Dept.66

Clos du Val Wine Co.

Estate Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

18 mos in flFrench oak - 66% new. — 6 years ago

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Department 66

Orin Swift Maury 'Fragile' Rose

Fragile - I don't believe it’s pronounced frah-ghee-lay - has a big, bright nose full of big, bright red fruit. A bit of heat pokes its head through, too, owing to the 15% alcohol content. That cherry-red fruit comes through on the palate as well, with a boatload of acidity to boot. The winery notes say Fragile pairs well with lighter fare and warm, sunny days. I'd have it with pork chops in a heartbeat. — 7 years ago

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Mas de la Devèze

66 Côtes du Roussillon Villages Grenache Blend 2005

Dark red color with a nice nose of black fruit and a full body with decent complexity and still a decent amount of tannins and fruit which is minimally sweet and a medium aftertaste. Ready, But will last a 3-6 years more in a cool cellar. — 7 years ago

90 Ninety + Cellars

Lot 66 Mosel Riesling

@ smooth 10% alc/v this is a nice and easy sip with delicious peach and nectarine flavors. — 7 years ago

Château Latour

Premier Grand Cru Classé Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 1962

Another level... Still dense at the core, with steady, attractive bricking: Wonderfully dense nose of blackcurrents, pencil shavings, fine tanned leather, and a hint of woodland floor (fine moss, leaves, and fresh soil after an autumn shower). Velvety tannins and great acidity. Along with the '66 this is one of my all-time favourite Bordeaux vintages. Seems to be keeping up better than the '61s I've had over the last few years!

We drank half of it from the coravin before waxing the top in case the cork had lost too much elasticity to self-seal. I'll have the rest with my brother in a few weeks' time!
— 9 years ago

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Waxing the top? Candle / flame... Simple and self explanatory?
Eric Egan

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Actually, I use bottle wax, melted in a spoon over a lighter. May be a little associative of the heroin ritual but it's very effective!

Dom Pérignon

P2 Brut Champagne Blend 1966

They tell me '66 was a good year. — 10 years ago

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Château Palmer

Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend 1970

Sweet red berry fruits, with some earth, leather and spice, ethereal bouquet very elegant and a silky mouth feel. I love Palmer and rate the 70 equal to the 66. — 10 years ago

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Summerside Vineyards

Historic Route 66 Raspberry Wine

New favorite Raspberry wine! — 12 years ago

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Senda 66

La Mancha Tempranillo

Strawberry and smooth! — 13 years ago

Château Musar

Bekaa Valley Obaideh Merwah 1998

Vila. Tast Chateau Musar. 66% Obsideh, 33% Merwah. 70,00.
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— 7 years ago

Pago de Carraovejas

El Anejón Ribera del Duero Tinto Fino Blend 2010

A little gem recommended to me by @gabymeetswine @vilaviniteca for €66 in a lovely gift box with elastic for extra kinkyness 😁 This Ribera Del Duero is young & drinking well but will improve with age 😍 5 years a 💥 Nice Xmas gift for somebody 😉

📍 Pago de Carraovejas El Anejón 2010

🏵 94 points

🍇 94% Tempranillo, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon & 3% Merlot

🍷 Opaque blackened deep ruby

👃 Rich dark cherry & blackcurrant in slight sweet cedar/oak w/ dark plum, blueberry, vanilla cocoa cream, wild raspberry, dried violets & smokey herbs (the legal kind 🤣)

👄 Med+ bodied fruit loaded explosion of creamy smooth ripe blackcurrant & dark cherry bathed in cocoa, raspberry liquorice & a hint of dry oakyness

🎯 Long touch dry dark fruit bomb 😈 leaving a purple teeth smile w/ a raspberry & blueberry liquorice slap
— 7 years ago

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Marietta

Lot Number 66 Old Vine Red California Red Blend

Really smooth mouthfeel, great legs. — 7 years ago

Conte di Campiano

66 Sessantasei Riserva Primitivo di Manduria

Reminded me that I really like Puglia wines! Mouthfilling red fruit — 8 years ago

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Château La Mission Haut-Brion

Graves Red Bordeaux Blend 1966

66 La Mish has so much aromatics. I could just smell this all night. Black fruits, graphite, cedar, leather, black olive, soy, cigar box, eucalyptus. This is med bodied with good weight and long finish. I have been drinking this vintage for a long time and this 50 yr old wine is drinking much younger than its age and has been fully mature but has not declined. Consistent notes over the past years. — 9 years ago

