4/16/2024 - chablis28 wrote:

Heidi's Crew at St Geneive Minneapolis "quarterly". CV,KB,LI,SS,CS&DD. Tonight was outstanding & so much so, the group voted to meet monthly going fwd. StG's menu tonight screamed Burgundy so that didn't hurt. My btl flighted with Candace's placid ethereal & mesmerizing '02 Dom P2. Quite a challenging flight for a new release and yet the '12 Comte rose to occasion with its signature surreal blend of, tamed energy, complex & pristine fruit, mineral and intensity. The Dom won out with its overall undeniable sense of harmony and "how do they do it" supple classiness. Elixir for the Gods & when the stars align, mere mortals like me. Lucky to be drinking a glass of both wines tonight. Especially, the '02 P2!

3/26/2024 - chablis28 wrote:

I had higher hopes for this. I'll admit, I was swooned into buying one to try because of the cool old-style label but also because of Envoyer's tasting note for it. 100yr old vines was intriguing! As someone else noted it lacked some expected intensity and complexity. A very solid $10-$15 rose' I paid $26 for. If I had loved the wine, the btl might have made it on cool wine btl shelf:).

3/7/2024 - chablis28 wrote:

Brad's Winner Winner Zuni chicken dinner night. BB,KB,ML & I. Thanks Brad! My btl. First thing I smelled was dill pickles & it never dissipated in my glass. Others didn't seem to notice. No, I didn't have a Burger for lunch. Palate was more appealing than the nose! Red fruit, earth & spice on the palate. 13% alc 85pts Nose / 91pts palate. Average...89pts. My least fav wine of the night.

10/25/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Heidi's Redux at local fav STG. CV, BE,KB,DD,LI & JG. What a night! Based on the way this started out on opening at home a few hours before leaving for STG this turned out to evolve perfectly into my ultimate WOTH. I had high hopes for this coming from the highly touted '05 vintage & Gevrey's top Grand Cru Vyd . Even still, out of the gates, it was showing little promise other than not being flawed :). My first thought, oh no another stubborn '05!?!? So I immediately double decanted and slow-oxed till leaving. Fortunately, this wine was just playing w/ me. By the time we got to drinking it at StG it was utterly drop dead gorgeous! The fruit was pristine & delish. and yet there was a sense of layers of forest floor, mineral, spice & other harmonics. Complexity! One of the best experiences I've ever had w/ Grand Cru Burgundy. Delighted it turned out so awesome! A great combo of power & finesse. Only problem, I bought only 1 a few years back. This btl tonight is the Chambertin I've always dreamt of in my head. Massive power, length and intensity balanced by amazing fruit, soil & spice. Probably my best ever btl of Chambertin? 98+

5/2/2015 - chablis28 wrote:

They dialed back the upfront red apple a bit this time. More stony & a little more toast. As always great concentration and more depth than almost any other champagne near its $34 price point. A great direct import from K&L. Like it better than the Bonville but that's also good from K&L at the same price point.

1/20/2024 - chablis28 wrote:

Same btl as rocknroller. Nita & I along with Kevin & Vicki to further celebrate our 45th wedding anni at The Kenwood in Minneapolis. This is a legend in the making and thus there's a tendency to come in with 110pt expectations. There is still so much power to unwind & depth yet to emerge but, if you take a breath and sit with this through the evening you realize it's already amazing. The concentration, intensity and purity here is something to behold. I only have one and its wonderful to check in on this masterpiece! I'll do my best to make sure Kevin & Vicki are available when we open our last. I only open wines like this for momentous moments like Nita's & my 45th and, when possible, in the Tetons after a hike, climb or a great day fly fishing! A truly special wine only for special occasions, for me. Thanks guys!

