March 3, 2024 - Medium body wine, lighter in color. Still tasting great with a higher level of acidity. Aerated for 30 minutes and decanted. Some sediment.
November 12, 2023 - Aerated, heavy sediment. Still full of flavor and color
March 17, 2023 - I don’t know. Maybe I’m just too old to appreciate high end cabs. Even at 20 years old (and don’t tell me this is over the hill) it just doesn’t seemed balanced enough to provide enjoyable drinking. Good, but not worthy of cult-type prices.
July 31, 2022 - Opened for 25 min And then double decanted for 15 min and consumed within 1.5 hours with Filet Mignon.
We tasted it on min 25 before decanting and it was super acidic and light weigh, around min 10 the acidity went down a bit. About 40-50 min in the wine gained weight, and complexity. This is a very Bordeaux king of wine that is still drinking well but IMO is already declining.
Drink up!
March 1, 2022 - great bottle with plenty time still to wait
The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. The body is full. The wine finishes long. The wine has low acidity.
November 11, 2021 - Dinner w/new friends in Jax (Friend's house): I was pretty excited about getting to try this wine as usually the Le Desir ends up being my favorite when we try multiple Verite and we haven't had one this old I don't think before. This is a very good wine, but it's still just a baby and needs a lot more years I think whereas the '99 La Joie was in a bit more of the drinking window. Had a bit more complexity and a bit more age to it. Give this time.
April 15, 2020 - Very bright and high in acidity, it's in a good harmony right now, body is medium+, the nose is floral, Pauillac style. Decanted for a short 10 minutes and then consumed in a 1 hour spam with Pizza, meatballs and spaghetti. The finish is very pleasant, no presence of the greenery pepper we normally get from lower end Cab Francs.
November 10, 2018 - Tight, backwards still, took 4 hours to display any real nose.
Palate had tight young fruit and spicey dry tannins that never really hit that "worth the money" spot.
Shoot for the $$ I can immediately think of 30 wines I would rather have purchased:
- Any Auguste Clape Cornas
- Any 1996 Barolo
- Any 2000 left bank Bordeaux
- 2006 Mandala
- 2014 La Joie
- 1989 La Chappelle
- 2015 Montebello Cab
- 1996 La Jota
- Jonata La Sangra
- Any 90's Tolmach
- Any Christoph Baron
- bla bla bla yes I wasted my money
October 6, 2018 - Badly corked
March 5, 2018 - Still spectacular. Great fruit, like velvet in the mouth, typical of a Pomerol style wine.