Drinking great but may get even better over next 2-5 years and drink well for 10-15 more years thereafter. Appreciate having good friends who share great wines like last night.
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This bottle seeped onto another bottle in my cellar and I noticed quite a bit of wine was gone, down to bottom shoulder. I opened it and discovered there was no cork! Second time I have seen a bottle without a cork (from a different winery)! Wild. We tasted it and it wasn't awful but there was a chemical taste like rubber cement. Shame.
This wine was definitely enjoyable but in my experience with other Martha's vintages, it needs a lot of time before it balances out. It's drinking very young and even with 4-5 hour decant, it didn't settle down. I'm going to wait another couple years.
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Ruby in color, the nose has balanced notes of black currants and oak. Medium acidity to counter balance the grippy tannins, the wine shows an amazing palate with expressive blackcurrants, dark cherries, then forest floor, white pepper, and a medium long finish with aromatic wood and eucalyptus notes.
Fantastic wine. Still young but very enjoyable with PnP; will surely improve further with age. Will revisit in 3-4 years.
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Old world style. Red plum, tart dark cherry, currant, clove, dusty earth, green pepper, graphite. This is still a youngster. High acid, medium plus tannins, medium alcohol. This one has the chops to age for decades. One left in the cellar. See you in 10 years.
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Pure class. This is a Wow! Complex, medium to full. High acidity and tannin, plenty of youthful grip here, built for the long haul. There is enough mainly black fruit over the bones to give pleasure now but will be much better in 10 years, then drink over the following 20 to 30 years.
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Very nice expression of Martha's. Drank over the course of 2 nights. Dried almost tart red fruits, eucalyptus, and some oak. Definitely better on 2nd night.
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A bit heavy on the oak at first, but time tempers the cedar, to reveal additional notes of eucalyptus and sandalwood. Fresh, balanced despite the alcohol. Very good.
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Presented blind alongside two wines from Bordeaux and one other wine from Napa. All wines were opened 8 hours prior to service, decanted and immediately returned to their respective bottles.
The wine pours a deep ruby color with a translucent core. Medium+ viscosity. Medium+ intensity with a mix of red fruits, some tart dark fruits, eucalyptus, and holiday fruit cake. The nose alone already had me thinking Martha’s. On the palate, the wine is dry with developing vinosity. Confirming the red fruits and tart dark fruits along with a menthol note that seems to linger on the finish. Now I was certain this was Martha’s. Medium+ tannins and medium+ acid. The wine has a very attractive freshness to it.
Called the 2014 Heitz Martha’s Vineyard. This is a baby with decades of life left.
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Sunday hangout (Chicago, IL): Probably the youngest Heitz Martha's I've ever had, and it shows. This does have a light eucalyptus hint, and pretty much tastes like a very solid, well-made Napa cabernet. It ticks all the boxes, but mostly this wine is just all potential and relatively much less enjoyment right now. I'd happily revisit this in 20 years.
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Was all over the place when I first started drinking, a lot of heat, tannins very prominent. A quality wine, with great fruit, complex minerality, but was quite disjointed. Started to come together in the last hour of drinking and was very nice.
This one is too early, but if the last hour of drinking is indicative of what it could be - mid 90s potential.
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This earthy and complex Cabernet is a few years away from its peak, but it's a singular wine in the making. A few months ago, I found the 2012 Martha's a bit too diffuse, but the 2014 is on another level altogether - i.e., dense, integrated, and ready to grow into something very special.
Light red in color; medium in body; nose of sour cherry, graphite, fresh mint, and eucalyptus (yes, I get it, power of suggestion, but tell me it's not there). Open-knit but delineated flavors of blueberry, cranberry, pine needles, and baking spices, with an elegant and integrated finish that carries dusty tannins. Still going strong on the second day. 14.5% alcohol. 94+ at the moment, with real upside in 2023 or later.
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Once the oak settles down after a couple hours on the decanter, the 2014 Heitz Martha starts to show the things that make the terroir what it’s known for - eucalyptus, sandalwood, rich berry fruit. And as someone who is ready to criticize high alcohol wines when they are unbalanced, the 14.5% ABV here is actually balanced. This has the potential to develop really positively so hats off to the team at Heitz.
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This wine was hitting its stride after 2.5 hours of decanting. On the nose was eucalyptus, bay leaf, fresh herb, mint and shaved dark chocolate. Nuanced and Elegant wine with integrated tannins with fresh pepper, black berries, and spice on the finish. Yum. Paired with a ribeye with peppercorn sauce. Delicious
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Great outdoor drinking night with 2016 plump jack, 2015 Vangone, 2017 La Pelle Reserve, 2014 Martha Vineyard followed by Macallen 25.
Zero notes only impressions.