2/16/2024 - chablis28 wrote:

My fav white Burg producer, bar none! Off the wine list at The Restaurant At Hotel Wailea in Maui. Clos de la Barre is a Lafon village Monopole from vines going back to the 50s. As always the fruit here is beyond reproach and the essence of purity. One taste and you know its Lafon who makes the most refined white Burgs on earth. So utterly classy and yet such intensity & concentration. Amazing bead of minerality perfectly compliments its pristine citrus & stone fruit flavors. The nose amplifies palate and adds a pleasant whiff of hazelnut. so lucky to find this underpriced on wine list for a change. A modest 13% alc! Credit to their Sommelier for chilling this perfectly and serving it in a stellar Burg glasses to boot! Great wine, great night on our first dinner out in Maui! The setting was gorgeous. Mahalo!

12/5/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Decanted w/ dinner only an hour away to maximize air. Sips & sniffs proved immediately promising. Served in the high 50s/ low 60s. Semi translucent ruby red. Love the damp forest floor & vibrant berries on nose. The forest floor carries over to an elegant & vibrant palate where you pick up assorted cherries and raspberry fruit, spice, mineral and that damp minerally aspect I associate with a forest after a rain. My last of 2 btls. I'd lost interst in this producer after some price jumps on the village and CSJ but I'd go for some more Bourgogne if I spot them. Another excellent Burg from the delightful 2015 vintage! 92+

9/29/2018 - chablis28 wrote:

The $20 price is so alluring but the wine is so average. Lacks balance and finesse. Favors boldness and a bit clumsy.

2/8/2024 - vinus_operandi Likes this wine:

decanted for 4 hours. dark garnet in color. a fairly muted nose of cherry and rose. on the palate, the wine shows sweet cherry, raspberry and strawberry. the tannins are somewhat resolved and the acidity is still quite high. linear across the palate with a long finish. wonderful mouthfeel and phenolic ripeness. drinking beautifully but surprisingly still primary. not a lot of secondary characteristics at this point which was somewhat disappointing. if you have any of this, give it another 5 to 10 years before you open the bottle.

6/24/2012 - chablis28 wrote:

Double decant at 4:30PM. Drank around 8PM. Still very young and primary. Lots of good material and promise but needs to shed some baby fat. I WON"T touch another for at least 5 years.

1/18/2024 - chablis28 wrote:

Another strong and final btl from the vintage. This was 110% fresh and in the pocket. Pale green gold w/ all the Chablis signatures for minerality, salinity, citrus & stone fruit. Pristine & fabulous! 93+ Paid $35 on release.

7/30/2021 - chablis28 wrote:

A fun btl from the Cote d' Auxerre a region nearby to Chablis with many of the same terroir traits that even manages to top Chablis for value at the AOC level. The name doesn't flow across the tongue as easily for most of us as Chablis but this little btl was marked with the same chiseled minerality along with touches of citrus, stone fruit, salinity & faint herbs. I'd be hard pressed to pick this out from Chablis blind. Paid a paltry $17 for this little gem. Drinks like $25+. 12.5% alc. Wish I had grabbed more than one fromy "go to" online store Envoyer. Said to be both fermented & raised in stainless steel tanks explaining its purity and energy.

1/15/2024 - chablis28 wrote:

Heidis Group in the Minneapolis "Warehouse District" on a bone chilling night. Same spectacular blt as Brad E. My clear #2 of 3 stellar PYCMs in the same flight. Opened alongside a 17 PCYM Meursault Genevrières & the 17 PCYM Corton-Charlemagne. On any given day this could just as easily have been my top choice of the 3. Also, very ethereal & elegant like my top choice tonight, the CC but there's something about Corton Charlemagne I guess that makes it the wine of kings :). It's really fun to have all three at the same table to savor the differences but I'd almost prefer to give 110% of my attention to anyone of these. Thanks Brad for bringing these! I love them!

