Paul J

9.5

1.5hr decant. Dark red color with brownish hues that shows the wines age. I would say this is just past prime drinking age. Nose contains violets and cedar as I’ve come to expect from Rauzan Segla. Wine has medium depth with nice cherry fruit, but more wood than I recall from prior bottles. Medium finish. One of my favorite producers! — 5 years ago

with Brooke

Mike Saviage

9.3

Ordered off a wine list. Nice bright dark reddish brick color. Almost opaque. Fun nose. Notes of bing cherry, cedar, earth and a little menthol. Rich and sharp in the mouth. This needed air to come around. Still a baby. — 7 years ago

Ira Schwartz

9.5

I was floored by the aromas coming from the glass, plums , tea, smoke , something green.. I wanted to stop there because I feared the palate could not come close to the nose. Boy was I wrong. Tannins obviously resolved but the acid was an eye-opener. Mushrooms , dark fruits, orange zest and figs . A lovely finish that was silk like. — 7 years ago

with Richard and Jason

Bill Bishop

9.3

Served from magnum. The 1979 Gruaud Larose is drinking beautifully. Light brick rim to dark ruby color. Just a touch of Bret in the nose but plenty of plum-like fruit. Nice acidity with plenty of fruit up front. Ripe. Soft tannins with nice lingering fruit in finish. Perfect now but will hold for several years to come. Drank on my 64th birthday with BBQ ribs. Great pairing. — 8 years ago

Vincent Seufert

9.0

My Labor Day wine. Sad to see summer come to an end but alway looking forward to fall, which this wine is perfect for. — 8 years ago

Aaron Rogers

9.7

A real treat. Unbelievably youthful for a wine as aged as it's owner but not as decrepit!😂 a wonderfully layered wine that will be good for many years to come. — 9 years ago

Ben Lehman

9.2

Funky funky berry juice. Starting to come around. Last 2 bottles I had felt downright dormant. This is starting to show it's stuff, and I like what it's showing — 10 years ago

Lewis Chester

9.4

2004 vintage. 86% Cabernet Sauvignon on the '04. Very good complexity, huge concentration and some very expensive carpentry applied on new French oak barrels. Bright acidity and fine grained tannins. Lovely aromas of black berry and black currant, plush oak, sweet spices and layers of complexity. Still very young. The structure should see this improve in bottle for many years to come. Outstanding. — 10 years ago

John Sweeney

9.7

Still a baby but starting come around. Blind I'd probably say it was Bordeaux. — 11 years ago

Kristina Hayden Bustamante

9.4

This is a wine that can be cellared for years to come. We opened it a little early but still a real treat. Straight garnet in color, burnt Carmel and sugar, black tea , a light eucalyptus perhaps and black tar on the nose.
There is luxardo cherry and cassis or kirsch element to the flavor. Great wine. — 12 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.2

Las Alturas' Spanish for 'the heights', a fitting name, this vineyard located on one of the highest grape-growing benches in the Santa Lucia Highlands AVA. 4th gen Winemaker Joseph J. Wagner from a family with farming and winemaking roots in Napa since 1906. Met Joe several times. Deep Ruby (darkest Pinot I have come across, almost looks like a Cab). Rich berry flavors with cedar, spice and vanilla. Lingering ending with sweet oak notes. Consistent quality Nice! A Fav! — 5 years ago

Mads

9.8

Birthday wine. Velvety with dark fruit. Great tannins. Will be easy drinking for a long time to come. Great with Lamb. — 7 years ago

with Paul

Martin G Rivard

9.4

I thought it would be fun to pit this 5th growth vs the Margaux!
you can definitely tell that it was a baby BUT even Rocky was a teenager at some point!!!!
This will surely slay Dragons in the years to come but tonight age beat beauty 😂😘😘👌 — 7 years ago

with Christine and Kirk

Matt Trader

9.2

Valentine's Day 2018. Paired with Roasted Butterflied Lobster Tail, and a Chocolate Truffle Torte. Notes to come:)

