| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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1999 Joseph Phelps InsigniaNapa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/26/2022 - Javachip Likes this wine: 95 pointsBottle opened at 5:00, decanted at 6:15, tasting began at 7:00. Clear deep dark garnet-blood red color. Brooding bouquet of mixed black, blue and red fruits and their liqueurs; fennel; cigar humidor; violets, lilacs, bay leaf, forest floor. Similar on the palate, seamless, full body, beautiful balance, rich and generous, not too heavy. The best of both worlds: exuberant Napa fruit with the refinement and balance of Bordeaux. Splendid showing. |
| White - Sparkling |
1998 Piper-Heidsieck Champagne Cuvée RareChampagne Blend more |
1/18/2020 - Javachip Likes this wine: 96 pointsSan Diego WineSpectator.com Offline al tartufo, 1/18/2020 (Solare Restaurant, Liberty Station, Point Loma, San Diego CA): Magnum. Clear straw yellow with fine bead. Outstanding notes of lemon, white grapefruit, croissant, dried chamomile, almond. Fresh, crisp, pure and precise. My #2, group's FIRST PLACE in this flight.
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| Red |
1995 Gaja Barbaresco Costa RussiNebbiolo more |
7/4/2017 - Javachip Likes this wine: 92 pointsOutstanding though understated, not leaping from the glass, but taking some time and coaxing. Allowed to breathe in glass 1 hour before tasting. Clear deep blood-ruby red color. Complex bouquet of roses, liqueurs of red cherry and raspberry, potpourri, stony red soil, juniper berry, lavender, wintergreen, lapsang souchong, and leather. Tart on the palate with mouth-coating tannins, balanced, seamless, full body, very food friendly. Some astringency and bitter quinine on the finish, but these improved after a few hours. Held up fine under vacuum stopper in refrigerator for 4 days. Apparently 1995 was not the best vintage for Piedmont. I slightly preferred the normale blended vineyard bottling, tasted last winter, to this single vineyard bottle.
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| Red |
1967 Bertani Recioto della Valpolicella Classico Superiore AmaroneCorvina Blend, Corvina more |
5/17/2014 - Javachip wrote: 99 pointsSan Diego WineSpectator.com Offline, 5/17/2014 (Grant Grill, U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego): Recent library release from the estate. Fill level, capsule, and label condition are like new. Traditional blend of ancient corvina, rondinella and molinara varietals. Gently decanted and served. Heavenly bouquet of rosemary, Christmas relish, cherries and cranberries, tangerine peel, with notions of wintergreen and dressage saddle. Seaquam, who generously shared this bottle, noted some dry chocolate-covered raisins in the bouquet. I found this wine to be bright, fresh, invigorating, nothing pruney or sur-maturite about it. Brilliant purity and structure with endless complexity. Medium body with no hint of its labeled 15% alcohol. A sublime, truly memorable wine. My #1 and group's FIRST PLACE in this flight.
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| Red |
1970 Château Cheval BlancSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/27/2015 - Javachip wrote: flawedAuction purchase with unknown provenance. High shoulder fill. Cork loose and fully saturated, removed in pieces. Sadly this was completely maderized. But that didn't stop the non-oenophiles at the party from drinking the entire bottle, when we told them how rare and expensive it was.
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| White - Sparkling |
NV Jacques Selosse InitialChampagne Grand Cru Chardonnay more |
11/7/2015 - Javachip wrote: 91 pointsSan Diego WineSpectator.com Offline, 11/7/2015 (Grande Colonial Hotel (Nine Ten Restaurant), La Jolla, California): Fresh, pure, precise. Seemed like a lighter, more reticent version of the 1995 Heidsieck tasted just prior. I was impressed by the bright fruit and the minerality, while Seaquam commented on the yeastiness: "like breaking open a baguette fresh from the oven."
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| White - Sparkling |
2002 Bollinger Champagne La Grande AnnéeChampagne Blend more |
8/10/2015 - Javachip wrote: 91 pointsDisgorged 12/2011. Clear straw color with faint green tint and persistent fine bead. Initial whiff of yeasty bread dough and matchstick blew off to reveal a fine bouquet of apple and Meyer lemon. With air and warming a bit, hints of white flowers, almonds and chalk appeared, with a bit of nougat after another hour. Similar on the palate, crisp and pure, delicious. Group's THIRD PLACE tonight.
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| White |
2009 Château Boswell Jacquelynn Cuvée BlancSonoma County Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
2/20/2014 - Javachip wrote: 88 pointsLabel reads "Sonoma County." 50:50 sauvignon blanc: semillon. Faintly hazy light straw color. Notes of pear, golden kiwi, hard-boiled egg, lawn clippings. Noticeable alcoholic heat.
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Comment posted by Javachip:
11/7/2022 8:49:00 AM - There's certainly no need to wait any longer on this wine, but there's no rush, either. Those who enjoy a more evolved claret can wait as long as they want; the rest of us can enjoy it now. How's that for a noncommittal answer? :)