Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Lemon and lemon peel with background apple. Bright and very powerful for its level. A great Bourgogne.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. What a great Chablis Villages. Apple and lemon with a lean start and richer finish. Very good balance. Great value wine.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Pleasant and simple.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Great stuff, but slightly corked.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Still wonderfully fresh with apple and pear along with lemon curd. Good weight, very good balance.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Very ripe and very dense. So much here, but none of those things are subtle. Flashy, fleshy, but slightly lacking energy.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Very long and complex, even if imperfectly balanced. Very powerful finish. I liked this much more tonight vs when last tasted 3 years ago.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Lots going on here, in fact too much. Rich and tropical with impressive weight, but not quite harmonious right now. Upside?

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Lots of grapefruit with tart lemon and ginger. Good+ length. A bit extreme, but a nice value wine.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Subdued lemon and lime in very god balance.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. From magnum. Baked apple and dried apricot with botrytis hints. As always for Bongran, this is complex and eccentric. Very good weight.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Very rich and concentrated with lots of ripe stone and orchard fruit. Yet this is almost elegant and clearly balanced. Not exactly my preferred style of Chardonnay, but very good and well made in its style.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Lean citrus aromas with similar flavors that are restrained but powerful. Long, energetic finish that I really enjoyed.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Ripe red and black cherry, nicely mature, very old school elegance. Good weight and length. Very good now, stayed at the same level for several hours, and likely to drink well for another decade+.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. More black vs red fruit with still firm tannins to start, then more balanced and harmonious a few hours later. Much better after open several hours vs when tasted earlier in the evening. Upside from here.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Tasted several times in the evening. Black fruit and very meaty. Very densely concentrated with a rich start, more firm finish. No fear of this getting tired any time in the next 10 years.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Ripe red and black cherry with good weight and lots of elegance for this ripe vintage. Identical to the bottle tasted the day before.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Very ripe red cherry on nose and palate with sweet baking spice and background cherry cola. Nicely fresh. Good+ weight. Slightly sweeter finish than I would prefer.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Lots of black fruit with good density, but with a slightly drying finish. This had been open for several hours and decanted before tasted, and I am wondering if this got too much air. I liked this much more when last tasted 5 years ago.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Ripe black and red berry aromas and flavors with savory spice. Clearly ripe throughout, but still very good balance. Good+ length. Good now, with some possible upside in another year or two.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Very enticing aromas with plenty of floral and spice notes along with red cherry, aging gracefully. Moderate weight, good length, very good balance.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Ripe black plum, cassis and roasted meat with both sweet and savory spice. Rich and powerful start that still easily manages balance. Lots of power on long finish. Still too young, but 93-95 point potential.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Mature black fruit with woodsy spice and tobacco. Tannins still a little more firm than I'd prefer.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Lots of powerful and ripe black fruit, still fleshy and big with nuanced hints that are barely starting to emerge. Very good now, with upside?

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Black cherry and currant with espresso and dark chocolate hints. Exceptional balance with sneaky structure and length. My favorite wine tonight for its enjoyment now.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Massively unctuous and ultra concentrated with so much fruit that I find it a little too sweet and slightly off balance. A few sips are enjoyable, but I couldn't enjoy much more.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Enjoyable aromas with ripe fruit and balancing savory spice. Riper palate with a sweeter and imperfectly balanced finish.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Slowly maturing black currant with cassis, tobacco and espresso notes. Seems like a fine Left Bank Bordeaux with such refinement.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note.Robust black fruit with endearing mint and eucalyptus notes, just a bit of new oak still seems to protrude.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Ripe black fruit, slightly meaty with good concentration. Less nuance vs the other DC 99s just tasted.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Past its peak.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note.So ripe and nicely concentrated, but oaky and one-dimensional to me. I didn't quite enjoy the wine, but it was probably my favorite of the 3 vintage vertical.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Borderline monstrous for my palate.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Not exactly a wine I can enjoy. The best I can say is that it's better than the 2005.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Very modern and getting slightly tired, but overall a pleasant sip of wine, even if this isn't the style of wine I enjoy.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Very extreme in its modern style. Too much cola, too little nuance.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Not my style of wine. Extremely ripe, extremely lacking subtlety.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Very enjoyable with ripe fruit and good balance. But I didn't find any of the nuanced attributes I associate with Côte-Rôtie. Probably best to enjoy young.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Maturing red cherry with faint Asian five spice. Good weight and length, better balance. Faint bitter edge on finish, otherwise very finessed.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Big and brawny Yquem with honeycomb and lots of power. Less complexity than I recall from before, but it's been at least a decade since I've had this wine. I had greater expectations, so will need to try it again soon.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Engaging floral start with spice and fresh apricot. Great nose, good palate with similar flavors and good weight and length. Upside from here.

Social walk-around tasting, brief note. So much going on here. Dense and concentrated, yet already complex and layered. Very long, bright finish. Yum now, with upside.