Taste from open distributor bottle at Knightsbridge. Super tasty. Awesome silky mouth feel. Hugely extracted with wonderful ripe rosey aromas. Rich Napa fruit.
Awesome lush huckleberry and blueberry aromas. Baked good action into play as well. Leather mocha on the back end. Royal and opulent mouth feel. This bottling comes across as having more spice versus the high intensity floral characteristics of other vintages of HS. Fantastic
USA, California, Central Coast, Santa Barbara County
Reductive characteristics. Some sulfur on the nose too. Dark spicy fruit. Huge weight at 15.6% alcohol. Very nice if you're looking for a tour de force of a Syrah.
Rustic and barnyardy play. Screaming Rhone on the nose and palate. Classic tar and menthol components. Very very enjoyable. Drinking pretty well but still can go another decade or so.
2007 Carter Cellars Hossfeld Coliseum 91 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Taste from open distributor bottle at Knightsbridge.
Silky mouth feel.
Some nice spice, oak and vanilla. Very nice.
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2007 Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Revilo 93 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Taste from open distributor bottle at Knightsbridge.
Awesome mouth feel on the mid palate.
Great robust red berries. Solid structure.
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2007 Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Coliseum Block 94 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley
Taste from open distributor bottle at Knightsbridge.
Super tasty. Awesome silky mouth feel.
Hugely extracted with wonderful ripe rosey aromas.
Rich Napa fruit.
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2007 Domaine Denis Bachelet Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes 92 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin
Masculine rich and funky.
Nice mossy spice and raw tobacco aromas.
Tightly wound. Very young. High acidity.
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2003 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select 96 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley, Stags Leap District
Awesome lush huckleberry and blueberry aromas.
Baked good action into play as well. Leather mocha on the back end.
Royal and opulent mouth feel.
This bottling comes across as having more spice versus the high intensity floral characteristics of other vintages of HS.
Fantastic
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2006 Antica Terra Pinot Noir 92 Points
USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley
Sedimentary rock play on the nose.
Lots of rooty essence with a white pepper spice on the back end.
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2005 Lillian Winery Syrah 92 Points
USA, California, Central Coast, Santa Barbara County
Reductive characteristics. Some sulfur on the nose too.
Dark spicy fruit. Huge weight at 15.6% alcohol.
Very nice if you're looking for a tour de force of a Syrah.
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1999 M. Chapoutier Côte-Rôtie La Mordorée 93 Points
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Côte-Rôtie
Rustic and barnyardy play.
Screaming Rhone on the nose and palate.
Classic tar and menthol components.
Very very enjoyable. Drinking pretty well but still can go another decade or so.
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2002 Domaine Dominique Mugneret Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots 93 Points
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru
Nie streamlined acidity.
Very nice burgundy. Funk.
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