4/18/2024 - pkouchu wrote:

For those still doubtful of smoke taint, wine advocate just published their review, they sent the wine to a lab and it came back 4x over the threshold. It’s smoke tainted to hell.

3/7/2024 - ufsnook Does not like this wine:

What am I missing? I did not enjoy this. Medium bodied, but very light and thin in the mouth. Tart. Tannins are surprisingly light, but mouth drying. No fruit comes through. Tried it after opening, after airing out in the glass for a few hours, and 24+ hours later. No improvement. I have 2 more bottles, which I regret. The only positive thing is that I found this at Costco for USD$50. Maybe something magical will happen 5 years from now? Or am I just finding that this is so far from my style as I learn Barolo? This is just miles away from the 2019 Azienda Virna Di Borgogno Barolo Cannubi I had recently. I'd love to understand why I liked this bottle so much less, so that I can stop making this mistake in the future

3/3/2024 - LEEJV123 Does not like this wine:

Medium body, fruitless and flat, short.

2/18/2024 - Floral wrote:

A good wine. First time with this bottling. It's a fun, slightly puckering event that holds promise for those with patience. This could be 90 in the future.

Agree with Oldwines comment below - this should be left in cellar for now, check back no sooner than 2026. Unless - you have the food to match..

Opens with movie theater popcorn, spice muffin, key lime, and dough. mouth follows with a bit more

Acid is strong. reduction strong. alchool 13%, but I feel a touch more.

Mid palate weak. finish and mid-field + complexity are lacking.

12/24/2023 - bdisk1235 wrote:

I struggled to write this note. Opened and decanted and drank over the course of 12 hours. Tight and structured, with big fruit and tannins initially. It is evident that the fruit is excellent. Over time it mellowed and opened up a bit. The wine is well made, but something was off. I tasted with my wife (who is not aware of the 2020 issues and has a better palate than me) and she noticed it as well. At the outset, the wine had a gritty taste (if that makes sense) that hit in the back of my lower jaw. It also had a teriyaki/soy flavor that I've never experienced with any other wine. Over the course of the day, those flavors seemed to integrate a bit more, and to me there was the faintest hint of smoke in the background. Not pronounced like other smoke tainted wines I have had that taste like an ash tray, but lurking in the background as if you drank it after smoking a cigarette the day before.

Ultimately, I don't think the above doomed the wine - it was pleasant to drink and the qualities I noted were not overbearing or overwhelming. However, given what I tasted now, I wouldn't want to set bottles down for the long haul given that they are not like other young MB's and I don't know how the flavors I noticed will affect the wine in the long run.

1/17/2024 - jnewman77 Likes this wine:

This was another excellent bottle; beautiful nose of morello cherry, raspberry, along with a hint of citrus peel and spice, floral and just a tiny whiff of sanguine funk. The palate is ethereal and lovely with building depth and a long finish that seems impossible with translucent color and medium weight. I love the style and the wine.

12/24/2023 - North Willis Likes this wine:

Tasting note from Day 2. Wow, this reminds one of the unique beauty of California field blends. Lush, opulent, but with a nervy backbone that easily supports the 14.8% abv. I am really digging this wine. The finish is long and complex with some light oak and marvellous sweet and tangy notes. This will improve over the next 3-5 years. I have a jero in my cellar. I will definitely look forward to pulling the cork on that bottle sometime in the early 2030’s.

