5/16/2014 - McKraftyWino Likes this wine:

this is one of those wines where the standard rating system just doesn't work.
Rated as the experts do as a burgundy, as a classic representation of region, grape & vineyard one might rate it 90 or less.
HOWEVER i propose a second rating scale! Lets call it the BL scale (i invented it, i can call it what i want!)
BL scale is "Rate the wine based on presentation, beauty, how much you enjoyed it, how it tasted and lasted from first sip to last"
on the BL scale it is 100!
so we averaged the expert and BL scale to come to 95.
We fell in love with this wine 5 or so years ago when we got a case of it at a wine auction. Loved it every time we drank it.
Recently while digging around in the cellar we came across a couple more bottles.
Tasting notes: it has a baked brown sugar aftertaste, it is a very masculine wine (which is why experts might not like it as an echezeaux)
This wine is one of those 'outside the box' type wines..if you get a chance to try it, try it...you'll love it!

6/3/2016 - McKraftyWino Likes this wine:

When first tasted from Riedal Bordeaux Somm glass, it was too tight, too constricted.
So then tried from a Zalto Bordeaux glass. excellent!
i was shocked at how much better it presented.
i normally prefer wines in Big Bordeaux Somm glasses however for this wine, for this time, the Zalto was clearly better.

5/2/2014 - McKraftyWino Likes this wine:

drank a glass or two from the bottle with my coravin. superb. great mouth feel from start to finish. excellent fruit presentation.
NOTE on the coravin:
i am not sure how long wine lasts when taken with the coravin.
i will try this bottle again in a day, a week and then 2 weeks.
some other wines I've tried with the coravin did not last meaning in 3 or 4 weeks after i drank from them when i tried them again they were very different (done! the argon did not do it's job!)
my guess is that it might have been that the bottles were placed on their side so increased the surface area of the wine to be covered by the argon gas? not sure but be interested in others experience with the coravin.

6/23/2014 - Jody Smith wrote:

This is a really pretty wine. Looking at others notes, I'd say size is relative. This wine doesn't come close to Saxum or Pax 1.0 in wieght or intensity, although this is no AFWE Wind Gap either. This falls somewhere in between. This needs lots of air today. On initial open, the nose is reticent and the body, quite lithe. I confess, I was a bit disappointed with my first pass through the new line up. I was hoping for something reminiscent of Pax's earlier efforts and didn't find it - at first. What I found, is that pouring into a decanter, and shaking the heck out of it, repeatedly (this could probably benefit from time in a blender), and the wine gains great weight and the nose explodes. There is incredible purity of fruit, with a clean mineral character dominated by berry fruit, mostly in the red spectrum, raspberries, but with a hint of blackberry. Decidedly berry though. This wine is most notable for its powerful nose. It has a very rose like quality - if I hadn't tasted it, I'd guess Barolo on aroma alone. Very interesting. This will be a great diversion from your stylistic preference, regardless of which end of the spectrum your preference lies.