1/6/2024 - repoper wrote:

Almost 4 years since the last bottle. Slowoxed for 10 hrs the 2 more in a decanter. What an explosive nose of cherries, cinnamon sugar, rust, old leather, cloves and a bit of candied orange. The wine is in total balance and shows a beautiful profile of crunchy red fruit, bitter orange and cherries. Almost weightless as it dances across your pallet. Really amazing. Still very youthful and I’m sure it will evolve over the course of dinner and for years to come. A few hours on - the wine has totally shutdown. It become opaque and the nose has almost disappeared. The pallet has tightened up and shut down. This is such a baby and I’m thinking that it will need many more years to unfold. I won’t touch another bottle for at least 5 years. But my feeling is that there is something special here that just needs time to reveal itself.

1/13/2024 - chablis28 wrote:

Opened to celebrate Nita's & my 45th Anni w/ dinner at Ciao Bella in Edina MN. This is in a great spot & unlikely to slip anytime soon. Semi translucent ruby red w/ bricking on the edge. The bouquet is an appealing range of; red berries, forest floor & spice. Palate is placid, elegant & caressing. All its elements reverberate on the palate further enhancing its charm & intrigue. There's a sense of inner mouth perfume too. I slow-oxed for 2hrs in my Riedel Burg & btl before leaving for Ciao Bella. There we enjoyed this near cellar temp in our Riedel Burgs I brought along. This was 94+ at the venue & even better now, a day later as I finish a last leftover pour before dinner tonight. 13% alc.

1/6/2024 - chablis28 wrote:

Tonight w/ Nita's homemade Pizza. Well at age 17/18 I remain pleased I never added addl vintages of this. Records say I still have 2 more. Ugh! For me, this is dense & lacking any sense of refinement. It does have some complexity but just doesn't rock me. I gave it plenty of air with a 3hr slow-ox but I should have decanted it as its loaded w/ sediment. Thought I could manage the sediment with careful same directional pours but I still ended up tossing the last 2-3 inched in the btl out. Hoping my records are wrong and the last 2btls listed in CT no longer exist :). I remain a Chianti lover of many basic classico but not these more expensive cuvees.

12/26/2023 - La Grappe Likes this wine:

This has matured well and is now a very attractive wine, quite full and rich on the palate, with red fruit and savoury notes, elegant and long. Very fine.

3/31/2022 - KPB wrote:

A gorgeous wine, the 2016 Cerbaiona exudes class and refinement, offering a fascinating interplay of terroir and deft winemaking. The nose centers on red currents and pomegranate, subtle spices and barest hints of praline. In the mouth the fruit is ripe without being at all overripe, framed by gentle acidity and soft tannins, Nothing overdone here: the nose is exuberant without feeling clumsy, the palate shows a taut balance, without seeming at all heavy or fruity, and the endless finish reveals layers of minerality without seeming saline. Bravo!

The winemaker prefers that his wines not be given numerical scores, but it is my habit to score wines to remind myself of my response to the wine. Right now, 97 if you give this ample time to breath (in my case, 12 hours in decanter). With less air the wine may be a bit closed. Down the road, could easily attain 98 or perhaps even 99 at peak, which I believe will be around age 12-15.

12/27/2023 - Al Ehrhardt wrote:

Second of two bottles. The first one in April seemed off, unfortunately kind of like ACYSO bottle in May. This bottle was excellent. Deep and dark, dark cherries, dark red plums, balsamico, mushroom. Very smooth and silky.

12/24/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Well, if you want to enjoy this, give it a lot of air and serve in the 50s - very low 60s. Do not let it warm to "room temp" unless you have a high tolerance for alc. I've mostly given up on CDP but I do have about 25 btls left in my cellar and because of positive experiences with old Pegau bought some 16s. I opened this Christmas Eve with our adult "kids" who routinely drink more modern, higher-octane reds themselves. I gave it a 3 hour decant. Served after 30 minutes back in the frig to chill it down. Drank pretty well, in the usual "pay little attention to the wine", holiday environment w/ our two amped grandsons (6&9) eager to open presents. Left over pours last night served at room temp were quite disappointing. Last night, the alc was crushing the wine. Call it 93pts on Christmas Eve and 86pts last night. Label says 14%. Taste more like 16%. I'll try the next one in 2027+.

