6/6/2023 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

Started rather closed but opened to a beautifully engaging wine. Dark fruited. After opening, presented an interesting blend of lush balanced fruit and still puckering tannins to finish. Blackberries and dark plum. Drying savoury finish.

1/4/2023 - nwebstar wrote:

Sensational. Everything you want Bordeaux to be. Very dark and black fruited. Blackberries and cassis. Intense and piercing but with a firm classic inky structure alluding to elegance. Wonderfully complex drinking experience, chocolate, violets, truffles, cigar, meats. Not a single guest could resist rushing for another pour.

12/1/2022 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

Superb. Very young but suited as accompaniment to fresh seafood and seafood pasta on sunny spring day. Peerless yellow green colour. Very steely and mineral and elegantly closed a little with youth but everything in perfect balance. You could still detect a hint of lovely white flower and melon roundness balancing the more steely firm acidity. Stunned on the day and expect it will continue to do so.

8/16/2022 - azzah Likes this wine:

Definitely one of the best RBPs in recent years. Real balance and deliciousness here. It’s more red fruited - berries and cherries, but blackberry and plum make an appearance too, with some salt bush, vanilla, spice and a hint of pepper. There’s Barossan fruit depth there, but it’s almost medium bodied in its approach. I like the cohesiveness here - I feel like there’s been a few vintages lately that have been a bit arms and legs, whether this feels more complete. So drinkable.

11/23/2022 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

Bordeaux 2019 Langtons Arrival Tasting: While I’m talking somewhat prospectively this was WOTN for me. This showed the greatest classical structure. Had great depth of flavour and fruit with a beautiful firm young structure. It was piercing and complex. Dark fruited with licqorice, spices, violets and dark chocolate.

9/28/2022 - BenBlu wrote:

Again not rated, having kept a bit of last nights bottle people deemed the wine not clean and another was ordered but the result was the same, perfect cork, provenance etc but just not a Pinot at this point I am afraid. Jammy, heavy and heady, painful to drink even… I fear to say it but to me it’s picked too late.

10/17/2022 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

Drank a few times over a couple of days with bottle (aeration) variability - this note is kind of an amalgam of the experiences.

Intense, deep and a structure suggesting many years till at its best. Blueberries, Blackberries and Black currants with cigar and pencil allusions.
I thought might be more rounded given the vintage but still has a lovely tightness/tension. After longer in the glass there were hints of cinnamon or baked fruit spices.

8/4/2022 - jardinkp Likes this wine:

Acidity, mineral, all kinds of nose, mainly lemon and herb and where they all meet to disappear show this isn't just a mere pouilly fuisse.
Very subtle balance, and also very hard not to like this bottle.

3/24/2022 - Vinnut Likes this wine:

Deep, dark, inky reddish-purple garnet in color; essentially opaque. Full, forward & fragrant nose of ripe fruit aromas of cherries, blackberries & dark currants with overtones of earthy/dusty & floral notes of violets, spices, dried herbs, mocha & a hint of cedar in the background. Medium-full bodied with very good concentration of well balanced and smooth textured, plush, ripe fruit flavors of dark cherries, blackberries & plums with dark cocoa, spices, herbs & minerals. Lingering finish. Drinks quite well at present with decanting & extended airing although it needs time to development further with additional aging.

11/28/2021 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

Special lunch party - best of Australia vs France (Ravensdale Farm): Flawed. Ultra disappointing as under stelvin. Has spent most of life in perfect cellar conditions

5/24/2020 - CharlesHK wrote:

First of a case of six; started drinking after my wife and I finished our last bottle of 2004. Purchased at a steep discount; provenance excellent, composite cork perfect. Decanted for three hours; served at about 17 degrees. 12.9% alcohol, which in most places, I guess, would be labelled maybe 13%. Hmmm.

Colour: dark ruby; lighter around the rim.
Nose: pure black currant. Text book black currant. Wow, so much black currant fruit.
Body: light to medium bodied; not nearly as "plush" as 2004. Lean and tight, but not austere.
Texture: light to light medium mouthfeel, no real depth or richness. Almost the body and texture of a Cru Beaujolais from a vintage other than 2015 or 2009.
Flavour: a lot of black currant; slightly sour dark cherries, tartness, which I haven't experienced from Mount Mary before this vintage.

Based on my experience with the 2004 vintage, I think this wine could benefit from a couple of years of proper cellaring. It will never be a rich or plush wine, but I don't really expect that from Mount Mary. But I do expect a little more full flavour, which this wine doesn't present at the moment. I also expect a bit more interesting development over the course of a meal. This didn't offer that. It is very linear, slightly tart, and focused like a laser. It was more of the same throughout the meal.

It is well crafted: there is no thin, mean green weediness to this wine which I could easily see happening with other makers. But. . .