2014 Martha’s Vineyard most unique of the group. Very enjoyable but did not blow me away. Did have the sweet forest floor I enjoy very much. 92.5
2015 Vangone - excellent wine 94.5 if there was such a rating option.
2016 Plumpjack - eh same old. Rather not drink but great crowd pleaser. Why not pop Austin Hope for $45 since I won’t drink any? A bit harsh but the price of entry doesn’t have a good QPR. 90
2017 La Pelle Reserve. Might be tied WOTN even for 2017. This thing needed a full 2 hours to unfurl it’s locked up goodness. 94.really well made and big and bold but not fruity or sweet.
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Dark ruby/purple hue. The wine is medium bodied with a beautiful cassis note. Eucalyptus is intertwined between the dark fruits. Satiny tannins. This is delicious now, and white it has plenty of fruit and acid to last, I’m curious if the structure will hold. History says it will
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We had a vacation from tasting notes last night, but managed to drink this very special wine nonetheless. Sniffing the last drip tonight I would talk about wood, flowers, and berry essence with a hint of white pepper. The drip I just tasted has a wonderful melded acid fruit presence, with little tannic punch. Hard to give merit to a tasting note based on memory and a microgram. I see I gave it a 97 last time and I don't deny that, but my memory of the table conversation last night is more like a 94.
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Refined expressive nose of cedar, incense, mocha, late summer blackberries, and other ineffable complexities. Very pure sweet fruit on the palate with focused presence and balanced depth, smooth fine-grained tannins, a wonderful coolness to the entwined finish, fruit-driven and acid laced on the ringing final note. Carries its 14.5% alcohol with amazing grace and muscle. Excellent with cheese on toast, would be lovely with a cheese soufflé.
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Bursting with fruit but still restrained in classic Heitz fashion. Balanced tannins. Relatively tightly wound for Heitz but still extremely enjoyable now.
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5/4/2024 - PIFGD Likes this wine: 94 Points
Drinking great but may get even better over next 2-5 years and drink well for 10-15 more years thereafter. Appreciate having good friends who share great wines like last night.
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1/27/2024 - Quiet Lion wrote: flawed
This bottle seeped onto another bottle in my cellar and I noticed quite a bit of wine was gone, down to bottom shoulder. I opened it and discovered there was no cork! Second time I have seen a bottle without a cork (from a different winery)! Wild. We tasted it and it wasn't awful but there was a chemical taste like rubber cement. Shame.
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1/17/2024 - KTelaak_Buffalo Likes this wine: 93 Points
This wine was definitely enjoyable but in my experience with other Martha's vintages, it needs a lot of time before it balances out. It's drinking very young and even with 4-5 hour decant, it didn't settle down. I'm going to wait another couple years.
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9/4/2023 - havana4 🍾🍇 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Same notes as before. Needs a bunch of air.
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9/2/2023 - Condrieu82 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Ruby in color, the nose has balanced notes of black currants and oak. Medium acidity to counter balance the grippy tannins, the wine shows an amazing palate with expressive blackcurrants, dark cherries, then forest floor, white pepper, and a medium long finish with aromatic wood and eucalyptus notes.
Fantastic wine. Still young but very enjoyable with PnP; will surely improve further with age. Will revisit in 3-4 years.
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2/25/2023 - Libbidog Likes this wine: 97 Points
Old world style. Red plum, tart dark cherry, currant, clove, dusty earth, green pepper, graphite. This is still a youngster. High acid, medium plus tannins, medium alcohol. This one has the chops to age for decades. One left in the cellar. See you in 10 years.
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12/19/2022 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Wonderful. Perfect balance of fruit and structure. Cedar, cloves and cinnamon...Already drinking, will age forever and improve.
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11/29/2022 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Pure class. This is a Wow! Complex, medium to full. High acidity and tannin, plenty of youthful grip here, built for the long haul. There is enough mainly black fruit over the bones to give pleasure now but will be much better in 10 years, then drink over the following 20 to 30 years.
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9/6/2022 - havana4 🍾🍇 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very nice expression of Martha's. Drank over the course of 2 nights. Dried almost tart red fruits, eucalyptus, and some oak. Definitely better on 2nd night.
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4/10/2022 - ClownShow Likes this wine: 94 Points
Did not decant- Good nose, good tannin light fruit, very nice body, smooth, additional aging should bring about more boldness.
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2/4/2022 - rlove wrote: 93 Points
A bit heavy on the oak at first, but time tempers the cedar, to reveal additional notes of eucalyptus and sandalwood. Fresh, balanced despite the alcohol. Very good.
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11/13/2021 - thesternowl wrote: 94 Points
Presented blind alongside two wines from Bordeaux and one other wine from Napa. All wines were opened 8 hours prior to service, decanted and immediately returned to their respective bottles.
The wine pours a deep ruby color with a translucent core. Medium+ viscosity. Medium+ intensity with a mix of red fruits, some tart dark fruits, eucalyptus, and holiday fruit cake. The nose alone already had me thinking Martha’s. On the palate, the wine is dry with developing vinosity. Confirming the red fruits and tart dark fruits along with a menthol note that seems to linger on the finish. Now I was certain this was Martha’s. Medium+ tannins and medium+ acid. The wine has a very attractive freshness to it.
