| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2014 Sandhi Wines Chardonnay Rita's CrownSta. Rita Hills more |
1/2/2023 - Racer117 Likes this wine: 95 pointsBest white wine of '23... so far. Such tension and verve, fantastic. No butter bomb here, only Burgundy turned up to 11. Ok, maybe 10.5. |
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2015 Ciabot Berton Langhe Nebbiolo 3 UtinLanghe DOC more |
12/22/2022 - PIntag wrote: 88 pointsSolid bottle. Pure fruit, some tannin, balanced - really transparently made Nebb with little or no barrel influence. I actually think this could have used a little touch of oak for complexity (and I'm usually a huge critic of overt oak in red wine). In any case, went very well with Hungarian Goulash soup.
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| White - Sweet/Dessert |
2001 Château RieussecSauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
12/14/2022 - dcwino wrote: 96 pointsExpressive nose displaying opulent sweet yellow fruit, mango, yellow peach, apricot preserve, strong botrytis, candied ginger, caramel, clove and mineral. Exceptional concentration, layers upon layers of concentrated opulent yellow fruit, rich and think but also showing excellent balance, bright acidity, medium mineral, and a long ripe sweet yellow fruit driven finish. This is in the middle stage of development. Drinking really well with generous opulent fruit.
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| White - Sparkling |
1996 Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs BrutChardonnay more |
11/29/2022 - Eric wrote: NRM&PD Tasting: California Cabernet (Seattle, WA, USA): At first this showed the barest hint of honey on the nose maybe hinting at a little oxidation. However this quickly exploded in the glass. This is about as clean, lacy, delicate and precise as I can imagine a Champagne being. Loaded with funky minerals and a salty finish, just pure elegance in a glass.
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| Red |
2006 Château TalbotSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/23/2022 - chatters wrote: NRCoravin fun - Burgundy selection, Talbot bracket and supper wine (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Like the 2000 this smells quite dense, baked black fruit, a little tomato leaf and mint, plums, cream, sweet spice, a little biscuit and liquorice. Medium plus intensity acidity, tight tannins are floury textured, dark fruits persist long beneath this. Slight alcohol warmth, cream, cassis on the finish. Rather nice but feels like it needs a few more years.
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| Red |
2010 Tenuta Carretta Roero Bric ParadisoNebbiolo more |
3/4/2021 - wicozani Likes this wine: 92 pointsPours an orangey red with thinning edges. Very aromatic on the nose, with candied raspberries, citrus, sandalwood, and incense. Medium+ bodied, spicy, with excellent acidity and length, with a few drying tannins. This was a superb pairing with rigatoni and red marinara and spicy Italian sausages! Glad to have a few more bottles! Great QPR!
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| White - Sparkling |
1996 Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs BrutChardonnay more |
5/17/2022 - palfr2 wrote: NRButtery nose, lemony, chalk. Some nutty notes with aeration. What strikes me is the palate presence. Acidity in balance. One feels a complete spheric underlying vin clair. Dosage is well inegrated by now though still feels on the high side vs more recent standards of winemaking. Good but market price makes no sense for me outside of the trophy element.
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| White - Sparkling |
1996 Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs BrutChardonnay more |
2/5/2020 - apward wrote: 99 pointsA wine with resounding brilliance, a crescendo at the very beginning of illustrious tasting line-up. Wild honeysuckle and key lime. Bubbles that make you laugh. A rose-colored glasses kind of wine.
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| Red |
2000 Château Lynch-BagesPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/22/2022 - Cailles wrote: 93 points20 Vintages of Lynch Bages (1986-2017): All wines tasted blind. Not decanted. A few conclusions: 1) The overall quality of the wines surpassed my (and the groups) expectations slightly. There were good wines in all decades. 2) The style is very Cabernet, very Pauillac, quite classic, with a good grip, pleasantly high acidity and a good, not too ripe fruit core. 3) Most vintages don‘t have the depth of its neighbours and, until more recently, there are some quite angular tannins. 4) Lynch these days doesn’t reach the same elegance and complexity as both Pichons but plays in the same league as Pontet Canet, which, is less classically built. 5) Highest rating of 95 pts for 3 crowd favorites: of course for the 1990 and 2016, but rather surprising also for the 2017.
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| Red |
2000 Château Canon-la-GaffelièreSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/3/2022 - cephomer Likes this wine: 95 pointsPopped n poured last nite with MP at Frank Italian in East Village. I've had this wine b4 and my notes are consistent, tho this may have been its best showing yet. Still dark purplish in color, w/no apparent signs of bricking. Tobacco, cigar box, and espresso aromas overwhelm immediately upon opening the bottle. Black and red fruit, tertiary notes of espresso, coffee, tobacco and cigar box are prevalent. I also notice some spice, some smoke and some forest floor elements. There's most definitely a pervasive woodsy earthiness to this wine that is just quintessential Bordeaux. The wine has lost some of the elegance I had noticed in the past and has become more of a masculine, sexy, thick-bodied mature right banker. Excellent wine!
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| Red |
2006 Château Lynch-BagesPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/15/2021 - g-man wrote: 89 points1st of 4 bottles. I've been holding off opening after reading previous notes here and other comments. Still very dark. Nose of tappenade and tar. Good mouthfeel and opened nicely within an hour. Good brambly fruit with moderate tannins providing a good framework. Sadly, after the 2 hour mark the wine became more astringent(?) with the fruit vanishing and tannins totally dominating. I'm not sure where to go with this now to either drink up and not let it sit long or to hold off another few years and see if it balances out.
