| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| White |
2015 Domaine Milan Vin de Table Français La CarreeRoussanne more |
4/28/2024 - GDa202 wrote: 95 pointsComplex Beguiling and wonderful. Ever changing. Slightly cloudy (its a natural wine but in a good way) |
| Red |
2013 Domaine A.-F. Gros Chambolle-MusignyPinot Noir more |
4/25/2024 - GDa202 wrote: 81 pointsUmm. Have to report, sadly, that I haven’t greatly enjoyed these wines. Perhaps the vintage, maybe I have opened them in a poor period, but they are quite disappointing. They lack the chambolle perfume and elegance. Have a very generic taste and no length. Quite sad. |
| White |
2021 Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage BlancWhite Rhone Blend more |
4/19/2024 - GDa202 Does not like this wine: flawedMy second bottle and again extremely reductive. Which is not a “feature” I have ever associated with Graillot Crozes. Odd. Fruit is hidden. The other notes on this are are exactly what I would expect. But this disappoints again. |
| White |
2015 Pierre Morey Meursault Les Terres BlanchesChardonnay more |
4/16/2024 - GDa202 wrote: flawedSevere promox. Like a bottle of vin jaune |
| White |
2019 François Villard Viognier Les Contours de DePoncinsVin de Pays des Collines Rhodaniennes more |
4/14/2024 - GDa202 wrote: 90 pointsAbsolutely delightful Northern Rhone Viognier. Floral, perfumed but with a delicate touch. Clean and precise- not at all cloying. Astonishing Q/P. |
| White - Sparkling |
NV A. R. Lenoble Champagne Grand Cru Les Aventures Blanc de BlancsChardonnay more |
3/30/2024 - GDa202 wrote: 93 points2008/09 assemblage. |
| White |
2021 Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage BlancWhite Rhone Blend more |
3/17/2024 - GDa202 wrote: flawedWell this is an odd bottle. Very reductive. Made me double check it wasn’t white burgundy. The flavours are very muted compared to normal. I'll say “flawed” simple because it doesn’t taste like any bottle of this I have ever had. |
| Red |
2016 Mark Haisma Nuits St. Georges Les CharmottesPinot Noir more |
3/16/2024 - GDa202 wrote: 93 pointsAbsolutely gorgeous NSG. Pure “Pinosity”. Still |
| White - Sparkling |
NV Bérêche et Fils Champagne Brut RéserveChampagne Blend more |
3/16/2024 - GDa202 wrote: 89 pointsUmm. The first Bereche NV I have had that wasn’t brilliant. 6/2022 disgorgement 6gl dosage. |
| Red |
2016 Clos Salomon Givry 1er Cru Clos SalomonPinot Noir more |
3/4/2024 - GDa202 wrote: flawedI don’t know what phase this 2016 is going though, but this wasn’t pleasant. Very strange taste profile, immensely reductive. Sad because this was a joyous wine. Maybe it will come out of this phase, I assume it will, but no signs of that yet. |
| Red |
2021 Domaine Elodie Balme RasteauGrenache Blend, Grenache more |
2/17/2024 - GDa202 wrote: 91 pointsGlorious. Precise elegant wine making. A medley of dark fruits but deftly extracted. All about the grapes. |
| White |
2020 Samuel Billaud Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons Vieilles VignesChardonnay more |
2/4/2024 - GDa202 Likes this wine: 91 pointsQuite joyful. Chablis as Chablis should be. Still on the very young side, great now but suspect it needs more time to gain complexity |
| White |
2019 Domaine Bernard Moreau et Fils Chassagne-MontrachetChardonnay more |
2/2/2024 - GDa202 wrote: 91 pointsToo late after consumption for useful note but the bottle was an absolute joy. Complex citrus, maybe even some green strawberry, with some richer, more exotic, notes: pineapple, subtle oak. Great depth of flavours. |
| White |
2021 Domaine Pernot-Bélicard Puligny-MontrachetChardonnay more |
1/20/2024 - GDa202 wrote: 90 pointsDelightful. Beautiful nose. White flowery and citrus flavours. Lots of tension and minerality. Slight phenolic herbal bitterness at the finish which is delightful. Great success. |
| White |
2020 Simon Colin Bouzeron ClousAligoté more |
12/18/2023 - GDa202 Likes this wine: 87 pointsLovely expressive nose. Apples, some citrus / agrume character. Good acidity. quiet joyful. Delightful, but maybe got a bit flabby when it warmed up. |
| White |
2020 Domaine Bernard Moreau et Fils Chardonnay Bourgogne Blancmore |
12/4/2023 - GDa202 wrote: 89 pointsAnother very good bottle (see previous note). A touch reductive at first but then it is is beautifully fruity; lemon, green plums, and a little grapefruit maybe. Some of that (lovely) phenolic bitterness. Very long. |
| Red |
2019 Domaine des Amadieu Cairanne Cuvée Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
12/2/2023 - GDa202 wrote: 90 pointsFelt a little grainy tannic on day 1. Perhaps I shook the bottle ? But on day 2 this blossomed gloriously. Pure and clean. Deep rich dark fruit with wonderful aromas and tastes of chocolate, rosemary and mint. Good length. Truly delightful wine from the delightful Yves-Jean |
| Red |
2016 Clos Salomon Givry 1er Cru Clos SalomonPinot Noir more |
10/13/2023 - GDa202 wrote: 89 pointsLovely underlying structure and fruit. Complexity. But currently going through a very reductive phase. Sulfury aromas take a very long time to dissipate |
| White |
2020 Domaine Bernard Moreau et Fils Chardonnay Bourgogne Blancmore |
5/26/2023 - GDa202 wrote: 88 pointsWell. I wanted to dive into this to see if one could reconcile the opposite tasting notes by two great tasters - Jasper Morris (5*, best BB?, fruit driven and long) vs Xavier Auerbach (no fruit, pithy, "not a good buy"). Upon opening, there is little nose and whilst the almost absent fruit is clearly chassagne-derived, the taste is predominantly wood. Indeed, so muted it is, that I wondered if it was subtly corked. Much more in the "Xavier Auerbach" camp. After 2-3 hours, however, the rich lemony- (slight green apple) fruit is much more to the fore, a la Jasper, the length is great and the finish has a certain (rousanne/marsanne like - lovely to my mind) phenolic bitterness. Is that "pithy" ? Maybe. So I have learned nothing. They are both opposite but both spot on. |
| Rosé |
2018 José Luis Ripa Sáenz de Navarrete Rioja RIPA Vino RosadoGrenache Blend, Grenache more |
5/12/2023 - GDa202 wrote: 91 pointsDelightful dark salmon pink rosado. Savoury, strawberry, sour red fruit notes. A little oxidised edge. Complex and long. If this weren’t marketed as being “the new Tondonia” you would think it excellent. Can’t it just be it’s own delightful self ? |
| White |
2020 Samuel Billaud Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons Vieilles VignesChardonnay more |
5/5/2023 - GDa202 Likes this wine: 92 pointsWow, dipped into one too early. Fantastic Chablis. Indeed tastes like what (I imagine) Chablis should taste like, but so rarely does. Mineral and tense. Oyster shell nose, lovely lemony fruit, quite floral, and really great length. |
| White |
2018 Domaine Milan Luna & GaiaVin de Table Français White Blend more |
1/30/2023 - GDa202 Likes this wine: 90 pointsWell. The match of this wine to Thai salmon fish cakes is extraordinarily good. The wine, so long and complex, is defying my powers of description. |
| Red |
2020 Domaine des Amadieu Cairanne Cuvée des GarriguesRed Rhone Blend more |
1/27/2023 - GDa202 wrote: flawedI dearly love Yves Jean but this is a flawed bottle with the ozone smell of a burnt-out Hornby train from your childhood. Great for reminiscing, less good for drinking |
| Red |
2014 Château d'Arlay Pinot Noir Côtes du Juramore |
1/26/2023 - GDa202 Likes this wine: 89 pointsHard to assess as the nose is very closed. In the mouth it displays a lovely light Pinot character, some stones (it is quite "mineral" and there is a lovely strawberry / slightly unripe wild strawberry underlying taste. Tannins are noticeably there, but well integrated and soft-ish. |
| Red |
2020 Mark Haisma Pinot Noir Bourgognemore |
11/11/2022 - GDa202 wrote: 90 pointsWell. I can’t “compete” with the amazing note by Forceberry…but… I found this a beguiling Pinot. So well crafted. Still young and fruit driven, the nose is SO seductive (blind I would have guessed Oregon) and in the mouth red fruits - gentle stewing raspberries - , cranberries, a lovely bracing acidity and lovely integrated tannins. Great length. For me, a superb Bourgogne rouge. |
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