Called the 2014 Heitz Martha’s Vineyard. This is a baby with decades of life left.
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9/26/2021 - acyso wrote: 93 Points
Sunday hangout (Chicago, IL): Probably the youngest Heitz Martha's I've ever had, and it shows. This does have a light eucalyptus hint, and pretty much tastes like a very solid, well-made Napa cabernet. It ticks all the boxes, but mostly this wine is just all potential and relatively much less enjoyment right now. I'd happily revisit this in 20 years.
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5/16/2021 - Esmags7 Likes this wine:
Decanted 5 hours, drank over the next 2.5.
Was all over the place when I first started drinking, a lot of heat, tannins very prominent. A quality wine, with great fruit, complex minerality, but was quite disjointed. Started to come together in the last hour of drinking and was very nice.
This one is too early, but if the last hour of drinking is indicative of what it could be - mid 90s potential.
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5/8/2021 - Ricky C Likes this wine: 100 Points
Excellent wine. Might be a little young right now.
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2/19/2021 - msuwine wrote: 94 Points
This earthy and complex Cabernet is a few years away from its peak, but it's a singular wine in the making. A few months ago, I found the 2012 Martha's a bit too diffuse, but the 2014 is on another level altogether - i.e., dense, integrated, and ready to grow into something very special.
Light red in color; medium in body; nose of sour cherry, graphite, fresh mint, and eucalyptus (yes, I get it, power of suggestion, but tell me it's not there). Open-knit but delineated flavors of blueberry, cranberry, pine needles, and baking spices, with an elegant and integrated finish that carries dusty tannins. Still going strong on the second day. 14.5% alcohol. 94+ at the moment, with real upside in 2023 or later.
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1/22/2021 - englishman's claret wrote:
Once the oak settles down after a couple hours on the decanter, the 2014 Heitz Martha starts to show the things that make the terroir what it’s known for - eucalyptus, sandalwood, rich berry fruit. And as someone who is ready to criticize high alcohol wines when they are unbalanced, the 14.5% ABV here is actually balanced. This has the potential to develop really positively so hats off to the team at Heitz.
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12/23/2020 - Jtfinch wrote: 93 Points
This wine was hitting its stride after 2.5 hours of decanting. On the nose was eucalyptus, bay leaf, fresh herb, mint and shaved dark chocolate. Nuanced and Elegant wine with integrated tannins with fresh pepper, black berries, and spice on the finish. Yum. Paired with a ribeye with peppercorn sauce. Delicious
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11/21/2020 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 92 Points
Great outdoor drinking night with 2016 plump jack, 2015 Vangone, 2017 La Pelle Reserve, 2014 Martha Vineyard followed by Macallen 25.
Zero notes only impressions.
2014 Martha’s Vineyard most unique of the group. Very enjoyable but did not blow me away. Did have the sweet forest floor I enjoy very much. 92.5
2015 Vangone - excellent wine 94.5 if there was such a rating option.
2016 Plumpjack - eh same old. Rather not drink but great crowd pleaser. Why not pop Austin Hope for $45 since I won’t drink any? A bit harsh but the price of entry doesn’t have a good QPR. 90
2017 La Pelle Reserve. Might be tied WOTN even for 2017. This thing needed a full 2 hours to unfurl it’s locked up goodness. 94.really well made and big and bold but not fruity or sweet.
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9/26/2020 - jviz wrote: 94 Points
Dark ruby/purple hue. The wine is medium bodied with a beautiful cassis note. Eucalyptus is intertwined between the dark fruits. Satiny tannins. This is delicious now, and white it has plenty of fruit and acid to last, I’m curious if the structure will hold. History says it will
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8/9/2020 - wgmccallum Likes this wine: 94 Points
We had a vacation from tasting notes last night, but managed to drink this very special wine nonetheless. Sniffing the last drip tonight I would talk about wood, flowers, and berry essence with a hint of white pepper. The drip I just tasted has a wonderful melded acid fruit presence, with little tannic punch. Hard to give merit to a tasting note based on memory and a microgram. I see I gave it a 97 last time and I don't deny that, but my memory of the table conversation last night is more like a 94.
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12/16/2019 - wgmccallum Likes this wine: 97 Points
Refined expressive nose of cedar, incense, mocha, late summer blackberries, and other ineffable complexities. Very pure sweet fruit on the palate with focused presence and balanced depth, smooth fine-grained tannins, a wonderful coolness to the entwined finish, fruit-driven and acid laced on the ringing final note. Carries its 14.5% alcohol with amazing grace and muscle. Excellent with cheese on toast, would be lovely with a cheese soufflé.
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11/30/2019 - Guns and Rosés Likes this wine: 92 Points
Bursting with fruit but still restrained in classic Heitz fashion. Balanced tannins. Relatively tightly wound for Heitz but still extremely enjoyable now.
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7/17/2019 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Smells of herb. And good structure.
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