Pooneet K

9.3

Really quite excellent. Pretty dark in the glass - more than expected. Purple berry aromas on the nose. Very perfumed. Medium minus body with a great long finish. Excellent refreshing acid. Mouth coating. Really excellent and perfect with a simple roast chicken with a vermouth pan sauce. — 4 years ago

with Allison

Gil Krakowsky

9.7

Deep, heady, dizzying nose of strawberry compote, cherry liquer, sandalwood, maybe some eucalyptus, and other exotic woods.
palate also brings damp earth, light rose , and a slight sanguine note. More muscular Than I would have expected out of a volnay. But at the same time precise and fresh with energizing acidity creating a nervy tension. Sensational

I should mention that it needed considerable time. Started off very floral and strawberry but somewhat one dimensional. Several hours later was a different wine
— 5 years ago

Anne Rhodes

9.0

Big, mineral flavor. Great even without food. — 6 years ago

Nathan Renfro

9.3

Excellent Sauternes, not necessarily a dessert wine but sweet yet nice for an appetizer salad — 7 years ago

Colleen DeCourcy

9.0

Unusually earthy for a Bordeaux — 7 years ago

with Emma

Philip Dobrin

9.2

Enticing bottle of mature white burgundy — 7 years ago

Sasha Agapov

9.4

Great balance here. Concentrated cheery, black currant and forest on the nose. Finish is quite short, but fun and playful. Definitely needs more cellar time, will check back in a couple of years. — 9 years ago

Pierpaolo Petrassi MW

Master of Wine; Head of Beer, Wine & Spirits Waitrose

9.0

Lovely richness within a savoury framework and balanced acidity. — 9 years ago

Pedro Rusk

Wine Educator Kendall Jackson

9.3

And on the 3rd day it showed the best — 9 years ago

Jonathan Lipsmeyer

9.4

Soy, white pepper, aircraft carrier of big plum jam and cranberry, a touch of heat on the finish, gentle allusions to leather, long way to go but good juice — 10 years ago

Pooneet K

8.9

A nice Beaujolais from a vintage that I don’t usually love compared to 2014/2016. Definitely better with an hour or so in a decanter to let the tannins integrate a bit more. Dark purple in the glass - darker than expected. Nice cherry aromas. Still could resolve a bit more on the finish but with a slight chill is nice. — 4 years ago

Doug Hengel

9.1

Powerful, needs time. — 5 years ago

Julia Proctor

9.0

Pinot from France. Earthy, light and delicious. — 5 years ago

Nick Ferrall

9.3

Standout of the night...Layers of earth and spice. — 7 years ago

with Pietro and Grant

Sean Shafik

8.9

Great value burg with age — 7 years ago

Charlie Evans

8.9

Some pretty serious Pouilly Fuisse. Needs some time. — 7 years ago

James Bellinger

9.2

Good wine good value at less than 4 Euro. — 8 years ago

Stanley Lipkin

8.9

2011. Light nose of raspberry & smoke. Good acid for food pairing. Beautiful for the price — 9 years ago

Casey O'Brien

9.3

I can't say no. — 9 years ago

Collin-Peter Casey

Northern California Sales Manager Weygandt-Metzler Importing

10

Damn. Best in show, price wise. Not necessarily the wine everyone understands straight away, but to me it's pretty much ten on ten — 10 years ago

Okamura Seisho

9.0

20130210素直な感じ — 11 years ago

Hanibal

9.1

very promising with little red fruit — 5 years ago

Pablo Garcia

9.2

Fresh, medium body.. red fruits.. sweetish finish...a bit tart but great with food — 5 years ago

Manchester Sheldon

9.0

Smokey leather and raspberry, velvety smooth on the palate. A hint of oak in the nose. — 5 years ago

Michael Park

9.3

Wonderful nose, superb balance, refined and soft finish. Real nice. — 7 years ago

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.4

I've been curious about this wine for some time. The original 05 Ausone review from Parker was revised and one would think it was at the request of the Chateau. Parker's 💯 point review started something like this...if you are over the age of 55, you'll want to decide if you want to buy this this wine. Largely, due to his call on it's years of drinkability; which was from 2055-80. Parker's review was mysteriously revised within two months of it's original review. Tonight, I Coravin-ed this tasting of the Chapelle D'Ausone. The 05 Chapelle D'Ausone is still very big & tight but starting it's journey into a decent drinking phase. The tannins are still chewy and dark. The fruits are; ruby blackberries, dark cherries, a mix of blue fruits, strawberries paint the back palate, dark & milk chocolate, caramel, Christmas cake, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, spice-box, black tea, a whiff of green bell peppers, irony minerals, loamy soils, tree bark, a touch of leather, lead pencil shavings, dry stems, dry stones & dark moist soil. The acidity is perfect. The structure, length, balance and tension flirt with glory. The finish runs ripe to dry fruit and the minerals are rich with a dark elegance that lasts and lasts. As good as this wine is tonight, I'll put this bottle back; which is 1 of a 6 pack and wait another 7-10 years to reopen it. Both of Ausone's 05 wines are meant for most collectors end of life or meant to be left for their children. — 7 years ago

Mitchell Lieberman

8.9

Sour cherry. Fruit is fading. — 8 years ago

with Jay

Keith Levenberg

9.0

This is a silkier, more elegant vintage of the Chapelle, at least relative to the 2010, which was really in my zone, as well as the 2009, which I found over-the-top, but in both cases I think there was more stuffing there than here. This would've shown better if I'd opened it with white meat or even fish or something else where a lightweight presence and loose-knit structure is called for. It's an excellent wine in that idiom but lacks some of the solidity and grip it has offered in other years. It's not imbalanced at all, and the trademark stony mineral flavors are still here, it's just a slimmer version of its usual self. — 9 years ago

Sarah Brannan

9.2

A delicious wine that should show even more in the next few years. With notes of kirsch and black currant, this soft, but complex wine is delicious. It has slight herbaceous undertones that round out the fruit forwardness. Probably one of the better Chat. Du Papes from this vintage. — 9 years ago

Nicholas Livingston

9.6

Syrah, Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Mourvèdre, Counoise, Cinsault and a white variety Le Rolle. Biodynamic since 1989 and made in a cathedral cave of stone cut from the cliff side. Simply marvelous... — 10 years ago