7/17/2016 - sjwshiraz wrote:

Summer 2016. A travesty of a Chevalier. Too fat and lacking definition. Also, the colour is worryingly dark. What is wrong with Leflaive nowadays ?

5/14/2016 - noppakit s. wrote:

I bought this wine from Movenpick, Munich and the label looks the same as normal Reserve. (Only written on the back label, I think)

Drink along with 1990 Mouton Rothschild and 1997 Ausone.

These 3 bottles are showing very well but honestly 1996 Mondavi is the most delicious of the night.
Very tempting nose, beautiful oak treatment, fragrant and seductive. Body is lovely full body, very delicious. I start red wine with Mondavi and it make me worry about Mouton and Ausone how to get over it.
If we focus on the taste/delicious, I have to vote Mondavi even I always love French wine.
Surprise !!!

6/28/2013 - noppakit s. wrote:

This time is more access than few years ago.

Even first nose can fly me to the moon. Very special fragrant, great balance with the most beautiful texture and very long, slow dancing in its finished.

Same feeling like drinking Romanee-Conti 1990.

1982 Lafite Rothschild must be one of the best wine in the world. Don't miss this moment of 30 years old wine.

Drink now - 2040...........100/100.............

IMO, 1982 is much better than 1986.

1/20/2016 - noppakit s. wrote:

" Musigny : Case Study "
Every bottle has its own style and very difficult to pick WOTN due to the price difference. Anyway, here's some TN.
2007 Musigny : G.Roumier
" The Table Wine "
My table wine is the wine that's easy to drink to enjoy. The nose is simply good and the taste too. Roumier's wine makes me feel like this every time when I drink it. And today when drinking along with those gorgeous wines, I'm sure, I won't buy it anymore. It's too expensive for just a normal good bottle of Musigny.
The only thing that makes me surprised is the beautiful, silky tannin structure from an average vintage like 2007.
Aftertaste is so so, not good not bad. 92-93/100 not more.
ps. I choose it to drink first because if we drink this wine after the others, we will be more upset about its price.
Say Goodbye to " The beautiful woman but not charming " IMHO.
2006 Musigny : Louis Jadot
" The Classic One "
I always love Jadot and happy very time when drinking the austere style of wine-making but Musigny is a beautiful wine so Jadot can do it better than other Jadot's wine. Nose is simply good, firm tannin structure, fuller body and develop very nice after 90 mins, delicious and good detail with the lovely powerful aftertaste.
It is the best value for money among those bottles in this group.
Say Hello to " The beautiful and easy going woman " and I need you the most.
2002 Musigny : Faiveley
" The Super Special Wine "
Then I choose this wine to be #3 to drink because the smell shows up so tempting and Wowww.... 1st nose is super spicy reminds me of Romanee-Conti and develops beautifully to show the true terroir of Musigny, seriously austere yet elegant and so powerful within its scents.
The texture and the structure are super splendid as I can hold it in my mouth for a long long time, round, lovely dense, fresh and perfect ABC, acidity, balance and complex. Great Great Great !!!
And the greater one is the aftertaste, tight, super very long long finish like the 100/100 wine. Amazing Wine !!!
Thank God to bring " The Brave and Beautiful Sharapova " to our dinner.
2007 Musigny : Leroy
" The All-Time Attractive Wine "
Let's see what she can do and hope she can get over it !!
Leroy's Musigny is always beautiful, not much Leroy's flowery scent. She tends to let the terroir speak. Sweet strawberry scent with a hint of some Leroy's flowers. This is good but I never fall in love so deep with her 2007.
To drink it after top vintage Faiveley is wrong. Leroy is just a simply great wine, good structure, well balance, delicious with a very good impact aftertaste but not very long finish. Too expensive for this bottle, 95/100.
May be we better stay away from " The Beautiful Woman, High Society and Spoiled " but if she loves you, you are the lucky guy.
2002 Musigny : Comte Georges Vogue
" The One "
I won't say much about this producer because you're already know about it. I just want to tell that 2002 from Vogue is really great and can go for another 40-50 years. I choose all the bright color vintage to drink and it is showing well, still showing some tiny mild wood but very a promising.
This wine has the same style of Roumier but very much cheaper. If you have many bottles of 2002, let's drink it once in next 6 years when the color turning bright again and I will do so.
Nice to see you " The Beautiful and Easy Going Young Lady Girl " and looking forward to seeing you again and again.
2006 Musigny : JF Mugnier
" The Rising Star "
This wine needs more breathing time to show the true character. This is the most mysterious Musigny but full of charming scents. It is like Jadot but more prettier, more detail. This is like a beautiful young lady that you like to talk to, not boring at all. I think I can be with this wine all through the night...long long night. I choose this wine to drink slowly after meal and it will be better is drinking only just a few friends, take time to listen what she's saying. Glad to have some bottles left in the cellar.
Where have you been " The Sweet-Talking Woman " and you can say anything but don't say goodbye.
Thanks all my friends for supporting this wonderful moment even 2 of us really can't join the evening but we still have many good wines to be drunk together. I promise.
Tonight...no one wins and no one left to lose !!

