Nose: The nose is fresh and balanced with pears, apples, white fruits, minerals, and some bread notes. The nose is straight forward with medium depth.

Taste: Medium bodied with medium+ acidity. The acidity is fresh and balanced with pears, apples, minerals, and a touch of bread.

Overall: This is a nice and balanced NV champagne. There is excellent freshness with a touch of bread to round things out.

Nose: The nose is fragrant and balanced with lemon peels, pears, gun flint, saline, yellow fruits, and apples. There is a pristine quality to the nose with good depth.

Taste: Medium bodied with high acidity. The acidity is refreshing and noticeable with the feel showing balance and depth along with lemon peels, gun flint, saline, and apples.

Overall: This is a pleasing and balanced Chablis. It is on the young side, but it is drinking beautifully already.

Nose: The nose is well balanced and regal with dark red cherries, cassis, cedar notes, pencil lead, leather, tobacco, and some cranberries. There is excellent depth with the nose just holding back a slight bit right now.

Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium acidity and medium+ tannins. The tannins are youthful, but silky with the feel showing a refined sense backed up with dark red cherries, cassis, cedar tones, tobacco, and cranberries.

Overall: This is a lovely, young Leoville-Barton. It needs a good 5+ years to start to fully show itself. But, it's excellent now with some air.

Nose: The nose is highly perfumed with cranberries, red berries, spice tones, kirsch liqueur, licorice, crushed rocks, leather, and some roses. There is excellent depth with this showing a balanced ripeness.

Taste: Medium bodied with medium acidity and medium+ tannins. The tannins are youthful and silky with the acidity showing a freshness. There is a lot of depth on the feel with a plushness to it backed up with cranberries, licorice, fresh picked berries, crushed rocks, kirsch, and rose petals.

Overall: This was gorgeous. Yes, it's young, but it is beautiful already and it shows the stuffing to go a good ways.

Nose: The nose shows a balanced ripeness with licorice, currants, dark red cherries, raspberries, violets, and spice tones. There is good depth and though it shows a riper side, it is still very much cabernet.

Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ tannins and medium acidity. The tannins are ripe and silky with the feel showing a plush side along with licorice, currants, dark red cherries, violets, and spice tones.

Overall: This is an excellent Cabernet from South Africa. It shows the warmer influence, but is still well balanced with dark red fruits.

Nose: The nose is immensely perfumed and rustic that is filled with bacon fat, black fruits, leather tones, earth notes, white pepper, violets, and black cherries. There is a lot of depth with the nose showing a real savoriness to it as well.

Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity and medium+ tannins. The structure is starting to resolve, but it still shows off a bit of youth. The feel is refined and deep with bacon fat, black fruits, earth tones, white pepper, violets, and black cherries.

Overall: This is a wine that thrills every single time I have it. This bottle is no different than what I've had in the past. A truly special Hermitage that also makes one sad that it isn't made anymore.

Nose: The nose is highly aromatic and filled with white peaches, minerals, pears, white fruits, white florals, and green apples. There is a lot of depth with a succulent quality to it as well.

Taste: Medium bodied with high acidity. The acidity is youthful, but refreshing with a silky feel and white peaches, minerals, pears, white florals, and green apples.

Overall: This is a fantastic Spatlese. It is extremely young, but there is tons of depth and freshness across the nose and palate.

Nose: The nose is deep and aromatic with black cherries, charcoal, leather tones, violets, perfumes, licorice, earth notes, spices, and black pepper. Even with all of the complexity, it feels like it is holding back a bit and hasn't fully unleashed itself.

Taste: Full bodied with medium+ acidity and medium+ tannins. The tannins are taught and youthful with the acidity providing a great spine. The feel is larger scaled and loaded with black cherries, charcoal, leather tones, violets, licorice, earth notes, and black pepper.

Overall: As great as it is right now, it feels like it can get better. There is a lot of depth and class that is all pure Allemand. I would love to see where this goes with age.

Nose: The nose is deep and rich with black cherries, chocolate, licorice, black tea, raisins, and spice tones. This shows off the intensity and extract that one expects from an Amarone while still being balanced.

Taste: Full bodied with medium- acidity and medium+ tannins. The structure is balanced and fairly resolved with the tannins showing a silky side and a notable presence of alcohol that is kept in check. The feel is deep, weighty, rich, yet balanced with black cherries, chocolate, black tea, and raisins.

Overall: This was drinking beautifully and was a wonderful bottle of Amarone. It showed off class and polish that a wine of this class can bring. It can age further, but it is a real joy right now.

Nose: The nose is gorgeously perfumed and deep with dried red cherries, cranberries, strawberries, licorice, anise, leather tones, rose petals, and a slight hint of menthol. There is a lot of layering and elegance that just shines through as it fills up the glass.

Taste: Medium bodied with high acidity and high tannins. While the structure leans to the high side, it is in balance and provides a great framework for the palate. The feel is refined with dried red cherries, cranberries, strawberries, anise, rose petals, and menthol tones.

Overall: This was just flat out gorgeous. It was perfumed and elegant with a way that just captured the imagination.

Nose: The nose is highly fragrant and balanced with bell peppers, tobacco, currants, leather, dark red cherries, raspberries, dust, and cocoa powder.

Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ tannins and medium acidity. The structure has turned become more with the background and has let the silky feel shine through with bell peppers, tobacco, currants, dark red cherries, raspberries, dusty notes, and cocoa powder.

Overall: This is sailing along at almost 22 years old. While the structure is starting to resolve, there is ample amount to last a good while.

Nose: The tones fill up the glass with black olives, tobacco, leather tones, black cherries, cranberries, earth tones, some potting soil, and bacon fat.

Taste: Medium bodied with medium+ acidity and medium tannins. The structure has resolved and what is left is a silky and refined feel with black olives, tobacco, black cherries, bacon fat, and earth tones.

Overall: This felt like it was at it's peak. It was absolutely gorgeous and elegant with a raw and savory side to it.