Another Coravin pour. Same as last week. Solid...but...in need of some oomph... I'll finish this bottle soon enough, but I'm not super confident I'll be chasing this wine down in the coming vintages.
Previous notes apply, except that this certainly displayed a prominent ripe red raspberry rock candy element that, though flavorful, made for a more liqueur-esque beverage. The sappiness of the fruit…
Similar to my notes in February. Another Coravin pour. Allowed for 3 hours of air, which helped a smidge, but this wine still displayed as linear and somewhat flat. The fruit was muted and shut down.…
Continuing to follow this bottle with another Coravin pour. Same as last month. With a decent amount of coaxing, plum, limestone, currant, and subtle cassis notes emerged. Flat, linear, and otherwise…
Previous notes apply. What a great wine. Right out of the gate on PnP, this was already captivating and ready for some fun. Explosive, but still managing to find a noteworthy seamlessness that…
Another Coravin pour from the same bottle as last week. Previous notes apply, except that with some time to settle down (after shipping) and some air today, let's just say I'm not worried one bit…
Refer to previous notes for the initial Coravin pour on this wine. Today, I consumed the remainder of the bottle after essentially giving this wine a couple of days of slow O2. This go-around it was…
Previous notes apply to some degree, but this particular experience was a bit lackluster. Having just had this the other day, I found today that this bottle was a bit muted and flat. The flavors were…
Beautifully crafted and just the right amount of richness, this UV-SL was pumping out classically elegant and unctuous flavors of ripe yellow citrus, lemon curd, lemon grass, honey, meringue, ripe…
Previous notes apply. Coravin pour. I'm really loving this wine as I follow it through its evolution. Wonderful black and dark, dark purple core fruit, with black asphalt, tar, obsidian, black soil,…
PnP. Displaying some older world characteristics, with red currant, cedar, and dust. Some purple plum, brick, and dried cranberry also emerged. Medium-bodied with a decent mid-palate, but still a bit…
Coravin pour. A little more subdued and "quieter" than the last time. Still, excellent purity of fruit, with a black, red, and purple core that delivered ripe but controlled levels of extraction.…
Ripe green apple, buttery brioche, banana peel, bruised lemon, roasted cashew, mesquite honey, and some oyster shell. On the riper side of the spectrum; missing some of the vivaciousness of the…
I was pleasantly surprised by this wine. About 20-30 minutes of air yielded some really nice black and red core fruit flavors. Easy-going and approachable, this was one of the most stylistically…
Coravin pour. Initially, notes of black cherry, black and red currant, unripe plum, garrigue, and Christmas fruitcake dominated. The attack was youthfully linear, with the core fruit hitting the…
PnP with notes of black cherry, red and black currant, dried cranberry, black tea, incense, spice box, and cedar. A bit of heat rushed up initially, which took about 20 minutes to dissipate.
Same, same, same. Previous notes apply. I'm about as excited as I've been previously about this wine, which is not much... likely even less so this time around. It has some saturated black cherry and…
Still along the same lines as my notes from 10/12/2016. PnP with black cherry and black raspberry liqueur, blackberry, unripe purple plum, red and black licorice, vanilla alcohol, spicebox, and…
An easy going sipper that rewards with the most basic of pleasure; essentially zero cerebral eminence to be had here. Nevertheless, straightforward notes of yellow and white citrus, bread dough, and…
Previous notes apply. Black and dark red currant, black licorice, and cedar notes dominated this time around. Some asphalt and earthy minerality hit the back end as the core flavors tailed off. The…
