April 20, 2024 - Armand Rousseau Dinner: Pronounced nose intensity with notes of mushroom, truffle, graphite, red fruits, spices, toast. Medium+ acidity and medium tannin. Long finish. Aeration 4 hours in bottle.
February 24, 2024 - Deep cherry and red fruits on the nose. Spice, smoke, violets. The palate is balanced and quite rich, almost muscular, but it’s very well settled and elegant. Fine tannins are present and being incorporated seamlessly. Drank well tonight, and has many years ahead.
September 2, 2023 - Deep ruby color. Quite perfumed with a lot of red fruit notes, with a little bit of spice on the back end. Agree with other reviewers that the palate shows a more muscular wine than the nose would suggest. The amount of tannins implies that this needs to age a bit more, while displaying the hallmarks of the warmer vintage. Long finish. Great wine, but not at the same level than the Gevrey offerings.
June 24, 2022 - A powerhouse full of strength and also charm. Was even better the next day
June 24, 2022 - Un grand vin, classe et équilibre, puissance et finesse, tout y est. 94-95
A great wine simply, power and class, finesse, balance, length.
May 9, 2022 - Herrlich entspannter Wein mit viel Kühle, Komplexität und Eleganz. Tolles Salz. Super ausbalanciert.
May 7, 2022 - 10 years after Riesling tasting - 2012 (Restaurant Holz und Feuer, Kirchheim, Germany): Glass: Sophienwald Universal
Popped and poured. Fine herbaceous, spicy nose with lots of fine red fruit. Dense.
On the palate rather cool, very elegant and fine. Rather dark fruit. Salty mineral notes. Beautiful balance and harmony. Great pressure and very good length. Close to greatness. 94+
April 5, 2022 - The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are slow. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like prune and pistachio. It tastes like prune, raisin, blackberry and raspberry. The body is medium. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has low acidity.
March 19, 2022 - Pretty nose with strawberries, red cherries, and some forest notes. The palate is quite different and much more backwards with lots of tannins, some oak notes, more red fruit and good acidity. Right now, it's very good, not great. The palate needs at least a decade (although the nose is very lovely already). 93++
April 13, 2021 - This is in a great spot...I would drink in next 2-3 years...stunning