12/11/2023 - Nutty08 wrote:

Not sure about this one. Nose and palate are typical. Black fruited, well poised with a little vanilla, coconut, and currants. On the finish this becomes quite dry and austere with a short clipped finish. My wife (without any prior knowledge or bias) said it’s “off” but wasn’t sure what. I found this perfectly drinkable but maybe not up to the typical MB standard (which is very high).
--Night 2, well, maybe it's a bit better? Seemed to fill out a bit on the finish but still seems a bit thing and "weird" with a coarseness that seems atypical. Bumped a point to 90

11/25/2023 - Caruso Likes this wine:

Garnet. Medium intense nose with cherries, spices, violets and minerals more complexity than this enumeration tells. Same on the palate with outstanding intensity. Still quite tannic, but ready right now. This tannins will never be shed. So if you don't like tannic wines, this may be not the right one for you. Outstanding spicy lenght. This bottle needed some air and it was partly decanted, which add some more complexity and intensity after30 minutes or so, but then resulted in a less nuanced appearance after extended airing over two hours. Then the part in the bottle was better. 5/12/17/10. -2035+

11/3/2023 - Fractalage Does not like this wine:

Bought multiple bottles directly from the winery upon release as member of the Zin Club. I remember this year being very tight, as most baby Lytton Springs are.
Rested upright for 3 months, and decanted off sediment leaving a glass and a half in the bottle 5 hours before tasting.

Not much nose to report except for some very faint blackberry, licorice and even less, essences of earth.

Palate, however was exquisite!
The lushness of the juice delicately tumbled over my tongue, something of a perfect spot for this cuvée. All kinds of complexities engaged and challenged my detection skills: Garigue, licorice, Christmas spices, perfect acid, delicate spice cakes with hidden but enough to pull out cinnamon, nutmeg and quality tight knit wood.

I’ve got Lytton Springs verticals in my cellar going back a decade. These wines for most years need at least 7 years bottle age to show and can stay in that sweet spot for twenty, though most would not allow that much time in bottle. 2016 was a drought relief year, and this is an interesting contrast to 2015.

The iconic label looked magnificent in front of a warm living room fire, and if I had to do this again I would wait for Christmas to open, as this with roast duck, or broiled rare ribeye would be fantastic for celebratory times with family who are not oenophiles. (Keep the 1996 Barolo hidden for ourselves!)

A fresh pour from decanter now 7 hours after decant smells more and more like Christmas season as the cakes with tart berry fit perfectly. Each swig had energy, was soft, luxuriously imparted smoke, gingerbread, boysenberry and memories of seasonal times past.

Add this to your holiday meal lineup, decant at noontime, keep ½ glass for yourself and pour the rest for others who don’t fully appreciate the depth of your cellar. This will woo your guests as you tell about the Taste Of Paris and why you opened it for this meal. (My Bruno Giacosa 2001 Serralunga D’Alba stays in my own belly!)

As this opened more and more of the oak started to show, and totally did not want to drink anymore. This is for others. Not for me. I’ve got to now hit the cellar again to find something else to open. Gotta remember not to drink any more Ridge, but only pour for others. So much time had past since the last bottle that I forget to remember! My bad.

In fact, at this point I just gotta say "UG! OAK! DOUBLE UG!"

10/7/2023 - LesPaul Does not like this wine:

Not so good. Has been stored properly, but still - dry, dessicated, sort of overall grumpy. Nor.ally I like how Lytton Springs ages, but this bottle at least took a wrong turn.

9/10/2023 - Umay Ceviker wrote:

Shows plenty of evolution with iodine and rust along with fainted aromad of dried red fruit. A bit rustic in its texture although rounded with medium-weight and balancing acidty. I guess I missed its peak by a few years.

6/16/2023 - North Willis Likes this wine:

Drinking really well. Loads of ripe, black fruit, great structure and finely knit tannins. Wonderful texture. This wine rocks. I’d give it another 2+ years for primary notes to evolve and greater complexity to develop. An insane QPR. Little Big Man, as another CT’er wrote in this thread!

7/12/2023 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine:

Normally, I would never open a wine like this so early, but there was some seepage which had me concerned and therefore decided to sacrifice this bottle, figuring it was better to drink now and enjoy, rather than hope it wasn't a serious issue and be disappointed down the road.

