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White

2014 Domaine des Comtes Lafon Meursault 1er Cru Les Genevrières

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12/20/2020 - Tim2 wrote: 94 points

to be drunk at Xmas eve dinner 2020

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    12/22/2020 5:40:00 AM - Why the score if it's not been drunk?
Red

2019 Château du Domaine de L'Eglise

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6/8/2020 - Jeff Leve wrote: 97 points

The color is so dark it tells you that you're not in Kansas anymore. Flowers, licorice, truffle, spice, wet earth, smoke and plum liqueur aromatics get noticed easily. In the mouth, this rockstar wine coats your palate with fruit that does not quit. Opulence bordering on decadence in texture, the fruit feels like polished velvet. Rich and nuanced, concentrated and fresh, the fruit, earth and bitter chocolate endnote sticks with you for over 50 seconds. Produced from a blend of 97% Merlot and 3%, this is so good, I want some for my cellar. This is the finest wine ever produced here in the history of the estate and should age effortlessly for 3 decades. 96-98 Pts

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    6/22/2020 9:46:00 AM - Just checking this note is against the right wine....?
Red

2016 Château Pontet-Canet

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5/21/2020 - AaronMaxwell Likes this wine: 95 points

Delicious.

On open, it was all packed really closely together, but I could already tell there was a lot going on.

After an hour in a decanter, it's expanded to fill my palate. Medium tannins, medium body (for me. others say it is fuller)...dark fruit flavors, not overly oaked.

Note to self: don't open the remaining bottles for another 2-4 years!

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    5/22/2020 2:08:00 AM - I think you’re missing zeroes from those last two numbers!

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    5/22/2020 5:29:00 AM - Yeah I assumed that.... but genuine word of caution: the wine is highly likely to get worse and worse to drink over the next few years, hitting a peak of rubbishness around age 8-12, which is right when you are suggesting drinking it. These Bordeaux tend to need drinking either young for the quality fruit and structure, or else matured properly. In-the-middle is almost never a good plan.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    5/22/2020 12:21:00 PM - Somewhere in its 20s is not at all "old" for a good Bordeaux vintage. 50s is getting a bit grey for many though: though of course plenty will be lovely then. Don't expect any loss of vibrancy or really loss of much fruit for a good Bordeaux in it's 20s: only an increase in overall deliciousness and a degree of flavour breadth that is absent from the younger wine. For example, top bottles from 1990 - for me - are at their chocolately- stewed-plums peak now. None of the top wines taste "old" in any sense whatsoever: they are vivid. Beyond 1990, it's only 4 years ago I had my last Latour '75: no sign of "age" but plenty of "maturity" - if the distinction makes sense. I finished up some other 1980s bottles around 5-10 years ago, and for me that was their peak. 1982s and things like Margaux and Palmer 1983 will run and run: I've had only a few examples at ages around 30-40 showing no signs of being tired or lacking fruit. I think maybe there could be a popular misconception about what aged Bordeaux is like. Something to do with fusty gentlemens' clubs, tobacco, armchairs and fires and musty, fusty characteristics. None of it. :P
Red

2011 Rudolf Fürst Schlossberg Spätburgunder

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2/29/2020 - Rob-Rah Likes this wine: 94 points

I found this delicious! A pale-ish brownish-red. Lovely fruit scents and violets. Silky, luxurious palate. Sweetish. Really quite beautiful fruit. Restrained and classy, and just beautiful. Caressing finish. Right up my alley.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    3/14/2020 3:01:00 PM - I'm not sure with this vineyard. The fruit is so good, and it's drinking so well at the moment I'm not sure what is to be gained from age. Some of the other Furst 2011s indeed need a while more though. For me anyway.....
Red

2018 Boekenhoutskloof The Chocolate Block

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11/18/2019 - Rob-Rah Does not like this wine: 78 points

Opaque, black-purple with a reddish-magenta rim. Tight tarry fruit. Bit of floral aspect. Palate hard, tannic, dry. Hot alcohol. No sweet fruit at the moment. Tarry fruit but veering toward red rather than black perhaps. Certainly nothing like the moniker suggests about chocolate. I'll follow over the evening. On initial pour this is not very friendly at all.

A few hours later: nah, this is a tough, charmless, oaky, tarry wine. Big scale but just so unfriendly. Hard to drink and harder to enjoy really. I wouldn't buy this in the hope it transforms after a few years in bottle.

