| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2009 Woodward Canyon Cabernet Sauvignon Artist SeriesWashington more |
6/8/2020 - dsimmons Likes this wine: 96 pointsWe drank our second bottle with grilled beef tenderloin. As good or better than the bottle we drank a year ago. Excellent balance. concentrated fruit, licorice,herbs and earth tones. Drinking at peak. Happy to have a few more. |
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2005 Bodega Benegas Cabernet Franc Benegas Lynch Libertad VineyardsMaipú more |
8/28/2013 - TallMikeWine Likes this wine: 95 pointsBLUE fruit! Dry spice. This has a couple years left, at least. You can taste the imprint of Michel Roland, who is a consultant on this wine. Ripe fruit, and new French oak - for a good long time. Wonderful stuff though. If you can find it, buy more....I'm going to!
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2010 Figgins Estate Red WineWalla Walla Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/28/2021 - hkbob Likes this wine: 95 pointsA burly, almost in-your-face blast of dark fruit, boot polish, creosote, coffee and distant toast and mineral notes. While not subtle, this wine did provide considerable pleasure with its dark-fruited, full-bodied, glycerin infused palate. Better after extended aeration. Drinking well now but with the structure to improve over another 5+ more years of cellaring.
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2010 Montepeloso Eneo Toscana IGTSangiovese Blend, Sangiovese more |
12/13/2019 - cbforever1 wrote: 94 pointsFrom magnum, even better than last one
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2005 Baldacci Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Ruppert Coombsvillemore |
1/19/2014 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 94 pointsTasted at Baldacci with the staff. black berry and black cherry fruit with hints of plum on the nose, more of the same on the palate, earthy, rich, and almost at its peak, medium/big body, and a long, long finish of black currants. The fruit is from the winemaker Rolando Herrera's Combsville Vineyard.
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2006 Côte Bonneville DuBrul VineyardYakima Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
9/12/2017 - TallMikeWine Likes this wine: 94 pointsOh. OH. OHHHH!!!
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2008 Fattoria Galardi Terra di LavoroRoccamonfina IGT Aglianico more |
12/11/2023 - Dale M wrote: 94 pointsDecanted 2hrs. With Galardi in the past, I have found them either too young and yet full of promise or good to very good, but never quite getting over the hump for greatness. Saturdays bottle was a stand up triple and scored two runs with ease. While you could sense a little gloss of French oak, it really felt integrated and didn’t come at the expense of masking the Aglianicos robust and burly persona. In fact, it really came across as seamless, with great cut of dusty, dark plums and a little typicity of brick dust and some volcanic / pumice sprinkles. In a great spot now but this isn’t going anywhere soon. I’m excited for my last bottle in a few years and here is to hoping my tens can go equal this experience.
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2011 Smith-Madrone Cabernet SauvignonSpring Mountain District more |
2/20/2019 - TallMikeWine Likes this wine: 94 pointsThere was a vintage, characterized by some in the wine writing community as being a "bad year". But if course people working in that community need things about which to concoct stories. The stories of 2011 being a "bad year" have been greatly exaggerated. Know this.
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2018 Sleight of Hand Syrah Psychedelic Stoney Vine VineyardWalla Walla Valley more |
3/27/2023 - Decanting Queen Likes this wine: 94 pointsPnp from coravin and drinking so well. Wishing I could open the rest of the bottle and drink the rest, but real life is getting in the way.
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2004 Fattoria Le Pupille (Elisabetta Geppetti) Saffredi Toscana IGTRed Bordeaux Blend more |
2/13/2015 - Frank Schneider Likes this wine: 94 pointsYummy !!! Nobody needs the . . aias when you get this in your glass.
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2012 Casanova di Neri Brunello di Montalcino Tenuta NuovaSangiovese more |
12/30/2020 - Cailles wrote: 93 pointsTasted double blind. I’ve guessed this to be 5-10 years older as it was much smoother and more ready to drink than I would give a 2012. The long decant has certainly helped but in fact, it’s the second Sangiovese from 2012 I’ve had in a matter of weeks and both showed very well. Maybe a nice early drinking vintage. The highlights with this wine were the purity, the precision with quintessential Sangiovese aromatics of pure red fruit, a vegetal herbaceousness and earthy notes. With a lot of air this is perfectly ready to go but should develop more complexity with age (in this category, is not on par with the best wines and vintages).
