| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2000 Château TrotanoyPomerol Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/19/2024 - cephomer Likes this wine: 96 pointsDrank last nite at Le Poisson with the Milets. What a fabulous bottle of wine! I've had this one before, but it's been a long while & I had forgotten (until EM reminded me of my last note from 2021, which btw shows some differences between then and now). |
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2005 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La TâcheLa Tâche Grand Cru Pinot Noir more |
3/2/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: flawed2nd Most Epic Burgundy Dinner (Boulevard - San Francisco CA): Served blind in a nice Vosne flight. My first time tasting this vintage. Corked. Jeremy thought it corked right away, it took me another 2-3 minutes to agree.
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2019 Fattoria Petrolo GalatronaVal d'Arno di Sopra Merlot more |
7/12/2023 - cephomer Likes this wine: 93 pointsDrank this Merlot last week. Notes from memory. Very dark, purplish in color. Nose of black cherries, plums, coffee beans and leather. Full bodied, on the lush/rich side. Fruit-forward at this point, as the wine is clearly very young. There's black cherries, blackberries and plums, along with notes of coffee, earth, spice and herbs. Long, lingering finish. Very sexy wine. I'd like to try this wine with a few more years of bottle age in the future.
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1991 Bodegas Muga Rioja Gran Reserva Prado EneaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
8/6/2023 - cephomer Likes this wine: 92 pointsDrank at Copake last week. Shocked how well this wine has held up. Obviously showing signs of its age, but youthful aromas of cherries, spice and herbs. Same notes on the palate, along with some remaining oak and vibrant acidity. Lots of sediment here, so worth decanting for that reason alone. Hoping I still have another one of these lying around.
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| White |
2015 Stéphane Ogier Condrieu La Combe de MallevalViognier more |
8/7/2022 - pbaek wrote: NRHints of vanilla on the nose, ginger, toast, hazelnuts. Peach, apricot and ginger on the palate, spices. Green apple notes, wet stones. This is evolving, the oak less pronounced, but this is still a smooth operator with a lot of cellar intervention. Could mistake this for a Chardonnay if tasted blind. Really well made wine, but in terms of style - perhaps a bit too manipulated for my taste.
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2018 Domaine Jean-Louis Chave HermitageSyrah more |
7/1/2023 - cephomer Likes this wine: 94 pointsDrank from magnum at Carbone a few nites ago. Notes from memory: Group Vegas dinner and wouldn't you know it one of our crowd bumps into an old pal, who happens to be Ed Sheeran, and he treated us to this lovely.
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1998 Château Pavie DecesseSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/17/2023 - pavel_p wrote: 88 pointsBordeaux Right Bank 70s to 2000s: Did not like this but could be that the bottle was a little off. A touch oxidative on the nose, very ripe dark fruit. Guessed 2003 St. Emilion
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1996 Château Pichon-Longueville BaronPauillac Red Bordeaux Blend more |
6/25/2023 - ledocq Likes this wine: NRFinally had to admit, after drinking three in the last 6 years, that the pleasure has been intellectual more than sensual. I appreciate it and it's interesting, but there's no hedonism here for me. Happy for folks for whom it's a fuller experience.
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| White - Sparkling |
2006 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs BrutChardonnay more |
6/25/2023 - depechemoroder Likes this wine: 96 pointsA 'come to daddy!' wine - or certainly in that place now. We have finally arrived to the beginning of where I hoped this would go. Elegantly rich with lemon curd, turkish delight, and pain au raisin, with flashes of baked nuts. It's lost some of that youthful purity, but remains focused and explodes with intensity that then gradually expands but never gets too big for its britches. A mousse to die for. The smell in the glass was going for another day after having finished this. The food pairings are many, but we happily had this with a big bowl full of marcona almonds, which calorically is probably a meal.
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2000 Château d'IssanMargaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/29/2023 - cephomer Likes this wine: 92 pointsDrank at Champetre Friday nite, decanted at the table. As always with this lovely Margaux, a very enjoyable bottle and my notes are consistent. Lovely, fragrant nose of red berries and and tobacco. On the palate, very elegant with soft, mostly resolved tannins and a velvety feel on the palate. Fruit continues to slowly fade, and tertiary elements becoming more prominent--cigar box, earth, tobacco, eucalyptus--making for a complex, nicely balanced wine with classic bordeaux elements. Still drinking well, but time to finish this up as it's peaked and might be starting a slow decline.
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1998 Château Haut-CorbinSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/20/2020 - Mrbuzz Likes this wine: 92 pointsLast bottle from release, all have been pleasurable, this one no exception. 65% Merlot, 25% CS, 10% CF. Still dark and youthful looking...wonderful softness of silk...a wine of subtlety and med bodied...dark berry plum, bing cherry, currant fruits...little barnyard, tobacco, earth tones...silky tannin, old leather, cherry/clove spice...very appealing dusty dry graphite and pencil lead. Again, drinks so soft and mellow, yet has a wonderful balance and classic Bordeaux-ness to it...a huge success given it's price point!
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2018 Enderle & Moll Pinot Noir MuschelkalkBaden more |
4/26/2023 - cephomer Likes this wine: 91 pointsDrank blind last nite with the Xtremos. Most guessed this as pinot, but no one saw it as German. Pinkish/brownish in color. Upon opening, some brett aromas, along with harsh/bitter finish on the palate. (only a few of the bottles evinced this particular flaw). However, the wine changed dramatically in the glass, nose changed to tart red cherries, and the palate softened as well. High acid wine made it apparent it was an old world, northern clime wine--tho it tasted a bit too hot (14.1% will do that). Some minerality, slightly viscous, lots of tart red fruit. Fairly long finish. I, like many at this tasting, enjoyed this very interesting wine.
