10/17/2020 - Andrewbdc wrote:

Continues to impress. Six months on from last bottle and just as good, with limited evolution, other than I found the tannins slightly softer.

Pale garnet. Beautiful nose - lifted red fruits - raspberry, pomegranate, cherry, violet, spice, forest floor, smoke. Developing. Fresh acidity, fine, ripe medium tannins. Many layers of flavour. Long finish. Drink now or hold. Outstanding village wine.

4/18/2020 - Andrewbdc wrote:

Medium garnet. Fully developed. Baked cassis, prune, cedar, tobacco, earth. Very slight green note. Dry, fine medium tannins, med+ finish, slightly drying This is drinking beautifully and the structure balances the ripe fruit. St Estephe terroir clearly helped in this very hot year.

10/21/2019 - Neecies Does not like this wine:

Fourth bottle opened of six purchased over a decade ago, and each has been identically crappy: no fruit, parched tannins, astringent finish. Every darned one. Though a few people have had good bottles, others here have filed similar reports so it's now safe to presume mine all came from a bad lot and the 'to do' at this point is feed the rest to the rhododendrons.

3/29/2017 - Andrewbdc wrote:

Final glasses after several corvine samples over 2 months. Absolutely no sign of any additional development or ageing. Very similar note to previous one:
Deep garnet colour.
Clean nose, pronounced flavours of dark fruit (cassis, damson), floral (violet), other (pencil lead), oak (smoke, clove), tertiary (cedar, cigar box), dried fruit (fig, prune).
Dry palate, medium (+) acidity, medium alcohol, medium body, medium (+) tannins, fine, a little dry, medium (+) flavours of cassis, damson, violet, pencil lead, smoke, cedar, prune. Long finish.
Outstanding, classic St Julien, drinking very nicely now, but with a long life ahead - it has the concentration of fruit, the acidity and tannins to continue to develop further tertiary complexity.

9/8/2015 - WetRock wrote:

Pre-moxing. This wasn't completely gone but there is clearly more oxidation than there should be for a wine this young. And it's not the nice gentle oxidation you notice with old wines. It's overt. There was enough left underneath that to see what it once was and could have been. Such a shame. How the wines of Burgundy still sell for such extravagant money while this sort of fraud is going on is beyond me.

6/19/2015 - WineKnurd Likes this wine:

CT props to ANDREWBDC's 4/5/2015 note; it's been years since I did a full CMS eval on a wine but we are on the same wavelength here. I might respectfully suggest the alcohol is more med to med (-) but overall we agree that there just isn't enough acidity to put this into the upper echelon of 2003's (I prefer the 2003 Lynch-Moussas myself). It's definitely ripe and extracted, dare I say "Shiraz-like" in a bad Aussie accent? Some time in the decanter brings out some red fruit notes and a leathery tannic finish.

Style & Quality: B. Lower acidity and consequent lack of overall complexity and development bring the evaluation down to a B- but being 12 years old and drinking decently kicks it back up to a B.

Value: B. I got it for $40 at Total Wine (with the end of case discount) which seems to be a good value based on Wine Searcher but at this point I would spend that elsewhere in Bordeaux.

Overall: B.

11/24/2011 - cliffkol wrote:

Thanksgiving from Lee and Allison. Medium bodied, slightly hot, fairly decent bourgogne

7/12/2014 - Andrewbdc wrote:

Clear, dark purple all the way to the rim. Clean nose, lots of dark fruit, with something else slightly out of place that I haven't been able to identify (that's not helpful, I know). Medium palate, simple, but nicely integrated, with decent acid backbone. Medium finish. Decent Cotes du Rhone - worth the extra compared to entry price bottles.