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2001
Château La Mission Haut-Brion (Pessac-Léognan)
Mint leaf, cigar wrappers, cedar, blackberries, currants and a touch of smoke pop in the nose. The palate has softened, and filled out, giving you softness to the fruits, and roundness in the elegantly textured finish. 30-60 minutes in the decanter, and this is good to go. Drink from 2025-2037. 106 Views Tasted Jun 29, 2025 |
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2000
Clos l'Église (Pomerol) (Pomerol)
Full of plums, chocolate, espresso, flowers, black cherries, and plums in the nose, and on the concentrated palate, the wine is soft, lush, ripe, round, and ready to deliver its pleasures. Drink from 2025-2035. 90 Views Tasted Jun 29, 2025 |
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2003
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande (Pauillac)
A bit past its prime, but still with lots to offer. Blackberries, cassis, licorice, espresso, cherries, and dried flowers pop in the nose. The palate is soft, lush, round, delivering its essence of black fruits, with a flamboyant edge with ease. No decanting needed, pop, our, and enjoy. Drink from 2025-2033. 162 Views Tasted Jun 28, 2025 |
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2020
Château Beau-Site Haut-Vignoble (St. Estèphe)
Cigar box, currants, and a touch of spice are at work in the nose, and on the forward, medium-bodied, bright, red berry, firm palate. This is going to be delicious on release. Drink from 2025-2032. 125 Views Tasted Jun 27, 2025 |
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2022
Château Beau-Site Haut-Vignoble (St. Estèphe)
Loads of fresh bright, cherries, and red currants with touches of mint, tobacco, with a hint of spice is easy to spot on the nose, and on the medium-bodied, piquant palate. vibrant, red berry palate. This will drink well on release. Drink from 2025-2035. 153 Views Tasted Jun 27, 2025 |
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1990
Château Clinet (Pomerol)
Even better than the last bottle, which rocked, this was pure, bottle sex! Silky, sensuous, ostentatious, and packed with truffles, mint, darn cocoa, earthy cherries, and back plums, this is what great Pomerol is all about. Do not decant. Pop, pour and savor. Drink from 2025-2035. 255 Views Tasted Jun 26, 2025 |
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2021
Rotem & Mounir Saouma Arioso (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Strawberries, raspberries, and cherries are the focus of this wine. Sweet, fresh, and vibrant, with a crisp, juicy, peppery, kirsch finish, this is quite nice and ready-to-drink. The wine is produced from 100% old-vine Grenache planted in the 1930s in the Pignan sector. After whole-cluster vinification, the wine is aged in 228- and 500-liter barrels for 36 months. Drink from 2025-2038. 274 Views Tasted Jun 23, 2025 |
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2000
Château Pavie Decesse (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
Slipping from its peak and entering is decline. The fruit is starting to fade from its plum, and black cherry core. Now you’re finding more figs, espresso and chocolate. Round on texture and easy to drink, this needs consumption. Drink from 2025-2029. 314 Views Tasted Jun 21, 2025 |
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1988
Château d'Yquem (Sauternes)
Showing a bit more mahogany in the color, as well as more secondary characteristics since my last tasting, this is still as delicious as it is complex. Now you find saffron, spice, caramel, burnt sugar, melted butter and sweet, honeyed, roasted pineapples. The wine is rich, but with ample vibrancy. There is power with elegance you feel as the sweetness of the fruits, along with the perfect touch of bitter that balances everything out coats your palate. Like all great vintages of d’Yquem, the only issue is how effortless it is to drink. Drink from 2025-2060. 719 Views Tasted Jun 21, 2025 |
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2000
Le Clos du Caillou Réserve le Clos du Caillou (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Fully mature, this is superb today. Popped and poured, you get layers of black and red fruits, herbs, spice, and pepper. Packed with fruit, and a touch of chalk in the finish, the wine is vibrant, sweet, juicy, and with the feeling of being kissed by the sun, but with no jam, or over ripeness. Everything is exactly as it should be. There is probably little to gain by waiting, so pop a cork if you have a bottle. Drink from 2025-2030. 384 Views Tasted Jun 18, 2025 |
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1982
Château Ducru-Beaucaillou (St. Julien)
If you like a great Cuban cigar dripping with cassis, you came to the right place. Add nuances of mint, cedar, and peppery spice with a chewy mouthful of sweet, spicy currants in a refined, but meaty manner, and you get the idea. Fully mature, no decanting needed, just pop, pour and enjoy classic Bordeaux at its best. Drink from 2025-2035. 901 Views Tasted Jun 16, 2025 |
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2001
Domaine de la Vieille Julienne Reserve (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
The perfume explodes from the glass with flowers, garrigue, black pepper, cherry liqueur, kirsch, and blackberry jam. The palate is opulent, and elegant, a hard act to balance, but everything works in harmony here. Fully mature, pop a cork if you have a bottle. No decanting warranted. Simply, open and enjoy. Drink from 2025-2030. 598 Views Tasted Jun 10, 2025 |
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1999
E. Guigal Château d'Ampuis (Côte-Rôtie)
Drinking perfectly today, this is fully mature and suited for pop and pour. Notes of potpourri, barbecue, dried cherries, smoke, and sea salt create the aromatic profile. Silky, sensuous, fresh, vibrant cherries are the backbone strawberries and chalky raspberries in the finish. Drink from 2025-2031. 1,081 Views Tasted Jun 9, 2025 |
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2015
Stéphane Ogier Le Champon (Côte-Rôtie)