1/3 bottle tried after being corked and kept 24 hours...... still pretty nasty stuff. So bitter and aggressive. Downgraded score.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    1/29/2020 11:36:00 AM - Oh that's a very kind comment! On this wine, I think there are infinitely better south African Syrahs to be had.
Red

2015 Grgić Vina Plavac Mali

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12/28/2019 - elevwine Likes this wine: 89 points

According to label this is Bosnian wine, not Croatian. Very drinkable, bright and acidic with an old world style. Paid about half of community valuation and that would be all I would pay for another bottle.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    12/29/2019 10:54:00 AM - Any chance of a pic of the front and back labels? The standard wine is definitely Croatian, not Bosnian, so I am curious what the label said.
White

2011 A.J. Adam Hofberg Riesling Kabinett

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10/30/2019 - WhatsSamSipping Likes this wine: NR

This bottle was in rough shape but the wine made it through very well. Considerably rich in body and flavor for an eight year kabinett. Let it sit open for a while and the acidity will freshen things up. Will age for longer if you want more petrol and condensed flavors, especially if your bottle is in good shape.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    10/31/2019 9:56:00 AM - 50 points??
Red

2015 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

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10/26/2019 - 83Vintage Does not like this wine: 91 points

The ripe weight shows itself too much, with a flat round texture, lacking in focus and form. There is no secondary components, depth, or vibrancy that I’m looking for. Not my style

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    10/27/2019 5:13:00 AM - Far, far too young! Leave until the later 2020s, and ought to last until the 2050s with ease.
Red

2009 Château Pontet-Canet

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10/25/2019 - Slaz wrote: 92 points

My first bottle from this vintage. Studied it over 4+ hours of decanting. Overall, fairly unimpressive relative to the price tag of $250. Upon opening, it tasted monolithic and ungiving, as I expected. With air, it improved but not to a point where my tastebuds found this memorable. Plenty of graphite and raw wood, with fairly generous but still moderate acidity. I kept looking for tertiary notes but never found them. The nose was similarly restrained (e.g., I've had much more floral explosion from some of the better Brunellos from 2010, as a reference point). I'll give the rest of my bottles 5+ more years.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    10/26/2019 1:41:00 AM - If you want tertiary leave until some time c.2030!
Red

2016 Château Pavie Macquin

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10/15/2019 - csimm wrote: 95 points

This took about 2-3 hours of decanted air to fully open up. Wild blackberry, red and black cherry, red and purple plum skin limestone, muddled strawberry seed, and violets. A near-perfect combination of speed and concentration. Medium-to-full bodied, with a finish that displays notable verve, tension, and back end flavor expansion.

Best to hold for another 3-5 years, but not a sin to open now with a few hours of a decant. Ideally wait until 2023+. 95+ points.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    10/16/2019 12:54:00 AM - What is a muddled strawberry seed?
Red

2004 Château Simone Palette

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5/4/2019 - baxter67 Likes this wine: 89 points

Interesting. I bought this wine at the Chateau, drank three soon after, then put the remaining three in the cellar and forgot about them. A pleasant surprise. Still sound, quite light with good fruit, still redolent of Provence with the Grenache, Mourvedre and other grapes very much in evidence. Reading the other reviews, it seems to have a second wind? ***

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    8/14/2019 9:43:00 AM - Yes, Ch Simone red is lovely close to the vintage, and shuts down usually quite hard around age 2-3 to somewhere 8-10, and then opens up again beautifully.

    (The whites can also close down like this; the roses I prefer young to aged).
Red

2010 Teliani Valley Kindzmarauli

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1/16/2013 - Rob-Rah wrote: NR

Dark. Deep, fruity. Strawberry and roses. Iodine, a little tar. Palate powerful and rather tannic. Covered up by a little residual sweetness. But this is off-dry rather than really semi-sweet. A bit one-dimensional. This appears to be in need of bottle age. Well balanced. I have 12 of these so will save rating until I understand it a bit better. My impression is good though.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    8/10/2019 7:15:00 AM - They all got consumed within a year or two of that note! They were drinkably pleasant and too great a risk to hog the cellar with long-term in the end.
Red

2015 Montes Purple Angel

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1/10/2019 - Rob-Rah Likes this wine: 95 points

A massive, bruising and brooding wine. Already quite some sediment staining the inside to the bottle. Amazing depth both of colour and taste. Superb cassis and dark plum fruit quality with depth and just the right balance of plush sweet fruit and tannins and acid. Long, frankly delicious blueberry-fading-to-chocolate finish. Really very good indeed, and a wonder this isn't far more expensive. But also rather young right now and those tannins need to soften - give a LONG decant, or wait 5-10 years. 95+

