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Tasting Notes for DesertDogESQ

(48 notes on 46 wines)

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Red
1/1/2012 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
87 points
Nice old Burg, but lacking real subtlety or length.
Red
12/24/2010 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
91 points
I loved the spiciness of this wine, with black and white pepper...
White
12/5/2010 - DesertDogESQ Likes this wine:
88 points
Excellent for the price. Taste of honey and stone, with a nice acidic tongue attack. Very happy.
Red
12/8/2010 - DesertDogESQ Likes this wine:
84 points
Good for the price. 84. A little light, but can't complain for an everyday QPR.
Red
11/25/2010 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
86 points
Good nose of dark smells: cherry, wood, and some pepper. Sour cherry and a little spice with a medium finish. Would benefit from some decanting...
Red
11/24/2010 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
90 points
Excellent! Had with dinner, nice classic Sangiovesse flavor, with nice acidity and decent length on finish.
Red
11/18/2010 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
86 points
No notes. Decent depth of flavor, medium finish.
Red
11/18/2010 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
84 points
Decent drinker with food. Nothing memorable, nothing horrible. Price pushes up on the rating...
Red
2007 Mocali Fossetti Toscana IGT Sangiovese Blend, Sangiovese (view label images)
11/18/2010 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
78 points
Bland and shallow. Watered down feel. The heart of average.
Red
11/18/2010 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
90 points
Excellent. No notes really, but nice nose, and long finish. For the price, a real deal.
Red
9/12/2010 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
88 points
34th birthday wine. Santa Lucia is one of out favorite non-burgundy pinot regions. Very dark and brooding, with tobacco, tea, burnt toast, and huge notes of bacon fat on the nose. Long, somewhat indistinctive taste (too hot in the alcohol department). Taste of chocolate-coated Bacon, tea, and some dark fruits. The alcohol is a bit fatiguing, but still a decent wine.
Red
4/1/2010 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
85 points
Kind of blah, especially at this price point.
Red
5/1/2010 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
92 points
Drank a glass at Italian wine tasting. Excellent! Never had the bottle.
Red
1985 Château Lynch-Bages Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend (view label images)
6/19/2009 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
87 points
Nice wine. No notes.
Red
1984 Château Lynch-Bages Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend (view label images)
6/19/2009 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
82 points
Well past it's prime. Just not much happening with this one.
Red
6/24/2009 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
89 points
Tasted at a recent vintage tasting. Don't have notes, but it rocked considering it was a 19-year old village level. At held it's own against a 10-year premier cru, and bested a 1984 and 1985 Lynch Bages for the red wine of the tasting.
Red
6/20/2009 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
95 points
Fantastic Vosne spice, long long finish. Drinking beautifully. Dark cherry, pepper, cedar, and cinnamon spice. A special bottle for a special occassion (10th College Reunion).
Red
3/14/2009 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
90 points
Village wine drinking very well right now. Nice, spicy nose, with hints of green pepper, red pepper, mint, and tart cherry. Very nice flavor, with tart cherry, spice, rose petals. Very intense for a Village level wine. Marvelous effort.
Red
2/20/2009 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
96 points
Not sure if I got the right bottle at the right time, but this baby just sung to me on Valentine's Day. Beautiful rose and lavender, dried bacon grease, black cherry, cigar on the nose. Nice dark fruit, smoke, tobacco, and earth in the mouth. Perfect texture in the mouth. Only weakness is that the length is not incredible, just normal. This wine is why I love burgundy, subtle, complex, and wave after wave of drinking pleasure. Given the other reviews, I hesitate to give it the score I did, but it was truly an extraordinary wine the night I had it.
White - Sparkling
12/31/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
94 points
Best Champange I've had the pleasure of drinking. Almonds, Pear, Apple, Sourdough, butter, and spice. Long, intoxicating finish. Just a hint of sweetness in the dry mouth feel. Truly a stunning wine. Happy New Year!
Red
12/21/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
91 points
Mediocre the first night. Stunning the second night.
Red
12/21/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
94 points
I decanted for 8-hours. Beautiful, expressive nose, with chocolate, spice, rose petal, and mint. Long, long finish. What a wine! Wine of the night in our Italian Wine Explorer.
Red
12/28/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
83 points
Very bland. Much better on the second night. Not much happening, but not bad for the price.
Red
12/27/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
90 points
Wow. So impressive at this price point. Soft style, not over-oaked. Great stuff!
Red
12/30/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
89 points
Nice pepper, sausage, and fennel flavors, with a tint of tobacco and mint. Great at this price point. Moderately long finish.
Red
1997 Castello Banfi Summus Sant' Antimo SuperTuscan Blend (view label images)
12/21/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
90 points
Great Green Pepper nose, with a long finish. Much better tasting than I expected given the reviews. Nice cedar, tobacco, and green pepper.
Red
12/25/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
90 points
Another Christmas Dinner winner. Bright Cherry and Fruit, very Cali in style. A pleasure to drink.
