August 19, 2023 - Delicious cab with similar tasting notes to the previous bottle.
July 23, 2023 - Almost a little too sweet. Someone said it was a little like port.
June 9, 2023 - Big and richly concentrated with dark berries, chocolate, and toast. Milky smooth and delicious coming accross young and very fruit forward. This thing is packed and hedonistically powerful. A wow wine if you like them big.
December 4, 2022 - Delicious. Fruit forward, no tannins. Jammy.
June 11, 2022 - Loretta and I had this with grilled rib eye, potatoes and veggies on a hot June night. I expected the wine to enhance the meal, but it bogged it down. Thick, syrupy, too much oak. Barely made 90 in my book and definitely not interesting.
June 7, 2022 - I would give this a 97 if you like the Maybach style, and a 94 if you don’t. I’m assuming most people reading this already like TRB and especially Maybach. It is so rich, decadent, opulent and plush. Not a lot of subtlety but tons of blueberry, boysenberry, dark chocolate molten lava cake. Tannins are soft and integrated. There is a port-like quality that makes it feel more desserty and less a wine to pair with complex foods. But for sure a boys night at a steakhouse is what this wine was born for.
January 8, 2022 - Layers of dark blackberry, cassis, and chocolate notes on the expressive nose and palate with spice and hint of floral notes. Tasty acidity with resolving tannins on the long finish.
November 7, 2021 - Consistent with my Oct 2020 notes. Enjoyed over three evenings. Excellent even on day 3.
August 30, 2021 - This is awesome. Its classically structured and beautifully textured with pure delineated black fruits, rubbed lead pencil tip.
Nose is fragrant from a foot away; blackberry and Creme de Kirsch. This is totally fleshed out with nary an edge, it shows it's class and pedigree well.
Mouthfeel is creamy and soft-coating with all the black fruits, this goes long and remains consistent throughout. Perfectly balanced, this is just pure joy. The favorite on the table and there were some beautiful wines on that table.
I remember when this came out, there was some controversy from a major critic to which I had already tasted it and disagreed whole heartily. The critic was scheduled to be at on of my CLONYC dinners and I reached out to the winery. Both the 2010 Materium and 2010 Amoenus was sent. The critic re-tasted and believed his first impression was caused by mishandling of that sample, maybe open too long. It was a fun evening.
https://clonyc.blogspot.com/2013/01/clonyc-35-antonio-galloni-has-dinner.html
August 2, 2021 - Decanted for 2 hours and it benefitted. Great nose with cherry, blackberry, cassis, smoke, graphite, smoke, tobacco. Lots of flavor showing blackberry, cassis, tobacco, cherry, smoke, graphite. Well balanced showing nice acidity. The tannins have softened in the long finish. Really good now, but no hurry to open my last bottle.