12/14/2023 - ankitmehra Likes this wine:

I made a note on another birth year wine - the 1998 Domaine de Chevalier - that talks about how, when it comes to my birth vintage, my preference for left bank Bordeaux shifts south towards Margaux and Pessac-Léognan. I’ve never had a wine prove a point more than the 1998 Château La Mission Haut-Brion. This wine is truly ethereal. It’s everything we love about Graves and more. The nose was alluring, leveling out the quintessentially Graves smokiness with a good amount of leather, black cherries, blackcurrant and a hint of licorice. The palate, though, was enthralling. A journey that has spices and herbaceousness across each phase, the upfront brought us in with its rich blackcurrant and tart red cherry medley prior to cedar wood and a hint of minerality coming in during the mid-palate and finish. The wine was both silky and mouth coating, amplified by the bottle’s amazing acidity and intensity. I have zero doubts in the longevity of this wine. 30 years, 40 years - you name it. This was singing. WOTN.

12/10/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Our local wine group holiday private dinner for 22 @ St Geneive Minneapolis. Said to come from vines replanted back in 1981/1982 by longtime winemaker Jeffrey Patterson. Legend has it the original vines were a suitcase clone from Chateau Margaux. Decanted 2-1/2 hrs before leaving for dinner and removed the cork again on arrival. Started drinking this around 3hrs into the dinner as one of the last wines tonight. Such a graceful finessed, super fresh Cab tonight! Generous aromas wafted from my Riedel Burg glass in waves of dark fruit, cigar, cedar & florals. The palate has that weightless classy Margaux like elegance and finesse displaying rich but always, energetically fresh dark cherry, raspberry, licorice, more cedar, tobacco leaf and herbs along with many other nuances. In a word, this rocked! 13.5% alc. Flighted w/ Brian's lovely but youthfully tannic '04 Leoville Poyferre. Putting aside structure, more similarities than differences between the 2 btls. The Mt Eden Estate Cab is one of Ca's best and still a decent value vs. many CA Cabs. Dang, my last. Will buy more 10s if I spot any!

11/22/2023 - Claymonster Likes this wine:

Thanksgiving Week 2023; 11/19/2023-11/24/2023: Our selection. Decanted one hour, served chilled before dinner. Pale straw color. Amazing nose that kept giving off different aromas with every sniff. Lemon curd, florals, baked pears, wet rocks, fresh cut grass, sea breeze. On the palate it has medium body and plenty of acidity. Saline and slightly bitter. A wonderfully complex, ageable, and delicious wine. Fantastic value at around $45. Would love to try this in 5-10 years.

3/8/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

What a consistently great Chianti for less than $18 locally! Been drinking a btl here a btl there for the past 12yrs. Never had a bad vintage. Selvapiana's basic Chianti Rufina classification is very transparent, balanced and loaded with Sangiovese goodness with every sniff & sip! Bravo... as usual! This needs a 3hr slow ox or decant to best strut its stuff & resolve its tannin. Nice out of Burg glass. 13% alc.

11/16/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Perfect tonight w/ Rainbow Trout. This producer has spotty issues w/ premox but this btl was 110% fresh and in the pocket. Pale green gold color with all the Chablis signatures for minerality, salinity, citrus and stone fruit. I haven't bought any addl Billaud Simon since the 2017 vintage. Hopefully they have switched to the Diam cork by now? This btl was great! Fingers crossed on my remaining btls.

11/12/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Spain at Rincon38. Mt btl. I gave it a 2 hr decant & back in btl. Removed cork again at Rincon38 This has terrific balance, depth & weightless elegance. Delicious & classy! Red fruit, spice, earth, mineral on both the nose & palate. A very complete ethereal red. Ready to go now but should last for decades. 13% alc. Great tonight slightly eclipsed by Matt B's '08 CVNE Rioja Gran Reserva which was my WOTN vs any other wines from both tables. Thrilled to own 5 more.

