Pleasant funk dances affably with muddled red cherry, cedar, and dust elements, making for a mature but not completely down-and-out showing. Not the most impressive sample, but on any given night,…
Still about 3-5 years before prime time, though there is an accessibility that displays pure and clean black and red cherry, black currant, cedar, dried roses, and hints of tobacco leaf. It rides a…
I still believe this wine is an over-performer, especially when compared to some other peers twice the price. This is coming into the beginning of a nice drinking window that doesn't require too much…
Similar to my tasting note almost a year ago. This had a very nice delivery of flavor that slowly evolved over a few hours with decanted air. Kept this at cellar temperature most of the time. Black…
Displaying a similar flavor profile to the bottle I had six months ago, but this bottle was more muted and shut down in terms of expressiveness and exuberance. It was a "nice" wine, but it took more…
Primary and linear flavors of black cherry, plum, red and black raspberry, and cassis make a punchy impression on the palate. The front end rides high initially and makes a decent stab at expansion,…
From the first sip, this smooth operator was all about seductive elegance, strutting its silky stuff with a sexy refinement that checked both New and Old World boxes (though most Francophiles would…
On the initial pull, more on the red berry fruit spectrum, with red and black cherry, red currant, wild red raspberry, creme fraiche, and strawberry seed. Not long after some exposure to air and some…
Plum, blackberry juice, clove, and some rocky earth. More lithe and lean than I'd personally prefer concentration and weight-wise, but the flavors were nice and agreeable overall. Not too much acidic…
Red and black currant, plum, and the typical cedar-spice-earth trifecta that lets you know it's a Bordeaux. It was a fine wine, but a bit thinner mid-palate than I had anticipated. I was hoping that…
Linear and straight-laced from beginning to end. A stack of seeming potential, but not showing a full pulse until 7+ years from now. Similar to a '16 SHL I had the other day, with a primary delivery…
Much more linear and red-fruited at the moment when directly compared to the more unctuous and concentrated 2015 SHL, this 2016 displays red raspberry, red and black cherry, menthol, sage, and subtle…
Black currant, blackberry, deep black cherry, earthy black plum skin, fresh wet dark soil/mulch, Pessac-Leognan truffle, clove, and a subtle, beautifully brooding (almost smokey) minerality that you…
Black and red currant, black and red cherry, chalk, tobacco leaf, espresso powder, plain 'ol dirt, smoked beef bark, and raspberry seed. The alcohol keeps it from fully expanding its flavors, with a…
A purple-crimson hued stallion, with upfront class and sophistication from the very first sip. Red currant, red and black cherry and raspberry, red plum skin, cassis, tobacco spice, and the slightest…
"Ok, I guess" was the standard mumblings around the table on this one. I've had Le Thils of the past that have also been "ok," as in "fine" and "does the job." I even have a memory of the 2010 being…
Cheap BDX wine. What do you expect? Not bad. Not great. Prominent cedar flavor and kinda weak fruit; finish was especially drying. Tolerable, just not favorable.
Simple, flat, and extremely dry. Very little depth of flavor to speak of. Some muted blackberry, black licorice, and loam; a very strong cedar element engulfed the rest of the wine and, with some…
