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  •  Recent Wine Tasting Notes

  1. 2000 Château Ausone

    1. Now, this is wine you seldom get to taste these days. With only a splash decanting the exotic aromatics popped with licorice, spice box, flowers, black raspberry, dark cherry, stone and hints of wet earth. Full bodied, concentrated, long and rich, yet light on its feet with supple, smooth tannins and a long expansive finish that builds and expands. There is a beautiful purity of fruit that is seldom found in most wines. Shockingly expensive, but if you bought this early as a future, or if you're part of the one percent crowd, this youthful wine really delivers the goods.

      99 points - Tasted
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  2. 2005 Château La Grave a Pomerol Trigant de Boisset

    1. Rustic style of Pomerol, with an earthy, cherry, red plum personality that is ready to drink.

      87 points - Tasted
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  3. 2005 Château Teyssier St. Émilion Grand Cru

    1. Delivering a lot of pleasure and bang for the buck with its licorice, black cherry, earth and vanilla nose, this wine is soft, medium/full bodied and ready to drink.

      89 points - Tasted
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  4. 2009 Château Monbrison

    1. Light in color, light in fruit, medium bodied with fresh, spicy red berries and earth, ending with an open, soft, red cherry finish.

      87 points - Tasted
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  5. 2009 Domaine Charvin Châteauneuf-du-Pape

    1. Voluptuous textures, sweet, ripe, black raspberries, kirsch, pepper and wet earth scents and a long, tasty, fresh, jammy, red berry and spice filled finish is found in sip after sip of this beauty. Perfect with Coq a Vin on a cold, wintery night. OK, cold for Los Angeles.

      94 points - Tasted
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  6. 2000 Clos des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape

    1. All good things must eventually come to an end, which is this wine is going. At weeks before its 14th birthday, the wine does not have the same freshness, level of fruit or vivacity it displayed in its youth. It was easy to find the kirsch, licorice and garrigue character, along with its trademark supple textures, but the wine is clearly fading. I'm going to finish my few remaining bottles over the next year or two.

      92 points - Tasted
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  7. 2001 Le Clos du Caillou Châteauneuf-du-Pape Reserve le Clos du Caillou

    1. Most Chateauneuf du Pape drink well young, while some pay huge dividends for waiting. Clos du Caillou Reserve is one of the best Southern Rhones for cellaring. With time, an intoxicating perfume of black raspberry, black cherry liqueur, kirsch, fennel, spice, pepper, wet earth and garrigue emerges. This powerful, concentrated wine has depth, balance and complexity. The texture shows richness and soft tannins, ending in a bath of perfectly ripe, spice filled, dark red fruits that must have lasted over 60 seconds! This was popped and poured and continued getting better and better in the glass.

      100 points - Tasted
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  8. 2004 Vieux Château Certan

    1. If you're looking for the best deal for Vieux Chateau Certan in today's world, look no further! This plum, chocoalte, truffle, black raspberry, herb and flowery wine is round, soft and refined, with a lush, sweet, cocoa and black cherry filled finish. There is a slight rough or dryness in the end note, but with everything else that is going on, that's quite easy to overlook. Still young, at close to 10 years of age, this is already starting to show its charms. This sells for about 30% of the 2009 and 2010, and half the price of the 2005. Plus it's a very nice wine. What more can you ask for?

      94 points - Tasted
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  9. 2003 Bosquet des Papes Châteauneuf-du-Pape Chante Le Merle Vieilles Vignes

    1. Fully mature, this is not a wine to age. Peppery black cherries, earth, jam and garrigue create the aromatics. The wine is lush on the palate, but the structure is not there for further development.

      90 points - Tasted
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  10. 1997 Château Doisy-Daëne L'Extravagant

    1. Palate staining layers of honey drenched tropical fruits, apricot, nuts and vanilla coat your mouth, teeth and gums with sweetness. Incredibly intense, long and attention grabbing, this still young wine is dessert.

      98 points - Tasted
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  11. 1996 Château Doisy-Daëne L'Extravagant

    1. Thick, intense, dense and incredibly rich, this sweet wine is almost too much of a good thing. Edible layers of honeyed apricot, pineapple, orange, tropical and vanilla are found in every sip. Low acid in feeling, fans of seriously sweet wines are going to love this.