11/19/2015 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:

Birthday lunch for Mike and Andrew: A beautiful, fragrant bouquet. Intense, precise and high toned. Complex and multi-layered including aromas of violets, gentle mixed spices, black and red berries, minerals etc, framed by discreet vanillin oak. In the mouth, intense perfection. It achieves that rare combination of real power with lightness of touch that only great wines can. It is very pure and clean and yet the flavour profile is detailed and multi-layered, with a seam of rocky minerality throughout. The serious architecture is disguised in the sleek, seamless package. The acidity is gorgeous and the tannins are superb, ultra-fine grained and suave. It’s only a baby of course. Hold it for as long as you have the patience. I guessed it was a 2002 and then a 1998 La Tâche – it seemed inconceivable it could come from any other Burgundy vineyard. Thanks Mike.

11/27/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Friday after Thanksgiving (FAT) - Part 1 - Burgundy 2006 (Palm Beach Gardens FL): Small taste, brief note. Much like the LT just tasted, but slightly bigger start and less textured or nuanced from there. Nicely floral with lots of red and black cherry. I couldn't decide if I liked this or RSV more.

5/31/2015 - noppakit s. wrote:

This wine performed better than I expected.

Perfume Vosne-spice, very beautiful and seductive at the moment. Good balance and very good texture with a lovely stunning aftertaste. Better than other 2007 wines and very much like the style of Comte Liger-Belair.

Love it !!

10/15/2015 - noppakit s. wrote:

Actually I want to keep this bottle another 100 years but I just change my mind to bring it to end up the night of 1989 Petrus tasting.

It's very good to drink at the moment !!!

This 2001 reminds me of 1988, very elegant, very beautiful, fresh, lovely, pure and precise. It's not heavy at all.

The best Yquem !!!

I think I drank a lot, too many bottles of Yquem and getting enough but this 2001 has changed my mind.

I would like to drink it again someday.

Oh ! what a night...

Drink now - 2150+

9/15/2014 - noppakit s. wrote:

I waited for a very long time to drink this wine again and today is a good day to drink along with 1994 Le Pin.

1994 Lafite is made from 99% Cabernet Sauvignon and need a long aging time. A 20 years old wine seems very young still. Clean, fresh and pure scent of great Pauillac. Firm structure and superb performance at this moment.

The aftertaste is very very impressed and I have to say that Le Pin can not beat even a single element of Lafite.

I never want to buy Le Pin anymore since I tasted it few times long ago. I'm better looking for some 2-3 bottles of Lafite 1994 for my cellar.

1994 Lafite is very special. If one used to enjoy the delicious Le Pin 1994, this Lafite is not never the less.

A Great Expectation !!!

Drink now - a very long life wine.

7/15/2014 - noppakit s. Likes this wine:

Drink this wine at the restaurant in Morey-Saint-Denis when visiting Burgundy and stay 1 week there.
Take a walk from " Le Clos Amiot " to have lunch in the hotel in front of Cecile Tremblay's house.

Super elegant with a tempting nose, plenty of passion, very rich, beautiful texture, great balance and wonderful finished.

Awesome !!!!

5/30/2007 - noppakit s. wrote:

6 times testing last year 2006, I rated this wine between 89 - 93 points.

