8/17/2023 - soyhead wrote:

rich mouthfeel, loads of stuffing, but lacks acidity to keep it balanced and interesting. a fine now quaff with respect to immediacy but not showing the magic of chevalier. per JE, perhaps on the pre-pre-mox path?... disappointing

12/13/2023 - Collector1855 wrote:

Salon Ficofi Paris walkabout tasting and dinner, no detailed tasting notes. Very young, not really expressive yet. High pitched with noticeable dosage. I would cellar this and drink older vintages for now as aged versions always show well. 94pt for now with upside.

1/28/2024 - aquacongas Likes this wine:

Krug Lover Dinner with Olivier Krug (Daniel Dal Ban 1876 (Tafelspitz) Düsseldorf): not blind
After all the Krugs it was a bit lost and shy but a very precise and filigree champagne. 95

2/11/2024 - Nanda wrote:

Pop n' pour. Good out of the gate and much, much better with a few hours of air. Loads of power and concentration that initially manifest itself in a compact palate but lengthened and broadened with air. Eventually achieved the seamlessness that I enjoy in 2010 but it took some time to get their. A more reserved and not quite ready 2010. Upside from here.

12/25/2022 - Odedis.Wine.reviews Likes this wine:

This is a fabulous sweet wine from Bordeaux.

Dark Golden in color.

Beautiful sweet nose of honey, yellow apples, apricots, honeysuckle, lemons, caramel, spices and white pepper.

Full bodied and bold, with high acidity.

Sweet on the palate with honey, citrus, tropical fruits, spices, lemons and brown sugar.

Long, long finish with citrus and limes.

This 8 year old still feels very young and concentrated. Nicely balanced with lots of acidity to balance the sugars. Tangy and interesting with a heavy mouthfeel.

Rich, yet elegant. Sweet and powerful. Creamy and bold. A delicious experience.

Good right out of the bottle and better with airtime.

A great vintage that shows its power. Already showing great complexity, but will age nicely in the next 50 years.

Decadent and delicious. A fabulous dessert wine.

13.5% alcohol by volume.

97 points.

$250 (375ml).

4/15/2022 - Charlie Carnes Likes this wine:

Wow! This 2005 was absolutely stunning from the get-go. First of all I love Cailles from Chevillon! My first thoughts… Are 2005s coming around? I do not know but this NSG is bad ass. This Is crunchy with gorgeous red fruit and mineral, with a whole cluster feel (I do not know the regimen at all). It is 17 years young and not saying “oak” at all. I cannot get over the pure red berry fruit and myriad spices from a bakers cupboard, and thoughts of dusty clay and granite mineral.

6/8/2010 - Rani Likes this wine:

2006-2007 Vosne Romanee tasting inc. Grivot, Liger-Belair, Leroy, Eugenie, Dugat-Py, Rouget (Tel Aviv): Bright scarlet, clear and translucent. Notes of red and black cherries, with hint of mud on the nose. Very clean, good fruit. A nice, balanced fruit-driven wine with a hint of pepper and fine tannins. Approachable now.

11/30/2021 - Vinum Deorum wrote:

Very good, but to be frank I thought this was not up to Krug standard. Very balanced and refined, but severely suffered from comparison with the 02 Cristal served next to this. Overall a delicious champagne, just not great and not a great value.

7/18/2021 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine:

My second bottle of this and this is a little more complicated at this stage. It was a little closed after opening, so I gave it a 2 hour decant. It‘s kind of in between at the moment, with the upfront fruit disappearing and the tertiary notes not coming in yet. I would give this a few more years in bottle, the matière is there, the structure is great, I think this just needs some more time. (94+)

5/14/2019 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

This is the best dom I have ever had.

