4/27/2024 - Adam T 12 Likes this wine:

This was delicious. Very open, huge depth of flavor, nice acidity, was a wow. Will live for years.

4/26/2024 - devraj Likes this wine:

Oi! This is quite awesome. Extremely aromatic on the nose with candied black cherries/blackberries, white pepper, dried florals, incense and black olive tapenade. An intense palate shows sweet-sour crushed black small fruits, the savory notes of black olives, pepper, good acidity and melting tannins on a long floral finish.

4/27/2024 - golfhawk Likes this wine:

Was very cherry cola-ish when first opened but settled down to be a great Pinot. Had some earth and dark fruits that made a great finish. Could wait or a short decant.

4/27/2024 - @Yimberlik Does not like this wine:

Vanilla bomb. Had along side Monte Delhi Angelo and Prost Pinot noir

4/27/2024 - Jim and Patricia Likes this wine:

I liked this and wished I’d sent a case home from Portugal.

4/27/2024 - LW31 Likes this wine:

Another delicious bottle of this! Even more open than the one a few months ago.

4/27/2024 - mkribar wrote:

Bottle direct from the winery, a berserker day purchase. This is very much alive and kicking. On the nose: very happy, some blackberry, a little garrigue. At peak, so drink up!

4/27/2024 - snarfglk Likes this wine:

89+

4/27/2024 - goldgarf Likes this wine:

Nice big fruit flavors with good tannins.

4/27/2024 - Mallards wrote:

Whitehall Lane is not the most sought after wine. But based on what we own, WL consistently ages perfectly. Big and bold, yet subtle and lean, we were rewarded by waiting to drink this gem.

4/27/2024 - amadden wrote:

Fuller body than I really expected. Honey with a slightly bitter undertone. Something earthy lingers after a sip, more the herbs of a stew than bright and fresh. Just right for a spring day that was less warm than expected

4/27/2024 - LW31 Likes this wine:

Another lovely bottle of this. Really starting to hit its stride. Lovely fruit, good freshness, nothing out of balance in this warm vintage except in its approachability. Excellent with dover sole.

4/26/2024 - MateusPetrus Likes this wine:

Mostly tart red cherries, some tart plums. Short finish.

4/27/2024 - Mbullmer wrote:

Dark purple. Pepper hits you in the face, green peppers, black fruit, a little oak. Phenomenal wine. Medium+ acidity, medium + tannins. Medium to long finish. Love this wine, can’t wait how the rest develop.

4/27/2024 - Luc_Wine wrote:

90 - Very good

4/27/2024 - WHotchkiss wrote:

Wonderful
Good Syrah taste. 60 min decant and no tightness
Wife enjoyed as well and not large Syrah fan

4/27/2024 - Gunakadeit Likes this wine:

A little high-toned and medicinal for me.

4/27/2024 - jgreco Likes this wine:

Intense red fruits, spice, earth. Very juicy. Nice length. Pretty great for the level. Tastes like a 2019 with purer fruit and more acid. I could drink this all day.

4/27/2024 - Dine&Vine Likes this wine:

Last bottle consistent with previous two. Please give t an hour to breathe, as this wine blossoms into its best profile. Dark berries, flowers and a bit of blueberry with gentle notes of raw meat. Just so good.

4/27/2024 - Maliblue Likes this wine:

Oh my. Decanted for 3 hours. Such a pure expression of Cabernet. Pronounced nose of blueberry and blackberry…with subtle tobacco. Mouthfeel is phenomenal. Silky tannins with fantastic acidity. Taste of dried cherries with the aforementioned dark berries. Long finish. The structure is incredibly complex and will age nicely for years.

4/27/2024 - Mbullmer wrote:

A hint of orange brick. A little muted, black fruit, a little earthiness. Medium+ acidity, medium + tannins. Needs time.

4/27/2024 - lucagiupponi Likes this wine:

Decaturwinedude nailed this. Better on day two.