Let's see this wine again in 2022.

6/24/2021 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

Most unusual and unpredictable wine in recent YY 2019 Virtual Tasting. Confronting in its fragrance and perfume. Initially hit the palate with sweet, mixed Berry and cherry jubey quality. Someone called out Cherry Liqueur and was not off the mark. Quite unique. Had a coolness and racy acidity - i.e. the sweetness contained not sappy. Going back in 2hrs to finish small remnant samples this wine had definitely evolved and integrated the most - much for the better. Far more balanced and enjoyable - probably deserves another point

11/6/2020 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

What a difference a day makes - strange because wine had been coravin’d night before so theoretically not breathing. Suddenly the wine had more freshness/lift and depth. The fruit was there, the complexity was there but all within this beautifully feminine wine. A really special wine experience - a thing of beauty. Classic dark fruit and soft savoury secondary notes - cigar, olive, cedar. Now this ‘pretty thing’ also presented with character and allure.

1/3/2021 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine:

With Luc Meyer's Steak au Poive from Left Bank, Vail, went perfectly! For a 30 year-old wine, incredibly young and vibrant, still dark garnet and opaque, with no brown at the edges. The aroma is immediate and powerful upon pouring...sweet cassis and blackberries, with beautiful toasty French oak. No significant herbal notes. Lots of dark fruit but sweet flavors, intense but also round and perfectly balanced, not coarse or heavy. Late palate and aftertaste show some licorice and a bit of heat, but the flavors linger for a minute. This is as great as Bordeaux gets in the glass...glad we have a few more bottles! Drink, but may hold longer.
Ric

1/3/2018 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

A truly X factor experience. I was intrigued when I came across this bottle in my cellar recently because my sense was the colour seemed remarkably pristine for its age. My hunch proved more right than I could have imagined. The wine was so gently evolved, so smooth, so elegant, so floral, so enticing and so moorish. The colour (unsurprisingly) showed a little yellowing depth of age but more youthful than expected. Flavour spectrum was floral and gentle melons. I can’t pretend it isn’t probably beyond peak. Perhaps my score reflects the surprise and relative to expectation out performance but every guest was jumping back for more and the bottle was emptied in a flash. It was just such a delightful experience.

5/27/2020 - Jason Wu Likes this wine:

Appearance: deep ruby
Nose: medium plus intensity; aromas of toast, black pepper, cedar, tobacco, chocolate, cloves, chinese 5 spices, blackcurrant, pencil shave. It's developing.
Palate: dry, high acidity, high tannins (fine-grained), medium alcohol, medium plus body, medium plus flavour intensity. Palate aligns with nose perfectly. The finish is medium plus.
Overall, it's a very good wine. Can drink now, has potential for further ageing.
A wine with elegance and grace. If you like intense fruit bomb, it is NOT your go to wine. It starts very closed and tight initially, but after 4 hours decanting, the wine opens up and could be easily mistaken as an elegant wine from Margaux, with charming pencil shave, earth and cedar spices. It's a sleeping beauty right now. It would be much better in another 3-5 years, except I don't have another bottle...
PS. On day 2, there is some development of leather, loads of tobaccos, subtle game and truffle characters on the nose. The fruits come through more on the palate. This can stand against many classified growth in Medoc comfortably. Decided to increase the rating to 95. This wine will be better and better with further ageing.

7/14/2020 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

Excellent wine. Balance and elegant (alongside Coonawarra Cab Sav). Well structured with dark and blue fruit. Violets and gentle wood spices. Presented better - more complete than last tasting.

1/26/2019 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

Firstly please excuse my perhaps partly “romantic” interpretation of this special wine which has been sitting my cellar for years (too long??). I made my guests read DD’s profile prior to pouring but warned, given age, against too high expectations - albeit the bottle looked in especially great shape. What we got was a sublime experience of age-ability which I’m sure had DD smiling from the ether. The wine was gently golden and so beautifully still together structurally. It honestly presented as an “at peak” not over peak wine. For me the sense of “flint” was so there in addition to sparks of tropical fruits and a tinge of honey. There was actually a semillon-esque feel to it. Everyone gushed. A special experience!!! (Side note: this was so much more alive and fresh than the 2004 Brunello same night)

10/25/2017 - nwebstar Likes this wine:

Really gorgeous complete blockbuster (in a Bordeaux sense) of a wine. Deep, rich, brooding but still pure. Very fresh still. Holds its 14%+ alcohol with an uncannily cool grace. Definite WOTN in Rauzan v Canon vertical night.

6/9/2013 - nwebstar wrote:

Served on Emirates flight - disappointing to my expectations of the vintage and wine. Surprisingly thin and generally lacking flavour and character - simply not much going on at all. Nothing technically wrong and pleasant but nothing special - tasted like a much lesser vintage wine.