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1995 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou

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4/30/2024 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 95 points

Amazing „senior“ BDX. Just perfect now and probably for 5 or so more years. No need to hurry, but I don’t think it will get any better.

Nowadays lots of even premium wines are made for young drinking pleasure. But ripened wines like this one show, that you miss most of the fun without that boring and old-fashioned „storaging“.

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2005 Château Gruaud Larose

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4/29/2024 - LIE-user wrote: 92 points

In the beginning a little disappointing, the next day a lot better. Therefore I guess, this is still some years ahead of its drinking window.

My cellar is rather cold all year (14° Celsius), so in a warmer cellar, this might be perfect now.

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2005 Château Branaire-Ducru

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4/21/2024 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 94 points

What a great wine. Bordeaux in its truest form. Drunk from a magnum bottle, therefore perhaps a little bonus.

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Red

2002 Ridge Monte Bello

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4/20/2024 - LIE-user Does not like this wine: 87 points

Rather disappointing. It has peaked some years ago. Drink very soon. Probably a bad bottle?

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Red

2006 Viña Almaviva S.A. Almaviva

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4/14/2024 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 93 points

One of my favorite bordeaux wines not coming from Bordeaux. Intense and very round after about 1 hour. Perfect to drink now.

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Red

2007 Bodegas y Viñedos Alión Ribera del Duero

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4/5/2024 - LIE-user wrote: 88 points

Rather unspectacular. Usually Alion comes with more volume and richness. Probably going homeward.

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White - Sparkling

2004 Dom Pérignon Champagne

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4/3/2024 - LIE-user wrote: 88 points

Rather disappointing. A weaker showing of my favorite champagne brand. Not the first bottle of DP04 that was disappointing. Considering the age (not old yet!) the wine comes with too many oxidative notes. A problem with my delivery years ago? Three more bottles from the same delivery, after that six from a different delivery. Let’s hope those will be better.

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Red

2006 Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia

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3/31/2024 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 93 points

Took some time till it really started. But after 2 hours it was a great tuscan bdx blend. Rather young, but therefore it was a perfect match to ossobucco.

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Rosé - Sparkling

2006 Dom Pérignon Champagne Rosé

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3/31/2024 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 96 points

What a great champagne! Probably the best champagne I drank for quite some time. Very round, fruity and elegant at the same time.

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White - Sparkling

2006 Louis Roederer Champagne Cristal Brut

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3/31/2024 - LIE-user wrote: 90 points

Rather salty, dominant acidity. Not my favorite premium champagne.

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2006 Dom Pérignon Champagne

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3/28/2024 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 95 points

Great nose, very rich. After that, this richness fills your mouth with loads of sensations. Rather dark, but very precise. It lasts and lasts.
Has reached its prime drinking window. An appropriate compensation for a rather weak meeting with a DP 2002 I had some weeks ago.

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Red

1996 Château Léoville Barton

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3/24/2024 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 94 points

Excellent. Perfect now.

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Red

2013 Château La Croix St. Georges

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2/17/2024 - LIE-user wrote: 88 points

Very difficult to judge right now. In the beginning rather weak and thin. Well, no surprise, it’s a weak vintage. A few hours later I tried again, now it was somehow better, but still no wow. After all, I still remain unsure, what to think about bdx 2013. I know that it was one of the seldom weak bdx vintages, but on the other hand, other so called weak bdx vintages like 2007 brought lots of pleasure.

Will 2013 follow the path of 2007 (decent wine for a bargain) or will it be more like 1997 (only a very very few decent bdx)? Time will tell.

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Red

2007 Domenico Clerico Barolo Ciabot Mentin

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1/5/2024 - LIE-user wrote: 88 points

After 2 hours of decanting, it was ok. I was hoping, that it is too young. Therefore left half the bottle in the fridge over night to try one day later. Unfortunately it only became worse the day after. I think there is less in there as supposed.

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Red

2009 Domaine de Chevalier

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1/3/2024 - LIE-user wrote: NR

Right now not really a pleasure. Let’s hope, this one gets back on track within the next 5-10 years. Judging right now, i am not so sure.

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Red

2000 Château Léoville Barton

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8/13/2023 - LIE-user wrote: 90 points

My last bottle was eight years ago. Back then I wrote, that it still needs more time. Now with an age of 23 years I am not so sure anymore. Probably it still needs more time. But probably it’s just all there is and the Leo 2000 might be a weaker showing of the great 2000 vintage. Only time will tell.

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Red

2004 Antinori Solaia

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8/13/2023 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 94 points

Excellent wine.

Very round and smooth on the one side, deep and ample on the other side. Unfortunately this kind of wine has become very expensive. Bought it for around 130 bucks back then, new vintages are at about triple the price. Well, at least there are dozens of great tuscan wines that don’t have the same pedigree, but almost the same quality at half the actual price of a Solaia.

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Red

2009 Château Poujeaux

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8/11/2023 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 91 points

Very nice wine. Now reaching max pleasure with approx 30-60min decanting.

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2012 Odette Cabernet Sauvignon Estate

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8/1/2023 - LIE-user wrote: 93 points

A chance find in my cellar. I stumbled over it while making room in my cellar for the latest BDX arrivage. Never added this wine to my cellar and therefore it was a surprise.
Usually I don’t like this kind of wine, but I have to admit that this is really very well made and the proceeding age probably has softened its heavy character a little bit. Still very full with a dominant alcoholic sweetness and a wagon load of fruitiness. But it succeeds in managing all this to a sort of roundness that is typical of great wine.
One or two bottles of such heavy and alcohol-loaded wines is enough for me per year, but this one is a very worthy representative.

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2005 Château Haut-Bailly

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7/29/2023 - LIE-user wrote: 90 points

To be honest, I was expecting more. good stuff without any doubt, but from a 2005 bdx with this pedigree, i was really expecting more. Probably time will unleash the missing „wow“.

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Red

2011 Tenuta dell'Ornellaia Le Serre Nuove

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7/22/2023 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 92 points

Doing great. Still slightly young. Needs some time/air, will be perfect in 2-3 years.

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Red

2007 Château Montrose

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5/28/2023 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 92 points

Fun to drink. My favorite 07 Bordeaux (together with SHL).

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White - Sparkling

2003 Dom Pérignon Champagne

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5/27/2023 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 95 points

Excellent. Right now it is far better than the 2002. Fresh, a lot of pressure, very precise. I wish I could swap the quantity of 2002 DP in my cellar with DP 2003. Unfortunately I only bought 12 bottles back then (because some critics were sceptical), now only left a few.

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Red

2007 Château Pontet-Canet

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4/15/2023 - LIE-user wrote: 91 points

Fun to drink. In the last 5 or so years I was hoping, that there is even more to come as this one of the better 2007 Bdx. But I think, it’s showing now all there is.

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Red

2004 Château Montrose

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4/11/2023 - LIE-user Likes this wine: 94 points

And there it is. While my last encounters with the Montrose 2004 about 7 or so years ago were rather neutral, now the wine is ready for some fun. It has reached it’s prime drinking window.

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