4/29/2022 - chablis28 wrote:

What a nice btl on night 1 of our SW/R66 road trip! PnP in Burg glasses at George’s French Bistro Wichita. Color is semi translucent magenta tinged red. Captivating berries, spice & violets on nose. As hoped for, palate is lacy suave elegance with excellent lifted dark fruit, more spice, mineral and light underbrush. Excellent balance already in its youth. Very pretty. Delicious & intellect now. I’d guess this adds tertiary around 2028. 13.5 % alc 92+

11/5/2023 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine:

Conterno vs Rinaldi; 11/4/2023-11/5/2023: The '08 Brunate is a super sweet, exotic, perfumed expression of Nebbiolo. The combination of the Rinaldi style and the '08 vintage produced a wine that is almost too sweet and giving, something that was apparent tasting this next to the '08 Monfortino but not when I've had a glass of this wine on its own. On initial pour, the '08 Brunate was mindblowing and seemed to be the wine of the night, but we frankly tired of it by the end of the evening, while the Monfortino continued to improve in the glass.

The nose was super perfumed and exotic, with the distinct combination of blue, purple, and red fruit and floral tones I find in many vintages of Rinaldi Brunate, and in the '08 I also found more exotic notes of orange peel and other tropical fruits. On the palate, the same hard-candy like red, blue, and purple fruit and floral tones appeared along with orange peel and roasted meats. It is such a dense wine flavor-wise, but it's all packed into a medium to light bodied frame, with no perception at all of tannins.

10/25/2023 - Jamieson12o wrote:

Ruby, with a hint of bricking on the rim. Delicate perfumed nose; open blackcurrant/cassis with a bit of rose/florality. Searing acidity which is perhaps not a surprise; tannins are very well integrated but make their presence felt slightly on the finish. Fruit perhaps tends towards red. No pencil lead for me but certainly tertiary notes of cigar/leather starting to arrive. All in all it's a tiny bit mean; nose is incredible, though.

4/14/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Old Guys lunch on Ciao Bella's lovely patio (CV, DM, TS, JV, DD, LS, KB). 80 degrees Friday & 45 degrees Saturday :). We got super lucky Friday by MN standards. Well as I stated after my first sniffs & sips of this; "if I only knew then what I know now" I'd have at least a couple cases of Giacoma Conterno. This is superb now and likely to only get better for the next 5-10yrs. 20 plus years from now it likely won't be my cup of tea as I've yet to taste a 40yr old plus Barolo I've remotely loved. This is great now & look fwd to tasting one of these again down the road. Classic old school Barolo with tar, menthol and mineral but also a very nice dab of pure raspberry and cherry flavors. This wine has excellent, concentration, intensity on a suave harmonious frame. 95-96 Dave D's btl and my wine of the afternoon! Thanks Dave! Wish my Burolo had played nice too!

10/27/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Heeding other recent notes I decanted this for 4-1/2hrs prior to dinner & slowly but surely this became more pleasurable as the day went on. I started sipping in earnest a couple hours prior to dinner and had to be careful to leave us a couple good pours each with Nita's homemade deep dish. This producer got on my radar a few years ago but I only started buying with the 2016 release. A very wise decision as tonight's btls was one of the best BdMs I've ever had. The only risk here is if more classically styled BdM fans jump on board this could be priced out of my reach in a year or 3. The depth, pristine fruit & vibrance is outstanding. I'm a Johnny come lately but better late than never. 14.5% on label is scary but I had a hard time noticing it in my glass. Nita made a fabulous pizza and I had to rise to the occassion as our cellar master :).

4/22/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Magnificent tonight w/ Nita's Memphis rubbed pork ribs! Paired alongside my buddy Mikes very tasty '07 Clos Du Pape! The Allemand has it all going. Semi translucent ruby w/ deep center but not opaque. Exceptional balance, intensity, fruit purity and concentration are the canvas for its fabulous spicey dark fruit aromas along w/ enticing favors of dark berries, cured meat, mineral and lovely harmonics just out of reach from my sensory. Incredible wine by any standard. 13.5% alc. Slow-oxed in Burg glasses & btl for 4-1/2hrs. Maybe even a smidge better the next day. With one left I'll wait at least till 2025+ Think there maybe some upside to waiting but outstanding now too.