From the only 1 best bottle :
-Light to medium ruby colour, look very nice. ( other 5 bottles were amber edge )
-Scents of clean Mouton, cedarwood, alcohol, redberry, watery, quite good and better than I expected ( 65/100 PP )
-Light to medium-bodied, a little bit high acidity, not complex but acceptable, Burgundy taste...Umm...I love this wine....
-Long finished more than 60 seconds was very impressed.

Recommend :
-For everyone who has it, if it cames from the best cellar, please drink it now or within 2 years.
-This is one of the Classic Mouton and let see how the wine-maker worked it out in this poor vintage.
-Come feel the Glory....Drink the beautiful Label of 1st Growth History....

Cheers,........

5/3/2015 - G_H wrote:

Richter Raritäten Degu Volume III (Restaurant Farnsburg, Switzerland): The bottle was genuine, but had a very low level, you could feel that this was monumental with the amazing 1961 sweetness, but there was some oxidative notes that prevented this from being extraordinary. So no score given. If I had to it would have been a 90 point wine

2/16/2013 - Sundbyberg wrote:

Questionable if this ever was a good wine.

1/24/2013 - Pacalet wrote:

This is getting more aged and palate already starting to feel a little tired. Nose very open, floral, meaty and quite deep. Palate is a bit thin, and overtime some mean greenies. Better drink this up soon.

1/23/2015 - steinersing wrote:

Surprisingly open already - more black/blue fruits than red.

2/22/2014 - rnellans wrote:

Very interesting. Much more floral, stem, celery, herbal notes on the nose than previous bottles...almost to a fault imo. Spice. Great fruit, acid and balance. Complex. ? off bottle.

6/7/2014 - dcwino wrote:

La Tache dinner (The Boardl Room at Capella Hotel Georgetown): Upon release, this wine quickly shot up to $3,500 per bottle in grey market. I was fortunate to try a few off a number of restaurant lists. Very youthful but very expressive and hedonistic. Perfectly ripe red fruit driven nose, raspberries, raspberries jam, dark cherries, a hint of stems, tie guan yin, perfume and sweet spices. Precise palate, incredibly layered, youthful intense sweet red fruit driven palate impression, silky and polished, bright acidity and noticeable but nicely integrated tannins. Despite the youth, this is very expressive and incredibly complex. Compare to the 90, perhaps slightly less concentrated and not as ripe but as complex if not more and more precise. For me this is perfect in every way. As a side note, some tasters thought it was way too young. I tend to love my Burgundy very young as well as very old.

5/4/2012 - Ramberg wrote:

99 points…
Goes on forever this wine.
Don’t know where to start.
First time I’m drinking a wine from this vineyard, and that is as the final wine of tonight’s tasting, after 15 bottles of great Burgundy, from 5 different locations in Cote de Nuits.
It kind of sweeps in over you, in wave after wave after wave.
I guess I have finally run into the famous “peacock feather effect”, and this time for real?
So many impressions, it’s almost hard to cope with, and even worse to sort all the different bits and pieces into some words that makes sense.
It’s light and heavy at the same time.
It’s complex and hidden, yet straight forward.
It´s light and heavy in the same sniff or mouthful.
The nose had the essence of Vosne spice in it.
It was just unbelievable.
And in the mouth it just overflowed me with layers and layers of different tastes.
This is why Burgundy always will be Burgundy and number one when it comes to wine.
You can’t beat the quality and complexness of a wine like this, no matter what.
It’s like an out of body experience, like walking on the clouds.

12/14/2013 - StefanAkiko wrote:

Holy guacamole frecking S**TTY expensive. Sorry to kill your hype, but this is just plain watery juice. All is balanced and in place, oak integrated with fabulous PN typicity together with some minerality. The famous "transparent structure" rulez.

...but it is WATERY!
Wife wouldn't want to drink it even if it was offered for free.

Last night, we had a '03 Numanthia where many things are the same: Long tradition (Numathia's vines are +100 yrs), distinct minerality, hardships in production, verging-on-obsessed passionate owners/winemakers, keen wine making etc. The Numanthia made us almost silent in awe. But where are the results from the endeavors in Vosne? Almost nothing come in to play with this Romanée. It did absolutely nothing for us. Some other tasters sung its praise. We asked them what they meant, they didn't answer...

