June 1, 2020 - Beaucoup de dépot le long de la bouteille et dans le fond,
celle-ci avait été mise debout 2 jours avant le souper.
Servi avec du faisan aux morilles sauce café de Paris.
Le faisan a éclipsé le vin qui a un peu dépassé son prime.
Un gout de terre et de cerise avec plus aucun tanin et
une finale très courte.
Tout de même mieux que la précédente.
March 24, 2015 - Un vin décevant, maquillé, hors de prix et qui vieilli mal.
March 11, 2015 - Rien pour m'impressionner. Un peu simple et tout d'un bloc. Semble mal vieillir ici aussi.
May 19, 2014 - Not much more to say than previous notes. worked down a 1/2 case of this and this was the last bottle. Lots of sweet cherry on this one specifically but beautiful wine. Great for the vintage.
April 28, 2014 - See prior tasting notes - perfectly consistent. Still hanging well and beautiful display of old world cab - lots of menthol, mint, rosemary, pyrazine, brett and bay leaf herbs here. Worked wonderfully with a NY Strip steak
August 18, 2013 - Ici aussi on a eu l`impression que ça vieilli mal, la qualité tant annoncée a semble t`il disparue.
Encore de la réduction ici et un peu de brett, c`est de mauvais présage.
En bouche fruits confits, tabac et vieux cuir, les tannins inexistants et la finale n`est plus.
Cette bouteille a décue malheureusement semble être un tendance en vieillisant.
June 18, 2013 - This is consistent with my prior notes on this wine from 5/6/13 – a really beautiful display of new world style from old world terroir. Some rim variation from age. Nose: Baked raspberry, cherry, melted milk chocolate, tobacco. Palate: Open initially with bubble gum sweetness and quickly evolves into baked red fruit (raspberry, cherry), dusty leather, cedar, wood box. Style - fruit forward dirty compote driven red fruit with a nice mushroom, leather, tobacco, woody, cool herbal back note. Strong and lasting tannins but not overpowering. Excellent balance. Paired w/ pasta/sausage/tomato sauce and sauted rabe dinner. Love this bottle, didn't decant but throwing a good deal of sentiment - will next time. Think this wine really benifits from drinking about 5 degrees under room temp.
May 6, 2013 - This is a wonderful bottle of wine. Popped and poured and initially tasted: Color was garnet with a touch of rim variation. Nice age on the bottle. Nose was tight but opened quickly. Initial palate right out of the bottle was cooked apricot compote, cooked peach compote, mushroom, earthy, ginger, white pepper, cooked raspberry, leather. About an hour in, opens to a real dark raspberry, cooked cherry, leather, old word cedar box, eucalyptus, dark chocolate. Structure was really excellent – tannins lasting (45+) finish on this wine. This wine will age beautifully in my opinion. Great pop and pour and really excellent 4 hours later. I’d probably drink this on the earlier side of open vs full decant – can get just a tough over-extracted with too much air. Glad to have more of these. Paired with skirt steak, cut right through.
May 6, 2012 - - Flavours of mushroom, dusty and chocolate.
July 23, 2010 - No real notes taken.
The wine presented itself very well and is very drinkable. Decent body and medium aftertaste.
A good wine at the price but nothing spectacular.
Well restrained and certainly not overdone in any way. Good performance.