A HUGE mouthfeel here, powerfully ripe and not ashamed to throw it in your face with a fistful of dark and heady fruit. This is a Napa Cab on steroids type of CdP that somehow manages to majestically…
An outstanding effort and one of my favorite wines of the night. A complete and put-together 2016 CdP, outshining the Chaupin and even the XXL with its unmatched combination of balanced concentration…
Rich and dark cassis and concentrated black berry fruit play off of the earthy plum and spice elements. There is a slight bitterness on the finish currently. This also threw out a decent amount of…
Ripe and extremely powerful, with alcohol dominating the profile from stem to stern. What plagued this wine more than the others was its cloying and sticky sweetness. There is just SO MUCH fruit…
This was still holding up decently given its age, but it is most definitely spiraling. Burnt orange peel, tobacco, leather, band-aid, sherry, and autumn leaf notes make for a predictable aged wine…
One of the top wines in the lineup, the Ex Machina inched past the Sanctus by a hair due to the Machina's amazing concentration and complexity, even with its pile of ripe fruit off-loading on to the…
Vastly improved from the 2003 (467), this 2005 (580) showed a decent resume of red fruit and earth in a friendly package. Still, this carried flavors familiar to the 2003, including sherry, caramel,…
Blackberry, black cherry, black licorice, black everything, this brooding cave-dwelling bat boy is ripe and gothic in posture. There is decent flex here as well, with its Emo personality still…
Party-rockin' and sexy ta-boot, the Clos des Papes struts black licorice, blackberry, spice, and tears of shame like it's not coming back home til the next day. Ripe and ready, the black licorice…
I'll spare you all from too much of my wacky details akin to my previous note, but I'll reiterate that this wine still needs time. I wanted to get a read on this due to the 2018 EABA release. This…
Black berry fruit, black licorice, black rock, ripe muddled raspberry and black cherry, peppercorn, and some mulch/freshly tilled soil notes are encircled by a decent amount of perceptible booze on…
A county fair carny's confection cart of churro, funnel cake, cotton candy, and kettle corn overwhelm the otherwise throbbing, syrupy blackberry smoothie core. Making for a glycerin-jolted coconut…
Ya, so this is pretty rockin' juice. It needs a decent decant to blow off the slightest bit of booze (which is surprising how low the perceptible alcohol here is overall considering how its built and…
Black raspberry liqueur, huckleberry, deep plum, and some garrigue. Full bodied and full of life (and some booze - which took about an hour of exposed air before it blew off). Ultra flavorful on the…
Pours clear and clean, with red and black raspberry, spice, garrigue, and some rainbow peppercorn. Medium weighted, with a moderate concentration and a notable balance overall. Finishes with some…
Plum, black cherry, huckleberry, earth, creosote, and subtle porcini mushroom notes pump from this full but controlled CdP. Faint dried flowers and garrigue flavors play peek-a-boo with the purple…
PnP was all about heat and ripe red fruit. A three hour decant kept at a cool cellar temperature helped a bit, but it stayed primary and linear throughout most of consumption. It gained all of its…
A decent dose of garrigue sets off some higher register red and black raspberry and purple plum skin. Gravelly limestone makes for even more of a tighter execution. Primary and linear for the most…
Pours a crimson purple, with a clearer, lighter hue than expected; fairly muted on the nose, with some faint applewood and macerated cherry aromas. On the palate, balanced flavors of black cherry,…
The initial nose only spits dusty cedar and some of grandma's dresser drawer at you, making you wish you could put the cork back in and pretend you didn't make this mistake for another 3-5+ years. On…
More upfront fruit this go-around, leading with ripe plum, kirsch, and deep red raspberry. Progressing along nicely (and a little more rapidly than I had initially expected). Carries additional, more…
Tight and linear on initial PnP, but quickly opens up to reveal dark kirsch, cassis, purple plum, pulverized granite, and a touch of garrigue and camphor. This stayed pretty locked and loaded…
Notes of wild blackberry and blueberry, black raspberry, purple plum, black licorice, graphite, asphalt, and subtle pepper, limestone, and garrigue notes. After about an hour of air, this wine really…
Linear and tight on PnP as expected, with some higher toned red and purple berry fruit flavors managing to elbow their ways to the front line on the initial attack. A bit of a bite on the finish,…