Very pretty on the nose with white peach and white pineapple along with minerals the dominant notes. The wine was so young, those notes were almost crystalline in their presentation. Medium bodied (7.5% ABV) white peach upfront, with other white orchard fruits as hints now; lots of complexity still to be revealed. Adds white pineapple and white mango through the middle along with more intense white/yellow peach and a mix of additional tropical notes behind. These are concealed at present by very good acidity and excellent tart notes/citrus qualities. The wine already shows richness through the middle body, kept in balance by the structural notes behind. Mineral and floral notes through the finish. I think the seepage took a bit of this wine's electricity, power and depth, but it was in no way flawed, simply slightly more advanced for this age. This wine is going to be something quite special with time. As much as I love young rieslings, there's too much potential to open this right now. You'd be cheating yourself out of the heights this wine will one day summit. I'll wait on my next bottle until 2026, probably longer.

7/5/2023 - drfloyd wrote:

Good - not great. From a magnum - the fruit was still tight after pulling the cork for dinner about four hours earlier. A bit one-dimensional on the nose with mint dominating - great acidity though. I think this was just too young given the large bottle. I left one glass in the bottle, no cork and sampled it at lunch the next day. Much better with the fruit fully filling out - this needs more time, at least from a magnum…

7/4/2023 - randyjc wrote:

One year since my last time with this wine. It is maturing but in a way that is taking it a step backwards. Not as vivid and compelling as it was one and three and five years ago. Good depth, but acidity and tannin that seems to shut it down a bit. Not sure what to make of it but it does not make me think less of the wine - just will continue to follow it and see where the journey takes me. DAY TWO: Well, isn’t this interesting. The aromatics are incredible at 16 hours open - can smell it from several steps away. Very bright and spicy, with the pie cherry sharpness that was not there yesterday. Mouth feel just as smooth, much more flavor in the mouth of Asian spices and tart cherry with an undertone of used oak barrels. Long finish. Very nice. Merits a higher score but I won’t change it as I wanted to capture the wine on opening.

6/22/2023 - Bjweiss Likes this wine:

Everyone thinks of the 2020 fires that destroyed the Pinots from Oregon, but the Chardonnay was largely picked before the fire and the growing season was phenomenal up to that point. It shows in this beautiful Sigrid, and I’m sure the winemaking team had extra time and focus to put into this flagship Chardonnay. This drinks much like a top cru white burgundy and shows just how good Oregon Chardonnay can be.

5/21/2023 - WEB,III Likes this wine:

At this stage Ferrando Carema White Label ‘16 blows away Produttori Barbaresco ‘16. Produttori is very ripe, and the alcohol is less in balance. The ‘16 normale does not really exhibit the freshness and elegance I associate with classic Barbaresco. Yes, the concentration and depth is impressive, and maybe at 10-20+ years the wine will achieve harmony. For now it exhibits more climate change character than the high tone energy desired. This is a Grey Market bottle purchased recently. I wonder if less than pristine storage and/or transit was an influence. I will compare notes with bottles purchased on release and via authorized Importer somewhere down the road.

5/1/2023 - CavWine wrote:

After reading the 3DAYWINEREVIEW review, I was a little hesitant to try this. But honestly, it was a pleasant surprise. A cranberry flavor has no smoke taint, goes down easily, and drinks beautifully. I found this at a local store and going back to get more.

3/8/2023 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

Now I smell smoke taint. And a little bit of pleasure on the front of the palate

10/7/2022 - Putnam Weekley wrote:

Other bottles from this case were decisively rigid back in 2019-2020, with hard tannins, black grape musk, and suggestions of jagged stone. In other words: typical young Roilette Fleurie. Now in October 2022 it has relaxed considerably. NOSE: damson liqueur, rose/lilac, bruised strawberries, Nusserhof walnuts, salted quartz. MOUTH: savory, attenuated, and grippy while it strides with energy, and precision. I'm taken aback by its seamless integration. Gone are markers of primary grape furiously extracted. Undulating dry ground agitates to the touch, producing amusing interruptions of blackberry and cassis—thin and elastic like fishing line, unaware of gravity. This is a distracting environment of fruits and flowers. It's steady to read—a text printed on heavy paper. Here I find caution, as a husky bloom of bitter berry skin, and fennel seed, scream their suggestions of an ethanol surplus. Still, its bones are enthralled; telomeres hardly touched. The horizon of the punt emerges, and there is a reversal of narrative timing——The enduring sensation here is the feeling of reception. Red raspberry herb silver illumination streams obliquely, flooding the congregating guests with washed out highlights. The end is the beginning, of the next bottle, months from now

