Really good. Bruised orchard fruits and toasted buttered bread. Fine bead. Here you really feel that the wine is dominated by red grapes (60% pinot noir and meunier); I was in fact surprised when I learned that it had that much Chardonnay in the blend (40%). The dosage felt high and it is indeed on the higher side, so you better serve it cold if you don't like that, but for me it was not a problem (9.8g/L).
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The cork was about 1 cm into the neck but it came out easily with a Durand. The bottle was opened 5 hours before dinner.
Sensual exotic perfume coming out of the bottle upon opening. We could smell it even in the room! Brick color on the rim, but still quite opaque and dark.
On the nose, still fruity (dark berries) and relatively fresh (it could pass for a quite younger wine). A lot of warm spices, old leather, pencil shavings and some damp earth too. Surprisingly, we smelled a hint of green pepper in there!
You could taste the warmth of the alcohol during the first glass, but that blew off quickly; I found it funny though because it's only a 11.5% degree wine!
Dusty in the first sips, but everything cleared up with a couple swirls in the Zalto Bordeaux glass. The taste was betraying the age of the wine more than the nose, but it was still quite good, something in the realms of a heavy raspberry/blackberry jam. Medium to long finish; all tannins resolved.
Very good giving the age, and a perfect match to our roasted apple-lacquered quail.
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Very mineral nose, a touch of rubber too. Red fruits and sea breeze. Creamy bubbles that coats the whole palate. Very good but should cost 20$ less since there is nothing here that is truly special.
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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Réserve
1/4/2022 - Krugalex Likes this wine: 92 Points
Really good. Bruised orchard fruits and toasted buttered bread. Fine bead. Here you really feel that the wine is dominated by red grapes (60% pinot noir and meunier); I was in fact surprised when I learned that it had that much Chardonnay in the blend (40%). The dosage felt high and it is indeed on the higher side, so you better serve it cold if you don't like that, but for me it was not a problem (9.8g/L).
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1966 Château Cheval Blanc
11/29/2021 - Krugalex Likes this wine: 93 Points
The cork was about 1 cm into the neck but it came out easily with a Durand. The bottle was opened 5 hours before dinner.
Sensual exotic perfume coming out of the bottle upon opening. We could smell it even in the room! Brick color on the rim, but still quite opaque and dark.
On the nose, still fruity (dark berries) and relatively fresh (it could pass for a quite younger wine). A lot of warm spices, old leather, pencil shavings and some damp earth too. Surprisingly, we smelled a hint of green pepper in there!
You could taste the warmth of the alcohol during the first glass, but that blew off quickly; I found it funny though because it's only a 11.5% degree wine!
Dusty in the first sips, but everything cleared up with a couple swirls in the Zalto Bordeaux glass. The taste was betraying the age of the wine more than the nose, but it was still quite good, something in the realms of a heavy raspberry/blackberry jam. Medium to long finish; all tannins resolved.
Very good giving the age, and a perfect match to our roasted apple-lacquered quail.
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2009 Pol Roger Champagne Brut Rosé
10/3/2021 - Krugalex wrote: 90 Points
Very mineral nose, a touch of rubber too. Red fruits and sea breeze. Creamy bubbles that coats the whole palate. Very good but should cost 20$ less since there is nothing here that is truly special.
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