Event Horizon
Shafer Vineyards
Hillside Select Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon 2011
Realm Cellars
Beckstoffer To-Kalon Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
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
De Margerie
Grand Cru Champagne Blend
Drank 5/16/19. Sparkling wine tasting event. Tasting pour.
A dryer style, with yeast, brioche, and toasty notes on the nose. Flavors of caramel apple, vanilla, and toast. Medium finish. Quite nice. Enjoyed this more on this occasion, than in the past.
4/21/8/4/3 +50 =90 pts. — 7 years ago
Château Léoville Barton
Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 2016
Drank 1/18/19 at the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux event in Miami. All wines from the 2016 Vintage.
Tasting pour, no formal notes taken. Most of these wines are very tight, and will require 5-15 years to really come together. Many will likely improve a few points with time.
The most closed wine of the night. More red fruit, with frim tannins. This one will likely take several years to unwind, but shows potential. Harder to taste at this stage. — 7 years ago
Château d'Yquem
Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend 2003
Chappellet
Signature Donn Chappellet Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
Tonight I have continued on from my Birthday on Monday and have opened another wine from one of my favorite wineries. I have opened the 2016 Chappellet Donn Chappellet Signature Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
On the nose there is beautiful fruit, black cherry, blackberry, plum, black currant, vanilla, lilac, pencil shavings, mint and a fresh earth aroma.
The palate has notes of black cherry, blackberry, plum, black currant, vanilla, violets, oak, spices, mint, pencil shavings and fresh earth.
This wine is full bodied that has a beautiful soft savory mouth feel with medium + acidity and medium + grainy tannins that lead into a long clean dark fruit finish. I hope everyone is doing well and making it through this event the best we can. Please stay safe and healthy and have a great rest of the week. Nostrovia! 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 — 6 years ago
Hall Wines
Kathryn Hall Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
Been saving this one & it is in the sweet-spot of its prime. Never forget the first time I had it at the Wine Spectator, Grand Event “Tasting of the Ages” Thing at the Marriot Marquis back in 2014. In the highest of company it beautifully defined itself as more than just a “competitor” with some the most sought-after Cabs in the world- it was in a Leauge of its own. Good chance it’s my favorite Cab of all time.
@tonight its in its prime. — 6 years ago
Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste
Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 2016
Drank 1/18/19 at the Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux event in Miami. All wines from the 2016 Vintage.
Tasting pour, no formal notes taken. Most of these wines are very tight, and will require 5-15 years to really come together. Many will likely improve a few points with time.
Delicious black fruit. More complexity and depth than the Grand Puy Ducasse. — 7 years ago
Doubleback
Walla Walla Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
Zoom event with Drew Bledsoe and Josh McDaniels. Vertical from ‘07, ‘14, ‘15, ‘16, ‘17, ‘17 estate, and ‘18. All were exceptionally smooth and silky with good depth of fruit. Notes on the ‘18: 90% CS, 5% Malbec, 5% Merlot. Least favorite of the night. Still a good wine but perhaps a bit too young, or just different enough from the others that I liked ones with a bit more age. This wine had a little more density than the others and perhaps a little more earth and graphite coming through that masked the fruit. It still had the classic doubleback elegance of the others but I felt we were not seeing this wine’s true expression. It only had about 1 hour in the glass and perhaps I need to pull another bottle, decant for a few hours and see what it does. — 5 years ago
Château Lynch-Bages
Grand Cru Classé Pauillac Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2010
Maison Albert Bichot
Horizon de Bichot Pinot Noir 2013
Great depth of flavor for a Pinot — 7 years ago
Antica Terra
Antikythera Pinot Noir 2016
Antica Terra and Lillian wine event
This could eventually eclipse the 2014. Still a baby... — 7 years ago
leon egozi
NY Wine Spectator Event- always awesome! — 3 years ago