9/5/2020 - aquacongas Likes this wine:

blind
Guessed CdM 98, because the length was a bit Shorter than the 02's I had before. Great wine and concentration. Citrus, a bit honey and nuts, powerful and elegant likewise. Everything is at the right place. The finish is tremendous precise. More CdM than Krug. For the next 30 years., 97-98

12/12/2020 - englishman's claret wrote:

Why is it that Chateau Margaux is so often heralded as a superlatively elegant wine? Because it often has a gentle floral note? true, but it’s always big and structured. Because it was really elegant in the pre-Ginestet era? perhaps, but lots of chateaux were more elegant renditions of their current selves prior to the 70s. Because “elegance” is sometimes the positive spin on the bevy of light-ish Margaux commune wines that underperformed for so long (many of which are admirably striving to better themselves) and that attribute must be epitomized by the king of the commune? I’m not entirely sure, but since Margaux’s rejuvenation in the 1980s I have admittedly not found it a particularly elegant wine.

So why the long preamble? Well, I’m not sure it’s helpful to cling to that notion that success at Chateau Margaux *should* be linked to this notion of a diaphanous, ephemeral wine. If you insist on that, the 96 Margaux might fall short - but if you don’t, it’s really quite nice. Best after about 4 hours of air, the 96 Margaux shows what I think of as a typical Ch Margaux nose, full of sweet raspberries, pencil, cedar, a touch of acacia, Ethiopian coffee. The palate is quite concentrated with almost painfully intense pencil shavings. The loads of tannin here can distract a bit from the long, pencilly finish but time should rectify that and while I readily agree this is muscular I wouldn’t call to corpulent. I do admire its integrated alcohol and good acidity. Ideally, forget about these for another 5-10 years.

7/26/2021 - aquacongas Likes this wine:

blind
Roasted aromas that gives a hint it could be Mouton. I guessed LB 2000. Young with a lot of acidity. 96+

7/17/2021 - Zweder wrote:

Luxurious bouquet with pleasant rustic smells, graphite and beautiful vanilla, cedar and oak. Lovely toast. On the palate ripe dark berries, cassis, chocolate, graphite, beautiful acidity, a pleasant touch of sweetness a bit fat. Delicious wine with round, still sticky tannin and already showing its merits, but there is plenty of future in this wine. Just great!

8/29/2021 - ledocq Likes this wine:

That's the score now. It's going to get better. I loved this - needed 6 hours. And yeah, it did remind me of California. But I have a hunch, and I hope to prove it one day: open this against a 2009 Monte Bello and a 2009 Myriad Dr Crane and a 2009 Materium and see which one is the most Californian. This was delicious. I'm glad I can try another bottle in 5 years.

5/25/2021 - wineappreciation wrote:

Plums, lilacs, granite, coriander, spring dew… an exchanging evolving kaleidoscopic nose; beautiful; on palate smooth but also tinging; rich but light; majestic yet somewhat modest; very good indeed but not as intoxicating as the nose might suggest
After 1.5 Hours Onwards: Nose is similar; on palate it is richer, more integrated, more dense, more powerful; needs time

11/15/2018 - honest bob wrote:

From 75cl, perfect cork. Sea-breeze/iodine, lemon, tangerine, (honey) scent; light-bodied entry with immensely concentrated acid (my teeth hurt!) like drinking pure lemon juice with a bit of grapefruit and some sour tangerine. Sour, mouth-tingling, “mineral”, persistent finish. Less weighty and more acidic than any GC I have tasted from Dauvissat, Fevre etc. and utterly different from Bessin's 2008 basic Chablis and 1. Cru wines. Very fine, but hard work right now. I guess this is 91-92P(?) —no pain, no gain. Can anyone tell me if the acid diminishes/comes into balance with more time?

6/15/2021 - dream Likes this wine:

Love this vintage of Krug for drinking now although there is plenty left in the tank for further development. Crisp and intense with a fine mousse and a lightness of being that is so attractive. Perhaps lacks the depth of the best vintages but I love the complexity and elegance on the finish with notes of yeasty bread and copper minerals.

