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Red

2020 Rotem & Mounir Saouma Côtes du Rhône Villages Inopia

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2/29/2024 - JensAgo Likes this wine: 92 points

Having thoroughly enjoyed a glass of t Grenache Blanc-dominated Inopia (v20, 14% ABV) earlier in 2024 as well as t knock-outer white Neuf Magis f Saouma (aka Le Moine), I opted to go for a full bottle, closing Feb in a proper manner. And yes, it truly shines - gorgeous fruit, perfected, rounded texture (18m on t lees) & superb complexity. Beautiful golden in t glass. Nose brimes w white flowers, lime & lemon, peach, tad of vanilla, flint. Round, rich, yet cool, fresh & versatile, m-acid, neat, chalky & lingering!

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    5/12/2024 9:39:00 AM - This is about the white version ...
Red

2010 Château L'Eglise-Clinet

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4/29/2024 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 93 points

It is possible to mix the sublime with the ridiculous, as this wine shows. The sublime was the wine itself. Something of a wine eruption when opened and poured into glass, it also lived happily for 3 days in decanter (how did I not guzzle it before then? Weak gene pool, perhaps. I blame my parents).

The ridiculous was the enormous eruption from my nether regions shortly after I opened this. The expression 'to take one's ease' really cannot do justice to the prodigious quantity of excreta that I did. Visiting the thunderbox is closer to the mark. Craps like this can be fantastic things, leaving one feeling light headed and triumphant; plumbers and sewerage workers doubtless feel rumblings of imminent PTSD at the idea of having to grapple with my efforts.

My bottle, despite a cork in wizard condition was a little more developed than other tasters have noted but it was still fresh enough. Tannins were supple and approaching resolution. A wonderful example of Pomerol. I confess that I have a preference for the more elegant expressions from the other bank but this is damned good stuff and a great poo deserved to be matched with a sensational wine.

I guess one must turn to Patti Smith's magnificent album 'Easter' and the high-octane riffing track '25th Floor', a song that seems in part to be about having sex in a high-rise loo, whilst celebrating female sexuality, with a wonderful spoken word part including the memorable statements:

We explore the men's room.
We don't give a shit.
Ladies' lost electricity;
Take vows inside of it.

The transformation of waste
Is perhaps the oldest pre-occupation of man.
Man being the chosen alloy,
He must be reconnected - via shit, at all cost.

YEA-AH!

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    4/30/2024 10:35:00 AM - How couldn't I find a note adorable if it includes lyrics of Patti Smith?

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    5/2/2024 1:42:00 AM - Wish I were still young ...
White

2022 Eva Fricke Lorchhäuser Seligmacher Riesling

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4/29/2024 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 92 points

Oh! I do hate being the first to review a vintage of a wine. I like to stand on the shoulders of giants, but even pygmies will do. I can carefully calibrate what I write based on others and avoid the risk that is expressed in the saying 'better to be silent and seem a fool than to speak and prove it'.

At any rate, this is a very pleasing Riesling (almost rhymes) - there are some reductive elements but they don't seem out of balance to me and whilst there is some ripe apple, there is also a deal of lovely tropical fruits and some lemon. The palate has zing and a sense of slate/wet stone that I like. The acid is fine and whilst, to my palate, perhaps a little fierce, I think most drinkers will not find it so.

Guzzle now and over the next few years. Cellar if you want to take some risks with the reductive elements.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    4/30/2024 10:38:00 AM - Eva Fricke is momentarily a hype. And in my view overpriced (as a result?).
White

2021 Hiedler Grüner Veltliner Löss

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1/12/2024 - Shizzle Does not like this wine: 57 points

Z - Musty all day, like a pop up camper

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    4/9/2024 8:39:00 AM - 57 points seems ridiculous. If you don't like this wine: fine with me. But 57 points means: avoid and that is exaggerated
Red

1990 Château de Beaucastel Côtes du Rhône Coudoulet de Beaucastel

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8/31/1997 - Zweder wrote: 88 points

This is truly a very good wine. Complex soft spices and fruit. Soft tannin. In a perfect drinking stage at this moment.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    4/8/2024 12:22:00 PM - and still is!
Red

2016 Fattoria Petrolo Galatrona

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3/27/2024 - pemazel Likes this wine: 96 points

Together with Gino at Chateau St Gerlach (Les Salons).