1/21/2023 - fitchbuck wrote:

Recall finding this to be a rather odd & obtuse blend, and one certainly not indicative of the ST93+ accolade.

4/8/2023 - 3daywinereview.com wrote:

Day 1: This is a terrible wine and for sure smoke issues. Light is an understatement with this wine almost watered down. Smoke, dried twigs and light fruits. The minute you smell this wine you get that smoke taint and you really get it on the palate. For $25.00 Result of a Crush, crushes this wine probably even on a good vintage. AVOID! 70 points
Day 1.5: This is not any better and trust me this is a terrible wine. Simple is an understatement. As one of the only uncompressed professional wine reviewers I take pride in my work. This is not a good wine. 70 points
Day 2: Even worse. Muted fruit, smoke and iodine. While I love Bedrock this is an easy pass. 68 points
Day 2.5: This is again why you never give up on a wine. While this is not a wine I would ever buy again it is much better than the previous 3 glasses. Pepper, spice, muted fruit, smoke, sour cherries and mild funk. It is trying to come together but thin overall. We will see what day 3 reveals. 85 points
Day 3: While again more concentrated then day 1 to early day 2 still get some smoke taint. Again drinkable but this will not be a wine I would rush out to. The 2021 Tensely Santa Barbara is cheaper in my area and much better. Band aide, muted fruits, smoke, pepper and charcoal.
Recommendation: Try a bottle for yourself and see what you think.

3/13/2023 - Rieslingfan wrote:

Working on a “drink the good stuff” philosophy, I opened this for a Monday dinner with leftovers. Why not! Initially as stern as an angry nun teaching 8th graders, it mellowed out over two hours, though never became soft or cuddly. Instead it maintained a perfectly starched collar, dark tie, and well tailored suit level of elegance, with a warm smile and engaging banter. Honestly it carried the image of the late Anthony Barton. Classic Bordeaux, it showed all the aged tobacco, understated cassis fruit and firm tannins, even more than twenty years after what was at one time considered a “modern” vintage. It demanded a rare ribeye, but alas it was not to be. Still, this feels like a wine that is emerging into a mid-life stage, with ample substance to carry on for as long as necessary. Just be sure to dress for dinner.

1/23/2023 - Oliverl1 wrote:

Tried from the bottle, then decanted 2 hours, 4 hours and 6 hours and hardly noticed any improvement. This is another complete disappointment from this producer!

Over the past couple of years, I have had the ‘04, ‘05, ‘06, ‘08 and ‘09 and EVERY bottle has been a disappointment for the money! Oh and I am not the PnP type of person. I am always happy to give wines some air for a few hours to 24 hours. I have been drinking Rioja (of which some has been very good and expensive Rioja) for almost 20 years and I just do not get this producer. I understand these wines are meant for aging, but, come on, this wine is 17 years and had 6 hours of air! Comparing it to Bordeaux, there are many, many wines from Bordeaux that can be had while they are still young and primary and they are actually enjoyable and worth the money. Just read my tasting notes. Lopez Heredia, I just don’t get you! You have wasted my money yet again!

For the price ($75) I can buy some thing like “El Puntido Gran Reserva 2007” or “Chateau Desmirail 2009” and they are not at their peak but knock the socks of Tondonia!

1/15/2023 - HARTKYINN wrote:

Not a fan

12/21/2022 - Vinus Silvestris wrote:

Satisfying nose. Taste not on par. A bit harsh too and not worth its money.

