| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2006 Lillian Winery SyrahSanta Barbara County more |
4/6/2010 - alanr wrote: 92 pointsTwo 2006 Syrahs: Lillian and Relentless: Shows some ripeness on the nose, with a touch of vanilla. Palate is rich, bold, dark fruit, quite lush and forward, but fairly well balanced. More acidity than tannins in structure, with a bit of savory oak on the finish. Very well made and enjoyable for its style, though I don't find any Rhone-ness to the wine as some have described. At 15.6 ABV on the label (and the medium body suggests that it's been watered down by a percent or so as well), with its bright, focused, juicy, lush fruit, I would treat this as an enjoyable cocktail wine. |
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2017 d'Arenberg Shiraz The Dead ArmMcLaren Vale more |
10/12/2020 - AusWineJuan Likes this wine: 92 pointsHigh expectations with this fabled wine in Australian oenology. Only thing I realised after drinking was that I should be charged with infanticide - a beautiful wine that I did no favours to by drinking it so young. Will need to pick up some more and forget about them until 2025 as a minimum. A rich palate - plums, blackberry, cherry and fruit abound. Some integrated spices and that McLaren Vale pepper poking through. One thing holding it back though is a warmth of alcohol that (deceptively) initially appears placid but detracts from the quality of fruit used. I hope this will improve with the cellar-age. If so, 92+ for sure.
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2007 Domaine Saint-Damien Gigondas Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
12/7/2013 - KristianT wrote: 92 pointsDelicious. This is first and foremost a really well made wine. You can feel the craftsmanship of the winemaker. Earthy and spicy/peppery notes. Very mouth filling with an almost chewy texture. Long and lingering aftertaste with a very fine fresh touch at the end. Very good QPR.
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2005 Le Vieux Donjon Châteauneuf-du-PapeRed Rhone Blend more |
4/5/2010 - dtirsell wrote: 90 pointsOpened and poured after 30 minutes, went well with Easter Ham. Still young, tannins still strong, nose closed at first, opened after 2 hours in bottle. Cherry fruit forward with a complex tang on the tongue. Not a lot of length. Have one more and will wait.
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| White - Sweet/Dessert |
1999 Château d'YquemSauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
3/6/2010 - Zweder wrote: 92 pointsRegular dinner group (@ EM): A light weight d'Yquem. Of course complex and a beautiful wine, but for d'Yquem a bit disappointing.
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| Red |
1999 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-PapeRed Rhone Blend more |
4/26/2010 - Pknut wrote: NRGood raspberry and black raspberry fruit, high acidity, good richness, still fresh . . . but still doesn't get from good to great. The finish is particularly juicy and tangy, the acidity is showing high, and there's still some dry tannin left here. Hold for a bit longer and try again in a couple of years.
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2003 Sine Qua Non Pinot Noir OmegaYamhill County more |
4/3/2010 - jrobs7777 wrote: 93 pointsSmorgasbord of Wines With Focus on 2006 (Our House (2033 Brandywine)): A mild disappointment, but I still have this as 93 so it is a very good wine. Chocolate milk dominates the nose, with raspberry and lighter fruit. Smooth and decadent on palate. Chocolate dipped fruit, mocha, etc. Maybe a little too unfocused. Could use a bit more backbone and while this has a very nice finish, it is shorter and less intense than I remember. A little nip of heat? Possible. This is really lovely but its missing that extra oomph.
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2005 Sine Qua Non Syrah Atlantis Fe2O3~1a, b & cCentral Coast more |
4/12/2010 - thenapalist wrote: 98 pointsThis is just now starting to come into it's own. I've experienced some VERY nice bottles of this but I have to say this might be the best. Not ultra jammy by any means nor is it overly ripe or juicy. This against the Raven is like night and day. Right out of the bottle you can tell this wine has class. The fruit is pure precision with mouth fulls of dark fruit (blackberry, raspberry, blueberry) and secondary notes of milk chocolate, vanilla and some cotton candy. The gaminess is there but not in over abundance. Beautiful floral notes in the aromatics. Don't know that this will get any better. It might lush out a bit and shed some grip but don't know if this is a 20-30yr wine. IMO, the drinking window on this is now-2020.
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1997 Zind-Humbrecht Riesling Rangen de Thann Clos St. UrbainAlsace Grand Cru more |
11/22/2008 - Terkel wrote: flawedCorked.
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| Red |
2005 Domaine Raspail-Ay GigondasRed Rhone Blend more |
4/16/2010 - alanr Likes this wine: 90 pointsQuite dark garnet, very clean nose with some light scrub underbrush; The palate is reserved, dark red fruits, not so much lean as just very unyielding, rustic, backward. Tannins are substantial, but fine, not mouth gripping or overpowering. I'd like to see a little more depth and intensity, which would make this a really nice wine. As is, it's holding back just a little too much.
