October 29, 2022 - Burgundy GC BYO (Rasmus): A serious wine with lots of intensity and depth. Still, has a light touch and overall, it is a lovely wine.
October 8, 2021 - A lost Friday afternoon gathering – how to semi cheat in a blind tasting (Black Salt, Washington DC): Youthful expressive nose displaying concentrated black fruit, blackberry liqueur, black cherry, a hint of toasted oak/mocha, dark spices and earth. Excellent concentration, layers upon layers of concentrated black fruit, unctuous and rich, good acidity, earthy mineral, and a long ripe black fruit driven finish with a hint of oak at the end. This is closest to the wine 2 stylistically. It still needs another decade to reach the peak.
April 23, 2021 - Bold taste good wine
August 20, 2019 - Philly Wine Group Top French Wines Themed Dinner (The Prime Rib, Philadelphia): Decanted at the restaurant about an hour before dinner. Dark ruby, almost garnet color, nearly opaque. Powerful dark cherry, vanilla, spice and chocolate nose. Mouth feel is very big with medium+ acidity and medium tannin. Savory, chewy and rich on the palate with dark cherries, cloves, milk chocolate and some earthy minerals on the very long minute+ finish. Bright and energetic yet big and powerful with a fruit forward profile. Still a relative baby. Probably even better in the decades of the 2020-2030’s
July 11, 2017 - Tuesday Night Double Blind $50+ (Alpharetta, GA): Cloudy dark maroon, lighter rim; spicy, creamy oak, big, alcoholic, a touch hot, spice; bigger but rounded tannin, good depth, slight medicinal, iron edge, sappy; called '06 Clos des Lambrays; this is very dumb right now.
April 19, 2017 - Big wine, which is a bit shut down right now. Tough to evaluate.
April 17, 2017 - Great material in need of a lot of time.
January 17, 2017 - Tuesday Night Double Blind $50+ (Alpharetta, GA): Dark core with reddish violet rim; raspberry, Band-Aid, violets, some candied fruit, pepper, a touch horsey, leather; softer more delicate on the palate, tart fruit, mix of red and darker fruit, fruit skin, Burgundian tannin, plummy, deep and dark, silky but nice density, a bit wild displaying some Brett which led many to the Rhone Valley, kind of surprised once this was revealed.
March 3, 2015 - Tuesday Night Double Blind $50+ (Bin 75): Dark core with brighter garnet rim; violets, lavender, pastille, raspberry, vanilla, wild berry, concrete, elegant, plum skin, young; concrete, deep, a little rustic and youthful, strong acid, sweet fruit, ripe, structured; needs more time.