8/14/2023 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Vanilla caramel, apricot, apple, lemon marmelade and brioche. Full body well balanced with high acidity. Intensive and long on the palate. Pure joy!

5/15/2023 - Quicksand1975 wrote:

Has passed its best

2/20/2023 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Complex aroma of flowers, peaches, lemon zest, caramel and white pepper. High acidity well integrated. Very long finish. It was worth to wait.

1/25/2023 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Cassis, chocolate, cloves, and vanilla prevail in aroma. Ripe and overoaked Cabernet. Lack of complexity. Still in a good shape but much less interesting than 1999 and 2001.

1/25/2023 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Complex aroma of poppy seeds, cherries, plums, blackcurrant leaf, tobacco, and black pepper. Fine tannin structure. Warm alcohol finish. One of the best Tiara's old vintages.

11/19/2018 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Closed and shy so far

10/8/2018 - Quicksand1975 wrote:

Premature oxidation?

11/15/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Light and fresh wine with the aromas of cherries and strawberries. Some bitterness on the palate.

11/20/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Pleasant and intensive bouquet of prune, cedar, leather, dark chocolate, black pepper, and poppy seeds. Acidity is relatively high and tannins a quite intensive but soft. Prunes and chocolate on the palate, long finish. Enjoyable wine.

10/30/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Wine with a rich and intensive aroma of fully ripe cherries, red plums, blackberries, and blackcurrant, some vanilla and milk chocolate notes. Full-bodied with fresh acidity. Ripe red fruits on the palate and long finish. I really enjoyed this one.

10/30/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

A stunning wine with a rich and powerful bouquet of banana, pineapple, tangerine, melon, hazelnuts, vanilla and white pepper aromas. Full-bodied with a creamy texture and high acidity which is well-integrated. Good concentration of flavors on the palate and long finish.

9/12/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Very youthful with aromas of cherries and flowers. Fresh acidity and dry tannins. It was early to drink it now, need another year or two in the bottle.

9/26/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Heavy oaked.

9/29/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

The bottle was tasted during Margaux wine tasting and was opened three hours in advance. The bouquet is complex and deep with aromas of black currant, dark plums, milk chocolate, vanilla, nutmeg, and hazelnuts. It's full bodied with high acidity and intensive but soft and velveted tannins. Intensive on the palate with long finish. Fantastic!

7/29/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Sweet and pleasant aroma of ripe peaches, apricots, tangerines, cinnamon and white flowers. Acidity and some residual sugar are well balanced. Well done!

7/5/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

There was a lot of reduction on the nose as well as on the palate - burned rubber and farmyard, so aeration is the must. After the aeration aromas of dark berries and chocolate arose, but burned rubber note wasn't gone completely. Not the best vintage of Cuvée Prestige.

7/13/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

The wine has a rich and complex bouquet of dark berries, prunes, chocolate, licorice, balsamic and a hint of mushrooms. The tannins are intensive but rounded and pleasant. Good concentration of flavors and a long finish. One of the best samples on the vertical wine tasting of Cuvée Prestige. Drink now and later on.

7/5/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

The presence of Cabernet Sauvignon is evident; there is a lot of cassis on the nose. Tannins are dry. It is still too young, needs another year in the bottle at least.

6/30/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Fresh and unsophisticated aroma of cherries and strawberries with a hint of elderflowers. Moderate in acidity and tannins. Cherrystone bitterness in the finish. Easy summer wine.

5/30/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

The wine is still far too young to drink it now. It has pleasant aromas of cherries, red plums, and milk chocolate but the acidity is not integrated, and tannins are dry.

6/20/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

The wine has a pleasant bouquet with the pronounced aromas of black currant, blackberries and dark chocolate. The acidity is fresh, and tannins are soft. It's a really good value for money.

6/18/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Simple, with no faults

5/5/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Over the peak, still good for drink but fresh aromas and charm are almost gone.

5/3/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Rich and fresh aroma of apricotes, lemon zest, wet stones and honey with some floral notes. But the acidity is high and kind of standing apart, not fully integrated. Far too young to drink, needs at least another year in the bottle.

5/3/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Fresh citrus aroma with a hint of apricotes and flowers. Full-bodied with a high acidity. Flavours on the palate is less concentrated than you expect from aroma but still it's a very quud quality wine.

5/3/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Fresh aromas of lemon zest, ripe apricote with some hint of petrol and wet stone. High, fresh acidity and good concentration of flavours on the palate. Wonderful and still young Riesling.

5/3/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Aromas of ripe apricote, candied oranges, then developed into hazelnuts, caramel and coffee. Full-bodied with creamy texture and quite high acidity. Low flavour concentration is a bit disappointing.

4/20/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Fine and elegant but still a little bit jammy bouquet of blackcurrant, blackberries, chocolate, leather, cloves and black pepper. Full body, fresh acidity and quite an intensive tanines that just begin to mellow. Excellent concentration on the palate. Great!

