4/3/2024 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

Lots of fruit and vanilla. Great mouth feel. Needs time but a great wine.

6/19/2023 - veniceslug1 wrote:

Still drinking. Nice acid
Dark fruit

5/8/2023 - veniceslug1 wrote:

An amazing Chardonnay, but needs to be decanted. Tasted disappointing and oxidized when opened. An hour later in glass was drinking beautifully

3/18/2023 - veniceslug1 wrote:

light weight. short finish. not much going on for wine of this price.

12/6/2022 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

A beautiful wine soft and with an extremely long finish. Mild dark fruit flavors but not jammy. Perfect with the dry aged steak covered with black truffle

11/24/2022 - veniceslug1 wrote:

Perhaps the best Chardonnay I ever had. Rich. Not of butter. Long finish. The only issue was a bit low in acid.

5/29/2022 - veniceslug1 wrote:

beautiful acidity. Nice fruit (peach). Long finish.

5/27/2022 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

still a little woody and tannic, but much of the fruit is gone. A little disappointing. Fruit on the nose that disappears in the mouth. Very short finish.

so, after waiting a few hours with wine in the glass, the tannin have faded. The wine has some nice fruit and good acidity. Nice bright cherry fruit. I upgraded the score from 85 to 88

4/23/2022 - veniceslug1 wrote:

Wish i remembered the disgorge date. This was an older bottle that had been sitting in my cellar. Beautiful. Complex. Powerful. Yeasty. Dry. Great acid. An extraordinary bottle of bubbles.

4/23/2022 - veniceslug1 wrote:

Great wine. Drank with the 1997 Alzero with a steak. I liked the ALzero better, but this was the better match with the steak. Both held up beautifully over the time.

4/23/2022 - veniceslug1 wrote:

nothing wrong here. A beautiful wine. very pretty. floral, delicate and delicious. very nice delicate fruit. Not enough acid to stand up to be ideal for heavy meat, but did ok. WOuld be perfect alone or with cheese. Could sip for hours.

1/15/2022 - veniceslug1 wrote:

a nicely complex wine. Some earthy/leather notes (a little Brett?), but driven by dark fruit flavors. Not heavy and very soft round tannins.

6/5/2021 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

Very rich deep. Lacked the acid I like in champagne. But long and complex. A great wine.

6/5/2021 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

A beautiful wine. Still young. Needed some air and then sang with raisin and prime. Heavy. Deep. Long.

6/5/2021 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

Still drinking well and very elegant. Long delicate finish.

5/23/2021 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

i liked it, but just didn't blow me away. nice aroma. decent acid. but not interesting in the mouth

12/31/2020 - veniceslug1 wrote:

still some nice fruit on the front end. a little short. cherry.

1/18/2020 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

Clean, aroma of green apples, light and delicious. Still young.

1/13/2020 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

A little high in alcohol, but this one had no VA. Some dark Fruit still left, but lots of tertiary flavors. Deep, dark and delicious

1/4/2020 - veniceslug1 wrote:

Strange metallic finish that I associate with brett. Strangely if it was brett there was some fruit on the nose, but the flavor was flat and finished with a bitter metallic quality. Undrinkable to me.

1/4/2020 - veniceslug1 wrote:

a little fat for my taste, but drinking well. nice acidity to balance the oak.

12/15/2019 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

Still drinking well. Hough shock. Thick. Dark fruit

8/18/2019 - veniceslug1 wrote:

Really great white burg for the money. Nice acidity. Little short. Some fatness. nice wine.

8/18/2019 - veniceslug1 wrote:

Amazing. Still young. Beautiful pepper, nice tannin. Still young and fresh.

8/18/2019 - veniceslug1 wrote:

Very pleasant easy soft wine. Beautiful perfume, but some light acid on the finish. Great sipping or food wine.

8/10/2018 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

still young. beautiful. most of the sweet resolved, nice nose of petrol. One of the wines of the night.

8/10/2018 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

amazingly fresh and young. Beautifully balanced. showed up several wines that were five times as expensive. Nice black fruit, leather, spice. Very good with the steak and truffle flies.

8/10/2018 - veniceslug1 wrote:

didn't blow me. Away nice flavors, but dominated by the alcohol.

8/10/2018 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

still a beautiful wine. Nice acid, but not as pronounced as a similarly priced burgundy. A great drink still.

8/10/2018 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

still drinking well. Nice acid. Great notes of citrus and oak. Rich. Fresh.

8/10/2018 - veniceslug1 Does not like this wine:

some VA. Just ok. Dark fruit, not to old yet, but still with the VA not a great drink.

1/25/2018 - veniceslug1 wrote:

Good friendly. Good acid. Medium length. Some cherry notes, but mainly wood

12/30/2017 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

A great and elegant bottle. Very fine bobbles, great balance of acid and fruit. Austere and food friendly. Everything I like in champagne. A true steal.

12/30/2017 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

Really great bottle. Dry, and balanced. Beautifully elegant.

12/30/2017 - veniceslug1 Does not like this wine:

Just not a great wime. Still showing a lot of wood and not much going on fruit wise. Clearly an off year.

5/7/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

Dark fruit and raisin. No alcohol. A little sweeter then would be ideal, but that is cured with a piece of blue cheese. Shows no sign of age at all. May wait several more years before opening the next bottle. A wine of pure pleasure.

5/7/2017 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

A good, but not great cab. Dark fruit, hint of veggie. Some tannin still present. Felt a little thin and short to be as good as I would thin a Schrader should be.

5/7/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

This was disgorged in january 2012. Drank at Rossignol dinner. Oxidized, but not as much as the vintage 1999 I had the next week. Still very lively acid that went beautifully with the sherry notes. Bubble still strong. Great wine, but time to drink up.

5/7/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

lovely wine. Dark fruit, not to sweet. Came alive with the cheese. Could definitely use several more years, but still very pleasurable now. No sediment.

5/7/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

at rossignol dinner. dark fruit and spice, nice earth quality. drinking beautifully. the winemaker thought this was the wine of the night. Drank better then the Jamet Cote-Roti. I need to find my missing two bottles.

5/7/2017 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

At Rossignol dinner. Drank ok. Too much wood still present. nice dark fruit quality. But I can remember drinking a ridge wine where the wood had not properly integrated by this point in its life.

5/7/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

at rossignol diinner. Great wine. Drank beautifully the Frenchmen present had never had a wine from Durif before and both were amazed. Still drinking beautifully. Fruit, earth, no alcohol.

5/7/2017 - veniceslug1 Does not like this wine:

at rossignol dinner. probably the least favorite wine of the night. very alcohol present. not much fruit or earth.

3/9/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

great complexity and not sticky. drank great with cheese. Even stood up to a medium blue. great way to end a big meal.

3/9/2017 - veniceslug1 Likes this wine:

I love good zin, and this was great zin. Still young. Held together after opening. Great black fruit and pepper.

3/9/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

great champ.. Small bubbles, amazing acid. Great aroma. Really stunning drink.

3/9/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

not a big chard guy. Nice acidity, thick mouth feel. very popular with a none wino crowd.

3/9/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

wine not showing that well. fell apart quickly, but some pleasure there about fifteen after it was opened.

3/9/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

i understand that this wine is too big for some. It is huge. Big dark fruit, lots of alcohol. a hammer of a wine. Still there was enough substance there that it still drank well. Sweet on the palate, but not cloying. a good substitute for port, beer, or amarone. Still drinking very well. No problem holding a few more years, but no reason too.

3/9/2017 - veniceslug1 wrote:

ok. Still fresh just nothing exciting. Good fruit, not a lot of earth notes. no real acid, but not sappy. just ok.