      96 points - Tasted
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  12. 2007 Château Doisy-Daëne L'Extravagant

    1. Fat, dense, powerful and thick, this massive sweet, white Bordeaux wine paints your palate with layer after layer of over ripe tropical fruits slathered in honey. This is no delicate wallflower of a wine. It demands your full attention.

      96 points - Tasted
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  13. 2009 Domaine Pierre Usseglio & Fils Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée de mon Aïeul

    1. Fresh, forward and fun to drink, this easy to like open wine lacks the weight and density of recent vintages like 2007 and 2010. But there is a good quality to the fresh, spicy, black raspberry and peppery character of the soft textured wine.

      93 points - Tasted
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  14. 2009 Saint-Cosme Côte-Rôtie

    1. Forward in style, lushly textured and with a complex set of aromatics set off by licorice, vanilla, black cherry liqueur, jam, pepper and fresh herbs, this is one of the few remaining value wines from Cote Rotie.

      92 points - Tasted
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  15. 2010 Château Doisy-Daëne L'Extravagant

    1. Interestingly, while some vintages of this wine are produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc, the 2010 was made from an even blend of 50% Sauvignon Blanc and 50% Semillon giving the wine a lighter mouth feeling than many previous vintages. That being said, this is still incredibly rich, dense and honeyed, but with more freshness in the fruit.

      95 points - Tasted
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  16. 1961 Château Kirwan

    1. Hanging on to life by a thread, with effort one could find the few remaining smidgens of fruit buried deep within its earthy, tobacco filled character.

      75 points - Tasted
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  17. 2010 Adamvs Cabernet Sauvignon Quintvs

    1. Good ripe fruit, lots or licorice, vanilla, blackberries and jam also appear in its forward style. There is a touch of dryness to the tannins in the finish.

      90 points - Tasted
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  18. 2007 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Chaupin

    1. This hedonistic bottle of pleasure is ready to go. Every swirl, sniff and sip is packed with a blend of ripe, very ripe and over ripe deep, dark, peppery berries, jam, earth and spice. Lush in texture, full bodied and long, I love this style of Chateauneuf du Pape!

      95 points - Tasted
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  19. 2008 Château Hosanna

    1. Popped and poured, plum, chocolate, truffle and black raspberry aromatics took little effort to find. Full bodied, rich, plush and easy to taste, this is a very nice style of Pomerol. However, a few more years of age are going to add a lot of complexity and softness in texture.

      94 points - Tasted
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  20. 2005 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

    1. Popped and poured by a guest at our annual day after Thanksgiving celebration, there was no way anyone could not see the potential in this beautiful Pauillac. Intense concentration of fruit and flavor, soft, ripe, elegant tannins, the structure to age and a long, fresh, ripe, classy finish made me want to grab another glass before it was all gone. Sadly, I was too late.

      96 points - Tasted
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  21. 1994 Château L'Evangile

    1. This requires drinking before the fruit fades any further. Over the past few years, the tannins, with their now rustic style have continued stripping the wine of its softness. This is more interesting on the nose, due to its truffle and plum personality than on the palate, which is starting to slowly dry out.

      90 points - Tasted
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  22. 1981 Heitz Cellar Cabernet Sauvignon Martha's Vineyard

    1. Much better on the nost than the palate, with its tobacco, earth, cassis, blackberry and leafy aromatics. On the palate, the cassis and cranberry finish did not remain long enough to hold my attention. It was a treat to taste this older, classic California Cabernet Sauvignon, but if I owned it, I'd opt for drinking this much sooner than later.

      88 points - Tasted
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  23. 1983 Clos René

    1. Fading, with little fruit remaining, this bright cherry and earth filled wine requires consumption.

      80 points - Tasted
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  24. 1989 Château de Fesles Bonnezeaux La Chapelle

    1. Not enough fruit or sugar remained for the acidity. This was the first time I've tasted this wine. Hopefully, it will also be my last.

      75 points - Tasted
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  25. 2003 Delas Frères Hermitage Les Bessards

    1. Wow! With little encouragement other than splash decanting, the perfume blasts with dark berries, smoke, licorice, oak and black pepper. Full bodied, long, concentrated, big and rich, every mouth coating sip is packed with flavor. This is young, yet it drinks well and will only keep getting better and better. If you're not hung up on modern vs traditional, this is worth checking out.

      95 points - Tasted
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