Can Bonastre

Château Musar

Bekaa Valley Red Blend 1998

Pure drinking bliss!
BlackBerry, dark cherry, a touch of cassis with leather, tobacco leaf, cedar, menthol... the list can go on and on with the complexity.
On the palate perfectly poised and balanced with amazing purity of fruit. This is currently in the perfect drinking window. Simply amazing!
— 7 years ago

La Rioja Alta

Reserva Viña Ardanza Rioja Tempranillo Garnacha 1973

Whoa, this was rockin'. Amazing aromatics. Fully mature wth life ahead. Clean and focused and very complex. Love it when you can find old rioja — 9 years ago

Château Margaux

Premier Grand Cru Classé Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend 1986

The color and nose tells you nothing about the age of this wine. Incredibly fresh and youthful on both scores. My nasal passage was flooded with violets and cassis. The flood gates collapsed and my mouth was coated with black currants, licorice and minerals. Paved over my palate like a run away steamroller. Merely a teenager at this stage of evolution. I can only imagine what Father Time will create. If this is your birth year it will be a challenge to out live this wine. — 10 years ago

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Joe Lucca

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Great notes, @Ira Schwartz Surprised in how youthful this is still showing.
Max Kelly

Max Kelly

Great note, Ira. Get your hands on a well stored bottle of the '85 for a totally different but equally true expression of Margaux. Velvet to this one's steamroller.

Château de Beaucastel

Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhône Blend 1989

Today deserves the very best wine one can have. — 11 years ago

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Shafer Vineyards

Hillside Select Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon 2003

You can literally smell this wine as it's being decanted from the other side of the table. Pure Californian deliciousness! — 12 years ago

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Dominus Estate

Dominus Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2015

Tasting the new 2015 today, while very brooding and quiet at first pour, you can see the huge potential. I am a big fan of Dominus with age and given the makings of this 2015, I can see this joining the ranks of some of the greatest vintages of Dominus...in time, lots and lots of time. — 7 years ago

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can't wait to try my bottle of this!

Château Cheval Blanc

St. Émilion Red Bordeaux Blend

Funky at first but subsequently blown away. Fresh, leathery, flowery, with some structure. Can tell it was once a great bottling. A bit long over due. — 9 years ago

Enderle & Moll

Liaison Pinot Noir 2013

Early nose was austere, even a bit severe, then giving way to sticks and leaves and wet earth - like walking through the woods early in the morning. Light to medium in body. Stones and mushrooms and earth and sweet red fruit - all you can want in a Pinot Noir. I really like this wine. — 9 years ago

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Opus One

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 1991

Wow is all I can say stunning so so good wish I could have shared it with you CM — 10 years ago

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Dom Pérignon

Brut Champagne Blend 1995

Awesome wine still very much alive. Very effervescent , crisp. Long finish. Can last another 10 years. — 11 years ago

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars

Artemis Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2011

Clear deep purple colour with watery rim. Clean medium intensity aroma with minty black cherry and black currant with hint of oak smokiness and vanilla. Dry on the palate full bodied medium alcohol with medium acidity and high but smooth velvety tannin. Flavours of earthy black currant, black cherry, and vanilla. Flavours last through into its long pleasant finish. Very good quality, drink now but can age for another 3 to 5 years for a even more balanced complexity. — 12 years ago

Bodegas y Viñedos Vega Sicilia

Unico Ribera del Duero Tempranillo Blend 1983

Andrew Holod
9.3

Vega Sicilia Unico '83. Showing some warm fruits, beginning of tertiary character. Quite complex, but can definitely improve with more bottle age. — 12 years ago

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Can Ràfols dels Caus

El Rocallís Penedès Incrocio Manzoni 2013

Katherine Bordelon
8.9

Perfect with the Hake I was eating simply prepared. Crisp, light but could use a little more time in the bottle. — 8 years ago

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Robert Mondavi Winery

Private Selection Aged in Bourbon Barrels Monterey County Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

Smooth finish, love this addition from Mondavi. Can taste the hint of bourbon — 8 years ago

Tenuta San Guido

Bolgheri Sassicaia Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc 1989

Brian Duffy
9.5

Outstanding! There is the perfect moment for a bottle to be opened and tonight was it. It was the wine equivalent of a album that you can listen to from start to finish. — 9 years ago

Cellers Can Blau

Mas de Can Blau Cariñena Blend

Incredibly full and balanced. Loved it. — 10 years ago

shefali
with shefali

Château Mouton Rothschild

Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 2004

My kind of wine, a lot of meats and dark fruit. Mainly wood and meats in it. I can't have enough of this amazing wine though it can wait for a bit longer for a better opening. — 11 years ago

Caymus Vineyards

40th Anniversary Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

Not a typical cab. Easy for a beginning can drinker. Bit pricey, but good. — 11 years ago

Jacynda Lavanture
with Jacynda
Jacynda Lavanture

Jacynda Lavanture

Very easy drinking for a cab. Cherry notes
9.0

The Prisoner Wine Company

The Prisoner Napa Valley Zinfandel Blend

A fav that I can find at most west coast whole foods — 12 years ago