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1978 Château Mouton RothschildPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/11/2024 - hkbob Likes this wine: 95 pointsStood upright for 24 hours prior to carefully extracting the fully saturated cork with my trusty Durand. This was poured slowly off its sediment into a narrow-bodied decanter. Bright orange-brown colour. Mostly secondary aromas of cassis, red and blue berry fruit, sous-bois, warm spices like nutmeg and cardamom, coffee and tobacco. Silky smooth across the palate with surprising vivacity and a medium-plus finish. The nose and palate continued to improve over more than an hour and then slowly started to fade around the 2.5 hour mark as the finish started to dry out. While in in its window tonight, this was a regal wine from an unheralded vintage. Just wonderful. |
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2003 Château Léoville BartonSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/10/2024 - djhammond Likes this wine: 96 pointsThe last 15 months has been transformative for the wine. Everything in the wine has been accelerated in its development. It was glorious in its bloom of youth with fruit bomb nose and palate so typical of the younger 2003s. It went through a couple of years of restraint, but it now is exceptional. Fully secondary and tertiary, it is drinking like a wine twice its age, and it is such a treat if you love old Bordeaux. Everything is fully integrated with a smoky nose and a beefy palate. Possibly, the finish will further develop, and if it does, this will warrant another point or two. I did decant this for 6 hours; was it necessary? I'm not sure to be honest, and probably not. 96+ |
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2009 Château GloriaSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/9/2024 - djhammond Likes this wine: 93 pointsThis has burst into life in the last 6 months, and is superlative. For myself, Gloria consistently outdrinks many Growth estates, and deserves the recognition. The nose is wonderful, deeply aromatic, and on its own would warrant another point or two. That said, it still performs excellently on the palate and finish, but the latter is on the shorter side. The other heartening aspect of the bottle, is that it is acting as a marker for the 2009 vintage in general. The vintage has frustrated me to date, and beginning to despair if it will come round at a relatively early age, but this gives me real hope that the heavy hitters will be beginning to hit their drinking window in the near future.
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2010 Château Haut-BaillyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/31/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 96 pointsBeen a while since my last bottle. Two hour double decant, then over to HMCs for Easter dinner of prime rib and enjoyed over 3 more hours of air from the bottle. My last bottle almost 2 years ago was a 98. Not so, this time. It's very good, don't get me wrong. It's seamless from front to back but in a phase where it's just holding back a bit.
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2012 Château Pape ClémentPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/21/2024 - hkbob Likes this wine: 95 pointsAnother superb bottle of this wine. Absolutely singing, especially when paired with Greek lamb shank. Wow. Fragrant dark cherry nose with earth, tobacco, mesquite and iodine notes. Full-bodied with silky tannins and a long finish. A 30 minute decant was all it needed to be at its best. Excellent.
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1995 Château BeychevelleSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/14/2024 - djhammond Likes this wine: 94 pointsThis is unusually developed for a 1995 wine, and has reached its optimum drinking window. The nose is glorious and deeply aromatic with blackcurrant, beef blood, and old leather. Likewise the palate is excellent with an integrated mouthfeel, and good balance and depth. The finish is good, but on the shorter side, and prevents a higher rating. As per Dream's note, Beychevelle gets there in the end; just look at the superlative 1982.
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2010 Domaine Raymond Usseglio & Fils Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée ImpérialeRed Rhone Blend more |
7/17/2023 - hkbob Likes this wine: 95 pointsMedium garnet. Sweet red fruit, Mediterranean herbs, violets, star anise, orange pecoe tea and earth notes. This is medium to full-bodied, drinks young still with good intensity and mouth-watering acidity, plump primarily red-fruited mid-palate and some tannins still to be resolved on the back-end. An excellent wine that will be better with at least another 3-5 years of cellaring, IMO. If drinking now, a couple of hours in the decanter is suggested.
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1990 Paul Jaboulet Aîné Hermitage La ChapelleSyrah more |
3/4/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 95 pointsBrought to the table tonight by Jim Aronson after a 1 hour slow ox in the bottle. Light/medium garnet in the glass. Some orange bricking noticeable as you swirl the glass, and it seemed like as it got more air over 3 hours a little more orange became evident in the glass.
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2016 Château Cos d'EstournelSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/27/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 94 pointsI feel like I'm a bit late to the party, here. That's my fault.
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2003 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/11/2024 - hkbob Likes this wine: 95 pointsFrom magnum. Showed quite young still in the larger format, with a sweet nose of bing cherry, Chinese 5-spice, garrigue and a pronounced marine note. The sweetness did not follow through to the palate where the abundant fruit was quite dry, but not drying, and most of the action was on the front to mid-palate with a modest grippy finish. Paired beautifully with beef bourguignon (which itself had been constructed with a generous infusion of CdP). Excellent.
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2010 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée RéservéeRed Rhone Blend more |
2/7/2024 - Purple Tooth wrote: 96 points**The most under valued wines for the price are produced in southern rhone. Buy a case each year and laugh. I give this a BBB rating.Barnyard, Bacon, and BO... with gobs of dark red saturated fruit. This is adult stuff and my Bordeaux collection texted me last night, complaining/alleging that they see this relationship as adulterous. A lawsuit is bound to follow shortly. Meanwhile, I will drink more of this and try and get rid of the evidence before a suit is actually filed. |
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2003 Château Léoville Las CasesSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/1/2024 - hkbob Likes this wine: 95 pointsOpaque garnet. This was an excellent wine with its dark fruit, creosote, fresh tobacco and earthy notes at the fore all overlayed with a sweetness reminiscent of the ripe fruit. This wine shows quite young and vibrant with a long grippy finish which belies the torrid heat of the vintage. Just entering its prime drinking window with lots of time on the clock for further development. Delicious.
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1990 Château L'EvangilePomerol Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/1/2024 - hkbob Likes this wine: 96 pointsBeautiful, mid-weight wine firmly ensconced in its peak drinking window. The aromatics stole the show with vestiges of red and blue fruit, sous-bois, Ceylon tea, iodine, tobacco and cedar. Lovely balance. This flowed seamlessly across the palate with well-judged acidity providing energy to a long cedar-infused finish. An hour of air and this bottle showed at its best.
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2005 Château PavieSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/30/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 95 pointsServed blind: James' 1st bottle for the evening.....1 hour double decant then allowed to slow ox in the bottle for 2 more prior to the 3-4 hours of slow ox it had at our table on this evening.
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Comment posted by hkbob:
5/7/2024 7:46:00 AM - David, fingers crossed that you got a good bottle and have an experience similar to mine... sending good wine vibes your way, my friend!