11/1/2016 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Nice vintage for Rabaud Promis here starting with its apricot, pineapple, orange, green apple and floral nose. Concentrated, sweet, but not overblown, due to the refreshing jolt of acidity, the finish is all about the apricot custard sensation. This is so good now, and it's going to be even better with a decade or so of bottle age.

1/4/2021 - In2wines Likes this wine:

Bordeaux New Years Evening 2020

Second try on this Cristal 08, Previusly a bit more open (in 2019) and less dense, is it closing down a bit ? might be so, I would stock this in the cellar behind a wall of Delamotte 2008 and drink those first .. . it's a wine with a huge amount of acidity, it's does not "destroy" the pleasure, but clearly need food, not a nightclub Cristal, like the 2004 or 2006 - I can see why Roederer did ajust the dossage over the years, now 7,5 gr in 08 and 7 gr in 2012, it's really dress the wine well, before hand it' was up too 10/12 gr per liter - that combinned with more and more mature fruit and warmer vintages was not a good mix !
This Cristal 08 is pure very dense, a intense Champagne with fresh Italien lemon's with a hint of bergamotte, and green orange peels. This has a sparkling minerality, this is an enormous wheigty Champagne, but not Selosse heavy (Sometimes Selosse is like fat boy trying to jump .. . and Cola without bubbles .. . ) LOVE the bubbles here, small and dense, retasted 24 hours later, and it's had not moved at all !! drink the 2007/2009 (both 93/100) now and stock this for the future .. .
Sofar best 2008's Chetillons Pierre Peters, Bollinger GA, Winston, Delamotte Bl des Bls. Dom Perignon (Not tasted yet is Comtes des Champagne & Egly Ouriet 2008)
Drink 2028-2040

11/14/2020 - rlove wrote:

Barthold's 2010 Les Cras offers a bouquet of red & dark cherry and rose. Deep and dense with some chew still to the tannic structure. Quite Barthod in style. Very good. Drink starting 2023.

6/16/2019 - Bullethead Likes this wine:

Closed for 3 hours - strongly suggest for decanting. After 3 hours it started to open up - pronounced floral, mineral, leather on nose. Some hints of sweetness on palate with cranberry plum, eathy, stony. Very long aftertaste and very elegant. Very nice burgundy indeed

5/16/2019 - Roland67 Likes this wine:

Nose at first a bit shy but opens more up with dark cherries and wet stone and graphite after a while in the glass. On the palate cherry and the “chambolle sweetness”, but also stony notes and oak. In the finish licorice and more stone. A long finish that just keep hanging around. Beautiful and very self-confident wine. I very much like it. It took me some years to get fully into Ghislaines style, but now I love it. This wine will for sure develop further next decade or so, although it drinks well now (with a decant I suggest). I will try to keep my fingers of the remaining bottles in the cellar for at least 5 years. 93-94P

6/25/2018 - Zweder wrote:

Weekly tasting group RWP #291: Burgundy 2009 (@ VD): Beautiful bouquet with dark berries, toast, oak and quite many rustic and barnyard impressions. On the palate juicy dark berries, toast, good acidity, length and round, juicy tannin. Young maturity now and still a pleasure 5 - 8+ years from now.

3/11/2012 - soyhead wrote:

nose- earthy, coffee, followed by ripe berry fruit
mouth - lively red fruit, good acidity, complex, and overall very good

12/4/2011 - collin wrote:

No formal notes, but incredibly delicious. Should be better in 10 years...

11/28/2020 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Full-bodied, ripe, lush, powerful and packed with multiple layers of sweet, black cherries, juicy plums, smoke, licorice, chocolate and hints of blue fruit on the nose. On the palate the wine is plush, opulent and palate-filling with a finish that clocks in at more than 40 seconds.

10/21/2020 - SARED Does not like this wine:

On PNP: Plum, plum skin and streaky 2013 acidity. The Arlaud style brings a creaminess to the fruit, but the shrill acidity is this wine's prominent feature, and too much for me. After 5 days stored in boston rounds, the acidity has softened greatly, but is still a high acid burg. Tart raspberry, currants and plum skin. With more air the wine becomes darker red, but with an undercurrant of high toned fruit (see what I did?).

