11/25/2023 - dbkitc wrote:

This is delicious. Golden with a touch of pink. Apple skin, grape juice and limestone. Very deep and complex nose. Dry palate with persistent bubbles. Pungent. Precise. Solid yet refreshing. Long. Wonderful. (93)

4/19/2023 - acyso wrote:

Jura study (Chicago, IL): Moderately reductive nose at first. A good mix of red and black fruit; more delicate in style but ripe. Minerally and clean (for the first ten minutes). Light but slightly leathery tannins on the finish. Went mousy very quickly.

4/8/2023 - oxidatif wrote:

I was really disappointed at this initially (one note purple jammy and a little hot) but it really opened up after about an hour into more savory umami notes. Still not nearly as excellent as the immediately giving 2018 I had last year, which is the opposite of what I'd expect given the vintage conditions. Gonna sit on my remaining bottle for a while.

12/18/2022 - Tony Ling Likes this wine:

Pedres Blanques Wine Dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Shoji (DUPREE, Kyoto): In 2020, 80% of the production was wiped out by Downy Mildew and as a result merely 856 magnums was made (i.e., no normal bottles produced). The rest of the crop though was harvested with ultra high quality and it really showed in the wine.

PNP into Kimura wide bowl glass (“Root” day): Medium bright ruby to the eyes.

Regal red cherry and almost wild-berry like fruits here, with signature ‘sweet’ floral nuances that is highly integrated and complex.

On the palate, bright and fine-boned acidity that is indeed unique from wines made with the variety in my view. Needless to mention the high level of minerality that leads from attack to finish with a white peppery nuance.

Wow, what an amazing wine here that should age well for longer periods in cellars. 95 points.

6/19/2022 - acyso wrote:

"Día de los Daddys" (Chicago, IL): Somehow, this got more and more reductive over the course of the afternoon. How that works, I've no idea. An intensely sulphurous nose that effectively overwhelms everything else, but there are some lactone/praline notes as well, so maybe part of it is oak? In any case, there's too much matchstick here to make it accessible for enjoyment now, even though it seems like this has nice weight on the palate. Will this ever come around? Who knows -- it feels chronically reduced to me.

1/12/2022 - glou.sf wrote:

This wine was in a very weird spot. A little closed on the nose with some red fruit, smoke, roasted red peppers, and herbaceous notes. The palate felt a bit disjointed at first with peppery notes and strawberries. Medium finish. I hope we just caught this in a bad time and the wine will resolve in the cellar. This bottle was quite disappointing.

1/7/2022 - Jd6725 Likes this wine:

Utterly classic Bordeaux. I see why so many love this wine. Maybe just a touch too classic for me though. However with about 2-3 hours of bottle air, some sweet fruit came out that really balanced it. Then it fell off again towards the end. Held well till the next day, but never regained top form. 92 at points, 94 at peak.

4/24/2021 - Decanting Queen Likes this wine:

Lovely nose of rich fruit with a hint of vanillla. Very acidic in a good way for me but not appreciated by my husband so a polarizing wine for us. I wish he had drank less of it because I really enjoy it. Raspberry sweet tarts and a longish slightly oaky finish. Decanted 5 hours and needed it.

5/2/2020 - brianofthevine Likes this wine:

Very interesting. Tasted blind and I would have sworn this was a Napa Cab. Black fruits, subtle earth notes, firm tannins, long finish.

12/16/2019 - Ron Slye wrote:

This is close to one of the best white wines I have had -- a few tastings with Pape Clement Blanc, and a few other white bordeaux that are 3, 4, even 5 times the price of this. This is so composed and complete. Some nice, but not overpowering, use of oak, that integrated so nicely with the fruit, white flower, and sharp lemony acid. If I were looking to buy a white wine year after year to age and explore, this would be on the top of the list -- not just for the price, but also the quality. Hmmm, I should do that......

12/15/2019 - Elpaninaro Likes this wine:

deep purple color, sweet plum and black cherry nose, on the palate blackberry notes dominate, ripe and generous, still very primary but if this can develop some game tones with age it could really be great, the only criticism I have is that the alcohol- while not excessive- is notable and seems a bit separate from everything else, in other words this is a bit disjointed, still it is early days and this is a brand new producer- 2017 is the first vintage commercially released I am told (edited from 2018 with thanks to a fellow CTer for the correct info), a producer to watch.

***+?, I would hold this 2-5 years to see how it develops

5/23/2018 - cartey Does not like this wine:

I don't think this bottle holds up well. Upon opening the wine was jammy and on the sweet side, slightly hot too. After 2 hours, wine softened without changing, but complexity fell apart. Sweetness/jamminess became more obvious.
Should've drunk it on release.