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2004 Sine Qua Non Syrah Ode to ECentral Coast more |
4/7/2010 - Paul S wrote: 95 pointsSimple Series III: My Birthday (Asia Grand, Odeon Towers): What a strange wine. By all accounts, it is everything I do not like in new world wines - huge, high alcohol, tons and tons of sweet fruit, layers of glycerol, oak-laden... Yet I liked it, very much indeed. It was just absolutely delicious. The wine had a crazy nose. Varnish and glycerol; tons of fruit just stuffed in there - ripe plums, cherries, blueberries; caramelly, vanilla, mocha, chocolate oak notes. All this was just a pre-cursor to the almost freakish palate that followed. Massive, massive concentration, with a whole malange of ripe, sweet dark fruit just layering the palate in a heavy, luxuriant coat. Smooth, soft, plush, with hardly a tannin in sight. Somehow though, it was never cloying, sickly, flabby or oversweet (say like a Mollydooker, or even the Janasse CdP which followed). Instead, it was just down-home delcious fruit sweetness held in lovely balance by the trickles of fresh acidity running through the wine. So much so that the wine actually had a good sense of focus and went pretty well with food. Very yummy, very addictive, and the finish just about sealed it for me. Awesome length, great power, almost inexorable as it moved through the back-palate with a rush of sweet dark fruit, higher-toned cherries, spice, mocha and vanilla. Wow. This is a frakenstein's monster of a wine, with strange moving parts put together to form a delicious whole that just boggles the mind. A real treat indeed.
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| Red |
2004 Château Pontet-CanetPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/24/2010 - jhannah27 wrote: NRThis wine is way too young!! Why can't I keep away from it?! Every time I open the cellar it just seems to call out my name with it's seductive bottle shape and elegant white label. Damn you Pontet Canet! Damn you to hell!!!
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| White |
2004 Zind-Humbrecht Riesling Herrenweg de TurckheimAlsace more |
4/25/2010 - David Meddings Likes this wine: 89 pointsPopped and poured at 9C. Drank over 2 days and gave just as much on day 2. One of Z-H's lower end bottlings but this still gave alot of pleasure. Medium dark yellow. Complex nose, with orchard fruits predominating coupled with faint notes of petrol and gunpowder. On the palate this has a round and viscous attack that gives way to a steady development of creme brulée, lemon and sundried apricots with a saline, mineral backbone and refreshing acidity holding it all together. There is some sweetness here, but it comes across as a toasted sweetness, adding a welcome note of complexity without becoming intrusive, and as you are appreciating there's sweetness to the palate you are simultaneously experiencing a surge of acidity. All in all, the package makes for a complex, intense, and enjoyable experience. This is not a linear or particularly focused riesling. The acidity seems a bit disjointed tonight and this is all the same ever so slightly astringent on the final. Finishes long with a reverberating echo of lemons squeezed over crushed slate on a hot summer day. This wine shows better as it warms - I'd serve it at cellar temperature next time without fear of it becoming flabby.
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2007 Domaine du Pégau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée RéservéeRed Rhone Blend more |
5/4/2010 - tantotinto wrote: 94 pointsTasted this at a dinner hosted by Laurence Feraud. Of the wines we sampled, the 2007 was my favorite at this point in time. It has a wonderful nose of Provencal herbs and plum. Rich and fruit-forward but not cloying. Not fully integrated at this stage. Almost Burgundian compared to the 2006 and 2005. Tannic finish but nowhere near that of the 2005 that we tasted later. She indicated that it would probably continue to drink well for another year and then shut down for about five years. Second favorite was the 2006 followed by the 2005. The 2005 is still incredibly tannic and Laurence thought it needed ten years in bottle. All three vintages should be excellent with time.
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2007 Scholium Project The Prince In His Caves FarinaSonoma Mountain Sauvignon Blanc more |
12/25/2009 - rjhilgers@gmail.com wrote: 91 pointsThe Prince in His Caves blend is, technically, a Sauvignon Blanc...but, this wine is unlike anything I've tasted in the Sauvignon Blanc category. First off, when I poured it into my glass, it was cloudy and the color of an almost ripe apricot. Not white, not yellow, but more of an orange color. Definitely, the most unusual color I've seen in a white wine (without getting into a discussion of MD 20/20 or Boones Farm, which don't really count as wines anyhow) and I was intrigued from the first pour. On the nose, this wine is pure apricot. At first I got peach - as sweet as a peach Jolly Rancher - but, as it warmed up a bit, the flavor became richer and a bit more sophisticated, much more like an apricot. There's also a little pineapple, honey and a touch of roasted marshmallow - even taking on some mild characteristics of a Semillon or even a sweet Riesling. Not nearly that sweet, but certainly has some of the same tropical fruit and raisin qualities. Very interesting and complex on the nose. On first taste, I was taken aback by how much it tasted like the nose...again, pure apricot, part ripe, part dried. There's also some tart lemon and good honey taste, but more of a light honey, not a dark rich honey. It's much drier like a Sauvignon Blanc, as opposed to a Semillon or Riesling, and doesn't have much of a front-end. This one arrives at mid-palate, then explodes into the finish, lasting longer than most whites.
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2001 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-PapeRed Rhone Blend more |
4/4/2010 - ekenneth wrote: 99 pointsIncredible Beaucastel, drinking very well right now. Who knows with age it could turn into a denser viscous fig and spice-box monster like the 89 or thin like the 96, but right now it's just what I want from this wine.