And suddenly it appeared on my way: on a wine liste at a non too exaggerated price.

Drunk with "Gently cooked rib of Porc Qualité Ardenne" first, then at its own.

And I loved it: certainly within my top-10 of reds.

I agree with Falstaff who tasted it in 2019:
"Deeply coloured, brilliant ruby-violet. Very clear, distinct nose with complex interplay with blackberry, dark currant and ripe blueberry, plus fine resinous notes and tobacco. Fresh on the palate initially with a lot of juicy, ripe berry fruit and opening up with fine-meshed, dense tannin, salty and very long."

And I disagree with the tasters here who write that it is still much too young now: in all its vigorousness it is magnificent!

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    3/29/2024 11:55:00 AM - I asked for some time in a decanter, but the ober was clumsy: he opened a Boggina B instead. So, effectively, it was PnP. The wine overwhelmed from rthe first moment and I did not notice any improvement over the next two hours. Open the 2016 with confidence. And I envy you.
White

2018 Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage Blanc

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3/14/2024 - pemazel Likes this wine: 88 points

bjamesclark hits the nail. Bought at an auction for about € 20, it has a reasonable PQR. But in the end, for me - a riesling adapt - it lacks acidity/minerality, while the aftertaste is somewhat disappointing: hence my slightly lower rating

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    3/17/2024 10:54:00 AM - Second bottle: the same
White

2006 Château Mont-Redon Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc

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9/14/2016 - Paul D Does not like this wine: 75 points

Medium/deep straw. Nose is a touch mute, slightly creamy, honey, touch of oxidation. Medium/full bodied, same lightly oxidised creaminess, some florality but flabby and frankly, dull with a short, featureless finish. Drinkable but, like most mature white Rhones I have tasted, not really worth the effort.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    3/10/2024 10:24:00 AM - Why did it you rate it so much lower than six years before?
Red

1991 Yvonne Verset Cornas

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11/8/2010 - bristol411 wrote: 91 points

Interesting story behind this. The wine was made by Louis Verset, Noel's brother, who for some reason did not want to bottle it under his name. So Noel's wife Yvonne, described as the vingneron, had her one and only vintage. The labels are from Clape.
Still alive, spice on the nose, slight tannin, elegant in the mouth, nice berry fruit and good length.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    3/10/2024 9:47:00 AM - I found a 1993 as well ...
    https://www.catawiki.com/nl/l/75120633-1993-yvonne-verset-cornas-rhone-1-fles-0-75-liter

    https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/louis+verset+yvorne+cornas+rhone+france/1993/eu?Xsort_order=p

    And maybe 1992 exists as well: https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/louis+verset+yvorne+cornas+rhone+france/1992#t3
Red

2019 Quinta do Crasto Douro Superior

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11/24/2023 - fredfta wrote: 91 points

Wip

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    3/8/2024 1:02:00 AM - What is wip?
Red

2021 Virginie de Valandraud

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3/9/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 points

A bit oaky at the moment, the wine needs some time to better integrate allowing you to get all the sweet, ripe, dark cherries, plums, flowers, licorice and chocolate in the nose and palate that the wine offers. The finish is all about its lush, creamy, essences of black cherries and plums. Drink from 2024-2033.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    3/5/2024 5:14:00 AM - In my part of the world it is 5 March; your note dated 9 March. Are you making notes of what you still have to taste? :-)

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    3/5/2024 12:21:00 PM - and there are some more around in the wild ...
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2009 Château Adaugusta

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2/14/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 87 points

Medium-bodied, easy drinking, earthy, tobacco and plum filled, soft for current consumption.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    3/5/2024 7:37:00 AM - This is still a pretty wine; no need to hurry. My favorite at Freaks 3/3/2024 with 2009 - 2010 - 2015 - 2016 - 2019 and 2020 as competitors
White

2021 Famille Bougrier Sauvignon Blanc Touraine

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9/1/2023 - Ricroo wrote: 78 points

Nice wine but not very special, fresco, light fruity.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    2/25/2024 8:25:00 AM - "Nice wine" = 68 points?
Red

2017 Arnaldo-Caprai Montefalco Rosso Vigna Flaminia Maremmana

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12/7/2019 - David Post Likes this wine: 63 points

