4/23/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Amazing and delicious with braised lamb shanks at the seder. Wine as before.

4/15/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Unusual to find a well aged Medoc available by the glass - at Restaurant Didon on Rue du Dragon. C.Aubell has it on the nose.

4/14/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Singing right now this big stout guy. Will be delightful in 2029 but who wants to wait Delicious with the ris de veau at Allard on St André des Arts.

4/10/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

This was a wine-by-the-glass at the restaurant Au Pere Louis in the 6th arrondisement, and it had me shaking my head. How could a wine with no particular geographical distinction be this good. Fruity and smooth, a mouthful of charm, 8.50 euros by the glass and probably not much more by the bottle wherever it’s available here.

4/4/2024 - mazik wrote:

Deliciously corse, with a bit of barnyard on the nose followed by dark fruit.

3/27/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

lots of fruit salad, almost intoxicating bouquet of strawberry and raspberry aromas, mostly spice on the palate, medium finish

3/22/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Rich and powerful, not the greatest amarone ever, but delicious with lemon/almond pasta.

3/19/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

as before

3/19/2024 - mazik wrote:

Eccch!

3/12/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

As before. At $80 for eight bottles it's great QPR.

3/1/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Terrific stuff! Flowers, violets, and black fruit on the bouquet but the palate is dark chocolate and eucalyptus, long finish.

2/24/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Charming, fruity but crunchy, with a heavyweight note, a contralto rather than a soprano, quite delicious with food.

2/21/2024 - mazik wrote:

Yummy as before. Caspernick's review below has the finest grain of note on the wine, but it's pure pleasure to drink especially as a $14 purchase from LastBottle.

2/19/2024 - mazik wrote:

Didn't get the petrol off taste in this bottle, it was more like, as someone said, a baby Meursault.

2/16/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Agree with Manson's note about the wine, it's silky and fruity. Just not wild about its being $22 a glass at the Harvard Club but the alternatives are last year's pinot noir.

2/13/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

This time it comes off as fruity the fruit bomb. Very full, lots of raspberry and strawberry in the nose and on the palate with the forest floor notes receding into the background. Enjoyable, made me remember what I like about new world pinot.

2/10/2024 - mazik wrote:

The rosé is an 85/15 mix of chardonnay and pinot noir, the latter providing the light salmon color in the glass, nose had strawberry and raspberry notes, palate was crunchy with citrus, lotsa tiny bubbles, medium finish. But it tastes like one integrated thing rather than a moving target. Served as an aperitif with a bunch of nibbles: marcona almonds, duck grieben, rillettes de canard and spiced tuna on endive. I continued to drink it with the cassoulet and it went perfectly well with it.
Wish I had a case of this!

2/1/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Excellent unpretentious cote de rhone. As before, it's very herbal but it's integrated with the red fruits and chocolate and forest floor. There are bad bottles, we had one or two, but for the most part the wine does not disappoint.

2/4/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Brilliant, bubbly, elegant chardonnay flavors. Yum!

2/4/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

The first red wine at the cassoulet dinner. As before, did not disappoint, though my picky son the somm said it was "a little hot." Well it's a 14.5% abv wine, but after 15 years in bottle I felt it had mellowed.

2/4/2024 - mazik wrote:

Used first for cooking, as the wine in the braised fennel and figs. Pronounced delicious by the red-wine-shy at the cassoulet dinner.

2/4/2024 - mazik wrote:

As before

2/4/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Wonderful conclusion to the cassoulet party of 2024, a dessert wine from the Dordogne to serve with tarte au citron. Still primary with honey and almond and apricots. Gift of the Faragos who have no idea how they themselves came by it.

1/29/2024 - mazik wrote:

Jolting acidity is the first impression, then something creamy, with vaniilla and butterscotch in the aftertaste. There's also a high note I can't put my finger on which may be an unusual form of volatile acidity, not acetic acid but some long chain beast. Not over the hill at all. These old dames can be strange!

1/26/2024 - mazik Does not like this wine:

Barnyard stench out of control. As CFRANCES33 put it, "Very reductive and stinky with a manure quality" has it right on the nose. There's fruit and maybe spice on the other side of it but it certainly did not "blow off" after "twenty minutes." After well over 90 minutes I poured my glass down the drain.
But I corked up the bottle instead of pitching it. Next day I poured another glass, and it was a very different experience. The fecal bouquet was gone, just a trifle of "countryside funk," and instead there were typical pinot noir fruit aromas and flavors, raspberry and a bit of plum. Drank it with fennel/onion tarte tatin followed by semi-hard sheep cheese and cheddar.
So if you have any of this, open it at least a day before drinking it.