We returned from this Vosne-Romanée tasting, remaining completely in the dark and not at all understanding this kind of wine making.
全然分からなかった。。。

This is delicious for sure with quenching acids and the tone of voice is rather small, not unlike Cola Zero.

1/21/2014 - Enfantterrible wrote:

I sometimes question professional reviewers' suggestions when I see what seems to be an absurdly long bottle time before opening. Meadows and Galloni recommend 2027 and 2029 respectively for this wine, and that's probably no exaggeration IMHO. This wine was decanted for around 10 hours and had barely opened up. Nevertheless a great experience.

Impressive weight and density. Great nose - intense floral and dark fruit aromas really penetrate. It felt like layers of aromas were unfurling as I inhaled. Waves of flavors fill every corner of the mouth, with a long tannic and mineral finish. Very very impressive. I'd love to fast forward 20 years just to experience what this will be like in its prime.

12/15/2012 - Paul S wrote:

End of the World Dinner (Nicolas Restaurant, Teck Lim Street, Singapore): Another really excellent wine. Celk opened the bottle a few hours before serving. On this showing, the wine has developed quite a bit since we had it some two years ago. Tonight, it showed a lovely, complex nose, with the remnants of some oaky vanilla scents drifting alongside nice bits of tobacco and earth and some game meat, over a subtle bed of dark-fruited cassis and plum aromas. Beneath that, a nice touch of roasted capsicums and some smoky, spicy cigar notes started emerging with time. Really nice - this was a nose that could easily have belonged to a good Pauillac rather than a Pomerol. The palate was beautifully resolved for a 1998 Pomerol, especially given how primary some of them still are at this stage. This had lovely plush notes of cassis and plums, ripe black cherries, a touch of roasted capsicums, and a beautiful drift of tobacco smoke - all nicely integrated and very forward. A complex and delicious wine, with great balance and fine tannins that gave it a nice, slightly chewy. Lovely finish too, showing a black-fruited core with bits of spice and cigar and just a touch of flowers floating about. Immensely drinkable now, this has developed from a slightly serious, rather tight package that just on the verge of drinking well, into a pure, fresh, brilliant wine. As good as the two Cabernet dominated wines on the flight were, this and the 1982 Pavie that we had alongside had the greater measure of elegance. I am not sure that this will be the longest lasting l’Evangile given how forward it is now, but it should develop nicely over the next 3-5 years or so.

2/22/2014 - Purple Tooth wrote:

Firing on all cylinders:

Liquid silk.
Balanced : Earth, Sweetness, Fresh Cigar Tobacco, and Power, Power, Power.

8/23/2013 - noppakit s. wrote:

This is special village wine indeed.

Everything of Vosne-Romanee is in the bottle. Like La Tache after 2 hours and sweet nose of Romanee-Conti after 3 hours. Great !!!

It's good enough for me and quite good for the price.

Liger-Belair told me " Clos du Chateau " is made to drink young. I must buy more and more. Cheers...

9/27/2013 - noppakit s. wrote:

2004 Dom Perignon : Opened 90 mins. Very nice toasted, vibrant, sexy and seductive. Good structure, fresh in acidity, much better after breathing, great balance, very nice shape in body. Not as round as 2003 but more tempting. Beautiful and long finished.

Another great Dom Perignon, reminds me of 1996. จบหอมอบอวลอยู่ในปากยาวนาน ยอดเยี่ยมครับ 96-97+/100

6/12/2013 - AJ72 wrote:

If you have some dont open for a little while. Very primary but all the components are there. Perfume of violets, looks like any young wine from anywhere at this stage (high quality Pinot that is). With time however Burgundy seems to have the ability to be able to completely suppress what makes them truly unique and I suspect this wine will shine quite brightly if given five years plus. Only young but I'll go out on a limb and say this is the best Roumier Clos de la Bussiere I've had (94-95 points?). Time will tell.