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Luis Felipe Edwards

Lot 66 Rapel Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2014

Sweet and refreshing end to a long day! — 10 years ago

Château Gruaud Larose

Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 1986

Great showing for this wine. Black & red fruits, earth, tobacco,, road tar, black olive and soy tasting very La Mission like, reminding me of the 66 — 10 years ago

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Château Haut-Brion

Graves Red Bordeaux Blend 1966

Rajat Parr
9.9

Sexy 66 #magnumsshowyoucare — 12 years ago

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Quilceda Creek

Washington Cabernet Sauvignon 1995

Scott T
9.3

Served at a Christie's Wine Dept event, La Jolla Scripps Forum — 13 years ago

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Summerside Vineyards

Historic Route 66 Blackberry Wine

A blackberry red wine without tasting too dry — 13 years ago

Gramercy Cellars

Lagniappe Red Willow Syrah 2014

The 2014 Lagniappe is an outstanding bottling from Gramercy Cellars, this Syrah was sourced from the Forgotten Hills, Red Willow and Minick Vineyards. The wine underwent 66% whole cluster fermentation and was aged for 18 months in used puncheons prior to bottling. This shows wonderful aromatics of dried herbs, red cherry, red raspberry, rose petals, Parma ham and blood orange. There are ripe flavors of black cherry, Chinese black tea, mint, coffee grounds and hints of orange rind and anise. This dense Syrah needs a two hour decant for full expression and drinks even better on the second day. Lithe and light on its feet, this will cellar well for at least another ten years. Drink 2019-2029- 93 — 7 years ago

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Epoch Estate Wines

Authenticity Red Rhone Blend 2011

2011 Vintage. 15.7% Alcohol. 66% Syrah, 33% Mourvèdre, 1% Viognier from the Paderewski Vineyard. Lovely plush fruit bomb to enjoy following our Paso Robles pickups weekend. — 7 years ago

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Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC)

Grands Échézeaux Pinot Noir 1966

Tasted blind. Brownish tawny. Transparent and thin. A nose that brings a smile. Exotic. Notes of cherries, roses, Asian spice, rhubarb, soil and some Cuban cigar. Really nice in the mouth but finish is a bit thin, owing to its age. Guessed 66 DRC Echezeau (on a role with the guesses!) — 7 years ago

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Planeta

Menfi Chardonnay 2008

Touch of H2S on opening. Glycerol - still with Grapefruit notes and still with a future. Some stone fruit notes on palate. Oak is totally integrated at 9 years (at that time 66 weeks ago). — 8 years ago

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Château Léoville-Las Cases

Grand Vin de Leoville du Marquis de las Cases Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 1982

Very nice, 66 Pichon Lalande overshadowed it though - suppose that's what happens with a 50 yr old and a 34 yr old — 9 years ago

Domaine Leroy

Les Cazetiers Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Pinot Noir 1949

Vintage 1949 in Burgundy according to Broadbent: “..most perfect end of a decade - elegant, well-balanced wines”; Clive Coates in his book Cote D'Or: "best vintage of 40's all-perfect beauty and purity”; Robert M. Parker Jr.: “it was the best of post world war II vintages before 1959”
Henri Leroy at that time was négociant based in Auxey-Duresses, his mythical daughter Lalou Bize-Leroy in 1949 was only seventeen.
Les Cazetiers is amongst the most elevated of Premier Cru site in Gevrey-Chambertin - and indeed the whole of Burgundy.
I drank this precious bottle on Mount Etna with #FrankCornelissen and other dear friends. Uncork this bottle lead to a surgical operation. Just begun to pull it out, a light breath of wine molecule with air bubbles magically have emerged on the surface of the cork. It's been like witness the passing away of a dying old man (or Pinot Noir must be a woman?) That humanized wine had held "élan vital", hope and breath inside him for the last 66 years! A miracle of a wine still so tasty, robust, citrusy, vibrant, earthy, incredibly alive and well-preserved despite color and neck level did not bode so well.. that's what I thought and I'll remember until I die: "the wine was waiting for us to drink it up, he gave off his mortal blow to offer us life, joy and smile!"
— 10 years ago

Alberto Buemi
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Thank you for the wine note and the history lesson

Château Cos d'Estournel

Saint-Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend 1966

James Parker Huston, CWE
9.8

One of the surprise wines of the flight. Best 66 I have tried. — 12 years ago

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Dom Pérignon

Brut Champagne Blend 1966

Richard Betts
10

'66 D.P. mag. Special and best Champagne vintage of the 60's. cc@robertbohr — 13 years ago

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Incredible wine- before the clones took over the vineyard and the production shot up! I can only imagine how good it was out of mag!!!!