Alcohol :: 13.5% Opened overnight and decanted for 60mins before served. Oh my, this is still quite a tannic and big wine despite the preparation and only showed its best with food and towards the dinner by itself. Strong game savory note over-laced on blue florals with blackberry and red cherry aromas, expressive and intense that move on to the firm, powerful palate with delicious, complex flavors of sweet fruits, earth, herbs and leather that continue with game, floral note towards the very long, firm mineral lingering finish that still has light tannic bite which added extra dimension to it. Very complete and delicious. Perfect pairing with both deep fried lamb rack (showed wilder) and kailan (vege) with oyster sauce (emphasized its mineral and fruits and mask the tannin).
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru
Alcohol :: 13% Decanted for 1.5hrs and this fan out beautifully. Quite floral and game at first, not expressive but open up nicely with high tone floral note that consist full of essence Pinot note, blue and red cherry aromas with delicate tea leaves sum up the highly seductive, fragrance aromatic profile, really good! Delicate and intense, though lack a bit of layered from the good vintages, this actually provide immense drinking pleasure now compared to the 06 which offer more substances but need more ages to show. This has what I ask from a Pinot: elegance, pure and finesse. Super silky tannin along with subtle sweet fruits, soft, refreshing acidity. Very delicious, focus finish that lingered with autumn leaves and mineral that last for a minute, oh, so elegance, complete and utterly delicious that I keep asking for more!
79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, 6% Petit Verdot, and 1% Malbec. I believed this was popped and poured as the wine still pretty tight and muscular. Intense and powerful on both nose and palate that boosted with blueberry, plumpish juice accompany by violet, kirsch like aromas that move on to the cream, plush palate with mouth coating intensity that is powerful and voluptuous with coconut candy note lingering at the slightly disjointed, mineral sweet finish. Massive level of ripe tannin but well concealed by the huge concentration of pure sweet fruits. Certainly too young for now and I'm surely get better with age, say, 10yrs. 88-91
Alcohol :: 7% I was expecting this as I was blown away by the last bottle I had in March. However, this bottle was indeed more shy and tight compared to the previous bottle that was highly expressive. Going to shut down? Seems so. The aromas was sweet, fresh with mineral note but not much fruits. While the palate showed slightly better, it is no where come close to the last bottle. Still, this is delicious with huge dry extract and mineral backbone that buffered off the sweetness and quite light on its feet. As well made wine with good balance, this just lack of the WOW factor, perhaps layered and complexity. 87-89
2001 Fattoria di Fèlsina Berardenga Chianti Classico Riserva Rancia 89 Points
Italy, Tuscany, Chianti, Chianti Classico DOCG
Alcohol :: 13.5%
Opened overnight and decanted for 60mins before served. Oh my, this is still quite a tannic and big wine despite the preparation and only showed its best with food and towards the dinner by itself. Strong game savory note over-laced on blue florals with blackberry and red cherry aromas, expressive and intense that move on to the firm, powerful palate with delicious, complex flavors of sweet fruits, earth, herbs and leather that continue with game, floral note towards the very long, firm mineral lingering finish that still has light tannic bite which added extra dimension to it. Very complete and delicious. Perfect pairing with both deep fried lamb rack (showed wilder) and kailan (vege) with oyster sauce (emphasized its mineral and fruits and mask the tannin).
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2001 Domaine Dujac Clos Saint-Denis 92 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru
Alcohol :: 13%
Decanted for 1.5hrs and this fan out beautifully. Quite floral and game at first, not expressive but open up nicely with high tone floral note that consist full of essence Pinot note, blue and red cherry aromas with delicate tea leaves sum up the highly seductive, fragrance aromatic profile, really good! Delicate and intense, though lack a bit of layered from the good vintages, this actually provide immense drinking pleasure now compared to the 06 which offer more substances but need more ages to show. This has what I ask from a Pinot: elegance, pure and finesse. Super silky tannin along with subtle sweet fruits, soft, refreshing acidity. Very delicious, focus finish that lingered with autumn leaves and mineral that last for a minute, oh, so elegance, complete and utterly delicious that I keep asking for more!
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2007 Opus One 88 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, 6% Petit Verdot, and 1% Malbec.
I believed this was popped and poured as the wine still pretty tight and muscular. Intense and powerful on both nose and palate that boosted with blueberry, plumpish juice accompany by violet, kirsch like aromas that move on to the cream, plush palate with mouth coating intensity that is powerful and voluptuous with coconut candy note lingering at the slightly disjointed, mineral sweet finish. Massive level of ripe tannin but well concealed by the huge concentration of pure sweet fruits. Certainly too young for now and I'm surely get better with age, say, 10yrs. 88-91
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2008 Schloss Lieser Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel 87 Points
Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer
Alcohol :: 7%
I was expecting this as I was blown away by the last bottle I had in March. However, this bottle was indeed more shy and tight compared to the previous bottle that was highly expressive. Going to shut down? Seems so. The aromas was sweet, fresh with mineral note but not much fruits. While the palate showed slightly better, it is no where come close to the last bottle. Still, this is delicious with huge dry extract and mineral backbone that buffered off the sweetness and quite light on its feet. As well made wine with good balance, this just lack of the WOW factor, perhaps layered and complexity. 87-89
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