Dark fruit and gravel, with a drying effect that signals another decade+ is needed to get into full consumption mode here. Both dark and higher register cherry notes, with mineral elements washing…
Black and red cherry, muddled strawberry, tobacco leaf, cedar, and earth. A fine food wine, but a bit mushroomy for my taste. Lacks depth and profundity. Medium-minus on the finish. Drink now.
It's been five years since last having this wine. I pulled a Coravin glass of this a few months ago and thought it was one of the most boring wines I'd ever tried in my life. Red currant, red cherry,…
Brighter red cherry with some purple-black fruit kick off the straight-shot profile of the 2019 Margaux. To no one's surprise, this is about as primary and linear as it gets in its current state. The…
Leather, burnt orange peel (or maybe I just think of this because this Margaux has an Old Fashion type of vibe to it), stewed Amarena cherries, forest floor, bark, and sherry. There is still some…
The nose and the palate match, with a sherry liqueur note that stays prominent throughout the delivery. Finishes with a bite. Muddled and stewed cherries, mushroom, leather, golden raisin, and pink…
Here's a piece of advice... Drink this wine by itself with a nice plate of food in the privacy of your own home while listening to yer boy Yanni. Don't take it to a tasting of great wines surrounding…
Earth and cedar notes hit the palate shortly before the red and black currant and cherry fruit notes come into the picture. Getting a little sooty and coarse already. Old school. Drink now.
This took a little less than an hour of decanting at cool cellar temperature to find a nice glide into its spicebox, black cherry, and bitter chocolate notes. Finishes with fine-grained tannins that…
Linear and thin upon opening, with a primary and somewhat watery delivery of red currant, cherry, vanilla, and light spice. A few hours in the decanter helped to ease some of the tension otherwise…
Primary red fruit dominates here for now. Some red and black cherry, cranberry, unripe plum, limestone, dried flowers, and spice. Linear overall, but notable purity and mouthwatering acid keeps you…
Over-delivers for its class. Black plum, blackberry, earth, cedar, bitter chocolate, and rocky dry soil. A bit of creosote and burnt embers show up with air and add complexity. The cut is a welcomed…
Punchy and lip-smacking on entry, with a vibrant sour cherry acidity encompassing a dark berry and graphite-injected core. Delivers with decent flavor expansion considering its youth, but its pulsing…
Black fruit and spice with medium delivery and length overall. An interesting combination of fresh and brooding; the tail fell off fairly quickly, with a faint cedar note clipping the finish. A…
Red and black currant, cedar, cinnamon, earth, saturated black cherry, warm leather, and some higher-toned floral and bitter blackberry seed. An old world profile with a somewhat deeper pitched…
A gorgeous bottle of wine with a bangin' QPR to boot (which I'm probably letting influence me to some degree in terms of scoring - maybe even 95-96+? This punches WAY above its league). Totally…
Really, really ripe (almost to the point of funky) warm plum/prune, overly muddled and saturated blackberry and black raspberry, red and black currant, soil, cassis, and subtle wet cedar. Has enough…
A pretty good value at $25-ish bucks, but slightly more juvenile and angular than some other Bordeaux in that bargain category. Served next to a 2016 Meyney and a 2016 Vieux Chateau Palon, both of…
Plum, red and black cherry, kirsch, cassis, limestone, and blood orange. Red and purple plum and plum skin notes ride throughout the delivery, finishing youthfully fuzzy and a bit clipped on the back…
I didn't hate this wine, so it had that going for it. Blackberry, black currant, earth, hamster shavings, and a hint of violets. A little bit of an awkward delivery of flavors initially, but air…
Perhaps a slightly better Margaux than the disappointing 2015 Baron de Brane, but not by much. The initial push of red currant, strawberry, rhubarb, and red cherry seemed promising, but then it all…
Simple and short from start to finish. This managed to push out some tobacco and earth-laced red currant and red cherry (with some slight black cherry and strawberry) notes, but was otherwise linear…