11/18/2022 - liber Likes this wine:

9th of 24, decanted an hour, perfect cork and level, still young and primary, less funk than April bottle, attractive cassis driven flavours, considerable upside as with most of the better 96s, 20+ years. F+ (18).

9/6/2022 - Shavedaddy Likes this wine:

plum, leather, baking spices, toast, woody/green bramble. hint of umami hiding underneath. i could be convinced of some red or black cherry. really nice balance between freshness and ripeness of the fruit. good acidity. nicely balanced, but is a touch hot on the finish. med+ length. a very even fade, i.e. doesn't drop of a cliff, but doesn't linger with a ton of intensity either.

i see a lot of love for this one, and it's certainly a good wine. i have a soft spot for ridge and how they do things, just not sure i can get to 90 with this one like some others have. especially at the price.

2/18/2022 - North Willis Likes this wine:

Drank along side a white Northern Rhone (St. Peray) and showed off the differences between the varieties used in these two blends. Overall, a very nice wine with high-toned white fruits and a medium+ finish framed by lively acidity. Not as complex as the 2018 of this wine.

7/15/2022 - ducster72 Likes this wine:

Despite being approachable and lightweight, this wine is deceptively concentrated. Really gorgeous, multi-faceted jewel of a wine. Poster child for the fact that sometimes, less is more.

7/7/2022 - Hi.its.Don.4.Wine Likes this wine:

Patience, Patience, Patience

Just like the real estate’s version of the 3 most important aspects of property (location, location, location), I have found that in wine it amounts to a similar saying: Patience, Patience, Patience.

So many times, I will see wines that have attained excellent reviews only to find that most likely those reviews were accomplished well before or right at the initial release of the wine. That means that the wine will not hit shelves for a month, maybe more!

In this particular case, this 99 Point Chardonnay was on my radar:

RoseRock Eola-Amity Hills Chardonnay 2019

Knowing that highly rated wines tend to disappear at light speed, I try to make the rounds to my local shops looking for the wines in question so as not to miss the boat, or more precisely, the wine, only to find the previous version still on the shelves. Many shops do not want to add a newer vintage to the previous vintage still in stock, and if that older vintage doesn’t sell, then the newer one might not ever get there. Oh, the horror. As I discovered: “not this time!’ The wine FINALLY arrived and good fortune was to smile upon me as I made it to the shop before it would sell out.

Domaine Drouhin Oregon would come to be established in the late 1980s, about 100 years after the founding of Joseph Drouhin in Beaune, France, and would come to purchase the Roserock Estate in 2013.

The RoseRock Chardonnay brings together the estate’s three LIVE sustainably certified Chardonnay blocks which are handpicked and sorted. It is then pressed with the cuvée going to tank and barrel in equal parts. Once malolactic fermentation is complete, the wine is then aged similarly with 50% going into steel tanks and 50% into French oak, with 1/3 of the barrels being first use for a period of 10 months. Véronique Boss-Drouhin (if counted correctly, the fourth generation of the family) assembles the two portions into her final cuvée.

The wine that emerges is one of elegance and very Burgundian. There is a vein of minerality running through the wine, along with notes of citrus and fruit (think apple, pear, apricot). All intertwined and blessed with crisp acidity to balance itself out.

Roserock is at the southern tip of the Eola-Amity Hills, in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Volcanic soils, elevation, and cool climate are perfect for both Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. So if you’re a fan of either, seek out their wines and buy when you can, as the wine distinguish themselves year after year. No need for patience, patience, patience.

Cheers

10/13/2021 - KeithAkers wrote:

Wednesday night wines (Chez Pavlovich, Westchester-LA California): I as told that this had seen over 6 hours of decanting and it greatly helped from where I sat. This is clearly youthful, but every so balanced and savory with and restrained power to the tones of black olives, black cherries, black raspberries, crushed rocks, violets, leather, and some earth notes. The Full bodied feel is deep and young with tart, medium+ acidity and chewy, high tannins. This is undoubtedly youthful, but its a killer Cornas. This will need a while to come together and really spread its wings. That said, what is there right now isn't just providing a base for this to improve, it's starting off at the 20th floor and has plenty of room to grow and become something truly profound.