Nice with pasta and or cheese. High in alcohol.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    2/25/2024 3:54:00 AM - You like it - but gave it 63 points only?
White

2013 Louis Metaireau Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine Petit Mouton

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6/30/2015 - rlove wrote: 86 points

Nose of lemon, lanolin, and crushed shell. Medium-high acidity with flavors of citrus and stone. Drink now.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    2/11/2024 8:59:00 AM - I am drinking it now - 9 years later and it is still a very interesting wine
White

2017 Domenico Tappero Merlo Erbaluce di Caluso Kin

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7/8/2023 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 90 points

Académie des Cinquante Italy Tasting (Restaurant de Watergeus, Noorden, NL): Tasted blind. Aged for 18 months in large oak with weekly bâtonnage. Double decanted. Quite full-bodied, firm, masculine, oxidative in style, rather monolithic. Not easy to understand.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    2/8/2024 8:50:00 AM - Read my note on the 2020
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2021 Schloss Johannisberg Riesling Gelblack trocken

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11/25/2023 - wineaficionado Likes this wine: 87 points

Color: Light to medium yellow. Nose: Not much going on. Mouth: Fresh. Good expressiveness and length. There is a fruity component, like quince. Quite wishy-washy and a bit boring. It is good wine but overpriced. To me it should be sold by the bucket (5 L) for 40 $. Would be nice in the summer to drink cooled. I would drink it with head cheese and other rustic charcuterie. It would make a great party wine if it would be cheaper.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    1/25/2024 8:16:00 AM - I paid € 13,50. Would that change your opinion?
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2021 Schloss Johannisberg Riesling Gelblack trocken

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5/1/2023 - Bebopp Likes this wine: 82 points

citrus minerals green apple

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    1/25/2024 8:14:00 AM - citrus minerals green apple: OK but this does not give a clue about the quality. 82 points seems to do so, buth why only 82?
White

2019 Albert Boxler Gewurztraminer

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8/17/2022 - StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 81 points

81 p for the wine.
50 p for not mentioning sweetness levels on the Alsace lables. *pft*

I love Alsatian wines, but I'm not a good friend of the random sweetness that appears here and there in the wines not even designated as VT or SdGN. And for a grape with as low acidity as GewT, I'm all about done with purchasing them on a "maybe" basis.

Fact is: two of the drunkards (Duncan H and Danchaq) who wrote about this wine before me here on CT didn't even care (or note?) to report that this is a semi-sweet wine with lowly acidic levels. Absolutely something that matters - and Danchaq even reporting a 'dry' finish *pft*.

Nevertheless, this is a beautiful wine from the simple section. The sweetness with low acidity makes it difficult to pair with refular food. (And there are so many more better sweet and semisweet wines…)

Quite the distressful evening, but an extremely beautiful Hakkaisan Junmai Ginjo feom their heavenly special Kawagura provided some consolation for this grumpy old geezer.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    1/6/2024 11:04:00 AM - From 2021 on Alsatian winegrowers are obliged to mention the style on the label:

    Sec/Dry: max. sugar 4 g/l;
    Demi-sec/Medium-dry: 4 g/l and 12 g/l
    Moelleux/Mellow: 12 g/l and 45 g/l
    Doux/Sweet: minimal sugar 45 g/l

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    1/7/2024 4:28:00 AM - lol
White

2000 Clos Floridene Blanc

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3/22/2020 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 91 points

Golden lustre.
Fragrant, herbaceous and honeyed, lovely balance.
Medium weight, a delicious blend of flavours, finishing long and clean. Tropical fruits, lemon, lanolin, crushed dried herbs, a little honey, all wonderfully blended. So smooth, excellent balance.
Drinking well now, probably got longer.

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    11/27/2021 8:26:00 AM - Your note is till spot on!

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    1/3/2024 8:19:00 AM - last three (!) bottles flawed
Red

2019 Château Chêne-Liège

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12/26/2022 - Alpo2020 wrote: 63 points

Très bon pomerol 2019
Acheté par Yves à la foire aux vins dubLeckerc de houdan

  • Comment posted by pemazel:

    12/1/2023 9:33:00 AM - 63 points?? For a wine you like? A mistake?

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