Flowers and grass in the bouquet. Fresh citrus acidity and also a hint of sweetness. Ok wine.

Textbook Chenin Blanc with good minerals. Not very complex.

This is an oaked wine. Completely closed at the moment. There is good acidity. Give it a few years to open up. 84+

Primary cherry fruits in the bouquet as well as the mouth. Ok fruity wine. Not for the long term.

Thanks to the oak and concentration this wine offers a pleasant bite. Cherries, blackberries and other berry fruits in the taste. Already pleasant, but certainly a future of 3+ years.

The wine lost all its fruit. It is still drinkable, but past its prime. No score.

Something special. A bit vegetal. Locked at the moment. Tastes like white Rhone wines.

Primary red cherries. Tastes like Beaujolais/Macon wines. Fruity without complexity.

Good ripe fruits. Dark cherries and other dark as well as some red fruits. Pleasant sweetness and a long finish. Can age a few years. Good qpr.

Full bodied. Ripe fruits; dark as well as red. Pleasant dose of oak and sweetness. Soft tannin and open. Long finish. Pleasant already, but it can age 3 - 5+ years as well. 85+

Firm wine with soft yellow fruits and a firm dose of oak. Imo the white C9 is the best this domain produced in 2008.

Easy going, fruit forward Rhone wine. Average, like 13 in a dozen wine. Just an easy drinker.

Light bodied style. A lot of bitterness. Disappointing wine.

Fresh citrus and some tropical fruits. Clean wine.

Fresh citrus, grass, minerals. Ok wine.

Citrus, banana and other tropical fruits. Good minerals; chalk.

Dry. A lot of minerals and citrus. Very young. Needs a few years.

Already beautiful. Soft citrus and pleasant use of oak, which is already integrated.

Most complex wine I tasted from this domain. A lot of minerals and good citrus.

Fresh citrus. Grass. Some light tropical flavors. A nice glass of wine.

A lot of primary dark and red fruits. For the rest there is not much to discover. Definitely and ok wine. Will probably improve with a few years of ageing, but will never be great.

Interesting bouquet with oak and a lot of black fruits. On the palate a lot of dark cherries and dark berry fruits. A mouth full of wine with a lot of tannin and bitterness, both of good quality. Needs many years to mature; 5 - 10 years will not be a problem. 88 for now and that might be higher in the future.

Medium to full bodied but not very outspoken. The wine is locked at the moment or just not really special and interesting. The 2006 is a completely different wine. For the moment 83.

What a difference compared to 2005. This wine is expressive and has a lot of well dosed toasted oak. Enough citrus acidity and fruits to back it up. Lovely already, but the oak will integrate a bit more and then it might even be nicer.

Light bodied, a lot of sour cherries and unripe raspberries. Might go well with a tomato based dish, but without food this is not an interesting wine.

Light bodied and the bitterness is dominant at the moment. This is all I wrote down except for a score.

Pleasant oak. Strawberries. Some pleasant sweetness. A nice wine with some complexity.

Elegant. Well dosed oak. Red forest fruits. Already a very nice wine that can last a few more years.

Very special wine. Bananas and other tropical yellow fruit flavors.

Not many specific notes, but this is really a luxurious wine. Full bodied, toasted oak and soft tropical fruits that can handle the oak. Great wine! 92+

Juicy, ripe black and some red fruits. Firm dose of good oak. Pleasant sweetness. Needs a few years. 86+

Concentrated wine with a firm dose of sweetness. Primary fruits. Sticky tannin. Locked at the moment and not showing much. Needs several (3+) years. 87+

Spices and some medicine in the bouquet. Sweet ripe fruits and a firm dose of oak and bitterness. Give it 3+ years of rest.

Very full bodied and concentrated, but also elegant. Loaded with soft ripe fruits and firm but soft good tannin. This is something special. The price is as well. Can last many years. 93+

Cherries and pleasant oak. No more notes, just a score. Needs 3+ years.

Full bodied, complex and elegant. Red fruit and herbs and spices. Beautiful balance between sweetness and acidity. 92+

Probably locked at the moment. Lacking a bit in body and structure. For the rest a textbook Bdx of Cru Bourgeois quality.

Really an elegant wine which offers pleasant drinking already. Medium bodied at best. 86+

A wine I never saw before. Impressive! A lot of toasted oak and ripe red fruits as well as some cassis in the bouquet as well as the taste. Very concentrated. Good balance between sweetness and acidity. A great and complex modern made wine. 91+

Tasted from ½ bottle. Exclusive bouquet with good dark flavors of cassis, plums and coffee. Pleasant oak. Same in the taste. Medium to full bodied. Soft tannin. Elegant as well. Already very nice drinking.

Second chance and again I did not make many notes. In fact the same as last year. Good and elegant wine, but not as full bodied and classical as it used to be a long time ago. Still a very ok wine.

One impression overruled all the others: strawberry. Almost like concentrated strawberry lemonade. Silky soft and concentrated. I will not score the wine because it is a-typical and I had/took only one sip.

A lot of toasted oak in this classical Bordeaux. Good cassis, concentration and tannin. Will offer beautiful drinking for many years. 90+