6/6/2022 - swyang wrote:

A magnificent bottle of wine entering its drinking window. Majestic yet with freshing uplift in the backend. Profound yet graceful and majestic yet not heavy at all. Suave textured wine which invite you to every sip and giving ever different twist of pleasure in waves and provoking positive energy amongst us, appreciating it through the evening. A splendid wine. Cheers,

11/7/2021 - FransS wrote:

Henri Bloem tasting, Bloemendaal, november 7: from France to Italy you often notice the lifted acidity, also in this wine. This fresh and ripe acidity combines very good with the power, hardly a hint sweetness (you often find in Amarone wines), the tannins and the bitters are ripe and round. Good stuff.

1/29/2022 - Buff Tannen, USXFel Presidente Likes this wine:

Crack
Crackety crack crack Crack
To throw another noun on the fire, sweet everlasting; or if that's too arcane, fenugreek or grade B maple syrup, albeit with an herbal tinge
If I ever ascend from mere bourgeois alcoholism to an actual Life of Crime, I think I'll make this my Twinkie defense

Day 2, the raspberry fades, leaving a beautiful duopoly of burgeoning sweet everlasting and strawberry, and on the last day, the everlasting completely takes over, and I feel like I'm drinking something obscurely Etruscan once lost to Time
Finish a little brief, I guess
You could recut Miracle on 34th Street and just have Santa give everyone this
Kumar should've married this instead of weed
Maybe you need wine to be better than this
I don't

1/26/2022 - sschen wrote:

Pop and pour, drank over several hours. Lots of interesting elements: tar, savory saline notes, dark fruit, florals, acid, but each poking out separately rather disjointly at the moment. Abrasive, mouth-puckering tannins. Unlike previous notes I do not find this to be close to ready, though there is a very pleasant lingering note of roses long after you swallow that makes me hopeful. Saving half a bottle for tomorrow.

12/20/2019 - csimm wrote:

LIN—E—AR as all getup. White lemon pith, white stone fruit, chalk, and some salt rock. A straight-laced L7 that has absolutely zero interest in being anything but a wallflower on the palate dance floor. There is no beginning, middle, or end. It just “is” in the mouth. Near flavorless right now, with a $7 Sutter Home White Zinfandel depth that barely has enough concentration or intensity to motivate even an ADHD 3 year old to get out of bed. Hold this for 4-5+ years and hope the “fruit” holds out. 83-85? points.

My girl liked it more than me, stating, “It’s kinda like the Trader Joe’s screwcap Pinot Grigio we used earlier to cook the pasta with.” Yes honey... exactly. So.... ya. That.

9/8/2021 - Oeie wrote:

yet another charles smith that is defective

6/8/2021 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine:

