2015 Calais Winery Petit Verdot La Cuvée du Chêne

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  11/12/2018 - mflesh wrote: 94 Points

  Floral bouquet and very young raspberry and black cherry immediately hit you after pouring this one into the glass. Immediately you know that you have committed infanticide. As you are contemplating what to do, you are Sinister hand pours a glass of this for you to get a nice with this one on a more personal level. Boysenberry, black fruit, a little bit gamey. Yet, a little bit youthful and floral. What the hell is going on here!? The Sinister hand forces this one to your mouth, to enjoy an immense pallet of black cherry, wild berry pie. The middle of this one dries to a dehydrated red fruit character. Finishes long, with the perfect pairing being leftover Halloween candy from your 4 year old who already forgot she went trick-or-treating this year. So good on so many levels, and this one is still insanely tannic. I give it another 10 or 15 years easily. I would say this is the most immense wine in the Calais lineup other than the Gravitas. Still drank insanely well.

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  10/30/2018 - mflesh wrote: 93 Points

  Drinking rather well tonight. Definitely not regretting my decision to purchase a half case of this when I was down in Fredericksburg. This bottle is starting to develop a lot of blue and black fruit, mixed with a lot of spice characteristics. Very full-bodied, and very in-your-face. I would say that out of all the wines I have tasted from Ben, this one wins the award. Lots of violets and lavender on the nose. Absolutely hedonistic and full body wine that is sure to age for another 10 to 20 years. Oh my goodness.

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  7/2/2018 - mflesh wrote:

  This wine requires a rather healthy decant, but I think I noted that before. If serving, this wine makes more sense to open decant, double decant back to the bottle, cork overnight, and then uncork the next night when you plan to serve. This wine is rather locked up. I'm getting lots of violets and lavender. The structure of the wine is definitely here. Excellent dark berry backbone that is going to require easily 5 years to develop. I have quite a few of these thankfully, so I can see how it develops over the next coming years. Bravo Ben Calais!

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  1/30/2018 - mflesh wrote:

  Best bottle of Texas wine I've ever had. This bottle pours a dark purple color into the glass. Nose is lavender, hawthorne, cinnamon and plum. Black tarry color. The entry reveals a FULL BODIED wine. Dark, black plum, earthy, black fruit, red apple cinnamon spice with plum tart overlay. Finishes dark with mint and acidity and youthful oak tannin that is ABUNDANT. This wine is THICK. The acidity from start to finish is quite high which pretty much just tells me that this wine's best days are STILL ahead of it. This glass was enjoyed from Coravin, so I can only imagine how amazing it would be with a 4 hour decant. WOW. Drink 2020-2030.

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