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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. 72 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. 278 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. 135 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. 101 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. 125 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. 107 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. 127 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. 115 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. 115 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. 187 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. 75 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. 63 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. 104 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. 124 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. 128 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. 147 Views Tasted Jun 4, 2025 |
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2022
Château Croizet-Bages (Pauillac)
It takes just a swirl or two to find all the currants, tobacco, cedar, and flower notes. Medium-bodied, soft, round, and with ample, sweet, red, with black fruits at its core, just give it a year or two in the bottle, and it will start showing quite well. Drink from 2027-2040. 156 Views Tasted Jun 4, 2025 |
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2022
Château Rauzan-Gassies (Margaux)
The best wine I've tasted from Rauzan Gassies opens with a floral bouquet surrounded by black cherries, cassis, blackberries, and cocoa scents in the perfume. The palate is soft, silky, fresh, and polished, with a fruit-filled, lushly textured, elegant finish. As good as this wine is now, it will only improve with a few years of bottle age. Drink from 2026-2045. 187 Views Tasted Jun 4, 2025 |
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1949
Château Calon-Ségur (St. Estèphe)
Cedar, tobacco leaves, cigar box spice, herbs, and red currants fill the attention-seeking perfume. On the palate, the wine is bright, crisp, chewy, robust, and austere, and while masculine, there is also a regal air about it. The wine remained vibrant for close to 4 hours. Drink from 2025-2035. 460 Views Tasted May 28, 2025 |
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1983
Château (Margaux)
Popped, and poured, the stunner gifted the perfume with dried flowers, blackberries, cherries, tobacco leaf, smoke, and cedar. With a single sip, the palate stole the show with its elegant, silky, velvety mouth-feel. The fruit comes in layers that gently coat your senses. Fully mature, this is a stunning example of what great, aged Bordeaux is all about. Drink from 2025-2038. 1,017 Views Tasted May 25, 2025 |
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2009
Clos Fourtet (St. Émilion Grand Cru)
The perfume reminds me of flowers at the beach, due to its marine influenced perfume. Rich, opulent, lush layers of sweet, ripe, juicy black cherries, with accents of blueberries dosed with licorice, chocolate and salt go on, and on. This is a sensuous, hedonistic treat for your senses. Drink from 2025-2050. 799 Views Tasted May 23, 2025 |
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2007
Domaine Grand Veneur Vieilles Vignes (Châteauneuf-du-Pape)
Round, lush, ripe, and even a bit overripe, this is a powerful wine packed with black cherries, flowers, figs, and chocolate, with a touch of chalk that comes in at the end of the finish. Slightly past its prime, this needs drinking over the next few years. Drink from 2025-2027. 519 Views Tasted May 22, 2025 |
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1955
Pétrus (Pomerol)
Clearly, not as good as the previous bottle. Better on the palate, with its round, earthy, truffle-laden, chocolate, and plum core of fruits, than on its discreet perfume, which displayed its earthy, truffle character with just a hint of red plums, and cocoa. Every bottle at this age is unique, with some bottles showing much better than others. That being said, this is not a wine to hold for further development. Drink from 2025-2030. 512 Views Tasted May 20, 2025 |
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1998
Château Mouton Rothschild (Pauillac)
Firm, chunky, dense wine with good concentration, but lacking in elegance and charm. As the wine is still youthful, perhaps time will add more softness and elegance, but at 27 years of age, this leopard is probably not going to change its spots. Drink from 2025-2045. 1,027 Views Tasted May 20, 2025 |
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1955
Château Latour Grand Vin (Pauillac)
Firm, austere, yet regal. Quite secondary in the nose, with cedar, cigar box, leafy herbs, and earthy, tobacco-strewn red currants. The palate gains some softness and fills out a bit in the glass, but it's definitely a wine of the era. Fully mature, there is nothing to gain by waiting. Pop them if you have them. Drink from 2025-2030. 602 Views Tasted May 20, 2025 |