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2011 Proprietà Sperino LessonaNebbiolo more |
3/15/2022 - TallMikeWine Likes this wine: 93 pointsSo much floral...dried roses, dried tree bark. Just a very dusty nose overall. Some cola, or Dr Pepper even. Medium body, still good acidity. This is something you could pour for a Pinot lover and convince them it's a Pinot's more interesting cousin. But it's not. It's a Nebiolo, from Italy. And it's certainly more Old World than new. A few more good years ahead of it, but in a nice drinking window now for sure.
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2013 Tenuta di Arceno Valadorna di Arcanum Toscana IGTSuperTuscan Blend more |
4/21/2022 - LovesBurgundy Likes this wine: 93 pointsNo change from my earlier note - delicious but would hold on to it for a few more years to allow the tannins to soften.
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2004 Elderton Shiraz Single Vineyard CommandBarossa more |
7/5/2015 - cliffkol wrote: 93 pointsDoris loved this
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2020 JB Neufeld Syrah Ciel du Cheval VineyardRed Mountain more |
10/9/2022 - ChrisinCowiche wrote: 93 pointsWow, luxurious, precise, pepper, length. Way young, but way good. Only way to go is up! Great job, Justin!
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2009 Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valleymore |
2/17/2014 - ev3rthesame Likes this wine: 93 pointsI had a previous bottle and gave it an 88 as it was absolutely flavorless. I also didn't decant it, but had it with steak.
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2002 Ramey Jericho Canyon VineyardNapa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/19/2014 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 93 pointsPoured for the staff at Baldacci. Lovely nose of black cherry fruit and touch of dust, more of the same on the palate, rich, intense, ready to drink, medium body, and a medium/long terrific finish.
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2008 Caymus Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
1/25/2015 - Genghis88 Likes this wine: 92 pointsDark purple, inky, full bodied
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2009 Owen Roe Merlot DuBrul VineyardYakima Valley more |
6/14/2015 - TallMikeWine Likes this wine: 92 pointsThis one, like most using Dubrul fruit, is multi-layered and tells quite a story. I decanted, and you should too. Big fruit on the initial nose, dark ones, preserved ones, oh the fruit! Then came the spice, dry spice, baking spice (not sweet). Then the earth and wood notes. Minerals, and something a little "dank" in a good way (yes!). Drink it now, OR hold another 3-4 years for prime drinking.
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2011 Sanguis MisfitCentral Coast Syrah Blend, Syrah more |
6/5/2015 - kylerogers wrote: 92 pointsNose: raspberry, blackberry, very heavy smoked meats, and coffee.
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2019 JB Neufeld Cabernet Sauvignon Old GoatYakima Valley more |
5/5/2023 - ChrisinCowiche wrote: 92 pointsBaby killing. Opened to enjoy during wine club Zoom w/ Justin and Brooke. Decanted for about 2 hours after pouring through a vinturi. The merlot component makes this very enjoyable now, but still needs time to fully integrate. Wait a while, 3+ years and this will reach potential imo
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2010 Beringer Vineyards Quantum Red WineNapa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/20/2014 - pgm wrote: 92 pointsA nose of sweet berries, plum, and spice, followed up with a big plush lush mouthful of powerful cabernet fruit. Not really a green note anywhere to be found, so if this is Bordeaux-styled, it's Michel Rolland all the way. It's structured well enough, but the tannins are imperceptible under the ripe fruit. I'd like a little more of a curranty-stemmy-vegetal acidity to give this a little more edge, but the hedonistic pleasures in drinking this are undeniable.
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2005 Château Rauzan-GassiesMargaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/7/2022 - TallMikeWine Likes this wine: 92 pointsThis was a long night of observing this wine, a second growth bordeaux, a wine of esteem, go from "meh" to "hmmm" to "oh, okay" and on to "wow, hmmm". Opened with a fairly restrained nose of currant and cedar. Nothing too special. But eventually a bit of exotica moved in, bigger and better fruit flavors (it's an '05, so fruit was not what I was banking on). Later in the evening the fruit got all condensed, dried fruit, dark fruits. And my last few sips, probably 5 hours after opening the bottle, the tannins were the most notable thing. Drying, so dry, incredibly dry. This may have been an accumulative effect. I'm curious what will happen with these (I have 2 more) over the next few years. It's certainly ready to drink now, but yeah, another 5 years at this stage I am guessing.
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Comment posted by TallMikeWine:
6/22/2020 6:25:00 PM - SO good!!!