2/10/2013 - Wink Likes this wine:

The cork was wet and discolored. I expected a horrible, fetid, nasty, decayed wine. Instead, it was incredibly good. Golden hued. Nose of honey, camomile, and citrus. Ripe, full palate of peach, apple, quince, honey, herbs, lemon, and minerals. Excellent length. Refreshing acidity. This wine is pretty reductive on opening and blossoms with every minute of exposure to air. After seeing the rotten, wet cork, I am shocked at how wonderful this wine was.

4/21/2013 - shaftlet wrote:

Polar opposite in style from the Coulee and Roche aux Moines. Nicolas says this is because he used botrytised fruit. This lends a toasty oxidative note and deeper hue to the colour. He said his wife and daughter asked why he would use such fruit and he claimed with a shrug of the shoulders, 'that's what nature gave me, why not?' It's clearly not for everyone, including myself. I'm not the biggest fan of this style. There's lots of bruised apple, baked pear with a lemony tart acidity complemented by toasty hazlenut and hazlenut flavors and aromas. An interesting, contemplative wine, but more prosaic than the other two which are more oeuvres de poesie.

6/23/2013 - Vintjener Likes this wine:

Big - drank after Pommard 2007 from Domaine Leroy. This wine just flew past the Pommard.
Deep concentrated nose, black and blue fruit with an very elegant strucure and a finish that has just left my palate hours after finishing:)

6/14/2013 - bulldurham wrote:

This wine had no life. It was decanted twice and also allowed to sit with the cork in for 24 - 36 hours. It never demonstrated life and it was very dirt like in taste.

3/8/2013 - Paul S wrote:

Kelvin's Birthday Dinner (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): First of the reds, and this was a lovely start. An elegant, classy St Julien that was drinking beautifully. It had such a pretty nose, with perfumy flowers, dried rose petals, hawthorne flakes floating around redcurrants and dried cherries, all on a backdrop of cedar, leather and funky undergrowth. Wonderful stuff. The palate had mellowed into a lovely, soft, silky, integrated whole, with a layer of funky, slightly barnyardy notes peeking out amidst gentle red-fruited flavours of dried berries and cherries. It was distinctly middle-weight, but had a decent depth and a nice mouthfilling quality to it, especially as it drifting away into a wonderfully perfumed finish of tea-leaf and cedar wood. A lovely expression of St Julien, the entire table was very taken by this wine.

12/22/2008 - noppakit s. wrote:

4 hours of testing : Cos 2005, a new aroma de Cos, modern…no muddy smell at all. Hints of some flower underneath..ดอกชงโค.. chocolate gets along with mild espresso and mild bloody of Rightbank Merlot. The smell is not widely opened but good dept and charming.

The structure is full score, perfect ABC, acid, balance, complex. Compact, dense and very big. Full delicate tannin, wonderful tannic as it was made to be drunk at this moment, only the scents needs more aging to show more fantastic in the future.

The aftertaste…oh…no…more powerful than La Mondotte 1997 (testing together). The only one way ticket downs and never come back. Bleeding inside !!! The best Cos I’ve ever tested. If you didn’t stick with the old muddy style, this wine is truly perfect…only 1-2 points is missing from the score in its part of aroma and bouquet…It may gets the 100/100 score in the future when everything is right on track. who’s know ?

Drink now ? I must open 2 hours and say Oh Yeah....!!!

2/17/2013 - cr84 wrote:

Wow… what a light robe -not than I’m not used to that coming from E. Reynaud..! The nose has this sunlight on pebbles smell (yeah, get it or not) and at first, what comes to the mouth is an extra virgin oil feeling enrobing some iodine and strawberry. The final is quite long opening on some more strawberries… This is good, real good; mostly because of its uniqueness. With two hours of air, it goes onto notes of anise while its showing is more open-knitted. It literally builds onto a lacework of fresh fruits, there I find E. Reynaud’s touch!

A wine build for offering its magnificence over the years, this was my one and only bottle…no regret popping it now.

1/22/2012 - noppakit s. wrote:

Decant 60 minutes

Open up nicely, medium to full-bodied, firm structure, good tannin texture, delicious and mouth-coating. Long linger finished.

This is a well-made wine but I don't get any imagination. Not my type !!!

I prefer the Burgundy village wine, 1990 Morey St. Denis : Rossignol Trapet (drinking together) 90/100 " Take a walk along the terroir "

Drink now - 2030