4/27/2024 - prasm wrote:

PnP, consumed over 3 hours. Appearance: Clear, pale-medium ruby. Nose: Clean, medium intensity with developing aromas of fresh red fruit - raspberry and pomegranate with hints of stems and baking spice. Palate: Dry, medium acid, medium tannin shows a little youthful grippiness, medium body, medium+ intensity, 13.0% abv with developing flavors of sweet pomegranate, raspberry, and baking spice with a medium+ finish.

Balance: Excellent-Outstanding
Length: Excellent
Intensity: Excellent
Complexity: Very Good-Excellent

Showing great purity of fruit with excellent intensity and length, quite youthful at the moment, needs 2-3 years and should drink well for 5+ thereafter.

4/27/2024 - Kevin86 Likes this wine:

Good drinking window right now
Still tannins left, drink in the next year
Very good

4/27/2024 - LEEJV123 Does not like this wine:

Medium body, no evident oak, short.

4/27/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine:

4/12. See my previous note 402 days ago for a comprehensive and still-valid take. Today it has the added appeal of flavor permeability, dappled illumination gives it action, transparency, and haste. Sticky strands of ruby acidity loft in sun and breeze. For the first time in a while this betrays a strongly typical flavor/texture of Cabernet Franc. Its natal qualities were a mask, now lifted.

4/27/2024 - H. Eugene Likes this wine:

Excellent Merlot

4/27/2024 - ellars Likes this wine:

93: Mouthwatering bouquet of candied plum and blackcurrant. Beautiful deep red-purple color with no sign of browning. Thin, fast legs on the swirl. Cork showed a lot of crystalization but the bottle had surprisingly little sediment for its age. Just slightly on the thin side of moderate mouth feel, with a bit of tannic astringency up front that mellows through a medium-long finish. Dark berry and spice flavors throughout, plus a pleasantly herbal note in the finish (cedar? sandalwood? something "masculine" at any rate). Paired nicely with a rosemary herbed steak and balsamic vegetables. This probably could have remained cellared for another dozen years and been unbelievable, but it was time to free up some space in the cellar. Still, it rates as one of the best wines I have had the pleasure to drink.

4/27/2024 - Jonathanmustang Likes this wine:

Nez vif sur le citron, les coquillages, les fruits blancs et une petite touche de pomme verte
L’attaque est citronnée, très minérale, l’acidité est vive et bien présente. L’ensemble est gourmand, on sens la matière, beaucoup de fruits bien que ce n’est pas encore très complexe
Finale intéressante, un peu lourde malgré que l’acidité est aussi bien présente. Coquillage, fruit et agrumes
Beau vin qui peut encore assurément vieillir !

4/27/2024 - TexasBob Likes this wine:

Dull garnet . Wonderful myriad of red and black fruits, beautifully integrated.

4/27/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

Nose: Immediate black currants that give way to a deep and dark purple flowers - imagine lavender with the floral aspect turned down a bit, while the herbaceous quality is turned up. Deep and aromatic earth that reach far down into some black minerals, just scratching the surface of some tar.

Palate: Awesome black and dark red fruits. A tasty ripeness that gets properly suppressed by bitter minerals, black earthy soil, and a clean black graphite that lingers into the finish, providing a tasty savoriness that just hangs around. As it sits on the palate and finishes up, you're left with a gentle impression of a tree slowly shedding its bark. With some time, a gentle but firmly spiced oak comes through, with dark cocoa too (and I mean 75%+). The savoriness also takes a step back with some time, letting the gently ripe fruits to come out to perform, as well as some nice freshness for a guest appearance.

Thoughts: A flavorful, savory, brooding beast that knows how to grow and flower - I love it. I love the strong savory aspects of this, and with some time, this shows it can be disciplined and tasteful about how it wants to show itself with awesome balance. This and another Kinsman bottling was overshadowed by a different wine in a previous tasting, so I had to re-taste this to give it the proper treatment it deserves.

Treatment: Juice stayed ~58°-64° throughout the entire tasting of ~7 hours. Pulled corked, poured a glass, recorked right after (rinse and repeat). Slow-ox'd, no decanter used. Might wanna serve at cellar temp for an added freshness effect.