10/21/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

This is one of those stubborn '05s still unwilling to show its best stuff. Even w/ 18 full years under its belt. So after a quick taste test on opening, I decided to give it a 2hr decant b4 serving w/ our cast iron pan seared Sockeye. This helped but I still think this needs at least 3 more years to hopefully reveal more layers & achieve complete silkiness. Enjoyable but there's a real sense of resistance to showing all of it cards, yet. Sort of like trying to land a determined big Brown trout only to have it snap off.

10/19/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Jim and Michelene for their 40th wedding anniversary w/ chef Don Saunders. Matt L's btl flighted with Dave D's 95' Tondonia. Last time I had these 2 wines together I preferred this to the Tondonia. Tonight I flipped and a slight preference for the Tondonia's marvelous fruit. This was a little more darkly complected and slightly less giving tonight. That said I loved it's resolve, elegance and tertiary notes. The "other" stunning btl in a stunning flight! Thanks Matt L! 96+

10/13/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

New producer for me and a terrific addition to the cellar! A classic example from one of Puligny's top Crus that reminds me again why I love White Burgundy above all other Chardonnay sources excepting Chablis. Pale gold color, clean aromas of citrus & mineral. A powerful but weightless ethereal palate w/ layers of mineral, citrus, stone fruit and other harmonics. Mesmerizing! Delighted to have 2 more and wish i could grab more. 13.5% alc 25% new oak.

10/12/2023 - Sean Tay Likes this wine:

Pronounced nose intensity with notes of mushroom, toast, red fruit. Medium+ acidity and medium tannin. Long finish. Previously had 3 bottles in 2021 and 2022, now the fourth bottle, finally I feel it have enter its drinking window, will get better with time.

5/10/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Said to be from the oldest Chardonnay vines in the valley & aged in neutral French oak. Served in my Riedel Montrachet glasses. Pale gold color. There is an immediate sense that this is serious Chardonnay with significant concentration, intensity & depth. An almost lime-stony minerality is the foundation for lime, tangerine, pear, honey and spice flavors & aroma. Blind this may fool Francophiles like myself or at minimum keep everyone perplexed. It has some kinship with Puligny Montrachet. At $39 locally, I plan to grab a couple more. A modest 13% alc. 93+

5/20/2015 - chablis28 wrote:

Not anything like the more feminine Barbaresco I love. Showing all the structure of the 96 vintage and then some. Old school rustic, chewy and downright unfriendly at this point. A mistake buy thinking this might be ready to go at almost 20yrs old as a Barbaresco. What an unreasonable assumption:)! If it had been a Barolo I could see why it needs 3-10yrs more. I really don't think this will ever be more than what it is today. Disappointing and glad this was my last of 2 btls.

10/6/2023 - BradE wrote:

Twelve Vintages of Lafon Montrachet: A fantastic bottle, with excellent structure and balance. Fun having it next to the sublime 2010, and it fully held its own. A class act.

7/10/2022 - chablis28 wrote:

A weekend left-over served at tonight's shared plates on our lawn event with my wine buddies. A terrific little summer rose' quaffer that really checks off my criteria for enjoyable summer rose! Bought 2 more today! Paid $10.39, drinks like $20+.

9/25/2023 - ledocq Likes this wine:

Not a champagne guy. Wife is not a champagne gal. We have had many different producers from big houses to the grower types, and pretty much every time, they're fiiiiiiine. This was an exception. Truly good stuff. All that the notes suggest below, but I'd add that this made the perfect celebration toast for the end of the WGA strike.

