2009 La Grange aux Belles 53

Community Tasting Notes (11) Median Score: 89 points

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  1/16/2019 - BillyOsh wrote: 84 Points

  It’s still wine and definitely drinkable. 100% more pleasurable after 45 minutes of air and honestly quite pleasant cab franc. Nothing to get too excited about but just fine with home cooked pasta tonight.

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  12/3/2016 - LW31 wrote:

  Two bottles held up quite nicely. Fresh, blackish fruits, not a lot of depth, but thought they'd be dead. Quite easy and smooth. One definitely needs a tolerance for funk to like these.

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  9/10/2015 - circadumonde wrote: flawed

  Foul, repugnant, and putrid. Every single iteration of the spittoon remnants that leaves the cellar door of this "winery" have been Brett infested, balance challenged, and completely unrecognizable as a potable liquid. I can't believe I let Rimmerman fool me out of my hard earned greenbacks for these bottles. I suspect La Grange Aux Belles has never been visited by a health inspector before, but I pray they are soon, before some innocent is stricken with projectile vomiting after drinking this sewage!

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  9/3/2013 - ucbeau Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Popped and poured. I like where it's at, up to this point. 30 minutes in, some barnyard is starting to come out but it's not too offensive yet. Initially, lots of crunchy black and red berry fruit along with hints of green herb and campfire smoke. Great acid, great texture. It's almost crunchy. I wish I had more bottles, because as a pop 'n pour wine to go with mid-week meals, it's flat out delicious. My only quibble is that eventually the brett will overpower the array of fruit, herb, and spice notes and that'll be a shame.

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  8/1/2013 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 89 Points

  On a pop and pour this was very funky and smelled like it had completely gone off the cliff. However, after about an hour open, things smoothed out again and became the pleasing beast I recalled over the last two years. I get nice aromas of graphite, briar, some dark ripe cranberries, and a general lithe powdery texture on the nose that I find very pleasing, and almost Italian in nature. The palate is similar, showing graphite and some sweet earth. After just a few moments dark sweet tannins begin enveloping the palate. Some more mature fruit tones on the finish and darker in complexion. I'd say that overall this has certainly gotten darker over the last two years, but it's still very tannic throughout. Right now it feels like it's teetering... there's certainly plenty of tannic power remaining, but it also feels almost like an unsulfured wine loosing its freshness (but I do think this wine was sulfured). As my previous notes indicate, this is a near-term drinker and my bottles have only lost the initial exciting freshness over time. This is my last bottle, and the best was the first. Time to also drink through the 2010 and 2011 I have of this.

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