Drinking beautifully from the bottle, no decanting needed, the wine is vibrant, energetic and packed with layers of refined, sweet, fresh, dark red, and black fruits with touches of smoke, thyme, spice, and chalk. The concentrated, long, elegant finish leaves its layers of perfectly ripe fruits long after the wine has left your glass. Drink from 2025-2038. 571 Views Tasted Jun 7, 2025 |
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2015
Stéphane Ogier Bertholon (Côte-Rôtie)
A superb Cote Rotie that’s already in its sweet spot. Blackberries, smoke, oceanic influences, bacon fat, flowers, and blueberries create the perfume. The palate is exuberant, fresh, full-bodied, concentrated, and focused. The sensation of minerality with its touches of chalk and salinity add to the lengthy, fruit-filled finish. Popped, and poured, I am digging this wine. Drink from 2025-2040. 488 Views Tasted Jun 7, 2025 |
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2018
E. Guigal La Mouline (Côte-Rôtie)
Violets, espresso, black and red plums, smoke, and dark red berries permeate the nose. On the palate, the wine quickly asserts its opulent character. The layers of exotically textured, silky, elegant, and refined fruits, with all their purity, linger for nearly 60 seconds. The wine combines 89% Syrah with 11% Viognier. Philippe Guigal thinks this reminds him of the 1988. Drink from 2030-2055. 710 Views Tasted Jun 6, 2025 |
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2018
E. Guigal La Turque (Côte-Rôtie)
Dark in color, the wine opens with spicy, sharp red fruits, smoke, herbs, and an oceanic influence on the nose. It takes just the first sip to grasp the greatness of this wine. Full-bodied, powerful, intense, balanced, and lively on the palate, you feel the weight while sensing the energy as its layers of fruit coat your palate and linger. The wine captivates your attention for over 60 seconds. This is clearly a wow vintage for Guigal La Turque. The wine blends 7% Viognier along with 93% Syrah. Drink from 2032-2055. 564 Views Tasted Jun 6, 2025 |
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2018
E. Guigal La Landonne (Côte-Rôtie)
Deep, dark, rich, powerful, and intense, with levels of concentration that are off the charts, you are initially seduced by its smoky, olive, peppery, floral, and fruit-filled perfume of black, red, and blue notes. The palate showcases waves of perfectly ripe black cherries, blackberries, and blueberries, supported by a wealth of tannins, smoke, spice, and espresso that coat your palate, teeth, and gums. The wine reaches the 60-second mark and continues to impress. A legend in the making that will easily deliver quality for over 50 years! Drink from 2032-2060. 597 Views Tasted Jun 6, 2025 |
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2018
E. Guigal Ermitage Ex-Voto (Hermitage)
Spices, flowers, smoke, thyme, espresso, and black pepper surround the black and red fruits in the aroma. On the palate, the wine truly begins to shine with its massive wall of blackberries, black cherries, smoke, espresso, and peppery spice. Patience is required here so the wine can fully develop and gain depth, but the wait will be worthwhile. Drink from 2032-2055. 954 Views Tasted Jun 6, 2025 |
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2019
Rotem & Mounir Saouma Omnia (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Juicy, fresh, bright raspberries, kirsch, strawberries, and flowers with accents of thyme are all over the perfume. The vibrant palate offers layers of more of those sweet, ripe, red berries, with a touch of licorice, and spice in the elegant, lifted finish. Grapes are sourced from 9 separate parcels, planted in all five communes, hence the name, Omnia, translated from the Latin word for all. The wine blends 80% Grenache, 10% Syrah, and 10% Mourvedre, and is vinified and aged in foudres, cement tanks, and 500-liter barrels for 18 months. Drink from 2025-2035. 700 Views Tasted Jun 5, 2025 |
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2020
Rotem & Mounir Saouma Arioso (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Waves of sweet, ripe, fresh cherries and black raspberries surrounded by flowers and spice hit the spot. The wine is vibrant, as well as lush, soft, and elegant, setting the scene for the long, fruit-packed finish. This is my first time tasting these wines. A bit pricey, but the character and quality are there. The wine is produced from 100% old-vine Grenache planted in the 1930s in the Pignan sector. After whole cluster vinification, the wine is aged in 228 and 500 liter barrels for 36 months. Drink from 2025-2038. 471 Views Tasted Jun 5, 2025 |
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2021
Rotem & Mounir Saouma Blanc Magis (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Opulent and fruity, with yellow and orange citrus, honeysuckle, and pears that stand out, the wine is rich, long, and complex, with good energy and length in the flamboyant finish. The wine blends 75% Grenache Blanc, 10% Clairette, 10% Roussanne and 5% Bourboulenc. Fermentation takes place in 500-liter barrels, followed by two years of aging on its lees, with only occasional stirring in the same barrels. It might not make old bones, but it is going to provide a lot of pleasure, and it is good to go now! Drink from 2025-2031. . Drink from 2025-2031. 587 Views Tasted Jun 5, 2025 |
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2022
Château Rauzan-Gassies L'Orme de Rauzan-Gassies (Haut-Médoc)
Medium-bodied, fresh, and quite floral, this is ready to go on release, allowing you to enjoy all of its upfront, soft, sweet, vibrant, red berries and pit fruits. Drink from 2025-2032. 506 Views Tasted Jun 4, 2025 |
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2022
Château Rauzan-Gassies "Gassies" (Margaux)
Light, bright, fruity wine that delivers its early drinking, red berry, and chalky character with ease. This will be best in its youth. Drink from 2025-2030. 514 Views Tasted Jun 4, 2025 |
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2022
Château Croizet-Bages Alias (Pauillac)
Red currants, black raspberries, cedar, and spice form the core of this early-drinking, medium-bodied wine, which already delivers its charms, along with a hint of chalk in the vibrant finish. Drink from 2025-2034. 527 Views Tasted Jun 4, 2025 |
