Lots here, just (maybe) not yet? So much orchard fruit but with an austere edge.

Still wonderful, but one of the more mature examples of this wine I have tasted. Interesting in its evolution, with apple, pear, poached pear, and earth notes, this still retains its long and fun finish.

This had just been opened, it was massively reductive. Aromas were actually more forthcoming than the palate, and there was wonderful substance following behind the reduction, but the full potential was tough to assess tonight.

Tasted from magnum. A great 2015, this is wonderfully fresh while also wonderfully ripe. Long and texturally exciting finish.

So much green and yellow apple with plenty of lemon, this is so bright and vibrant and long. This wine just keeps getting better, or perhaps I just didn't fully appreciate its potential in its youth. Upside from here.

Big, exciting, and racy with lots here. Complex and layered already, this seemed ready for prime time already now. Seemed much more composed and generous vs when tasted 6 months ago.

From magnum. I am so glad I gave this enough time and tried the wine a couple of times through the evening. This was ripe but unforthcoming to start (despite it being decanted in advance), but slowly and begrudgingly emerged into a rich beauty with caramel apple and honeycomb coming through after an hour or so in glass.

From magnum. This wine has never thrilled me, and tonight's was consistent. Fully mature with lots of red and black cherry throughout, but also still more firm than I would consider ideal.

What a treat. OK, not nearly as exciting as the 1990 from a few nights ago, or as perfectly composed as the 1982 that same night, but this has the stuffing and finesse to stand alongside those vintages. A great wine that is just now really finding its feet.

From magnum. Ripe apple and peach, still floral and well spiced with a dollop+ of earth just adding more complexity. Still fresh enough, which not common for JN Gagnard at this age. Really a great wine tonight.

So much apple, so finessed and complex already, I can't wait to taste this wine when really ready 2026 forward.

I haven't tasted this wine in the past decade, and still find it both amazing while amazingly backward. I am so excited about its vast potential, but patience is still required.

Why did somebody open this so early? Even with three hours of air. I guess because they could. Brilliant concentration, backward in the middle, then finishing with a flourish of sorts. Great potential, probably 2030 forward. I am so glad I have two bottles in the cellar.

I am upset I have none left. Rich, complex, layered, and elegant, this epitomizes why/ how 2013s are so great today.

Almost identical to the bottle from a few days earlier, this is rich and hedonistic, just not as complex or layered vs what I might hope for.

Brilliant aromas are classically Vosne styled, just slightly lightweight on the palate for Vosne Grand Cru from a vintage like 1993. Very good now. My first time tasted this wine in this vintage, but I do own a bottle and am noe curious.

I really like this wine, but others love it. I always find it big and flashy, but it has never spoken "Volnay" to me. Same tonight.

I tasted this wine for the first time ever in late 2022 and was so underwhelmed, so am excited about tonight's bottle Still backward, but so powerful with a full tank of gas. Rich and voluminous.

Tasted just after the 2002, this slightly disappointed. Still very big but the oak dominated tonight. Previous bottles were much better, but I don't think cellar age is this wine's friend.

I must admit I have never really understood Haut-Brion blanc, so wasn't surprised that I enjoyed this less than others tonight. I found it fun and lively, but that isn't what any of us want/ expect at this level and price.

Wonderfully rich and still very exciting.

Mature and earthy, this is a wine that has never really performed well (for me) through the decades, and tonight's bottle was similarly enjoyable, but nothing more.

For me, 2002 was when Sine Qua Non was going from a very good to great producer. This continues to be a nearly great wine with dense, fleshy back fruit that is still reasonably fresh with subtle spice, faint complexity, and good+ concentration.

While I consistently find Chapoutier to be inconsistent, this 1989 Pavillon has consistently been great and prototypically Hermitage for the past twenty years. A ripe and gracefully maturing powerhouse.

From 375 ml bottle. Sweet without anything cloying, this was easy to enjoy with its earthy peach melba notes.