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. 🍷👌🏽 — 5 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. — 6 years ago

Robert Rothfield

9.5

Classic Prichard Hill intensity, densely coiled...will improve with additional cellar time — 6 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. — 7 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. — 8 years ago

Max Kelly

9.1

What a great surprise from a domaine I've never heard of before. Chalky, steely lemon and ripe apple, with tons of mouthwatering salinity and grip on the back end. Perfectly classic Chablis from ripe fruit for $25. Not a ton of complexity right now, but there's a sense of coiled minerality on the finish. This is promising for mid-term cellaring. Probably the best value I've encountered in quite a while. — 8 years ago

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... — 9 years ago

Eric Newhouse

9.0

Tightly coiled beast. Black cherries and coffee hiding behind a wall of tannin. 2002 vintage. — 9 years ago

Johnno Harris

9.6

This rocks the casbah big time. Tightly coiled red and black fruits. Expansive tannin profile. — 9 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.7

Coiled and young but great. Licorice. Acid. A great wine. — 10 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 — 11 years ago

Gavin Baum

9.3

Third time trying this. Tightly coiled and reminiscent of young Meursault on popping the cork, with a certain reductive flintiness to its wonderfully pure Jonagold apple fruit. After being open for a couple days the wine is altogether more expressive, with creme brulee, almond, and bread dough aromas complementing its still vibrant core of orchard fruit and minerality. Strikingly rich and sumptuous for its relatively modest alcohol and lip-smacking acid structure. Given how positively it evolved and unfurled with a few days worth of oxygen, I'd lay this down for at least a couple years. Hats off. — 5 years ago

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 — 6 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. — 7 years ago

Jae Cho

9.0

Black berries and plum in a wood and earth high tone coiled package. Very linear — 8 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. — 8 years ago

with Tammy

Benjamin Laguna

9.5

Restrained. Coiled. Non overpowering fruit. Tension. — 8 years ago

with Kirema and Adam

Benjamin Disesa

9.5

Young, big fruit flavor a, refreshing acidity with rough coiled tannins. Dark color beautiful nose. — 9 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. — 9 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. — 10 years ago

Austin Beeman

10

Magical. Bright yellow. Powerfully dry and acidic. Caressing texture. Stone fruit. Ton of mineral. Dense and coiled. Wonderful. $59.98 — 10 years ago

with Barbara, John and 2 others

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. — 6 years ago

with Howard, Walker and 2 others

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 — 6 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! — 7 years ago

Larry Frierson

9.4

A coiled cobra. Keep it. No. drink it. No. keep it. Both. — 7 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! — 8 years ago

Peter Scudamore-Smith MW

9.3

Family Lunelli, owner of Ferrari in Trento; super blend of vintage Chardonnay makes the high end #Giulio #Ferrari ; this young and expressively elegant; tightly coiled with complexity; acid freshness; cool region savvy makes it; since 1902 #trentodoc — 8 years ago

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. — 9 years ago

Michael Sew Hoy

9.4

1998 vintage. Fantastic nose of blood and smoke. No decant so still pretty tightly coiled but some dark fruit and blood or iodine on palate. Shortish finish. — 9 years ago

Rob Landsness

Brand Ambassador/Agent Jeffrey Davis Signature Selections

10

2012 Lucienne Pinot Noir, Doctor's Vineyard, this is a step up from the SLH in terms of ageability. More tightly coiled at this stage and there is complexity under the surface here. What's showing now? Chocolate, layers of strawberry and bing cherries and a hint of tobacco. — 10 years ago

with Hahn