Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Multi vintage blend with 2015 as its base. Apple, almond butter and toasted baguette with chalky mineral notes. Good+ weight and textures.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Fleshy fruit with rich, creamy textures and good weight and length, and a simple finish.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Peaches with some lemon curd. All Roussanne with a richness I found slightly extreme, giving it a slightly sweeter finish than I'd prefer.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Intensely floral with peach and candied orange peel and honeycomb. Good energy throughout, but best to enjoy young while fruit remains this fresh and vibrant.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. From 3L. Very floral with stone and tropical fruit, yet restrained and well textured. Botrytis hints add another layer of nuance.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. From magnum. Still nicely fresh with apple flavors and aromas that are maturing gracefully with notes of almond butter and lemongrass.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. From magnum. Nicely floral and slightly opulent. Plum orchard fruit with good weight and length, ending in both a tart and sweet finish.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Slight reduction is barely distracting. Apple, ginger and toasted brioche. Good+ weight. Bright acid and mineral driven finish.

From magnum. So sad, slightly corked.

Rich black and red fruit, gracefully mature with slowly cooked mushroom, leather and braised meat. Good+ weight and a very long, persistent finish that kept going and unfolding. What an amazing treat, with this taste so generously shared by the Côte-Rôtie producers, so clearly this bottle had not traveled far in its life.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Ripe, fun and very inviting in the style of modern wines. Black plum, cassis with anise, espresso and vanilla. Very easy to enjoy.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Ripe black fruit aromas with sweet spice, perhaps coming across as too ripe, but then more restrained and powerful on palate with impressive concentration, weight and length. Lots of complex and ripe black fruit here.

Slightly soft cork fell in, but fell in whole, so didn't make a mess. Fully mature red cherry with good density and ripeness with plenty of mushroom and earth plus sweet spice. Good weight, very good length.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. From 6L directly from the domaine. Yellow pear, mint tea, and lemon peel with a long, minerally finish.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Vintage came through very clearly with plenty of very ripe orchard fruit with good weight. Not so subtle.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Bright black fruit with a spice driven start and a precise, long minerally finish. Very good already.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Nothing shy here, this hits you over the head with rich, jammy fruit, then some more rich, jammy fruit.

So much great stuff here, but for today very reductive. I would be exciting to taste this wine tomorrow!

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. From magnum. Dark fruit, still brooding.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Nicely floral with red cherry throughout. Slightly lighter than I'd prefer and with some faint green notes of the vintage.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. From 3L directly from the domaine. Odd, I've had this wine before and it had thrilled me. Plenty of orchard fruit with sweet styled spice. Today's jero started out lush, then finished with a bitter twist. Perhaps I was getting tired.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. Lots of black and red fruit, but this also came across as slightly dirty.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. From 3L. Lots of grapefruit and grass with an interesting combination of ripe and tart elements. I preferred the 2015.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. From 3L. Riper than 2015 with more density. Lemon and apple here with very good length and balance.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. From 6L at the domaine. Black and blue fruit with anise and black pepper. Good weight, then sneaky good+ length and a well balanced, persistent finish. I enjoyed this more today vs last time tasted 4 years ago.

Brief note from memory, tasted earlier today. From 6L brought by the Ramonets. Lots of ripe apple with sweet spice and mint, and faint tropical hints. So much power this that everything remains wonderfully fresh and balanced, despite the clear ripeness. Very good length.