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White - Sparkling

1995 Charles Heidsieck Champagne Blanc des Millénaires

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11/13/2022 - jmoore431 Likes this wine: 95 points

Great way to lead off a spectacular tasting! Light golden color; mandarin orange top note to the leesy, bready, soft and clean-styled nose. Loads of minerality, this had more freshness than the bottle enjoyed a year and a half ago. Enjoyed this 8 or so times from several disgorgements and 3 different labels. Probably my 3rd favorite Champagne in recent memory.

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    11/14/2022 12:40:00 AM - Thanks for excellent note.

    I have 6 bottles that have - for a variety of reasons - remained in storage. From your comments, it doesn't sound like you think there's any great rush to drink them up.

    Thanks

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    11/14/2022 4:32:00 AM - Great. Thanks again.
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2010 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco

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8/28/2022 - Motz wrote: 94 points

Drank over three days.

Wow! It still needs air, but it has begun to flesh out. The wine's abundant tannic substance has begun to unwind and in its present form makes for a powerful tasting experience.

Tight on the first day, while delivering tremendous grip. The second day revealed an exceptionally broad and deep Barbaresco, particularly for the release price. The wine has added noteworthy purple fruit elements, along with the bright red fruits that it has consistently shown. Stunning on the third day, achieving striking enchantment and purity. Seamless throughout.

The wine has just begun showing secondary elements, and nothing tertiary. This bottle had no less than fifteen years ahead of it, probably twenty or more. If drinking in the near to medium term, decant for four+ hours and brace for a swift kick in the backside. Tanninphobes beware!

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    8/29/2022 1:57:00 AM - Thanks for the very informative note. I'm looking forward to drinking my bottles!

    One query: how do you store the wine between day one and day three? I would have assumed oxidization would have ruined the flavour by that stage?

    Thanks

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    8/30/2022 1:02:00 AM - That's very helpful, thanks.
Red

2007 Roberto Voerzio Barolo La Serra

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3/9/2022 - Purple Tooth wrote: 93 points

Less and less impressed by high extract at the cost of longevity and problems with retaining freshness. When you hang and squeeze too long and hard, the wines are big, voluptuous and delicious at the beginning, but they seem to tire out over time. This is what I am feeling here having drank a bottle twice over the last couple years. Definitely a decline from last time with a rather Merlot like thickness and far from a Barolo.If blind, I would have bet you this was anything but a Barolo...Developing some warm middle eastern spice within the finish, telling me the time is NOW. DRINK

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    3/11/2022 1:47:00 AM - Nice note, thanks. Do I take it you view this as a problem with Voerzio as a producer, or ,even more generally, with all 'modernist' barolo? Thanks

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    3/11/2022 7:58:00 AM - Yes, that makes total sense. I also have very limited experience with Voerzio (more with other Piedmont producers) but have three bottles of this in storage. Tempted to add mine to the secondary market! Cheers
Red

2014 Luciano Sandrone Barolo Le Vigne

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5/10/2021 - englishman's claret wrote: 95 points

The 2014 Sandrone Le Vigne unfurls so beautifully after 45 minutes in the decanter, full of elegant cherry, rhubarb, and roses complementing an earthy, savory base. That confluence of piquancy and lushness is so dramatic, so satisfying. With civilized tannins, this can be drunk with great pleasure even now (provided you have time to decant).

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    5/11/2021 1:45:00 PM - A model tasting note. Bravo!
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2007 Luciano Sandrone Barolo Le Vigne

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1/14/2021 - randyjc wrote: 95 points

An elegant wine with wildly beautiful aromatics, chock full of gorgeous layered flavors and a 60-second (or more) finish. Analyzed with a friend as part of the nearly year-long pandemic Wine Zoom series. Drank this side-by-side with 2007 Produttori Riserva Ovello.
The aromatics are nothing short of amazing - Exotic spice, sandalwood, mint. Hard to identify the fruit - closest I could come was underripe strawberry.
In the mouth, the flavors explode and stay that way through the lengthy finish. Medium plus or high minus acidity, super fine-grained tannins. A panoply of flavors - underripe cherry, cranberry, orange peel, mint and cedar. The flavors and mouth feel make for such an elegant wine. The tannin and acid take turns at center stage - acid first, mouth-coating tannins mid-stage and vivid, engaging acidity to carry the finish.
On night two, the wine was still excellent but had faded a few percentage points - washed out, though only some. The dazzling aromatics of the night before were gone - that made me sad. I resolved that issue by moving quickly on to drinking the last of it and then I felt better.

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    3/13/2021 6:11:00 AM - Excellent solution (and good note)!
Red

2001 Domaine Jean Grivot Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Boudots

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12/2/2020 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 points

Nuits St. Georges 1er "Northside" Tasting (Chicagoland IL): Slightly musky start, but that quickly blew off, revealing a charming Vosne-spiced beauty of red cherry and berry with Asian five spice. 2001 character also coming through clearly with firm acidity and tannins, but in the near background. Very good now through 2026 or so.

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    12/3/2020 12:19:00 AM - Thanks for excellent note. Had a bottle last week and a very similar experience. Perhaps the 'drink by' dates on CT are for people who don't recognize the attraction of mature Burgundy?
White - Sparkling

2008 Dom Pérignon Champagne

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7/14/2020 - Tyler Woodward wrote: 95 points

Drank this after my wife's successful dissertation defense. It had the finest bubbles that we've tasted for a champagne. The color was a beautiful gold and the smell was so fresh. Would drink it every day, if we could!

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    7/15/2020 12:56:00 AM - Nice note and congratulations to your wife!
Red

2010 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco

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4/2/2019 - dave747400 wrote: 92 points

With almonds & various cheeses night one, Steak & chip-shop chips night two.
Night one.... Poured one glass & ploughed through it with masochistic determination. Almost no nose and the very definition of 'tannic' in the mouth. Just a wall of dry tannin with something behind it, that no amount of swirling would penetrate. Cork replaced, in the fridge for 12hrs, then removed at midday the next day to come up to temperature.
Night two.... Enter stage left, miraculously transformed wine. Enticing sweet cherry & herb nose on pouring. Palate unrecognizable from yesterday. Full & sweet, cherries & red fruits all over the place but with burgundian lightness of touch as it glides over the taste buds. Tannins are present & correct, but part of the balanced whole. Gorgeous.

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    4/3/2019 3:47:00 AM - Thanks for review: very informative. Quick question re overnight storage. Did you simply put original cork back in rather than anything more complicated/technical? Cheers
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1997 Antinori Tignanello

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1/20/2017 - mistermags wrote: 93 points

Decanted. Initially closed but opened up nicely after an hour or so. Dark. Good fruit. Full-bodied; smooth. Medium length finish. Plenty of life left. Good match with T-bone steak.

  • Comment posted by mistermags:

    1/21/2017 10:15:00 AM - See that in my previous note on this wine it did not match well with steak. Seem to remember that was at a restaurant when they failed to decant the wine.

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