This strikes me as a wine that needs some food (and a lot of time!). Grilled pork chops, comte or soemthing where the wine brings the acid punch to an otherwise savory fatty dish.

7/13/2020 - JS79 Likes this wine:

67Pm tasting with Jean-Guillaume Prats

All the reasons I love reading about, talking about, learning about....drinking and sharing wine, they are all here in this glass.

7/4/2020 - Keith Levenberg wrote:

corked but no big deal I only cellared it my entire adult life

5/28/2019 - Andre Brattland wrote:

Really fresh and extremely precise aromas with concentrated young lemons, clear lime edge, light blossom, touch of butter and this sea minerality that places itself on a beach on the Norwegian coast. Medium to medium + full and really fresh top chablis. Deep delicious citrus fruit, distinct citrus peel and young stone fruit. Long sea mineral finish. Great wine with really pure mouthfeel.

If one is to pull on something it is possible the body. But the wine is building a little more body over hours in the decanter. But the 2014 vintage is really a good example of how top Chablis should taste, unfortunately these vintages are becoming increasingly rare. Lovely wine! 94 points.

9/11/2020 - Hubble Shire Farm Likes this wine:

Beautiful Beaux Monts! It is musky yet silky, peppery but dark fruit dominates. And the finish..... divine. Grivot is up and coming. From a bottled cellared for a few years. Cellaring makes all the difference. Wines recently transported never taste as good--for those who think this wine is overrated and did not have a wonderful drinking experience--check your bottle provenance.

12/14/2019 - sunshinesugar Likes this wine:

This was delicious. I was thinking it was way too early to be opening it, and it was, but a decant and a little breathing room and it was fabulous with the Seared Duck Breast with Port Cherry Reduction, Creamy Goat Cheese Polenta with Sherry/Honey Glazed Wild Mushrooms, and Balsamic Sauteed Asparagus I made for my friend's birthday! Beautiful black fruit... deep, full, and slightly-earthy, while still showing finesse and elegance on the finish. Silky tanins. Yum!

11/17/2018 - Ramberg wrote:

I love Guigal and his somewhat hedonistic style, but still have not fallen for the 2009.
As so many wines from Europe, 2009 suffers somewhat from the hot vintage and a bit too much of everything.
Same in this case, albeit perhaps being less over the top than many other 2009’s I’ve had.
Time might sort the vintage out, but overall, acidity vs. fruit seems to be a problem for many wines, 10 years down the line, along with to much alcohol due to too high sugerlevels in the grapes when picked and vinified.
Anyway, back to this particular bottle:
Nose with loads of quite heavy fruit and lilacs/red deeply perfumed flowers (like the perfume of an over perfumed old lady trying to hide her perhaps not very pleasurable body odor?), smoke and bacon, meat and tons of oak and alcohol/volatile.
Very new world in profile, too much of everything.
Palate shows a dense and hedonistic, clumsy wine.
Alcohol, sugar, plums, black sweet and almost jammy fruit with loads of oak and vanilla present.
Lacking acidity and transparency for any balance.
My guess are that this wine will never settle and integrate all oak, sugar, alcohol and fruit, before falling apart due to not enough acidity present for the process to finalize.
Too much for my liking, as was the Guigal La Landonne I had a few years back from this very same vintage.
Still, well made as Guigal always are, but too much of everything to make me cum.
I do expect more when I open my Guigal medium/upper shelve bottlings, so disappointed, but sure it’s mainly a work of the vintage reflected.
(89 – 90?)

5/11/2020 - WinoRick Likes this wine:

Ready to go, finally I'd guess. Great color, no browning. Lively and youthful. Quitessential California cab. Tell me, how does a cork dry out when the bottle is on its side in a temperature controlled cellar with a waxed capsule?