April 21, 2024 - Very good. Big modern style still has lots of fruit but you can taste the age as well. Excellent for the price.
April 12, 2024 - This wine is ready to drink now, nothing to wait for. Opulent from the start, soft and delicious middle taste, lots of ripe fruits, nice long aftertaste. Great wine, highly recommended!
February 13, 2024 - Initially an unappealing nose of varnish and rum pot and coffee. Needs air. Better after being open for a few hours. This is still quite tannic and chewy on the palate, with high acidity, tobacco leaves, rose petals, and a sweet oxidized plum and cherry fruit. A strange mix of tannic, sweet, salty, bloody and hot/alcoholic elements - almost tastes like a hot vintage Barolo with some age. No elegance here, but it works fine with food. I guess my palate and the style of Chateau d'Aiguilhe just don't match in these vintages/years of overextraction and maximum ripeness. Did not fully enjoy the 2008 and 2009 either. Drink now. - 88 points
January 28, 2024 - Clearly in a perfect spot right now. Still very healthy red with no ageing apparent. Tannins nicely melted away giving rise to tertiary aromas. Unfortunately last bottle :(
January 7, 2024 - I like this producer and buy a few bottles in most vintages. This 2010 is delicious. Mix of pure dark and red fruit, well balanced, acidity adding freshness to balance out all that fruit, and enough going on to keep it somewhat interesting. Tannins and alcohol are well integrated. This likely has more than a few good years left.
June 30, 2023 - Decanted and back into cleaned bottle. A big, thick, modern style of wine. Plums, cassis, leather, cedar and a bit of tar. Medium bodied with tannins resolving nicely this is in a pretty good place. Good qpr and a good food wine.
March 27, 2023 - Intense nose of blackcurrant jam and pencil shavings. In the mouth, concentrated sweet fruit and a deft dose of thick, dusty tannins. Good length. Fun to drink, albeit a bit one-dimensional. This may become more interesting with a bit more cellaring. But good to go with an entrecôte or a pizza.
February 12, 2023 - Very nice. Smooth, rich fruits. Went very well with a beef rogan josh: enough fruit, not too tannic.
Decanted 1.5 hours.
February 9, 2023 - Decanted for an hour and back into cleaned bottle for serving with dinner. This is a big, modern, fruit forward style of wine. Lots of dark fruits, cassis, tobacco and cedar. Smooth, medium bodied with still resolving tannins, this should still show improvement with time. A useful wine.
November 25, 2022 - Un nez invitant sur les notes secondaires/tertiaires, cerise kirshé, cuir. En bouche, fondu, du fruits mûrs, un poil extrait et de résiduel. Encore bcp de matière en bouteille.