A rainy Oregon harvest in 2007 and yet this red blessedly stellar. Medium red with crushed dried cranberry nose. Powerful full bodied sweet primary strawberry/cherry palate, expanding impressively on the back end, with enough acidity and minerality to carry it another 20 years. Served blind and all 6 tasters loved it and thought ripe vintage burgundy with 5/6 guessing 2003. If you like big-boy primary Pinot fruit at 17 years with stunning length-look no further than the stables of John Thomas. (Great now but for explosive secondary features drink 2027-2037)
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Purchased at Bergstrom on release and cellared at 8 C in cold Whistler cellar. After reading some of these dubious tasting notes felt I had to jump into the fray. Light yellow with crushed peach pit and whiff of granite and lilies on the nose. Viscous young stone fruit on palate with impressive grip and a long finish. This could easily slay 80% of white burgundies in a blind tasting with enormous palatal grip and an expansion on the back end that reminds me of a PYCM Chassagne 1er cru about 15 years out. This is fabulous and glad to have another case to slide into white burg blind tastings. Josh changed styles after visiting burgundy about 10 years ago, and this bottle clearly indicates that Bergstrom is ready to take on the world chardonnays and slap a lot of them down with this phenomenal bottle- wow! Best now to 2031.
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Wines of the Gods (House of AC and JC): Component of DRC Echezeaux and Grands Echezeaux vertical as a finishing wine. Very light tawny colour with rim light green. Explosive aromatics of dried fruit, anise and oiled mahogany with raisin cakes and toffee blasting through the riveting acidity. Otherworldly length that lingered on the palate beyond our 25 minute walk home.....
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2007 Thomas Pinot Noir Dundee Hills
1/1/2024 - ricardito Likes this wine: 95 Points
A rainy Oregon harvest in 2007 and yet this red blessedly stellar. Medium red with crushed dried cranberry nose. Powerful full bodied sweet primary strawberry/cherry palate, expanding impressively on the back end, with enough acidity and minerality to carry it another 20 years. Served blind and all 6 tasters loved it and thought ripe vintage burgundy with 5/6 guessing 2003. If you like big-boy primary Pinot fruit at 17 years with stunning length-look no further than the stables of John Thomas. (Great now but for explosive secondary features drink 2027-2037)
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2015 Bergström Chardonnay Sigrid
12/1/2023 - ricardito Likes this wine: 94 Points
Purchased at Bergstrom on release and cellared at 8 C in cold Whistler cellar. After reading some of these dubious tasting notes felt I had to jump into the fray. Light yellow with crushed peach pit and whiff of granite and lilies on the nose. Viscous young stone fruit on palate with impressive grip and a long finish. This could easily slay 80% of white burgundies in a blind tasting with enormous palatal grip and an expansion on the back end that reminds me of a PYCM Chassagne 1er cru about 15 years out. This is fabulous and glad to have another case to slide into white burg blind tastings. Josh changed styles after visiting burgundy about 10 years ago, and this bottle clearly indicates that Bergstrom is ready to take on the world chardonnays and slap a lot of them down with this phenomenal bottle- wow! Best now to 2031.
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1927 Henriques & Henriques Madeira Grand Old Bual
10/14/2022 - ricardito Likes this wine: 96 Points
Wines of the Gods (House of AC and JC): Component of DRC Echezeaux and Grands Echezeaux vertical as a finishing wine. Very light tawny colour with rim light green. Explosive aromatics of dried fruit, anise and oiled mahogany with raisin cakes and toffee blasting through the riveting acidity. Otherworldly length that lingered on the palate beyond our 25 minute walk home.....
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