Red
12/25/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
flawed
Perfect Christmas Dinner wine. Just a joy to drink, with a long 30+ second finish. Blackberry, earth, cedar, toast, cinnamon. Beautiful wine. Decanted for 5-hours.
Red
12/20/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
88 points
I loved this wine. I don't have good notes, but I remember chocolate, a little cinnamon/vanilla, and blueberry. My first negroamaro. Not my last. Very nice wine, especially for the price.
Red
12/20/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
87 points
Wonderful hints of spice below it's fruity/cherry flavors. Some mint and tobacco as well. Very nice wine at it's price point. Just a tad hot.
Red
12/20/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
88 points
Fabulous, affordable cab! Just tremendous at $10 per bottle. Probably the best QPR cab I've had in years.
Red
2007 Bodegas Luzon Jumilla Mourvèdre Blend, Mourvèdre (view label images)
12/9/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
87 points
I love it for $10 a bottle. Big, huge, a little hot. Not a ton of notes, but I'll being get much, much more at this price point.
Red
12/8/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
86 points
Very nice everyday drinker at this price point. Tastes like 84, but the value pushes to 86. Nice nose, nice taste, just a little lacking in complexity and length in the mouth. I will be buying more.
Red
12/5/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
83 points
Pretty ordinary. No other notes.
Red
1997 Domaine des Lambrays Clos des Lambrays Clos des Lambrays Grand Cru Pinot Noir (view label images)
11/30/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
93 points
I must have got a great bottle! Beautiful brick color, perfect for an old Burgundy! But still a nice uniform color from edge to edge. Fantastic nose, with rose petals, sour cherry, tobacco, sage, sun-dried tomato, pesto, oregano, and fleshy blood. Beautiful mouth feel, with wave after wave of spice, strawberry syrup, smoke, pepper, creme, cigar smoke, sour cherry, and ceder and orange zest on the finish. Only nit that I wish the finish were just a bit longer. But this a great bottle of wine, exactly what you would expect from a 11-year old Burgundy Grand Cru at its original price point. 92.5-93.
Red
11/22/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
87 points
Decanted for 3-hours. Great color for a pinot (but not short on depth of color, as it is very intense/deep). Not revealing much now on the nose. Very youthful. Mostly dark fruits on the nose, with a small touch of candied cherry, beet, earth, and faint leather. Initial flavor is a tad watery, followed by licorice, cherry, strawberry on a slightly velvety attack. Some chocolate and plum on the mid-palette, with a lingering taste of soft leather and tea on the finish. It's so young it's hard to give it a fair score/reading. Most of the flavors/smells took a lot of work to detect. I woulds say right now it's an 85-86, but with age I can see this as an 88-89. At a price of $22, I would say this a great deal for Village 2005 Burgundy. I will buy a couple more and try them in 2-years.
Red
11/23/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
87 points
Great QPR! Cherry, Strawberry, burnt toast aroma. Very long finish for this price point. Somewhere around 86-88, but for $16 pinot I'm not sure it can be topped.
Red
11/16/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
92 points
No notes. But a truly nice experience.
Red
11/9/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
88 points
Not great notes, but a nice, soft cab. Vanilla, dark cherry, roses, and chocolate.
Red
10/7/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
90 points
No notes, as I drank at a debate party. Consistent with how my first bottle tasted, around a 90. Drink up, as it was just a tad light.
Red
5/26/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
89 points
Smell of tobacco, vanilla, blackberry, smoke, and bacon fat. Very subtle dark fruit flavors. The tobacco comes through slightly, the bacon flavor lives strong, with slight truffle flavor. Nice, buttery texture. Very nice, long finish.
Red
5/22/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
87 points
If your expectations are right, this is a very nice drinking wine. Very soft, with tastes of rose pedals and sour cherries, with just a hint of something darker (maybe a little leather) in the background. It really is perfect for a summer picnic red, very light and refreshing.
Red
5/9/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
90 points
Nice soft brick color with decent consistency. Bouquet is soft, with subtle smells of bing cherry, vanilla cream, tobacco, and rotting farm field (maybe truffle). First tastes were a bit flat, but it quickly expended to decent length. I would say the flavors were highly consistent with the bouquet, with a nice minerality/chalk in the finish. The best two words to describe this wine is "reserved elegance." This wine is definitely on the down side of its life (I had this bottle 3-years ago and it was awesome, 93+), but it's still a good bottle of wine. I give it a solid 90.
Red
5/9/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
90 points
A beauty! Got better the second day. Amazingly complex for a Beaujolais. Could age more easily.
Red
5/1/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
88 points
Still too young, but I knew that going in. The first night there was not much going. By the second night, it was truly outstanding with a nice velvety texture and long complex finish (though flavors were still difficult to detect because of its youthfulness). I think this will be a good one, right in tune with its WS 92 rating. At this price, I'm happy about the future. Will not open again until 2010.
Red
4/13/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
86 points
I got a case of this on special ($10 per bottle). It's a little light, but it is also has very familiar pinot flavors and characteristics. For the price point, I have not problem making this an everyday wine.
Red
4/13/2008 - DesertDogESQ wrote:
84 points
Not bad for the price point ($8.99).
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