Tasted double blind. Floral and ripe orchard fruit with baked apple hints. Very long and powerful. Immediately recognized as white Burgundy, and incredibly similar to the Boillot '14 CC served at the prior blind tasting a few weeks back. Upon reflection I thought it slightly riper, so changed my answer from 2014 to 2012.

Tasted double blind. Red cherry and berry with baking spice. Plenty of new oak still pronounced. Good balance with an elegant finish and very good cellaring potential. Easily identified as Pinot Noir, but I thought it from Burgundy (Vosne from a more modern-styled producer) given the balance and lack of heat on finish.

Tasted double blind. Easily my favorite wine of the tasting. Also easily identifiable as from Burgundy from a ripe vintage. Black and red berries throughout. Intensely floral with great spice and concentration. So elegant and texturally charming that I was shocked when this was unveiled as from 2003.

Tasted double blind. Nicely mature black cherry with earth and background spice hints. Moderate concentration and length. Didn't show Leroy's telltale perfume. I was going back-and-forth between this coming from Burgundy or Northern Rhone, and erred in the wrong direction because I thought the previous two wines were red Burgundy. Thought it 2001 Chave Hermitage. This wine perplexed many of tonight's tasters.

Tasted double blind. Black cherry, some red cherry, savory spice. Very elegant textures while also dense, most notably on finish. I guess I should have been able to identify this wine since I just drank it 3 nights earlier at a Giacosa/Gaja dinner. But I had made the decision that I would identify everything as from either US or France to avoid overthinking the wines and confusing myself. So I thought it Bordeaux, 1998 Palmer.

Tasted double blind. Black fruit, lots of power and savory spice. Very concentrated and powerful, so i liked the potential here a lot. But it is very firm right now, in need of another decade+ in the cellar. I correctly identified this as Bordeaux, but didn't get 2000's ripeness so thought 2001 left bank.

Tasted double blind. Very large black fruit aromas and flavors with a hint of liqueur. Very long and powerful, while also well integrated and balanced. I was easily able to identify this as a very well made Napa Cabernet, but was out of my element after that. I liked this a lot.

Tasted double blind. Ripe black fruit that I found borderline over-ripe and over-extracted for my preferences. After lots of confusion, the spice profile led me to realizing it was a New World Syrah blend, but I didn't even think about Australia. Very well made in its style, but not a style I typically enjoy.