12/11/2022 - chablis28 wrote:

Lonny's btl at our wine group's annual holiday dinner at StG who hit it out of the park tonight! Tim & St Gens team are such great host! We'll in hindsight this was my clear WOTH & biggest surprise in a longtime! I bought a far amt of D'Angerville early on, based more on reputation than personal experience. After drinking a decent amount of them, very few have risen above a 91-92 experience, so far. Lonny's btl tonight was remarkable. Especially as it sat in my glass. The only thing I can attribute tonights btl to, is the magic of the 2010 vintage. Ok, and I never discount Lonny's karma! This was the poster btl for Zen balance, fruit purity & weightless, ethreal bliss! Pretty much everything you'd want from red Burgundy! Only bummer, it got passed onto the other table before I could sneak more! Thanks Lonny, and don't you dare drink another, in my absence! Hail 2010!

6/30/2014 - chablis28 wrote:

Pretty typical BdB. I like it but at $50 won't race out to buy more. Would be a good value at $30.

9/4/2023 - rocknroller wrote:

France Trip: Paris, Champagne, Burgundy; 9/3/2023-9/17/2023 (Paris, Champagne, Burgundy): Eltra pale nearly clear pink color. Drank a glass at Le Fontaine de Mars. A more subtle version, dried strawberry, Mistral brezzes, minerals, stony, light bodied, citrus. Was served a bit warm too.

9/1/2023 - rwschmitt1 Likes this wine:

Wow, absolutely delicious, smooth tanins, licorice and dark cherry fruit. Aromas of leather and tobacco are picked up right away. One of my favorite Brunello’s

3/2/2022 - chablis28 wrote:

My first of 2 btls. Opened 2hrs prior to dinner & decided to slow-ox in my Riedel Burgs & btl the rest of the way. Deep semi opaque ruby color. Aromatic from the get go w/ enticing berry, sense of damp forest floor & spice. Palate is expansive & intense with raspberry, mineral, more spice and again that damp forest floor thing. The forest floor might be attributed to the oak but if so, its a very positive oak thing rather than the masking vanilla I often find in young Jadot reds. This reminds me somewhat of Dujac MSDs. I really dug this tonight. Only knock is the tannins while far from oppressive need a few more years to fully resolve. I really love this producer. A '14 Gevrey Chambertin back in 2020 was also stellar. I also think 2013 might be a sleeper vintage. Said to be from 70yr old vines. 13% alc. 92+

4/14/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Old Guys lunch on Ciao Bella's lovely patio (CV, DM, TS, JV, DD, LS, KB). 80 degrees Friday & 45 degrees Saturday :). We got super lucky Friday by MN standards. My btl and quite disappointing in its awkward current state. This was fricken beautiful 4yrs ago on release!?!? I decanted it 3hrs before leaving for Ciao Bella and removed the cork 45 mins again before drinking. From my Burg glass. Once again finding the right drinking window and ideal air for Barolo is as elusive as catching an old Brown Trout on dry fly. For me anyhow:). If I scored it now it would be 85-87pts. Rough ride on the structure & fairly closed.

12/22/2022 - chablis28 wrote:

Dinner with Wayne at Kevin's. Local Twin Cities beloved Chef Don Saunders killed it for our crew at Kevin's place. 11 of us were treated to a night with Kevin's spry 91yr old dad who delighted everyone! Wayne Loves Cabernet & BDX so we had some potentially monumental reds to compliment a great night while 30 below MN temps whipped at the door. Thanks Kevin! WB,KB,VB,CV,DD,JV,BB,ML,LI,CS & SS. Candace's btl. Semi opaque ruby. This is a big concentrated red but showing very elegantly with plenty of depth. Maybe a smidge less precise than Candace's '83 PL also called into duty tonight? Loved it none the less. Plenty of life and some upside still likely. Thanks Candace!

7/21/2023 - DougLee wrote:

Cork stain indicating slight leak. Acrid smells on the nose with initial brackish red fruit on the tongue. After 2 hours the nose came out to play with scents of high pitched violets, fresh cut berry, iodine, and stony earth. Magical transformation of the palate revealing silky red raspberry fruit cut with filed-off, granular tannin and bright acidity. Longer finish of brooding piquant red berry and iron. Lovely wine breaking through after a rough start.