salon or 2007 Eagle. It’s really as simple as that, bud. The concentration is like top Petrus— it simply does NOT oxidize noticeably over 2 days IN A GLASS...
Dillard
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