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2006 Lillian Winery SyrahSanta Barbara County more |
4/30/2010 - inkana wrote: 94 pointsAudouzed for for an hour or two, then one-half an hour in the glass before tasting. Inky purple and opaque. I agree with some that the aroma was a bit reticent at first, but it gave way quickly into aromas of blackberry, cedar, with high notes of black pepper and violet, and a touch of smoke and leather. On the palate, this was very full-bodied: blackberry, pepper, the subtle note of violets and a soft smokiness on the long finish. A deeply extracted style, but beautiful complexity, even this early. I will keep the rest for a of couple years, then check in again to see how they have developed. BTW- tasted and written before reading professional reviews.
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2005 Mollydooker Enchanted PathMcLaren Vale Cabernet-Shiraz Blend, Red Blend more |
4/26/2010 - johnecase wrote: 87 pointsIs it wine or something else? Taking my last sips of this 2005 now, which I have never tasted before. I opened and served it yesterday with a great piece of filet mignon here in Wailea on vacation. Opened about 45 mins before dinner. This wine is shockingly similar on day 2 to day 1; heavy, syrupy, tannic. It tastes... good? Interesting? Strawberry and tar flavors were kind of hidden by the tannins. This wine is remarkably similar to other (less expensive) mollydookers like the Boxer. I can't reall detect varietals in it even though it clams to be Shiraz and Cabernet.
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2006 Domaine de ChevalierPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/10/2010 - Zweder wrote: 91 pointsImporter tasting (@ RdG): Tasted from ½ bottle. Exclusive bouquet with good dark flavors of cassis, plums and coffee. Pleasant oak. Same in the taste. Medium to full bodied. Soft tannin. Elegant as well. Already very nice drinking.
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2000 Clos Triguedina Cahors Prince ProbusMalbec more |
3/14/2010 - jpinsb wrote: 92 pointsTasted this against a heavily spiced Yucatecan dish,a fish bathed in achiote and sour orange, the wrapped in banana leaves and grilled. To say that a wine pairing was a challenge is a gross understatement. This held up to the challenge. Oddly, so did the Reisling served along side, the Triguedina having the depth of flavor to compete and the reisling a perfect counterpoint. The great black wine of Cahors comes through again.
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2003 Domaine de ChevalierPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
6/11/2010 - The Garbageman wrote: 94 pointsThis is the third bottle that I have had; one each year around this time and I have four bottles left. It seems to get better each year and more layered each time. Lots of milk chocolate with a touch of oak and understated fruit at the core. Lots more also going on. This is really starting to open up and I'm glad that I have some more bottles left. I'd give it 5 stars...excellent value.
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1995 Château Branaire (Duluc-Ducru)St. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/30/2010 - La Cave d'Argent wrote: 88 pointsThis wine was purchased upon release and cellared in pristine fashion. It was presented to our tasting group as part of a St. Julien single-blind theme tasting. My taste was unblinded. The wine was double-decanted, initially allowing one hour in decanter. Moderate sediment was noted. Upon arriving to the tasting, the wine was re-decanted and serially tasted over the ensuing three hours. Opaque red-garnet color. The nose showed moderately intense aromas of assorted dark fruits, exotic spices, vanilla and cola. Full-bodied on the palate, with medium acidity, somewhat coarse tannins and flavors similar to the nose. The finish is medium in length and a bit astringent. Hopefully all this needs is a bit more time in the bottle to tame the tannins, although I hope that the fruit doesn't die out before the tannins settle down. If the tannins soften and the fruit holds, it may merit a higher score. Drink 1/13-12/20.
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1999 Zind-Humbrecht Gewurztraminer Herrenweg de TurckheimAlsace Gewürztraminer more |
4/24/2010 - Nanda wrote: 92 pointsGolden color. Full nose of sweet lychees and rose water. Palate has medium to full body and an unctuous mouth feel. Moderately sweet. Loads of lychee, tropical fruits and spice. Long, full flavored finish. Excellent.
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1997 d'Arenberg The Ironstone PressingsMcLaren Vale Red Rhone Blend more |
5/10/2010 - Ricky99 wrote: 93 pointsunbelievable fruit and extract.... just a nice bottle of wine
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1996 Château Branaire (Duluc-Ducru)St. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/25/2010 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 92 pointsTN: Selbach, Cotat, Belliviere, Breton, Brainaire, Usseglio, de Malle: I wish I had bought more of this back in the day. The cork was popped about 6 hours in advance and the wine just decanted prior to serving. Ruby in color with some purple hues. The nose was great. Funk, cassis, cherries, spice and leather. Really deep. On the palate, this is complex. Not mind boggling, but intellectually stimulating as well as delicious. Went great with the food but sipped well on its own. Layers of cassis, earth and spice. Long finish. Its an old cliche, but this is why you cellar wine.
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Comment posted by KristianT:
4/16/2010 1:32:00 PM - How do you think this wine will evolve? Does it have the structure to mature further?