4/21/2009 - cona wrote:

Lovely racey minerality - hints of oak

4/8/2009 - cona wrote:

Drank with Chrissy at Hazel. Big rich and solid.

8/11/2008 - cona wrote:

Great 96. Developed presntation however pinpoint acid. Sunning mouthfeel in an elegant Dom style

8/11/2008 - cona wrote:

Absolutely outstanding. Strong aromas of meat and tardtill with pinpoint fruit intensity

6/11/2008 - cona wrote:

Served to Magnum Committee

6/11/2008 - cona wrote:

Absolutley gorgeous. Un pretentious smaller brother to tre La Colina this was full of swwt fruit perfrctly balanced with modearte oak treatment. Very Rhone like

6/11/2008 - cona wrote:

Beautiful mature wine form an excellent vintage. The addition of small amounts of Cabernets gives this wine a lovely bordeaux like structure with sweet American fruit adding a lovely mouthfeel

6/6/2008 - cona wrote:

Initialy oily and dense with few florals however going back to a little left in the glass towards the end of our meal there were the expected white fruit f;orals that we'd expected - maybe young

11/3/2007 - cona wrote:

Rich fat sappy char. Still very red and dense. Oh so Penfolds..

9/22/2007 - cona wrote:

Highly evolved and showing too much evidence of oxidation. Was a nice wine once

9/22/2007 - cona wrote:

Lovely developed autolysis characters. Broad and enjoyable (Bolli like) perhaps lacking quite the focus for great champagne. Maybe a vintage char?

9/22/2007 - cona wrote:

Hugely rich and harmonious showing very good winemaking. Drinking well but absolutely no hurry. Very Italian spectrum fruit lacking the typical French Cab structure

9/15/2007 - cona wrote:

Needed a couple of hours decanting to stabilise then opens up to rich full bodied red fruit with touches of undergrowth. Drinking well now but no rush

9/1/2007 - cona wrote:

Just opened - big explosive red fruit spectrum flavours but finishes very firm. I'm not sure how this will evolve as the fruit seem to be all there now and beginnning to showing signs of drying out. Was a little concerned going into this as a recent tasting of 98 CNDPs showed many with premature aging. This is thankfully devoid of this.

7/18/2007 - cona wrote:

Magnum committee - July. Huge oak, very sweet lush Cab

5/18/2007 - cona wrote:

Beautifully integrated - sweet fruit shining through

5/18/2007 - cona wrote:

Very tired and hugely oxidised

5/18/2007 - cona wrote:

A great 96

4/22/2007 - cona wrote:

Slightly developed with a good acid balance reminiscent of the 2001s.

4/22/2007 - cona wrote:

Fantastic wine. Restrained rosepetal with a backbone of structured elegance. Refined and dry

4/22/2007 - cona wrote:

Structured with strong minerality - almost hard. Clean and certainly not oxidised on any way. Look forward to seeing what happens

12/1/2005 - cona wrote:

Suprisingly good given the Ducru history. No sign of Bret.