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    5/31/2019 11:43:00 AM - I just bought another 12. The stuff is amazing, and vintages are going up in price since 2015.
Red

2016 L'Aventure Estate Cuvée

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5/10/2019 - Justinito wrote: NR

Stupid Steph

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    5/11/2019 2:01:00 AM - Anything more enlightening?
Red

2015 Jean Stodden Herrenberg Spätburgunder Großes Gewächs

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5/4/2018 - Benjamin on Wine wrote: 90 points

Spatburgunder at its best and very typical Concentrated red fruit aromas, as well as smoke, cedar wood and overall quite strong in aroma. Very nicely balanced on the palate, with a medium body, medium + tannins and high acidity. That balance makes it so delightful, Ahr this is great!

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    7/25/2018 2:50:00 AM - A very low score (84) compared to your tasting note!?
Red

2013 Podere Poggio Scalette Il Carbonaione Alta Valle della Greve IGT

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6/28/2018 - Rob-Rah Likes this wine: 92 points

Very, very good. Though I have a nasty feeling that I am missing out on something in 15 years by drinking these now.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    6/29/2018 6:08:00 AM - No, I think this has the stuffing to go. Chianti classico, Brunello and other well-made structured Sangiovese like this are usually super with plenty of age.
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2015 Pensées de Lafleur

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5/21/2018 - Jeff Leve wrote: 92 points

Mint with a handful of earth is the first thing you notice. From there the cherry and plum notes pop up. Medium bodied, silky, polished, soft and sweet, the wine offers cherry pipe tobacco, plums and earthy notes, The soft tannins and layers of fruits keep on going on the palate. The wine was produced from a blend of 54% Merlot and 36% Cabernet Franc.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    5/25/2018 1:05:00 AM - I think a typo in the score there :)
Red

1998 Château Léoville Barton

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4/3/2018 - mmh wrote: NR

Eight years after buying this bottle i finally popped the cork with high expectations....which were not quite met. Decanted for 2 hours. Fairly complex on the nose, worked very well with food but on its own it was slightly astringent and boring. I am not sure if it was past its peak (doubtful), too young or just a slightly off bottle.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    4/4/2018 5:33:00 AM - My suspicion is just “boring” too
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2015 Château Larcis Ducasse

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1/22/2018 - Eric Guido wrote: 89 points

The Larcis Ducasse was intense on the nose with spiced raspberry and sweet herbs. On the palate, I found silky, broad textures with glossy red berry fruit, yet it lacked in the mid-palate, as I craved acidity and grip. The finish was medium in length with lingering spice.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    1/26/2018 10:20:00 AM - Is your score correct (98) on this one?
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2015 Maison Leroy Bourgogne

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8/18/2017 - evanqian wrote: 87 points

closed nose, powdery tannins, some leafy and earthy notes, dry finish. not open at all. this bottle seems weird.

Ap 5/5, Ar 11/15, Palate 16/20, Overall 3+3/10
Total 87/100

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    8/18/2017 7:10:00 AM - Too young. It is barely out of cask.
Red

2010 Château de Beaucastel Côtes du Rhône Coudoulet de Beaucastel

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5/14/2017 - zut alors! Likes this wine: 94 points

Completel agree with TREPAK (1/29/17): perfect resolution. balanced, slightly acidic (just enough to cut through the fat of a steak). Better than most entry-level Chat du Papes. Burnt toast notes and Black berry so dark and flavorful, practically seemed syrup-y. Quoi se veut "Coudoulet" en fancais? Une traduction, s'il vous-plaît!

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    5/16/2017 12:41:00 PM - Coudoulet is not French, but is Provençal for "pebble" (like the ones all over CdP).
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2003 Henry's Drive Shiraz Reserve

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11/11/2016 - Tgarthe Does not like this wine: 85 points

Upon opening I got plenty of hay and leather on the nose before it turned quite pugnant.

It improved after an hour or so, although prune was evident throughout.

Was ok on the palate, didn't feel like it had much body, although the long finish was there.

Think it had just fallen apart a little too much. Purchased from graysonline, so unsure of cellaring conditions.

Will try again soon.

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    11/11/2016 4:54:00 AM - Most definitely flawed

  • Comment posted by Rob-Rah:

    11/12/2016 11:29:00 AM - I may have had more bottles of this wine than any other (!). The wine may sometimes seem awkward, out of balance, but it should never come across as lacking body. Sometimes I guess it might appear shrill or overly volatile. It's a huge beast of a wine, all sweet fruit and aromatics, and masses of alcohol - for better or worse.

    By the way.... I don't find this needing air now - pop open and pour.

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