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| White - Sparkling |
1996 Duval-Leroy Champagne Femme de ChampagneChampagne Blend more |
12/6/2021 - hargy Likes this wine: 91 pointsmature but a bit flat with quite a distinct bready/toasty edge to it, this is best with food - I expected a bit more from this
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| Red |
2006 Château AngélusSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/22/2021 - sirpat00 wrote: 90 pointsAngélus vertical (Fribourg): Angélus vertical of 20 vintages. Main observations were : 1/ Older vintages before the mid-2000s often suffered from drying tannin and showed a lot of extraction, 2/ Younger vintages quickly benefited from aeration hence decanting advised, 3/ the fruit profile became darker over time 4/ best vintage to drink today: 2004. All wines were directly poured with no prior decant and served in flights of 4.
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| White |
2016 Martian Ranch & Vineyard Viognier StellarSanta Ynez Valley more |
11/25/2021 - travelme wrote: 91 pointsBobMilton nailed the notes but I had it a point lower if scoring. Bought on auction and wish I had bought more. Floral nose with a nice finish. Paired extremely well with spices. My only bottle and really glad I got to try it. Highly recommend to drink them soon if you have them to taste at or near peak. Great QPR on this and a great expression of the varietal.
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| White - Sparkling |
2012 L. Aubry Fils Champagne Le Nombre d'Or Sablé Blanc des Blancs Brut Nature Campanae Veteres VitesChampagne Blend more |
3/14/2021 - Vino Me wrote: 92 pointsPurchased on sale for $40 (normally $75). A blend of 25% Chardonnay, 25% Arbanne, 25% Petit Meslier, 25% Pinot Blanc from the Montagne des Riems. An interesting wine since 75% of the fruit comes from legacy grapes (grapes which can no longer be planted in Champagne). Zero dosage. I last had the 2007 version of this wine. Aged primarily in stainless steel. Interesting and unique bottling. Very crisp with chalk and citrus notes. Lighter body with a fine bead. You can hold this for a few more years comfortably. 92 points |
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2005 Château La Vieille CureFronsac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/4/2021 - thalver wrote: NRFinally, a good bottle. Of the last ten bottles of this I've opened, half have been corked or flawed. This one certainly wasn't corked, nor was it particularly thrilling. ok balance, not much bottle boquet, subdued and somewhat evolved fruit flavors, no cigar box or tobacco notes. Fine, if no better and maybe less interesting than when young.
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| White |
2017 Vignerons des Terres Secrètes Bourgogne Blanc Les PréludesChardonnay more |
10/16/2021 - Ultra C wrote: 89 pointsLean, perhaps missing a bit of acidity. Apple in the nose, long finish kind of granite with just a hint of citrus. Good value.
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| Red |
2009 Morlet Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon PassionnémentOakville more |
9/18/2021 - Racer117 Likes this wine: 94 pointsSuch a quintessential Cabernet! Tasting this after having been stored under cork for 2 days. Dark berry? Check. Cassis? Check. Cedar? Check. Cigar box? Check. Menthol? Check. Not to be confused with BDX as this is so juicy but I can't help but think of a left bank wine.
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| Red |
2007 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Châteauneuf-du-Pape La CrauRed Rhone Blend more |
7/8/2021 - SMagowan Likes this wine: 95 pointsIn a great place with finely honed balanced of dark fruit, cigar leaves and sweet tannins. Delicious.
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| Red |
2000 Château Lynch-BagesPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/26/2020 - Hermosabritdad Likes this wine: 95 pointsThanksgiving wine treat. A quick note. In a lovely place right now, amd possibly the best Lynch I recall having. Lovely nose of initial black currant and even some red fruit in the back, then over time just tons and tons of secondary and tertiary notes. After 3 hours with only half a glass left I simple sat and sniffed and inhaled for the last least 20 mins before finally ending it! Tobacco, new soft leather, some pepper spice, and much else. On the palette the tannins are super smooth. As my wife said - the smoothest wine we have had for a a very long time. Didn’t realize what this is now costing at auction, so I guess it should be this good. A truly lovely wine and resorts my faith in buying and holding Lynch Bages which I had begun to question.
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| White - Sparkling |
1996 Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs BrutChardonnay more |
11/26/2020 - PJRONeill wrote: 91 pointsA bit of a disappointment, unfortunately - somewhat underwhelming on the nose and more particularly on the palate. On opening (an exercise in itself given the cork refused to budge) it had a promising nose of citrus, peach, a bit of flint and some smoke but it really didn't go anywhere from there and the palate, while pleasant enough, was nothing more than fine. No depth, no fireworks, no profundity. I'm sensing a bit of a pattern in my limited experience with this, which is a shame as a bottle of the 1990 may be the best champagne I've ever had and I've been waiting for the 96 to deliver similarly but so far to no avail.
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| White |
2014 Xanadu Chardonnay Margaret Rivermore |
5/26/2020 - Racer117 wrote: 89 pointsBetter than previous bottles. This still has acidity front, center, left, right, back..... but its no longer overwhelming. Tasty stone fruit and lemon flavors along with a nice spice medley note in the long finish.
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| Red |
2005 Château La Vieille CureFronsac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/7/2020 - thalver wrote: flawedyet ANOTHER corked bottle of this wine!
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| Red |
2014 John Duval Wines PlexusBarossa Valley Red Rhone Blend more |
3/23/2020 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 92 pointsUnscrew and pour. Tasty and balanced Barossa GSM that keeps getting more accessible with dark fruit, asphalt, chewy tannins. If you'e been waiting on these try one now.
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