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2010 Domaine Saint-Damien Gigondas Les Souteyrades
5/8/2021 - lyle@vinchicago.com Likes this wine: 93 Points
Held this for some time. Was always perplexed when to drink. I remember it was a score-fueled purchase originally. This was a delight, consumed too quickly without enough attention - which indicates you're having a good time, a healthy sign. Have to imagine at apogee now, lived in a decanter over the course of three hours - great and open-knit from the jump, but last taste perhaps best. So you needn't be in a hurry, either. Lovely integration, no element stuck out over top. Great.
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1999 E. Guigal Côte-Rôtie La Turque
9/4/2019 - lyle@vinchicago.com Likes this wine: 96 Points
BYO at RPM Steak - Chicago a month ago. An overtly opulent riche bottle for an overtly opulent riche restaurant. Gift Cards and gifted bottle, don't shake me down for money. A tremendous wine, the best kind of Bob Parker wine. Sultry, resonant, good lift to its thunder. Extremely dark, this truly is still rather primary in a lot of its features, but there are no hard edges here either. When to drink it? It's tough telling, it did not expose any fragility of any type, but it does have tenderness. Would have liked to have spent a day two or beyond with this, but not possible in this environment. Great wine, my second 90's La La - both extremely satisfying and among the highest rating I've given any wine. Sometimes with as much as others love such a unfathomably broad spectrum of taste profiles - I often say that "I guess I don't like wine as much as they do". Here, I believe that if you can't see the greatness of bottles like this, you don't like wine nearly enough. Great.
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2000 Les Gartieux de Pichon Lalande
12/2/2016 - lyle@vinchicago.com Likes this wine: 91 Points
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