This is delicious. For $30, it’s a no-brainer. On the nose, honey, grilled pineapples, tropical fruits, and hints of orange rind. On the palate, more honey and grilled pineapples, dried apricots followed by honeysuckles, sugar apples, oranges, caramel, and hints of ginger on the backend. This is truly lovely with its perfect balance of sweetness and acidity without anything out of place. This is so good, it puts Sauternes at more than twice the price to shame.
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Popped and poured a small glass, then decanted the rest of the bottle and drank over course of the evening and into the next day. Upon opening the nose was not giving up much. Coaxing over the next hour brought forth notes of dark fruits, damp earth, and fresh cracked peppers. On the palate, earthiness, undergrowth and mushrooms notes are apparent, followed by fresh cracked peppers and a stony salinity on the finish. Despite the tight tannins upon opening, the wine is well balanced and has lifts, evolving in the glass with humus, dark berries, white peppers and hints of legumes, and always followed by a sweet stony salinity finish. There’s plenty left in the tank, as this wine still has room to mellow out its tannins. Another 5 or so years in the bottle would improve it.
Decanted and drank over 2 days. The nose evolved over time with notes of berries, freshly cut greens, hints of oak, pencil shavings, and licorice. On the palate are green leafy vegetables, dark fruits, black pepper/spices, licorice and firm tannins. Tannins still present on 2nd day.
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2004 Tokaj Hétszőlő Tokaji Aszú 5 Puttonyos
11/13/2023 - Dark Horse Likes this wine: 94 Points
This is delicious. For $30, it’s a no-brainer. On the nose, honey, grilled pineapples, tropical fruits, and hints of orange rind. On the palate, more honey and grilled pineapples, dried apricots followed by honeysuckles, sugar apples, oranges, caramel, and hints of ginger on the backend. This is truly lovely with its perfect balance of sweetness and acidity without anything out of place. This is so good, it puts Sauternes at more than twice the price to shame.
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2005 Château Haut-Bailly
11/5/2023 - Dark Horse Likes this wine: 94 Points
Popped and poured a small glass, then decanted the rest of the bottle and drank over course of the evening and into the next day. Upon opening the nose was not giving up much. Coaxing over the next hour brought forth notes of dark fruits, damp earth, and fresh cracked peppers. On the palate, earthiness, undergrowth and mushrooms notes are apparent, followed by fresh cracked peppers and a stony salinity on the finish. Despite the tight tannins upon opening, the wine is well balanced and has lifts, evolving in the glass with humus, dark berries, white peppers and hints of legumes, and always followed by a sweet stony salinity finish. There’s plenty left in the tank, as this wine still has room to mellow out its tannins. Another 5 or so years in the bottle would improve it.
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2014 Château Gloria
5/29/2023 - Dark Horse Likes this wine: 91 Points
Decanted and drank over 2 days. The nose evolved over time with notes of berries, freshly cut greens, hints of oak, pencil shavings, and licorice. On the palate are green leafy vegetables, dark fruits, black pepper/spices, licorice and firm tannins. Tannins still present on 2nd day.
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