4/17/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Much better showing than the other CT notes- or I'm just more a fan. Bright fruit, slightly unctuous, but not overwrought. Enough acid for reshness. Young. Peachy. Really good with the sweet potato dessert.

4/13/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

This caught some good solar energy in 2015. More elegant than typical youthful Pommard. Slight secondary burgy aromas- fresh on the palate, red berry fruit. Juicy but lean. No harm in drinking now. quite nice. BM continues to shine for me.

4/7/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Smells like tea and fresh spring flowers. Rich and textured, really rich and dense. Rather packed. Good balance of ripe fruit, structure, and good tension and length. Pretty terrific.

3/31/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Very good. Very young. More structure than some 17s I've had. Serious Meursault. For me, needs a little time.

3/21/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

A Good Wednesday: Bertheau x3, Arnoux, Geantet Pansiot, Niellon, Guffens Heynen; 3/20/2024-3/22/2024: Blind #2...Coravin....Slightly funky, meaty, tertiary nose. Most different of the other two Bertheau blinds. Really woke up with air. Seemingly least ready, even moreso than Bonnes Mares. Needs air, than quite nice.

3/21/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

A Good Wednesday: Bertheau x3, Arnoux, Geantet Pansiot, Niellon, Guffens Heynen; 3/20/2024-3/22/2024: Blind #3...Coravin...Not much on the nose- Muted. Rich red fruit. Good, maybe not great.

3/21/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

A Good Wednesday: Bertheau x3, Arnoux, Geantet Pansiot, Niellon, Guffens Heynen; 3/20/2024-3/22/2024: Blind #1...Coravin....Acid- silky chambolle- but a spiced power. Elegant- drinking Great. I think we all liked this- menthol... pedigree.

3/21/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

A Good Wednesday: Bertheau x3, Arnoux, Geantet Pansiot, Niellon, Guffens Heynen; 3/20/2024-3/22/2024: @pinotGeek said "smells like a librarians underwear" In a good way. Aged Burgundy doing what it should. This held nicely. Good with food.

3/21/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

A Good Wednesday: Bertheau x3, Arnoux, Geantet Pansiot, Niellon, Guffens Heynen; 3/20/2024-3/22/2024: Beauty. Tropical - big fruit- a bit of flint - lots of extract- oily- green apple. Acid length. Long.

3/21/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

A Good Wednesday: Bertheau x3, Arnoux, Geantet Pansiot, Niellon, Guffens Heynen; 3/20/2024-3/22/2024: Yum. A lot drier than the '19. Feels more serious. Some Niellon gunflint-Opens with air- A good bit of power here- acid spine. Long life ahead.

3/21/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

A Good Wednesday: Bertheau x3, Arnoux, Geantet Pansiot, Niellon, Guffens Heynen; 3/20/2024-3/22/2024: Intense red fruit. Perhaps the most Chambolle-ish of the wines on the table in that it's got no hard edges at the moment. Very elegant- cherry fruit- menthol- sophisticated- slightly ripe. Good table wine, if you get my point. If only it was half today's asking price.

3/21/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

A Good Wednesday: Bertheau x3, Arnoux, Geantet Pansiot, Niellon, Guffens Heynen; 3/20/2024-3/22/2024: Punches above it's class, or perhaps GH just refines perceptions of "lesser" communes. Core of sweet fruit. Good texture. Sharp tartness in middle. Edgy. More weight- Rich. Big, impressive wine that holds it own

3/17/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

This is indeed a bit of a mashup of German Riesling with a burgundy sensibility. It’s not showing especially complex right now, but it’s very drinkable. A edgy tart fruit and present minerality. Might have some stuffing to evolve for a few years. Will see. Needs another gear.

3/12/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

This stuff is fantastic at entry level. Butter popcorn and wonderful acid streak with minerality and saline. Lush and supple. A good still wine at its core that happens to have bubbles.

3/3/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Meursault weight and a rather round, phenolic ripeness. Palate shows a silky rich fruit and lower than ideal acidity (for me). A real pleasure in a hedonistic sense. Good to drink in its youth, but enough here to age a while longer.

3/1/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Echo the previous notes in CT- full of upfront juicy goodness right now. Not a lot of depth or length, but easy to drink juicy pinot that has an au naturale feel.

2/17/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Having a weird run of flawed bottles. And I'm a Pepe fanboy. 16, 18, 19 Trebbianos have been oxidized (beyond appropriate), or funky, or both. Just a bad run lately.

2/15/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Hate to report that this bottle was advanced. Not undrinkable, but too far into oxidation than it should be at this point in its evolution.

2/11/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Light bodied. Elegant. Youthful but approachable. Clean/chiseled. Green apple. Balanced. Easy to drink and quite yummy.

2/2/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Love what JeanMarie Guffens is up to these days. White Burg nose, sligthest hint of gunflint along with lemon/minerality/white fruit. Ripe fruit, but bracing acidity. A laser beam of acid at first. More minerals come on. Quite nice at this level. Very young- watch where this goes in time.

2/2/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Agree with the negative notes. There's either bottle variation going on, or This is a total miss in 15. And not like Champet. Ripe, but hard. Angular and hollow. Just no balance and no desire to drink this if I'm being honest.

1/31/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Some gunflint. Clean orchard fruit. Fairly open and ready to go. Rather round like Meusault almost. No hard edges. Good wine.

1/31/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Always special to drink Chambertin. Even young. There's a regality to this wine. The nose is complex- Asian spice- licorice-tea-cinnamon. Oak spice. It's young, but sophisticated. Expansive on the palate. So supple and great length. Special wine with years to go...Thanks @Pinot_Geek

1/31/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Young. Very clean and lean. Chablis-like cut. Not a ton of depth to the wine, yet it's a wine of sophistication. It's a good, if slightly unremarkable Champs Gain.

1/31/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Echoing the note prior to mine- this is Burgundy. Another gem bottle of Merme Bel-Air. Great dirt there, Bel-Air. Sous bois, autumnal nose. Just beginning to get tertiary. Sappy red fruit that is balanced and bright and just makes ya smile. Juicy 15. Still a good bit in reserve. Very good wine with years to go. In today's Burgundy dollars, this is a great buy. lol

1/27/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Much better showing than the 16 last year. 15 just better year. Lively energy. Sappy sweetness with a wiry acid streak. Refreshing in that way. Green apple. Long finish. Lovely balance with some salinity. A Chablis ringer all day. Good wine.

1/22/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Really needed some air to wake up. Was rather concentrated and felt a tad heavy-handed at first. Darker fruit. Nose is primary, but pinot, for sure. After about an hour its more elegant, and intense without much weight. Bourgogne, yes, drinks like village or above, and really could stand some time for my palate.

1/21/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

I think it counts as flawed when bottle explodes in my wine fridge.

1/7/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Don't open anytime soon. See Dale M note from Dec 2023. Says it all.

1/1/2024 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Good wine. See my previous notes.

12/27/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Immediately appealing, yet still quite young. Vintage Delamotte is a winner in this price range. Good stuff.

12/23/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Really one of my all-time favorite rieslings, or wines, for that matter. That layered nose of petrol and apricot and honey. I love the petrol on this one. Layers of orchard fruit-apricot-peach spiked... and that acidity! The '01 acidity is here for days. Yet, the balance is impeccable. Finishes with a chiseled sweetness that just coats the palate with energy. Hard to resist.

12/22/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Excellent showing. See what @Pinot_Geek said.

12/18/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

I like the GB whites lately. Youthful, edgy, precise. Hints of oak, rather broad palate. Medium body. Puckering acidity right now, with a good dose of citrus fruit. Drinking well, but still young.

12/18/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

I initially thought this was just so mildly corked. However, it was just a bit dusty and needed an hour in decanter to wake up. With significant air, it presents still coiled, but with terrific freshness and a polished and youthful red fruit. Long, cool finish that clamps pretty hard. This one still needs time or air for ideal drinking.

12/16/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Lighter weight. Good color. Fruit ever so slightly stewed-moving beyond tertiary. Nut there's a good healthy, shiny fruit here. No real acid to speak. But it's clean, soft, and easy to drink.

12/14/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Not so fresh and not so clean clean

12/13/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

See what Pinot Geek said- Especially this part: With airtime and a decant, this rounded out and improved, yielding more light fruit, a bit of spice, mint, coconut. 13.5% Alc. OK now, but clearly this is not ready. I’d suggest waiting until 2028+ to try this again.

12/13/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Blind for others. Slight reduction. Matchstick on palate more than nose. Rich-rounder than the other white on the table- A powerhouses- real Chard with backbone and an oily, rich palate. Really pops with air. Great wine that outshone the baby Batard on the table.

12/8/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Definitely the entry-level Was. Translucent cranberry to almost rusty-blood orange color. Floral, easy drinking, up-front comfort. But rather transparent in the middle. Somewhat like a light vintage Cru Fleurie. Just Good. imo

12/2/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

I like FB wines. The 2020 Chardonnay was a recent show stopper served blind. This one, was just ok. Entry level pinot. Light bodied. Correct and decent, but mostly unremarkable.

11/25/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Muted nose. Need air to wake up. Shows more like 18s - slightly quiet middle. But come on Long in the end. Dense white fruit. Very lively acids. Salinity. Sneaky good. But needs some air

11/23/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

What @rocknroller said. Great stuff.

11/23/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

See my last note. Terrific young Mouvedre. To infinity and beyond!

11/16/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

yum. On point. Nicely matured white Burgundy doing what it should.

11/16/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Blind...too cold at first. Muted the nose a bit. With air- you get the CSJ wild side- slight reduction, dark fruit, a very strong pepper note comes on and lingers. Finesse. Cool minerality. young. Needs time.

11/16/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Blind- Slightly tropical fruit- Good, life to it- Acid- Fruit has faded- but integrated and elegant structure remains. Balanced. Opens with air. Guesses of '02 Meursault. or 2011? Ha. Great showing.

11/12/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Wonderful acidity-and salinity for days. wiry- lush fruit- some Meursault creamy/vanilla comes on, but it remains very edgy. Umami. So powerful at this level. A lot in reserve. Terrific.

11/12/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

A good bit of dosage. Yeasty. Biscuits. Croissant- Rich white fruit. Peach. Elegant bubble. A tad heavy on dosage for me. Ready to drink. Some hedonistic appeal.

11/12/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote:

Really needs a couple hours. Initially it's pretty feral. A little green. Acid. Needs air. A lot of good Syrah stuff is hidden by a wild, herbal, funk. With air- a lot of air- a cool dark fruit emerges. At 3 hours open- it hits its stride- dark fruit- olive- barnyard, a cool mineral palate. Terrific Syrah that just needs lots of air.