Nose: The nose is wide open and forward with red apples, pears, custard, yellow flowers, orchard fruits, saline, and flint notes. This is an upfront quality to the nose with good depth and balance.
Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with crisp, medium+ acidity. There is good depth with a forward take to the tones of red apples, pears, custard, saline, orchard fruits, and yellow flowers.
Overall: This was drinking extremely well and balanced with the vintage in mind. It's at its peak right now and I have a hard time seeing how it gets better.
Nose: The nose is expressive, fresh, and vibrant with white peaches, green apples, white flowers, crushed rocks, and some sweet citrus notes. There is excellent depth to the nose and it's a real joy to smell.
Taste: The feel is Medium/light bodied with electric, high acidity. There is a real deftness to the feel with white peaches, green apples, crushed rocks, minerals, and white flowers.
Overall: This is a little on the young side, but it is also beautifully expressive. This is a real classy Kabinett that shows off the greatness that is Egon Muller.
Nose: The nose is mature and polished with mandarin oranges, peaches, red apples, honey notes, yellow flowers, nougat, and a good dose of mineral tones. There is excellent depth and expression that really begs for your attention.
Taste: The feel is Light bodied with crisp, high acidity. The feel is well balanced and polished with mandarin oranges, peaches, red apples, honey tones, yellow flowers, and loads of minerals.
Overall: This is a real treat. It is fully mature and balanced with a great mix of fresh fruits and mature tones.
Nose: The nose is extremely aromatic and mature, filling the glass with quince, nectar, red apples, melons, yellow flowers, crushed rocks, and honey tones. There is excellent depth and balance with a good bit of poise as well.
Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with well-integrated, high acidity. The acidity is still fresh and provides a really nice spine with quince, nectar, red apples, melons, crushed rocks, and honey tones.
Overall: This is lovely. There is excellent balance and depth across the nose and palate with a level of refinement that only comes with age.
France, Loire Valley, Anjou-Saumur, Saumur-Champigny
Nose: The nose is lovely and expressive with red cherries, strawberries, fresh picked berries, violets, herbs, roses, earth tones, tobacco, and root vegetables. There is excellent depth and an open-knit style that is very attractive even at this youthful stage.
Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with crisp, medium+ acidity and youthful, medium+ tannins. The structure is certainly youthful but underneath lies a silky feel with tones of red cherries, strawberries, violets, roses, earth tones, and some tobacco.
Overall: This is a lovely, if young, Clos Rougeard. This was fairly open and giving with an attractive red-fruited base and a touch of savoriness to add in some intrigue and depth. This could still benefit from another 5+ years to hit that next level that it is capable of.
Nose: The nose is perfumed and showing more of a savory side with sour red cherries, raspberries, cranberries, tobacco, dried herbs, licorice, roses, and violets. This shows a bit more advancement than I'd normally expect but there is still a lot of expression to the tones.
Taste: The feel is Full bodied with crisp, medium+ acidity and silky, medium+ tannins. The structure is starting to peel back while the feel is balanced and expressive with sour red cherries, raspberries, licorice, dried herbs, savory notes, and roses.
Overall: This bottle feels like it's a little more advanced than I would normally expect. That said, this is still very enjoyable and showing off a lovely savory side.
Nose: The nose is pungent and lively with black cherries, raspberries, black pepper, licorice, violets, tobacco, and earth tones. There is good balance and good depth with it also showing off a real youthful exuberance.
Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with tart, medium+ acidity and chalky, medium+ tannins. The tannins are a little coarse but the feel is well balanced with black cherries, raspberries, black pepper, licorice, violets, and earth tones.
Overall: This is a fun and expressive Crozes-Hermitage. It could benefit from a couple of years to calm down some of the puppy dog parts of this but it's still a really fun and drinkable wine.
2003 Vincent Dauvissat (René & Vincent) Chablis Grand Cru Les Clos 92 Points
France, Burgundy, Chablis, Chablis Grand Cru
Nose: The nose is wide open and forward with red apples, pears, custard, yellow flowers, orchard fruits, saline, and flint notes. This is an upfront quality to the nose with good depth and balance.
Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with crisp, medium+ acidity. There is good depth with a forward take to the tones of red apples, pears, custard, saline, orchard fruits, and yellow flowers.
Overall: This was drinking extremely well and balanced with the vintage in mind. It's at its peak right now and I have a hard time seeing how it gets better.
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2012 Egon Müller Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett 92 Points
Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer
Nose: The nose is expressive, fresh, and vibrant with white peaches, green apples, white flowers, crushed rocks, and some sweet citrus notes. There is excellent depth to the nose and it's a real joy to smell.
Taste: The feel is Medium/light bodied with electric, high acidity. There is a real deftness to the feel with white peaches, green apples, crushed rocks, minerals, and white flowers.
Overall: This is a little on the young side, but it is also beautifully expressive. This is a real classy Kabinett that shows off the greatness that is Egon Muller.
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1997 Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling Kabinett 92 Points
Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer
Nose: The nose is mature and polished with mandarin oranges, peaches, red apples, honey notes, yellow flowers, nougat, and a good dose of mineral tones. There is excellent depth and expression that really begs for your attention.
Taste: The feel is Light bodied with crisp, high acidity. The feel is well balanced and polished with mandarin oranges, peaches, red apples, honey tones, yellow flowers, and loads of minerals.
Overall: This is a real treat. It is fully mature and balanced with a great mix of fresh fruits and mature tones.
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1993 Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling Kabinett 93 Points
Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer
Nose: The nose is extremely aromatic and mature, filling the glass with quince, nectar, red apples, melons, yellow flowers, crushed rocks, and honey tones. There is excellent depth and balance with a good bit of poise as well.
Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with well-integrated, high acidity. The acidity is still fresh and provides a really nice spine with quince, nectar, red apples, melons, crushed rocks, and honey tones.
Overall: This is lovely. There is excellent balance and depth across the nose and palate with a level of refinement that only comes with age.
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2013 Clos Rougeard (Foucault) Saumur-Champigny 93 Points
France, Loire Valley, Anjou-Saumur, Saumur-Champigny
Nose: The nose is lovely and expressive with red cherries, strawberries, fresh picked berries, violets, herbs, roses, earth tones, tobacco, and root vegetables. There is excellent depth and an open-knit style that is very attractive even at this youthful stage.
Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with crisp, medium+ acidity and youthful, medium+ tannins. The structure is certainly youthful but underneath lies a silky feel with tones of red cherries, strawberries, violets, roses, earth tones, and some tobacco.
Overall: This is a lovely, if young, Clos Rougeard. This was fairly open and giving with an attractive red-fruited base and a touch of savoriness to add in some intrigue and depth. This could still benefit from another 5+ years to hit that next level that it is capable of.
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2008 Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve Colli della Toscana Centrale IGT 92 Points
Italy, Tuscany, Colli della Toscana Centrale IGT
Nose: The nose is perfumed and showing more of a savory side with sour red cherries, raspberries, cranberries, tobacco, dried herbs, licorice, roses, and violets. This shows a bit more advancement than I'd normally expect but there is still a lot of expression to the tones.
Taste: The feel is Full bodied with crisp, medium+ acidity and silky, medium+ tannins. The structure is starting to peel back while the feel is balanced and expressive with sour red cherries, raspberries, licorice, dried herbs, savory notes, and roses.
Overall: This bottle feels like it's a little more advanced than I would normally expect. That said, this is still very enjoyable and showing off a lovely savory side.
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2016 Jean-Baptiste Souillard Crozes-Hermitage Les Baties 91 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Crozes-Hermitage
Nose: The nose is pungent and lively with black cherries, raspberries, black pepper, licorice, violets, tobacco, and earth tones. There is good balance and good depth with it also showing off a real youthful exuberance.
Taste: The feel is Medium bodied with tart, medium+ acidity and chalky, medium+ tannins. The tannins are a little coarse but the feel is well balanced with black cherries, raspberries, black pepper, licorice, violets, and earth tones.
Overall: This is a fun and expressive Crozes-Hermitage. It could benefit from a couple of years to calm down some of the puppy dog parts of this but it's still a really fun and drinkable wine.
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