4/20/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Rich and complex bouquet of dark berries and fruits, cedar, chocolate and some cheese. Full bodied with quite an intensive but smooth and velvety tannins. Truly great.

4/26/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Mature and complex bouquet of raisins, honey, dried apricotes and rose petals, mushrooms and toffee. Fresh acidity. Beautiful wine.

4/26/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Aromas of honey, flowers, apple and apricote confitures. Pleasant wine.

4/26/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Fresh and lively aromas of pears, flowers and creams. Nice!

4/26/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Lemon, white melon and honey on the nose. Lovely.

4/26/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Vegetables and dried fruits. Interesting.

4/26/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Amber colour, mature and complex bouquet of raisins, figes, mushrooms and sweet spices. Wonderful wine.

3/15/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Dark berries, prune, dry herbs, poppy seeds and some chocolade on the nose. Powerful and coarse tannines despite of two hours in decanter. Oaky sweet on the palate. Suprisingly finish is not that long. Kind of Rioja Reserva of Bordeaux.

3/15/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

The bottle was opened 2 hours in advance and decanted for one hour before the tasting.
Really impressive, complex and powerful wine with a lot of black berries and fruits, chocolate and seet spices on the nose and on the palate. Well structured. The tannines are a little bit dry to call that wine absolutely perfect.

3/15/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Powerful wine with a lot of black berries and dark chocolate on the nose. Full-bodied with pleasant structure and good concentration of flavours. Not that complex as the first wine but still impressive.

3/15/2017 - Quicksand1975 wrote:

The bottle was opened one hour before the tasting. Wine was very closed on the nose. Although tannines are ripe and pleasant. I suppose this wine should be left for one more year in the bottle.

3/15/2017 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Wine was decanted for one hour before tasting. Quite an intensive and, at the same time, elegant aroma with mainly primary aromas of black berries, but dark chocolad and sweet spices are in it too. Tannines are a bit dry but not coarse, acidity well integrated. Slightly underripe black berries and a lot of chocolate on the palate.
The wine seems to need a couple more years in the bottle but it is already enjoyable.

9/25/2016 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

(16.5/20) Насыщенный аромат айвы, белого персика, лайма, ананаса, цветов и карамели. Среднее тело, относительно высокая кислотность. Во вкусе ароматное белое яблоко, айва, белый персик, травянистая горчинка. Долгое послевкусие.

9/24/2016 - Quicksand1975 wrote:

Интенсивный рубиновый цвет. Интенсивность ароматы выше средней: гранатовый сироп, сливовый джем, молочный шоколад, ваниль, песочное печенье, черный перец, мускатный орех, тмин. Сухое, высокая кислотность, таннины выше среднего, "замшевые", ощутимый алкоголь. Тельность выше среднего. Интенсивность вкуса выше среднего: гранатовый сироп, спелая слива, джем из черники, шоколад. Долгое послевкусие. Великолепный, насыщенный шираз.

8/10/2016 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Needs time in glass to open in full. Very nice, fresh bouquet of aromas: lime, mint, green apple, thyme, hazelnuts. Full-bodied which is well balanced with acidity. Long finish.

10/8/2015 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Deep garnet colour. Elegant aroma of black plum jam, ripe blackberries, basil, liqurice, dark chocolade, leather with some earthy notes. Dry with medium acidity and medium body. Intensive flavours of dry black berries, burned wood and dark chocolade. After decanting dry berries on the palate are gone. Wine became jammy with some vanilla and butterscotch notes. Long leigth finish. Gracefully aged, outstanding wine.

12/6/2014 - Quicksand1975 Does not like this wine:

Quite a strange overoxidated wine. Nothing but old sour apples in aroma.

8/17/2014 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Rich bouquet of ripe apricotes, yellow pears, mellon, linden flowers with light petrol and wet stone notes. Off-dry with high acidity. Lemon, pears, linden tea on the palate. Long finish.

8/17/2014 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

The bottle is in a perfect condition. Intensive gold even honey in color. Absolutely clear without any sediment. The first nose is intensive dry apricot and honey. It even made me think like it was a botrytis wine but it wasn´t. In fifteen minutes the bouquet became less intensive but more elegant, complex and beautiful. The notes of clover, mushrooms and some minerality are arise in addition. Later the primary note in bouquet become German stollen with its candied fruits. The structure of the wine is perfect. Acidity is well inegrated. Body is medium with very pleasant light oiliness sense. The finish is long with the notes of apricot, orange zest and minerals. Absolutely perfect. I really don’t know what I’d wish from the white dry wine. That´s a 100 points wine!

5/20/2014 - Quicksand1975 wrote:

The wine is already behind its peak. Intensive aroma it had a year ago all gone and bitterness is arise. It's still drinkable but not as much enjoyable as it used to be.

4/6/2014 - Quicksand1975 Likes this wine:

Complex aroma: melon, lemon, mango, peach, vanila. Well balanced. Enjoyable.

4/6/2014 - Quicksand1975 wrote:

Apple skin, vanila, melon. High acidity. Well balanced. Medium leight finish.