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2002
Château Lafite Rothschild (Pauillac)
Still youthful, the wine is on the bright, crisp, crunchy side of the style range. The red berries are quite vibrant, with a mint, herb, tobacco, and cedar coating on the palate, and in the sweet, and tart, cherry, cranberry, olive, herb, and citrus finish. This is quite classic in an old-school style. Drink from 2024-2042. 119 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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1961
Château La Mission Haut-Brion (Pessac-Léognan)
Tobacco, smoke, citrus, hot stones, tar, leather, herbs, red berries, and hint of citrus crowd into the nose. On the palate, the wine is even better with its power, intensity, vibrancy, and depth, finishing with bright, red fruits, truffle, tar, smoke, and cedar. Drink from 2024-2045. 57 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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1998
Château La Mission Haut-Brion (Pessac-Léognan)
If you are a fan of La Mission Haut Brion, with some extra money burning a hole in your pocket, this is the wine to buy. It has all the power, layers of perfectly ripe, earthy, smoky, leafy, tobacco covered fruits, balanced, poised and graceful, with the ability to age and evolve for decades. Drink from 2024-2050. 181 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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1970
Château Palmer (Margaux)
Slightly perhaps its best days, yet, if well stored, this is a beauty. The perfume delivers its smoke, cassis, dried flowers, cedar and earthy notes easily. Medium-bodied, finesse in style, with a black cherry, and spice note in the finish. No decanting needed, just pop and pour. Drink from 2024-2028. 60 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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1966
Château Palmer (Margaux)
Fading, so this is not a bottle for further aging. If it has been well stored, you can still find truffles, cedar, tobacco, spice, and cherries in the nose. On the palate, the wine is firm, regal, and spicy, with a bright, earthy, red berry finish. This is not a wine for further aging. Drink from 2024-2028. 64 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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1982
Château Lafite Rothschild (Pauillac)
The best examples of this are simply great. Elegant, floral, refined, and packed with sweet, spicy, red fruits. cigar wrappers, currants, and cherries. There is length, energy, lift, freshness, and complexity. Drink from 2024-2040. 109 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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1996
Château Lafite Rothschild (Pauillac)
Stunning in every sense of the word, this wine has it all from start to finish. It is elegant, pure, complex, regal, energetic, and seamless, with a vibrant finish that once it gets started, keeps right on going as it builds and expands. Drink from 2024-2060. 223 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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1978
Domaine Jean-Louis Chave (Hermitage)
A rare treat indeed, this gem delivers its smoke, flowers, cherries, licorice, and herb filled perfume with little effort. The palate follows through as expected with its bright, fresh, earthy, herb, cedar, and tobacco-tinted mid-palate and finish. Drink from 2024-2035. 91 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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1982
Domaine Jean-Louis Chave (Hermitage)
It has been far too long since I last tasted this gem. The good news, it is still a beautiful wine loaded with menthol, mint-leaf, cherries, tobacco, bright, red plums and smoke. The mid-palate is medium-bodied, smoky, fresh, and spicy with a salty edge to the red berries in the finish. No decanting is needed here, this is fully developed. Drink from 2024-2030. 88 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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1961
Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle (Hermitage)
Each time I taste this wine, I am convinced I will never have it again, yet, here we are. Served blind, I thought it was 1961 Latour. But, this was even better! The incredible nose, with its mint, cedar, tobacco, barbecue, smoked meat, herbs, spices, pepper and black cherries was off the hook! The palate experience was even better with its wall of firm, smoky cherries, spice, herbs, and peppery mint. Crisp, intense, long, seamless, and complex, the wine exceeds the 60-second mark, and just keeps on going! What a wine. Drink from 2024-2060. 105 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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1983
Château Lafleur (Pomerol)
Cocoa, tea, flowers, red berries, truffle, spearmint and spice form the nose, The complex offers ripe, and overripe red fruits with an herbal-edge with tobacco-infused red pit fruits, and cocoa surrounded by dark chocolate. There is a firmness to the texture, along with chewy red fruits with a lush-edge that lingers on your palate. Drink from 2024-2033. 106 Views Tasted Apr 2, 2024 |
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2000
Château Pavie Macquin (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Youthful, but in a perfect spot, the nose expresses blackberries, smoke, charcoal, wild herbs and espresso with little effort. Full-bodied, lush, firm, and filled with salty black cherries, blackberries, chocolate, licorice, and plums, the minerality becomes more apparent as the finish lingers. Pop and pour, or decant for 1 hour, either way this is singing. Drink from 2024-2040. 238 Views Tasted Apr 1, 2024 |
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2016
