3/11/2022 - Rimbe wrote:

Great wine, 20 years too young. Anyone scoring this now is a clairvoyant or a zealot.

4/17/2020 - Rimbe Does not like this wine:

I bought this bottle many years ago, at the dawn of my interest in wine. I heard mostly negative noise on the producer in the interim, but never bumped into their wines at tastings (that was a clue I suppose). I opened this bottle tonight to form my own view.

The nose is dark and raspy in character, dominated by malt vinegar. It is somewhat heavy and lumbering. Richebourg with none of the Vosne. It is also muddled - an out-of-sync orchestra whose notes can't clearly be heard. There is perhaps a slight floral element (violets?); that helps, but only faintly. Three hours later it hasn't unfurled much of anything.

The palate is where things get really bad. Every time I take a sip, I wince. It is short and astringent. It does not contain anything I can describe as a flavour.

This is a resolutely subpar Richebourg 2010, and I am happy I listened to my friends and didn't buy from this producer over time. Thank you, friends.

I suggest you follow their advice. I don't usually write tasting notes (those under my name are my wife's), but I felt this deserved a public health warning.

1/5/2019 - Rimbe wrote:

(Dr. Chan Dinner at Oswald’s)
Fairy tale landing on Mars.
On the nose, it’s a wonderful, poignant, explosive wine, yet carefully balanced and seamless.
On the mouth, it’s smooth, melting. It starts with sparkling strawberries, various spices, and leaves with us with crackling Mars in all the magic one can imagine.

1/5/2019 - Rimbe wrote:

(Dr. Chan Dinner at Oswald’s)
On the nose peanut butter, petrol, manure.
On the mouth, grass and mud, petrol. It’s a strong, tough wine but its charm is indubitable.

1/5/2019 - Rimbe wrote:

(Dr. Chan Dinner at Oswald’s)
An ever young, freshly-flowing waterfall (pure, crisp) wrapped in gold.
A dance of silver and gold, sparkling together - sparkling like the bubbles jumping out of the waterfall.
Within a few seconds, it has disappeared, not out of shortness but teasing us to stay alert and eager for us to find its gold lining.

1/5/2019 - Rimbe wrote:

(Dr. Chan Dinner at Oswald’s)
Petrol, chestnut with some amber fruit. A touch of tight leather. Its nose continues seamlessly to the mouth.
The end of the mouth leaves you with shattered glass with a sprinkling of dust.

10/13/2018 - Rimbe wrote:

(Dinner at the China Club, Hong Kong)

It is a good, solid, straightforward, (solid = for any wine drinker) wine. There is a mix of oak, crumbling rocks, and grape almost turning cherry.
An old man yawning in a rocking chair.

Leave it to decant for two hours before drinking.

8/17/2018 - Rimbe wrote:

(Dinner at Da Dominico)

This wine is simply exceptional. It is simple, humble, raw and elegant. It is the godfather of wine.

Eberose, Apple, cinders with a hint of mushroom.

A moment to be treasured and a privilege to have known.

8/6/2018 - Rimbe wrote:

(At Sushi Sase with Ross and a girlfriend)

A highly mineral wine with butter cups and melon.

On the nose, there is a smooth, full butter cup, over lined with melons and finished with light silver sparkles. The nose is true to the mouth, it follows and blossoms in the mouth. It is a wonderful, virtuous and ethereal wine, if a person, this would be Peter Pan.

8/5/2018 - Rimbe wrote:

(Dinner at home, on a Sunday)
An intense and provocative wine. Highly enjoyable, needs to be surrounded by laughter and flirtation. With rose, cedar tree, petrol and musk.

On the nose, there is an strong petrol and musk smell, which on taste bursts into an intense rose surrounded by smouldering ash from cedar trees. The wine dances mercilessly on the tongue. A valiant and ageing gypsy living amongst the cedar trees, romancing at sunset.

7/13/2018 - Rimbe wrote:

(Da Domenico) An impeccably refined wine, leather, honey and hint of tomato leaf and ash.
While enjoying it, one is watching the plains after a fox hunt; briskness from morning air and strong country walk. Viewing over plains just thoroughly pounded by a fox hunt; the horse and fox hair are very noticeable. Hints of honey from the meadows.
Satisfaction after a glorious victory.

6/30/2018 - Rimbe wrote:

(At home) It felt like walking thru a dark forest of bark trees with newly settled moss.
It had a deep velvet smoothness, and kept a freshness to it. The bark of a tree at first taste, which floates to orange and a bark spice finish.

6/13/2018 - Rimbe wrote:

(Samer and Evelyne in Clarke’s) Grass and daisy climbing through a church floor, climbing up the Organ. Making its way thru the white keys and wooden splints.
It’s a majestic and simple wine: wood, cathedral, the smoke of a candle blown out.

6/13/2018 - Rimbe wrote:

(Drank with Samer and Evelyne, Clarke’s) A metallic sprightly green with orange. It takes you to an Alice in Wonderland garden with a giant rabbit nipping at you, and the pleasure is all the more. The fantasy of the unreal made pleasurable is a constant draw.

5/31/2018 - Rimbe Likes this wine:

(Aoki Singapore) Argentée, i am not sure how best to translate; a taunting elegant silver lining from beginning to end; does not reveal itself, not because it cannot but wishes to remain modest.
The first smells of a spring forest with slightest hints of orange and as it opens, the peach appears.