January 11, 2023 - From magnum. Opened for friends & neighbors at a belated New Year's party. Very nice, mature, tangy & saline. From magnum. No sign of oxidation or excessive age. Temperature counts for a lot - drink at cool room temp for the best depth and complexity. 'Fridge temp or anything near to it strips the wine of flavor and character.
April 2, 2022 - Much better showing than the previous bottle. Full of lemons, honeydew and seaspray. A gentler, less acidic palate presence than some years, reflecting the riper vintage (although it's not soft or flabby), but with no lack of oceany mineral character.
I think this was the first vintage of Briords I ever tasted, more than ten years ago. It has all come together very nicely.
April 22, 2021 - Magnum. What a gorgeous wine. Still dynamic and bright. All the individual Briords elements: salinity, wet stones, tart apple have knit together beautifully into a compressed, focused whole.
December 22, 2020 - Excellent and at peak.
November 20, 2020 - This bottle showed quite advanced. Darkening gold color, some nuttiness, honeyed yellow fruit, a bit short. Drinkable but I suspect more pristine bottles would show better.
July 4, 2020 - ***
Great wine. Beautifully integrated, long, balanced. Notes of pear and citrus. Light with a nice acidic backbone. Fully mature, I"d say. My last one, wish I had more.
April 11, 2020 - TCA? Not horrible, but flawed.
May 19, 2019 - I enjoy the roundness and more integrated flavours that aging gives muscadets. This was drinking really well now, with aging also adding richness, but of course the acids and minerality are still there in the background (A-).
April 13, 2019 - Wine Tasting Group - No Theme - Apr. 13, 2019 (Classic Dallas): PnP. Honeysuckle, tart apples, fantastic levels of minerals, salty sea spray that ends on a savory, herbal finish. The wine has rounded out to give a more creamy mouthfeel than the younger 2017 Briords but still with excellent acids. My favorite of the night.
November 9, 2018 - PopnPour, tasted over 2 hrs
-translucent light gold
-faint apple wet stone
-med acidity lends a tangy note to the med- weight mid-palate with sappy apple faint honey and a haunting ripe yellow fruit element on the moderately long finish
-still quite fresh, very good now with no sign of fading, remarkable how well this wine can age