Château Canon-la-Gaffelière (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
It is hard to believe you can buy a wine this good, with bottle age at this price. Packed with ripe, energetic, silky, red, and black fruits, the wine expresses purity, elegance, length, and depth. There is minerality, freshness, and while it is simply, fabulous to taste today, it is going to improve for the next 20 years with ease. Drink from 2024-2056. 599 Views Tasted Mar 30, 2024 |
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2020
Château Moulin Riche (St. Julien)
Perhaps the top value in the appellation is already delicious in your glass due to its creamy-textured black cherries, chocolate, espresso blackberries, and spice. Forward, round, and ready-to-go, give it 30 minutes of air, and it’s even better. Drink from 2024-2037. 521 Views Tasted Mar 23, 2024 |
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2009
Château Certan de May (Pomerol)
Black cherries, chalk and chocolate, with a delicate hint of salt are the focus of the refined, supple, soft, medium-bodied, elegant Pomerol. No decanting needed. This is ready-to-go. Drink from 2024-2035. 871 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
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2009
Château Rayas Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Simply fabulous, hedonistic, opulent, and deep, the wine is packed with dark cherries, kirsch, pepper, herbs, and earth. The wine is supple, rich, fresh, and long, with length, depth, and purity. This is beautiful now and is only going to better from here. Drink from 2024-2040. 649 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
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1983
Château Rayas Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Elegant, spicy, floral, and loaded with kirsch, black raspberries, olives, leaves, and garrigue. Medium-bodied, finesse driven, the wine is still delivering the goods, though I would not hold my luck with further aging. Drink from 2024-2029. 325 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
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1994
Château Rayas Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
From a vintage without much of a reputation, this is quite a surprise. The wine offers ample levels of sweet, ripe, kirsch, dried flowers, mint, and spice. On the palate, the wine is fresh, refined, medium-bodied, and loaded with sweet, bright, kirsch notes. Drink from 2024-2030. 372 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
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1988
Château Rayas Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
As stunning as the previous bottle, this gem popped with its complex aromatic profile, easily displaying its flowers, spice, citrus, herbs, cherries, and black raspberries. The wine remains fresh, almost zesty with a peppery edge to the herb, and kirsch-packed finish. This is a beauty! Drink from 2024-2032. 372 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
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2010
Château Rayas Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Elegance meshed with power, purity, and complexity says it all. This stunner, and it is stunning offers a complex array of roses, kirsch, licorice, cherries, raspberries, and kirsch in the perfume. And the palate is even better with its endless layers of vibrant, opulent, deep, red fruits, spice, and pepper herbs that do not want to quit. While you can enjoy this today, give it some more time as this will age for decades. Drink from 2028-2050. 772 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
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1995
Château Rayas Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
One of the great vintages of Rayas is still on top of its game. Full, deep, and intense, the wine opens with garrigue, peppery herbs, kirsch, flowers, smoked herbs, and spice. The vibrant palate is long, seamless, and fresh, delivering non-stop, seamless layers of sweet, ripe kirsch. Drink from 2024-2038. 483 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
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1998
Château Rayas Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Black raspberries, kirsch, garrigue, plums, and black cherries are all over the place. A bit light in weight, but still, quite charming, and fully-ready-to-go. Drink from 2024-2028. 395 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
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2011
Château Rayas Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Medium-bodied, lighter, elegant, fresh, vibrant-styled wine with a focus on its core of sweet, earthy, spicy kirsch, and finesse-edged finish. This is close to fully developed, there is no reason to wait to open a bottle if you own any. Drink from 2024-2031. 622 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
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2001
Château Rayas Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Fully-evolved, with its focus on dried cherries, roses, orange peel, and zesty, sweet kirsch. Lighter in weight than the top vintages, there is a gorgeous sense of purity to the sweet kirsch and cherries. I just wish there was more of it. Drink from 2024-2031. 451 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
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2007
Château Rayas Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Opulent, and hedonistic in style, the wine is all about hitting your pleasure buttons with waves of peppery, black cherries, kirsch, garrigue, black plums, and blackberries. The creamy, sensuous finish builds as it lingers. Drink from 2024-2040. 844 Views Tasted Mar 22, 2024 |
