Benno

9.2

Tightly coiled with plenty of power this will need time. It’s quite brooding and muscular with slightly chewy tannins and an iron and tar palette right now. Will be great in 2030. — 5 years ago

Shay A

9.6

A few wines from last week’s 4th Friday event!

The sheer opulence of this is astounding. Obviously young, this was actually my first Realm BTK courtesy of @Keith Fisher . When thinking back to the last stunning 2016 BTK I had (MacDonald), where the MacDonald is more dusty, slightly more herbal and full of tightly coiled BTK power, this was an embarrassment of rich dark fruits, baking spices and sporting a creme de cassis like profile. Classic To Kalon power, with so much to unpack. Thank you, Keith! — 6 years ago

Conrad Green

9.1

A tight nose of green apple, steel. Still coiled and almost painfully sharp. Limestone, white flowers. Very bright in the midpalate. A bit soon for this and not sure it’ll have the flesh to balance the acidity in the long run. Some serious material here — 7 years ago

Matt

9.0

Seamless and appears to have potential but struck me as coiled up, almost shut down. Complexity is there but just needs resolve, really want to revisit! — 8 years ago

Larry Frierson

9.4

A coiled cobra. Keep it. No. drink it. No. keep it. Both. — 9 years ago

Anthony Lombardi

9.6

Opens up as a coiled up bundle of nerves & acidic tension. Slowly opens up to show a delicate richness. Pure clean citrus & floral aromatics accented with a hint of honey. The elements from the nose follow to the palate once it opens up. Another @Matthew Bigby bottle! — 9 years ago

Benjamin Disesa

9.5

Young, big fruit flavor a, refreshing acidity with rough coiled tannins. Dark color beautiful nose. — 10 years ago

Eric Newhouse

9.0

Tightly coiled beast. Black cherries and coffee hiding behind a wall of tannin. 2002 vintage. — 10 years ago

Christine Havens

10

A study in elegance and finesse. The absolute satiny-silkiness translates on the nose. Transporting notes of Lemon Budino pudding, Bosc pear, anise, a whiff of smoke. It's actually so well-integrated, it's tough to tease apart—this wine glides, weightless and yet impossibly glycerolly and rich. The attack is deceptive, leading to underlying grip and power, wet stone and shell, coiled acidity, trace white pepper and staggering persistence. There is a reason why Raveneau enjoys the cult reputation it has. — 11 years ago

Severn G

9.2

Kicking into a long weekend to celebrate our Country 🇺🇲 and those who have worked to give me the freedom to enjoy this beautiful wine.

Nose has under-ripe peach, lime peel, limestone paste, lemon pith and faint, green herbs.

Palate has day old cut lemon, warmed peach, wet limestone, dried lemon pith, minor tart acidity with a medium finish.

I still think this bottle is looking for more development. Our last check-in was two years ago, doing well then, about the same tonight.

(Note to future self, decant for 2-3h, the wine is coiled, better with air/patience.)

24 Hour Update: Adding a warmed lemon trait on the nose and palate, but palate picks up a pleasing light sweetness on the finish today. Improvement. — 5 years ago

Johnno Harris

9.5

What a beauty! Really in the zone right now. Rich black fruits and savoury spice. Opulent and generous but still tightly coiled with plenty of length. In a nice window now with another 5-10 years ahead of it. 🍷👌🏽 — 7 years ago

Alan Weinberg

9.2

Super tight Corton Charlemagne with a menthol note, packed and coiled like a spring. Great density. Clean fine fruit. Great stuff. — 7 years ago

Robert Rothfield

9.5

Classic Prichard Hill intensity, densely coiled...will improve with additional cellar time — 8 years ago

Bobby Gilbane

9.4

This is serious stuff. Absolutely coiled power right now that is just beginning to shine. Compared to the '09, this is in a completely different class. Commands your attention. — 9 years ago

Rob Moose

9.0

First time with this bottling and really liked it. A great way to appreciate Chenin, tightly coiled and very food friendly. — 9 years ago

Benjamin Laguna

9.5

Restrained. Coiled. Non overpowering fruit. Tension. — 10 years ago

with Kirema and Adam

Josh Shields

9.3

Very unique example of CA chard. Has salinity of Chablis with restrained CA fruit. Minimal nuttiness compact wine coiled up for mid term improvement. — 10 years ago

Brash Higgins

9.6

Tremendous Riesling here, big beam of stone fruit and acidity, lush, but still tightly coiled. Fun to watch it open up. Not at all petrolly, great wine for me. — 10 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.7

Coiled and young but great. Licorice. Acid. A great wine. — 12 years ago

Jan de Weerd

9.2

Nice ripe dark fruit with a dusty edge. Very enjoyable with bbq beef ribs! — 6 years ago

with RoAnne and Tammy

Big Wave Dave

8.9

Very tightly coiled. Most complex and backward of the lineup but also the one with the most promise. Not drinking yet. Still very closed. Wait 5+ yrs. At cellar door. — 6 years ago

with Rocket and Racquel

Conrad Green

9.2

Lovely deep fruit. Very intense and coiled steel with buckets of minerality and drive. There’s a whiff of stewed apple here. I see premox on the horizon, but this is fun now. Should be better in 5 years but certainly not this bottle. — 7 years ago

with Howard, Walker and 2 others

Matt

9.5

Tremendous depth, laced with golden tree fruits, intense fruit balanced by complex and heady savory notes; verbena, aloe, cool herbs and white flower petals, wax and white tea. Edgy and coiled acidity at play here, WOTN for me — 8 years ago

Aaron Rankin

8.9

I knew what was coming. Consistent with other recent reviews, this one's tightly coiled, zesty, fruity (for a CDR) and bright. And I gave it an hour long proper decant. Enjoyable as a daily tipple but needs time to develop depth. — 8 years ago

Jae Cho

9.0

Black berries and plum in a wood and earth high tone coiled package. Very linear — 9 years ago

with Levon, Diana and 1 other

Jan de Weerd

9.0

Refreshing. Great fruit without the 'butter'. Paired it with Italian salami. Excellent. Makes you rethink Riesling. We loved it. — 9 years ago

with Tammy

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.2

Everything is there, just coiled up tight. Not sure where this goes as it works out the balance between the rather forward nature of the vintage and the pure power of the fruit. I suspect it won't disappoint, the question is when... — 10 years ago

Peter 0'Neill

9.1

All the descriptors are here, just coiled and waiting to be unleashed. Hard to rate in this shy state but the potential is pretty huge. For now, 91. With big upside. The 2012. — 10 years ago

Johnno Harris

9.6

This rocks the casbah big time. Tightly coiled red and black fruits. Expansive tannin profile. — 11 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.2

Impressive, everyone knows the precocious nature of the 2009s from Bordeaux, but this is showing plenty of acidity and of course full grain tannins. Wonderful aromatics, currants, fresh cut flowers, roasted coffee and toasty oak. The palate is impressively compact still after an hour, like a tightly coiled spring. A long tannic and red fruit finish. Bravo! #bdx09 — 13 years ago