Tom Garland

9.5

A milestone birthday requires some fun wines! 1st bottle to polish off is a 2008 Marcassin chard with Hog Island oysters, butter poached lobster, and shrimp.

Double decant for fine cloudy sediment. An irresistible medium gold color.. On the nose: nectarines, pineapple, vanilla toast, lemon, and crushed rocks. Taste: so gooood after 12 years. A slightly creamy wine with carmalized pear, wet stones, lemon peel, and a mineral peach long finish with good acidity. — 5 years ago

with Brenda

Neal Ferry

9.3

1st bottle was bad.. musty cork flavor... next 3 perfect — 6 years ago

with TwiLea

Peter Marks

Master of Wine, Educator Constellation Brands

9.4

It’s really difficult to achieve power and elegance at the same time but this wine achieves it beautifully. Still a baby, it should continue to improve over the next 5-10 years. 39% Chardonnay, 37% Pinot Noir and 24% Meunier. The 1st time Chardonnay has dominated the blend. 11 years on lees; 5g/L dosage — 7 years ago

Erik Barner

9.4

Belated 1st Anniversary Dinner — 7 years ago

with Whitney

Chris England

9.3

1st wine of Lafon-Rochet in top year @ £40+ drinking good now but a great 94-95+ in 5-10yrs 👍

🍇 67% Cab Sav, 27% Merlot, 5% Petit V & 1% Cab Fr

🍷Opaque ruby w/ purple hue

👃 Gravel, lead, minerals pushing through spiced blackberry/currant with sweet cedar, light smoked oak & earthy wet leaves

👄 Med body of velvety creamy smooth rich black berry fruits w/ earthy feel, black tea & bitter cocoa tones in fine dry tannin

🎯 Med+, slight dry. earthy dark fruit & black tea finish

🎶 Earth Song MJ 👑 — 8 years ago

Nico J. Snyman

10

Second time trying this '66, it's better than the 1st, such an amazing combination of fruit intensity & development, aromatic complexity for days, & when open for an hour so much purity of darker berried fruit, seriously outstanding wine. — 8 years ago

Austin Cooper

9.5

Beautiful bottle right here. 1st place at our Christmas dinner tasting of grand cru burgundy (red/white) and premier grand cru classe bordeaux — 8 years ago

Paul J

9.6

1+ hr decant. Dark red color. Classic Bordeaux nose. Palate featured graphite, obviously pencil shavings, and dark cherry fruit. Wine was soft and elegant. Medium finish. Awesome QPR. Not sure buying the 1st label makes sense :) — 5 years ago

with Brooke

Christine Menna

9.0

Liked this - 1st night at shutters — 6 years ago

with Sudar

Joe Lyons

9.2

1st of the 16’s really big fruit and spice for estate bottling. Glad we have 17 more bottles!! — 7 years ago

with Michelle

Jeffrey Lew

9.6

Needs about 2hrs to really strut, but this still out classes almost all the 1st growths of the year. Very tough to beat. Awesome — 7 years ago

Chris England

9.7

🎉 Happy New Year dear friends 🎉

Have a fabulous evening & I wish you a fantastic 2018 full of health, happiness, love, peace & many more fabulous wine discoveries 😍

From Jan 1st 2018 I’ll be posting reviews from vintages 1961 through to 2018 😁 so get ready for a journey 🤪 then I can catch up with everything else I’m having tonight 🙃🍷🥂

For now this lovely Dom can kick off the celebrations 🎊 Enjoy yourself 🤗💃🕺

To 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ 🥂😘
— 7 years ago

Philip Stumbo

9.0

Contemplative wine... — 8 years ago

Palmer Emmitt

Owner/Winemaker Judge Palmer

9.8

Tons of vanilla and cinnamon. Very creamy mouthfeel. A bit of a spicy kick in the teeth up front but then finishes loooooong and smoooooth. Wow. — 6 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

A brilliant wine. A complex wine. But also a young wine. Like a Loire 1st Growth. Needs 5-6 years. But amazing. And yes amazing in 2014. Can’t imagine 2015. Well yes I can. Anyway, deep nose, ethereal nose, woodland berry, forest, lord of the rings deep thicket forest, spice, herbaceous, tobacco, mineral, so so so deep, so so 1st growth Bordeaux but oddly more left than right bank even tho it’s Cab Franc. Superb but in 5-6 years watch out this will wreck Bordeaux 5-6-7 times more expensive than it. Amazing depth. It’s a substantial wine, with unreal fruit density and small berry fruit intensity and superb balance and length. Blackberry fruit that is so well defined and so vivid. Incredible minerality on the finish. Big structure but also amazing elegant and toothsome tannins. Masterful tannins that master the vintage. The blackberry fruit and minerality just coats your palate and does not quit. Easily best 2014 red Loire I’ve tasted. Brilliant wine. — 6 years ago

JS

9.5

1988 vintage on June 1st, 2015 in Cincinnati, OH — 7 years ago

Douglas Tan

9.0

Very disappointing for a 1st growth!
Not much to show,nothing special about this vintage! — 7 years ago

Dave Wood

9.0

Stalwart and stable example of 1967 with some fruit and complexity left. 1st 1967 of the night. — 7 years ago

with David

Andreas Frei

10

1st anniversary. — 8 years ago

with Charlotte

Conrad Green

9.1

1st vintage if this wine, so a real treat to try. A little shrill and sharp at the front. Lovely fruit. Still some fresh notes but in a good place age-wise. Doesn't hang together as well as the wines beside it. — 8 years ago

with Matt and Paul