- - Brane-Cantenac is a special wine to my wife and I. It is the first Bordeaux Chateaux we ever visited on our honeymoon. It is this little modest estate sitting in the shadow of the oversized Chateaux of Cantenac Brown, but it couldn't be more opposite when you bring the wine into the mix. Classic Margaux nose but less funk and more fruit. Terrior is hard to define, but if you have been somewhere memorable, and have a wine or food from that place.. it's when you have it again and it transports you back that to that place and time that defines that for me. It smells of the cool clean air and morning dew, sunshine, gravel dust from the road we had just driven in on, leather and wood from the barn, and the fresh overtones of fruity wine just beginning fermentation in the production facility that make up the core character of the wine. It is the terrior of Cantenac, and more specifically of Brane-Cantenac.

Paired this with Roasted Butterflied Lobster, and Broccolini, and a little left over for the Chocolate Truffle Torte I made as well for Valentine's Day. — 8 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.3

Better days to come — 9 years ago

Steven Gullo

9.3

Amazing focus and depth. Mineral, Pear, Golden Apple. Still quite primary and will last for many years to come. — 9 years ago

Jay Svoboda

8.9

I'm going to come clean, I'm not a huge Caymus fan. It's by no means a bad wine - far from it - but I've always felt they blend their Cab with too much Zin. I could be wrong on that account, but I don't think I am. Still, a nice brooding nose of dark red and blue fruit, with a touch of candied fruit and wet earth. — 10 years ago

Christian Gourdin

10

Delicious - aromas of toast, and flowers come through the most. — 11 years ago

Sam Coturri

Winery Sixteen 600, Enterprise Vineyards and the Moon Mountain District

9.3

Still pretty young. Refined, graphite giving way to pipe tobacco and bitter chocolate but still waiting to come together. Mid-palate presence seemed jumbled. — 11 years ago

Charles Schneider

9.9

Extraordinary, with many extraordinary years to come! — 12 years ago

Manjiry Tamhane

9.0

This has aged beautifully. Still has the dark fruit flavours but intensified on spice. Great length. Very happy that we have another bottle! — 6 years ago

Dr. Owen Bargreen

9.5

The 2015 Clos Mogador is a absolutely stunning release from this historic Priorat estate. Located in Gratallops, in the heart of the Priorat hills, René Barbier, one of the founders of the Priorat revolution, crafts an incredible blend of 40% Garnacha (lauched from 80 year old vines), 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Syrah and 5% Morvedre, Pinot Noir, and Merlot. This immediately reveals seductive aromas of red cherry preserves, rose petals and roasted figs. On the palate this is ripe and intense, yields bright flavors of orange rind, red cherry and red raspberry with wild thyme and garrigue flavors. Intoxicating and beautifully structured, this beautiful wine will evolve gracefully for many years to come. Drink 2019-2040- 95 — 7 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.5

A nice Grande Cuvee by Krug. I didn't get to have much of this at all. I do remember that this one had a hair pin trigger on it! I let it breathe for a bit. This one had a nice straw colored hue. Lots of lemon and some nutty characters. Was going to come back to it. It was set down when greeting a guest, and gone very soon thereafter. I remember great fruit but thinking this one probably is still too young. — 7 years ago

with Dan, Benjamin and 2 others

Charlie Abbott

Sommelier Casa Mono

9.7

I mean come on...rich, opulent, stunning — 7 years ago

Alessandro Cantarelli

9.1

molto strutturato e vellutato al palato ribes e mirtilli sciroppati al naso molto raffinato come il Barbaresco buono deve essere — 8 years ago

Emily Rawitsch

9.2

The night before the movers come! — 9 years ago

with Craig

Rocket Rod

9.1

Lovely balance and long finish. Classic "Grange" characteristics with better QPR. Drinking nicely now but lots of fun to come down the line. — 9 years ago

Bryan Garcia

Sales Grand Cru Selections

9.3

Teenager that needs a little more time to come out of his shell. Classic Chave weight, texture, and elegance. — 10 years ago

with Patrick

Anh Tram

9.0

Always a great choice . Silver oak always come through — 11 years ago

Michael Smith

9.3

What can you say, classic Reims crisp and tart. This NV is as consistent as they come. — 11 years ago