2015 Tertre Rôteboeuf

Community Tasting Notes (29) Avg Score: 95.8 points

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  4/13/2024 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Bordeaux for Napa lovers, but far better than Napa. I've commented three other times on this wine so will simply say it's luscious, complex, provocative, and profound. It'll surely age well and benefit from tertiary flavors. Yet it's fully enjoyable now and, frankly, a great value at this stage. The only California Bordeaux blends I'd pick over this are Ridge MB and Dunn HM, and both need 20+ years in good vintages. This extracted beast performed on release. Normally not my style, TR really rocks my world. A great wine.

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  3/29/2024 - jim_crane wrote:

  Admittedly, we are drinking this early but Kyle said that I should ignore the ready to drink report. We opened it because the 16 Napa cab we popped first was way off. It drank like an 18. Just not ready.
  
  So, this is barnyard and leather; freshly oiled leather; perfume. The palate is mid weight and the tannin lifts to the upper palate. It’s definitely not ready but it has so much potential. The nose will become mesmerizing. It’s on the verge today. I get a richness. Dark fruit and dry tannins. We agreed to open the next bottle on 3/29/29.
  
  
  IF I WERE TO WRITE THIS: We opened this bottle and the horse rode like a thoroughbred pony. We look forward to maturity and riding the highs and lows of this English saddled stallion. Tannins on the bridle will continue to develop into the reins. This is a bottle for the stalls. Get your pitchfork ready and clean the stalls this horse is worth the wait… f*%k you Jim!
  
  Get a bower Leah. 😁

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  2/25/2024 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine: 93 Points

  DC Dinners and Tastings; 2/24/2024-2/26/2024 (Washington, DC): Dark fruits, cedar, anise, tarragon, vanilla on the nose. Medium + intensity of aromas. Smells like it's going to be big. Pretty tightly wound on the palate at this juncture; with flavors of ripe blackberries, ripe dark plums and ripe black currants. Still quite young. The secondary flavors are integrated well with the fruits, and their intensity is a very nice medium +.
  
  Medium + body with medium + acid and medium + tannin. Developing. Hold for 3-5 more years; at which point it should really be good.

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  2/2/2024 - michael47 wrote: 94 Points

  This should/could have been better. Bottle was first of my futures. Oddly brickish colour when poured and decanted for such a young wine. First sip was weirdly rich and somewhat off balance. Tasted side by side with same vintage DuMol Ballard cab - which was fresh and delicious from the moment if was poured and just kept getting better. After an hour or so the TR seemed to settled down but with a pronounced wood someday/toasted oak nose you might expect from a rich Cal cab?. The wine needs to be decanted and wait a little - now after a few hours it’s delicious just not sure what to make of its future.

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  2/4/2023 - jmoon Does not like this wine: 90 Points

  Barely drinkable as it was so sweet and ripe, syrupy . Impossible with food at the moment. Hopefully will sort itself out over the next decade.

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