4/26/2024 - sdkaplan wrote:

Had strong acidity still but really didn’t have the complexity I was hoping for. Felt last it’s prime and pushing tertiary notes

4/27/2024 - Chateau Hillpoint wrote:

Dark fruit

4/27/2024 - crazywineguy Likes this wine:

Picked up as a curio at auction. Fill to top of neck so great cork. Deep orange amber colour. Kind of nothing nose who slowly opened up a bit over time but still just a whiff of something ? cinnamon. Sweet but drying at same time. In remarkable nick for a 48 year old wine, could have passed for a 20 year old. Thickish, somewhat unctious and very smooth. Tasted like a mid to top end mature Sauterne but with the structure that Loire chenin gives. Thuis was a lot of fun to open and taste.

4/27/2024 - cobalt2 wrote:

Same as last year. Need this in a magnum next time!

4/21/2024 - Saint Cristobal Likes this wine:

The wine looks brick colored. The legs are slow. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like spices and raspberry. It tastes like cherry, oak and raspberry. The body is medium. The wine finishes long. The wine has high acidity.

4/27/2024 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine:

Still deep ruby in color, this medium-bodied Pinot remains effusive of black and red fruits that are accented with mulling spices, smoke, cocoa and leather. The oak and tannins have fully integrated and the alcohol (14.9%) continues to fly under the radar. Solid in the middle and long on the finish, this has aged very little since last being tasted 12/8/2021 and will last longer than previously projected. Popped and poured, it required only thirty minutes of air in order to full strut its stuff. Drink now-2030.

4/27/2024 - Jcellis33 Likes this wine:

Definitely left bank flavors, no tannin, smooth, not tons of classic flavors

4/27/2024 - rbfleming wrote:

As advertised: dry. Floral, apply, very nice.

4/27/2024 - Winetex Likes this wine:

Deep ruby color with excellent spice aromas. First glass 15 min after open. Balanced and lovely with a long finish. Clearly Grand Cru quality but needed to open up in the glass - Zalto Burgundy. Long finish and continued to improve in the glass until it was gone much too soon. Quite the treat with our salmon dish.

4/27/2024 - Z1nnfull Likes this wine:

Rating as how it’s drinking NOW, because it is in a perfect drinking window.
Give it a little air please. We just returned from tasting Oregon Willamette Valley Pinot wines and many were several clicks better, but for the price this is Varietally correct and truly fine. Secret is buying current vintage and hold until 4-5 years old counting from September. If not, aerate and decant aggressively (each step makes it a year older from what Oregon vintners told us).

4/27/2024 - Chied Likes this wine:

A very solid wine…excellent!

4/27/2024 - seg82 Likes this wine:

Surprisingly good at the price point. Balanced and smooth.

4/27/2024 - jamokebob Likes this wine:

The few more years in the bottle from last time made a world of difference. Nice and smooth. Easy on the pallet. Enjoying it very much with lamb chops

4/27/2024 - Twowinechicks Likes this wine:

Ruby red, with translucent edges, forest red fruits and hints of balsam on the nose, medium-bodied, lively on the palate with pleasant astringency and a lingering finish. Only one more bottle in the cellar :(

4/27/2024 - cobalt2 Likes this wine:

Another winner. Did a glass one night via a Corvain- just awesome. Opened and drank rest two nites later. Clearly a RM and clearly a winner.

4/25/2024 - Rickb666 Likes this wine:

A decent cab, but not an outstanding one. Fruity with light flavor and mouthfeel

4/28/2024 - brujazz wrote:

Probably, this was once a very excellent bottle of juice. Now, despite a long finish, all the fruit and most of the flavor has dissipated. Theres enough left to let you know youre drinking a Chardonnay, but basically,theres a reason for the bargain basement price and its an opportunity missed.

4/27/2024 - Ajnate wrote:

Opening act to 1996 Bordeaux tasting. Perfect bottle. Perhaps just past prime but bursting with minerals and seashells. Loved it.

4/27/2024 - tbrader wrote:

Hitting a bad streak with this wine. Last bottle was corked. This one has an oaky dignified nose. But the fruit is weak and the finish is watery. Very unlike these Hall cabs on a typical day.