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2010 Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona Brunello di MontalcinoSangiovese more |
3/8/2023 - BuzzzzOff wrote: 89 pointsHappy International Women’s Day to all the ladies. Swirl, Sniff, Sip ‘n Snack Wednesday at home…civilised. Bottle of 2010 Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona Brunello di Montalcino, Italy (Sangiovese, 14.5%, 30 months in barrels). Dark purple with a light brown trim on the eye…nice. Powerful, yet warm, minty, cinnamony, herbally nose…perfume reminiscent of a upper middle class fragrance boutique. Ripe, slightly bitter black fruits on the palate, full-bodied, dirty tannins with a lot going on from start to long finish…I am not sure what, but I fear I sipped this drop too late 😢
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2005 Château Cos d'EstournelSt. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/8/2023 - cephomer Likes this wine: 95 pointsDana supplied for Xtremo CKH wine dinner last nite. Decanted at table. Deep ruby color, no signs of age whatsoever. Exuberant nose of black fruit, leather, mocha and coffee. Rich and structured, with excellent concentration as well as integration of wine elements. There's gobs of black fruit here, along with leather, forest floor, tobacco notes and spice. Powerful, yet elegant and graceful, and quite complex, the wine is showing wonderfully right now and IMO will only continue to improve with time in the bottle. Solid acidic core that gives this wine its backbone and clearly the wine, youthful as it is, is tannic, but they are quite soft, & not at all grippy. Exceedingly long, deliciously elegant and silky smooth finish. Coincidentally, we tasted 2 right bank 2005s with this--Monbousquet and Conseillante and, surprisingly, both were far more closed and tannic than the Cos, and much less approachable. This was my first experience with a serious 05 and I came away quite impressed with this wine and vintage. If this is what the other top wines of the vintage will be like, I'll be very happy that I bought many of them all those years ago- and my patience with them will have paid off. Loved it, and was clearly my WOTN.
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| White - Sweet/Dessert |
1988 Château d'YquemSauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more |
1/16/2023 - cephomer Likes this wine: 94 pointsDrank over the past few days at Copake. Nose of orange peel and apricots. Darker in color than I expected of this bottle. Wonderful freshness, and bright acidity up front. Molasses, orange marmalade and apricot fruit are prominent. Also notes of creme brulee, mango and honey. I got a taste of burnt fruit as the wine opened up over time, and I did not find the wine to be overly sweet; more bittersweet actually. Perfect acidity level, great concentration, not particularly unctuous and certainly not cloying. Really tasty sweetie! Went really well with my Stilton cheese as I watched the NFL playoffs yesterday.
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2019 Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine ClissonMelon de Bourgogne more |
12/22/2022 - cephomer Likes this wine: 91 pointsMy contribution to our Xtremo blind tasting Tuesday nite. Color is very pale, straw-like, almost clear. Reticent nose at first, tho became quite generous over time in the glass, exuding aromas of white peaches, melon & lemons. Medium body--much bigger bodied than the usual Muscadet, likely due to this being a Cru-level wine), some creaminess and, as per some of my fellow tasters, a bit oily and unctuous. To me, the overriding characteristic of this wine was it's minerality, along with its lovely fruit aromas and notes. None of the tasters correctly ID'd this wine, with most thinking it to be a white Burg or Chablis. Clearly, this is NOT your typical Muscadet. Lovely wine overall, and one I'll gladly taste again.
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2006 Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-PapeRed Rhone Blend more |
10/20/2022 - cephomer Likes this wine: 95 pointsMark brought to our CKH wine dinner Tuesday nite, and might've been my fave wine of the eve (not an easy feat as we had some fab wines!).
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2015 C.V.N.E. (Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España) Rioja Cune Gran ReservaTempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
5/11/2022 - cephomer Likes this wine: 91 pointsP Walnuts supplied for our Xmen blind tasting last nite. Sweet fruit on the nose and palate at first but, in the glass, the wine opened and changed quite a bit. More leather, black fruit and some cloves on the nose. Medium body, medium acidity with fairly gritty tannins coming to the fore, sour black cherry and some earth on the palate. Good concentration. The wine tasted hotter than its actual alcohol content. I liked this wine, and several of us ID'd as coming from Spain.
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2000 Alter Ego de PalmerMargaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/13/2022 - cephomer Likes this wine: 91 pointsPopped n' poured last nite. Bricking, pale red color. The wine is aging. Nose of earth and mushrooms in that classic left bank style. Still black fruit here but I can see where some might think this wine is past its prime. I enjoyed its earthy, musty aromas and flavors, along with coffee beans and some cedar. No need to wait further on this one tho.
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2000 Château Canon-la-GaffelièreSt. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/8/2022 - cephomer Likes this wine: 92 pointsPopped and poured at Kittle House for mom's day. Lots of tobacco and herbal notes on the nose. Medium body, fairly silky on the palate, some red fruit notes, along with coffee, licorice and tobacco. On the plummy side as well. There's still fruit here but not as plentiful as I recall, and the wine now has assumed more of a tertiary style. I've had this wine in the past on numerous occasions and have always enjoyed it, but this was not its best showing. To me, despite what others on CT have written, it seems like it has begun its decline, which is regrettable.
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Comment posted by cephomer:
4/19/2024 12:06:00 PM - Hello. Yes, probably a good idea. Though, it's a shame you have to wait so long for such a fabulously fine wine. I don't drink a lot of Pomerols but I would if they were all this good! Cheers!