1/25/2024 - mazik wrote:

I don't think this bottle has cork taint like the last one but it's not an unalloyed pleasure to drink. I'm post covid so it may be me rather than the wine--though I took great pleasure last Sunday in the 2010 Arietta. So maybe I like mature bordeaux and bordeaux blends but not ones that are already into tertiary aromas and flavors.
Tried it the next day and then poured it down the drain.

1/20/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

Stunning! Still filled with jammy fruit, raspberry primarily, but some of the secondary flavors are starting to come out. Very well integrated, pure pleasure to drink with good food. Reminds me of my first taste of Chateau Latour.

1/12/2024 - mazik Likes this wine:

No detailed notes taken, but this was one terrific bottle of Fleurie, fruity, juicy, and fullbodied. Certainly very ready to drink. Later on: the nose is wild strawberries with a floral edge, violets; on the palate more red fruit, cherry and red plum, juicy, with a bit of butterscotch and cardamom, long finish.

12/24/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

Forceberry has it exactly, lots of cherries, smoke, and tar, light bodied and quite precise, with a slightly bitter finish.

12/23/2023 - mazik wrote:

What Patrick_from_Champagne said is right on target: Bright ruby, elegant nose with cherry and cassis, chocolate, a bit of spice and some vanilla. Structured, with a long finish, well balanced. It was $35 a glass at Essential by Christophe, but a wonderful glass of wine it was. Served with my cheese course.

12/18/2023 - mazik wrote:

The drying tannins were very much in evidence, more than in previous bottles, but the wine continues delicious, a bouquet of luscious fruit underpinned by juicy acidity. Great buy from Acker auction $170 for a 12-bottle case, less than $15 a bottle.

12/18/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

As before. Opened for Jeanne, who doesn't drink red wine with anything. It's like a fat rather than a lean Sancerre.

12/18/2023 - mazik wrote:

Corked!

12/15/2023 - mazik wrote:

Just singing today!

12/15/2023 - mazik wrote:

Second bottle opened, tasted just fine!

12/5/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

In honor of the new Napoleon film, we should remind ourselves of what General Cambronne is supposed to have said about the Old Guard at Waterloo: "La Garde meurt mais ne se rend pas." Well, this Old Guard isn't dead by any means: stony minerality, juicy citrus, and lots of charm.

11/27/2023 - mazik wrote:

Decent low end burgundy, a Tuesday wine. Pomegranate and cranberry on the nose and palate, juicy, light in alcohol, not very interesting at this stage or perhaps ever.

11/23/2023 - mazik wrote:

Brought to Thanksgiving with Marc and Sally's machatunim, because I thought they were from the area of the wine (Binyamin). Actually they are from Binyamina, somewhere quite different. It was a decent bordeaux-style red, nothing very special.

11/21/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

Popped and poured. First impression is of great balance: there's fruit certainly but there's also something floral in the nose, violets, and a whiff of caramel. Midtaste is good, nothing sags, and there's a sweetish finish that makes you want to have another sip. Glad I have a case of this.

11/16/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

Dark garnet in the glass. Lots of plummy fruit at the beginning of the bouquet but that quickly settles down to secondary aromas--leather and cigarbox--with some spice and forest floor. Drying tannins, just a tad, on the tongue at the beginning. 100% merlot.
Nothing off color here. This little monster seems to have survived 25 years in the bottle very nicely, but I don't propose holding it for further development. $16 each for eight in the Acker auction.

11/11/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

Good, not great.

11/2/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

One of the better wines we tasted in Firenze, with taglialini with porcini and truffles at Trattoria Vasari.

10/18/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

We had a bottle of this with the Dichters at Trattoria Vasari and it did not disappoint. Not a great wine but one that everyone liked.

11/2/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

Great sangiovese wine delicious with pasta. Drunk as a half bottle with our first meal in Firenze. I love the fact that wine in Firenze costs about as much for a bottle as a glass does in New York.

11/2/2023 - mazik wrote:

as before.

11/1/2023 - mazik wrote:

I got cherries and more cherries, and then some porcini mushrooms.

10/27/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

Pure pleasure! A generous Sangiovese more like a baby Brunello. Fruit forward with red currant and cherry aromas with something floral like violets and a hint of vanilla. Drunk at Trattoria Vasari in Firenze.

9/27/2023 - mazik wrote:

As the last bottle as opposed to the first one, which I now think was flawed.

9/25/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

Pure deliciousness. Amazing bouquet of citrus white flowers and a tad of oak, juicy but not overly acid, balanced, great finish. Like a young Meursault.

9/18/2023 - mazik Likes this wine:

Perfect conclusion to a traditional Rosh Hashanah dinner, served with the obligatory Marian Burros plum torte. Tropical fruit, caramel, honey, offset by the bright acidity balancing its intense sweetness. Long finish. (This was an open bottle that had featured at the Monday night wine tasting as the wine of the night.) Agree that this wine will last for many years but I'm not a fan of hyperaged maderized sauternes, and I think this is now at its peak.