11/26/2022 - James Kim Likes this wine:

From memory. Stood up for several weeks and decanted off fine sediment for 1h then back into bottle. After the 1h decant, the wine was fairly tart with more cranberry and pomegranate flavors. Took about another 2h for the wine to settle down. Lovely red cherry fruit w a bit of bubblegum, herbs, bark. Excellent acids. Light+ body which gives the wine a really nice elegant texture. Drinking well after a healthy exposure to air and I liked this quite a bit. But given how long this took to open up, I think it needs more time. Open next bottle in 2-3 years at age 10 or more. 92+

6/1/2022 - kostaslonis Likes this wine:

Tasting Ground official tasting, 2006 Guigal lalala (Oinoscent): 100% Syrah, 11200 bottles total production, limestone clay rich in iron oxide, 2.3ha No decanting as suggested by Philippe Guigal, bottle uncorked at 10:00, tasted at 14:00

The wine shows high intensity in the nose, very dense profile, dark fruit, dark spice, overall a very dark core (!!!), more graphite, a touch coffee, with more time in the glass you get some toffee next to prunes and plums.

In the palate, the wine is still tight, the oak is very much upfront, spice, coffee, tannins are tight, the fruit needs some time to emerge showing fresh juicy cherries and currants, full body and long finish

This is the most backward of all, still needs time

4/9/2019 - acyso wrote:

Dinner at MingHin (Chicago, IL): Disgorged July 2018. So interesting to taste this with this wine from jeroboam still fresh in my mind. This bottle is more prickly, with some of the high-toned white florals that I don't particularly care for. There is nice minerality here, but this is definitely not as well-integrated as the glass I had from the large-format bottle.

5/31/2018 - winemaker wrote:

To me, this was just ok. Not bad at the price point, but definitely meant to be consumed young.