cartey
Member #335,154 signed up 4/24/2014
This Member Is a Fan(10)
1 to 3 of 10
-
Xavier Auerbach
24,252 Tasting Notes
-
jviz
4,179 Tasting Notes
-
R.H.
785 Tasting Notes
Fans(6)
1 to 3 of 6
-
geoffreychamberti…
1,109 Tasting Notes
-
the_lovenest
100 Tasting Notes
-
scialan
1 Tasting Note
Friends(16)
1 to 3 of 16
-
mattyboy_
971 Tasting Notes
-
dreambeam
51 Tasting Notes
-
VintoriaWine
1 Tasting Note
Profile
Member since April 2014
This member's profile is not public.
2014 Bernard Levet Côte-Rôtie Les Journaries / Maestria
3/31/2024 - cartey Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is very pleasant to drink now. Still have a bit of wood and a bit of tannin. Seems like somewhere between primary and secondary; you can get a little red fruit on the nose, but on the palate it still has a little bite. Clean bottle, no funk. The olive took a little while to come out. I'm guessing it's about 10 years from full secondary?
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
2012 Uvas Felices Vinos de Madrid Reina de los Deseos
2/18/2024 - cartey wrote: flawed
Cooked.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
2021 Domaine Vincent Paris Cornas La Geynale
1/28/2024 - cartey Does not like this wine:
No score as I don't know how to score this wine now.
It has the right flavors: olive tapenade, burnt rubber, reductive, blue fruit, acidity, greenness,l. It's medium-light on the palate, with longish finish. But it's not tasty. It's lean and mean, the fruit is playing hide and seek, the finish is stony.
After 2 hours in the decanter, there is a hint of sweetness that comes out in the nose, but the palate is still not very giving. It seems like it doesn't have the body or mid-palate to connect all the flavors together, so it tastes thin and disconnected.
Perhaps it's a good representation of what 2021 is like, and I think this wine is intellectually interesting and will improve with age, but it's not a vintage I would load up on.
1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment