February 17, 2014 - Very nice. Matured very well
October 24, 2011 - Nice. Could be a little less tannic.
August 21, 2010 - Wow! What an awesome fruit bomb... this wine is great value IF you can afford to cellar it for at least 5 years.
May 26, 2010 - Solid wine enjoyed with BBQ'd steaks - don't know if I would buy again...
August 1, 2009 - With porterhouse; a little light for it. Certainly very good, but not remarkable.
June 13, 2009 - Thia is my third and last bottle and I am sad to see it go. Just a great bottle of wine for the price. Some great blackberry, barnyard with some herbal notes.
January 27, 2009 - I reallllllly dig this wine, esp. at 14 bucks. God bless Cyril for having the stones to make his wine his way and the hell with an AOC designation.
Edit: on day 2 this wine had developed the notes of cherry cheesecake and bacon fat I normally associate with CdP. Fascinating. Glad I have 1/2 case.
September 12, 2008 - Funky barnyard aroma on opening, but paired with food (prosciutto, steak, pasta with red sauce, parmigiano reggiano) this wine was quite good. Acids in the wine played nicely off the fat and salt in the food, with a piercing black sour cherry note on the finish. Others have noted mint and earth, which are certainly there, along with local oak that tamed as the bottle aired out. Complex, leathery, very concentrated, and a tad tannic at the end with a long, musty, only slightly fruity finish. Let breathe an hour. Great QPR at $15 per bottle.
May 3, 2008 - The last of my MDB wines (too much wine in the world to keep buying these), and it was quite a contrast to the Kaesler Stonehorse GSM we alongside with the NZ lamb dinner, it's funny how you can get tired of a particular wine after having it too much, it's still very, very good but it's time to move on - Dark, concentrated with distinctive notes of black fruit, earth, a touch of vomit (yes vomit) and oak on the nose, this is a well structured bottle of wine, complex and smooth on the palate with medium/ long length (89 Points).
April 29, 2008 - A little gamy and barn-yard like. Weird.