Bordeaux night* (with a ringer) in Noe Valley. Part of last fall's private party purchase (about $160, the most expensive bottle). On the nose and palate on opening, extremely backward, almost undrinkable and unyielding, with Burgundian notes of forest floor, mushrooms, dried spice and more traditional funk with nary a trace of fruit. Deep purple, medium bodied, medium thick legs. Powerful but well integrated and underlying acidity and tannins, not a trace of heat in its 12.5% abv. Complex, with medium+ persistence and intensity. After an hour and half of air, more typical CS notes of violets, cigar box, smoke and lesser hints of bitter chocolate, coffee and leather came in, along with some sweet cherries. At 2-2.5 hours, the cherries became impressively vibrant, though never less than completely fresh, joined by blueberries and just a trace of cassis joining the aforementioned secondary notes, and the wine became superbly balanced, both between its fruit and structural elements and between slightly sweet and more savory notes. The low abv and powerful structure helped the fruit, though vibrant in my experience--limited--for a Bordeaux relatively restrained by my local standards, stay laser focused and gave the wine a long, powerful 20-30 second finish. I've written of my struggles with Bordeaux, but this wine was on point, meeting my expectations stylistically while exceeding them qualitatively. Of the wines I've had this year, this was most similar--in price, quality, style and vintage--to the 2002 Blankiet, although that wine had a 240 basis point higher abv. That wine drank far more evenly, coming out of the bottle singing and staying largely consistent during the 3 nights it was open, as opposed to the LB, which took about 90 minutes to become drinkable, then, after about 3.5 hours and on night 2 (which started with being super funky, before coming back to where it was at the end of night 1 after about 30 minutes) ranged from much lower until the 2 hour mark and somewhat lower after the 3.5 hours and on night 2, to being just a bit more focused, lean and longer when it was at its best in the 2-3.5 hour timeframe. Really lovely with the usual pre-dinner snacks and an absolute rock star with steak. This was my only bottle of this, although I'd buy again at a similar price, but if I had one at this point, I'd drink it subject to my notes on air above. While I think that this wine has the stuffing to hold for a number of years, prophesying that it will be this good or better in 2050 as one critic did seems like a fool's bet, as the upside from here isn't clear.

As part of our Bordeaux night we drank this as a compare/contrast with the '11 C&T Don Melchor (generally consistent with my 3/20 TN on that wine, although I'd boost my score up a half point to a 94). That wine, although far more old world than new in style and more alike than different, at least on a relative basis, than the LB, was richer and rounder than the LB, but also less taut and lithe. It likewise went in and out of integration--in particular, again on a relative basis, it seemed ever so slightly boozy compared to the LB--but seems to be drinking a bit more youthfully and perhaps to have more upside, even if it lagged the LB a bit at present. The LB was a solid 96 at its best, but because of the fairly narrow window, I'm going with the lower score of 95-96.

4/24/2021 - rmalloy wrote:

Exuberantly fruity, with red fruit candy, blueberries, and bananas. Undertones of potting soil. Bright acidity, rather big tannins (and a surprising amount of sediment). Could age longer, but I don’t think that is the intent behind this wine.

4/4/2021 - Musigny1955 wrote:

First night: Still tight, lean with great SLB bones. At 16 yo still needs time; what about drinkability?!

Second night, (300 of 750 drunk night 1, Coravin). This wine rocks. Dense, serious, earthy. Don't open lightly.

2/9/2021 - North Willis wrote:

Last bottle of a case of this great QPR Bordeaux. This one was better than the previous bottle (which was out of balance, with noticeably high alcohol notes). Having said this, I think the wine is now past (or soon to be past) its drinking window. I recommend drinking up if you're holding any!

1/28/2021 - North Willis Likes this wine:

Decanted for two hours. Has evolved some since bottle drank about a year ago, now showing greater complexity. Beautiful nose redolent of wild cherries and Christmas spice. Ripe tannins, tons of fruit, and lively acidity bode well for this wine aging into a spectacular Beaujolais.

1/6/2021 - Rocks1970 Does not like this wine:

Terrible. I had the waiter bring a second bottle, and it was just as bad. Just a terrible wine.

11/25/2020 - Barolo Freak wrote:

I have been sitting on two 375ml bottles of Chateau Rieussec for 15 years. I decided to drink one recently. I was somewhat dissapointed with this one. The wine press touted the 2001 Rieussec as a great creation. I cannot say that it is. This wine is more Tokaj like, than Sauternes like. It is heavy and maple syrupy. Perhaps a few more years of aging will do it good.

3/26/2020 - North Willis Likes this wine:

Spicy and floral on the nose. Palate: deep and juicy dark fruit, hint of citrus rind, lively acidity and richness, with mineral underpinning and ripe but mildly assertive tannins. Drinking beautifully now but will definitely improve over the next 2-3 years. Will buy more.

1/24/2020 - Hanibal wrote:

Bubblegum