11/25/2022 - vagrantone wrote:

This looks a bit like the emperor's new clothes...
This wine is clearly well past its peak and comes across tired with limited interest at this point.
It showed better a few years ago when I last tried it, but was disappointing today. Yes, the texture was rich but the aromatic complexity and length were absent. It cannot be considered a great wine at this point.

7/28/2022 - vagrantone wrote:

Another under-performing Rose wine from Minuty continuing a long trend.
Lacked intensity, complexity and freshness.
Disappointing

4/3/2015 - ininov wrote:

It's aways a big gamble when you buy and open a really old wine from less than a first rate producer, from a secondary region and from a year most people don't know anything about in that region. It is always a good policy to expect a disappointment when you pop the cork. But like every big gamble, when the bet comes through the rewards are tantalizing. This was more than i capsule have ever hoped for. The cork (albeit short) was firm and in one pice. Always a good start. And then the perfume came. The room filled with gorgeous light scent of red fruits and florals. The wine itself was very light but muddy in color and completely bricked. But it was magical. Light, almost ethereal, but so young and fresh. It was all primary aromas - cherries, and other red fruits. Great acidity and just perfect tannic backbone. Drank over an hour this kept getting better. Sad that this note will likely not be read by anybody as there is so little of this wine left in the world. But the experience was truly magnificent. Well done you, old Italian man who put this in a bottle 58 years ago!

1/10/2022 - vagrantone wrote:

There are really too many TCA problems with this wine; almost every other bottle...

6/11/2021 - vagrantone Likes this wine:

First bottle out of a case purchased at auction.
I decided to recork the bottles as the corks were, obviously, in very poor condition by now.
Fill level for this bottle was low to mid-shoulder.
The hue was amazing for a 100 year old Sauternes, staying on the golden side as opposed to amber.
In fact, both in terms of hue and aromatic intensity, this wine seems to defy time.
Incredible intense aromatics; you can smell a 1 ounce pour across the room. All on the botrytis side. It reminds me of the 1988 Rabaud-Promis but with many additional years in the bottle.
There's enough acidity to keep everything in focus and give liveliness.
For a minor Sauternes property, this is quite a validation of the 1921 vintage. I will drink the recorked bottles over the next two decades.

12/12/2021 - vagrantone Likes this wine:

Classic Medoc wine drinking beautifully right now.
It no longer needs decanting.
Beautiful hue with minimal browning.
Traditional nose with excellent complexity: earthy, spices, cigarbox, evolved fruit.
Some would consider an herbal element detrimental but it adds yet another dimension to an impressive wine.
Effortless elegance after 55 years. Good luck finding this is wines currently produced.

8/22/2021 - vagrantone Likes this wine:

Tasted at restaurant.
Screwcap...why?
This wine clearly would benefit from further evolution instead of being locked in this way.
Excellent typicity and balance. Great value wine.

10/14/2020 - vagrantone Likes this wine:

First of 4 half bottles.
Low shoulder fill level.
Cork crumbling but largely out in out piece.
Carefully decanted ( for sediment)
The hue is very impressive for a wine of this imposing age; more like a 30 year old wine.
First whiff is all soil with iron, gravel notes, forest floor, hint of VA that blows away. Considerably less evolved than the 34 Petit Village tasted recently. I don't get the pickle character people have ascribed to this wine, but there is a clear suggestion of a high acidity vintage, which is why this wine is still alive.
The taxture is really nice. Yes. The wine is dominated by the acidity and some fairly ferocious ( at one point) tannins. Still a nice mouthfeel, very long and a clean finish that has Pauillac written all over it: firm yet elegant. 45 + second length.
After a while, a minty character emerges. the palate fills out a little and a "dry" fruit aspect appears.
The VA reappears on the nose but the palate remains really nice.
The earthy and smoky elements dominate.
This was the worst fill level...

4/27/2019 - vagrantone wrote:

This bottle did not show as well as last one. Seemed a bit tired and drying up even compensating for the traditional style. Cork fully saturated, will open another...

4/27/2019 - vagrantone wrote:

Good fill level, cork came out in good condition.
Kept upright for last 3 weeks.
Not decanted, as the wine came across a little tired. Showing mostly acidity and tannins at this point with just a hint of the tar and roses.
Slightly disappointing.

10/25/2018 - lake-people wrote:

Green Pepper

10/23/2017 - ehodin Does not like this wine:

Although not completely premox (as was the '02 Fevre Bourgros I opened first) it is clearly on its way there. Just barely drinkable, so still a disappointment.
I find it hard to convey how depressing it is to find so many of my white burgundies suffering from premature oxidation. It leads me to open one with trepidation these days, & to have another on hand in case. The Burgundian wine industry owes its customers at least a complete explanation for this wide-spread phenomenon, if not some degree of compensation.

10/16/2017 - vagrantone Likes this wine:

a bit of a disappointment by the very high standard associated with this Chateau...
The warmth and ripeness of the 2003 vintage is showing through providing plenty of volume and body. However, the wine lacks in botrytis expression, in freshness and in balance. Yes, the wine was relatively young ( 14 years), but I simply don't seem where the exquisite aromatics , acidity needed for the balance or the delicate side will come from. Hopefully time will prove me wrong, but that is how it appears now..

10/14/2017 - vagrantone Likes this wine:

Opened in my absence...
Obviously way too early to drink this wine; a waste...
It shows all of the potential you would expect from a great site in a great vintage: mineral notes, floral and fruit components, exquisite balance, rich mouthfeel. I have to find a replacement bottle now!

8/15/2017 - vagrantone wrote:

Greatly over-rated wine! Another case of label shopping...
While the ripeness level is clearly great, this wine simply lacks focus and balance. Good luck trying to find any acidic backbone here. What you will find is excessive alcohol and a winemaking style that detracts from what clearly were beautiful grapes at one point...

5/1/2015 - vagrantone wrote:

Tasted this in good company. It certainly is flawless, but it is also without any character. Typical overripe fruit, alcohol level where it no longer is invited back to the dinner table. I do not expect it to age very well in the sense of improving. The lack of complexity was appalling next to a nice bottle of Cos and a lesser vintage, but beautifully drinking bottle of Vosne-Romanee

6/14/2015 - vagrantone Likes this wine:

Quite surprising. The nose is still fairly fruit dominated, but I'm not sure it will ever evolve into a classic Medoc nose. Not flawed by any means just slightly clumsy, currently lacking in complexity. Tannins are still noticeable and so is the fruity intensity, so there is still a chance for it to reach a better balance. Only time will tell...