Shay A

9.1

Another great Classic Wine Happy Hour in the books! Always a treat to have a designated day each month where guys can pull out some unique bottles!

Amazed at how this is still hanging in there...43 years old! Fruit is almost gone, but there are still some dates, plums, and subdued notes. Pipe tobacco, vanilla, baking spice finish. @Mark Flesher brought this out and what a treat for everyone! — 8 years ago

with Mark, Benjamin and 1 other

Tori

9.9

Dry. Spicy. Cherry. Vanilla. Girls Weekend. Fall 2016 — 9 years ago

Lily Fischer

9.9

All gone. I absolutely love! — 9 years ago

Peter Shields

9.5

Nice, not to harsh. Went well with steak. — 10 years ago

Les Huisman

9.3

Another magnum. 2009 Burg is in good shape. It never really has gone through a shut down phase. Just a generous vintage. — 10 years ago

with Tim, Karl and 1 other

Kevin Wagner

9.5

It gone... — 10 years ago

Donald Devet

9.3

Grapey but good. — 10 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.3

Very impressed. Savory notes, pinch, baller showing. I like it more than my Cayuse experience. — 11 years ago

with Mark

Bob Pratt

8.9

With Sunny and the girls, Thanksgiving weekend in Shanghai — 11 years ago

Rob Lateiner

10

Chocolate, a little green bell pepper twang that reminds me of VA but It definitely is not. Some heat though the wine is definitely too warm. Lighter bodied, less textural refinement compared to the 08 which is silk but everything could change with air. The wine was just popped and put on ice. Showing much better cooler but still needs lots of air. Unless the fantastic 2008 is still to shut down, this shows tremendous longevity. Fully ripe, fully loaded tannins, this is the most structured Vintage of Clos Rougeard I have tasted yet. Wine gets too cold and the oak becomes more prominent. Gets to the ideal temp and the oak comes across nicely and balanced, if not significantly so. Seems like a classic mid/mid-plus toast. Not the char of vosne nor the low coconutty temps of chambolle. The importance of oak matching fruit can hardly be overstated and is perfectly executed here. Could even be perceived as a touch heavy for some purists but that would be too nitpicky for me. Almost a gamey side to the great oak that plays in here, it's like the nuttyness and the char of the oak that seems to contribute this. Comes across more Vosne like when temp is cooler. Reminds a bit of Grivot actually. Black currant fruit here to the slightly lighter shades in the 08. Some black cherry in a more intense way than burgundy. Unfortunately no decanter but as the wine opens up after an hour and a half, the fruit comes out a whole lot more. The initial green, lighter body is gone and the profile is dark fruit with a little touch of ash momentarily evolving into incredible deep cigar tobacco with gorgeous blackberry notes. Not decanting this wine for an hour was probably one of the bigger mistakes I have made in wine consumption. This blackberry and cigar is the true nature of the wine as it has filled out. Always a humbling experience to see a wine change so incredibly like this. Unbelievable and beautiful. Texture will get there I imagine but isn't wildly seductive yet like the '08. The last sip is some incredible wild maine blueberry syrup/all those wild dark berries from around New Foundland, with a wild savory quality. Not at all sweet in an excessive way, just in the purest flavors of perfectly ripe and highly concentrated fruit. Probably the most dynamic shift in a wine I have seen other than Barolo. One of the better wines I've had though tannin and texture suppleness is not there yet. Jesus. — 11 years ago

Lauren Duda

8.9

Great night out with the girls! — 9 years ago

Renee Mcl

9.2

I do believe this is thee* best $8.00 bottle of wine I can ever remember buying. *cheers* — 9 years ago

George Chen

9.3

Wow...this 98 really held up beautifully given how much unfiltered fruit I was led to believe that it would be gone. But creamy zesty and lots of nuanced lemony and tropical scents. Guess this bottle worth of the hype and $$$! — 9 years ago

Jessica Barker

9.0

2005 Vintage: Been holding onto this gal for awhile. Tannis are gone so smooth drinking but not complex. Solid wine but drink now. — 10 years ago

Scott Tallman

9.0

More sour than other domestic Goses, but refreshing with a nice yeastiness to it. The omission or minimal use of coriander was a welcome surprise. — 10 years ago

Joel Brooks

9.0

Bold, bursting with flavor. Robust, fruity, but not overpowering. Just a hint of sweet. Clean finish. Wonderful by itself. Drinking with pizza. — 10 years ago

John Fiehrer

9.4

Killer juice... Match stick and cedar box, a little tobacco... Just the right amount of dark fruit, super smooth from start, middle and super long finish. Gone way too fast. #lunchbags — 10 years ago

Chris Plance

9.2

Thick and a bit sweet. The duoro style. I'll never google this girls porn, and I'll always take her home. — 11 years ago

with Robert

Ron Siegel

9.6

Love this vintage of Angelus, have gone through 2 cases. — 11 years ago

Andrea De Michieli

9.6

A great Chardonnay from Murphy's. Bought on girls weekend. — 12 years ago

Jonathan Wheeler

9.5

Always enjoy experiencing something that can only be experienced for that moment alone . This bottle is one of 6 , Part of a family that have lay for over 10 years , one of those is now gone . , a memory that was shared at Christmas and one that will be remembered ... beautiful !

Balance , elegance and a sensationally rounded drop ! — 9 years ago

Andrew Whittle

Co-Owner/Director Summit Estate Wines

9.1

Unfortunately bubbles have gone but a lovely aged white wine - pineapple ++ — 9 years ago

P Webb

8.9

I bought all of this that I could find.
Some 9+ bottles. It was a wine inexpensive enough to open whenever, and when it was gone I only lamented its passing without coveting. If you run into any in the $30 range, snap them up and drink them. Gattinara at twice the price is unnecessary. Much better than their Spanna. — 9 years ago

Linda Akerson

9.0

On girls cruise 2016 to Cozumel 😀🍷 — 10 years ago

david decker

9.5

Restores my faith in Beaucastel. not the barnyard funk usually there but delicious, balanced, dark stewed fruit, a bit of earth and woods. Already sad it will be gone soon.... — 10 years ago

Michael Pennington

9.0

Fruit has gone mostly, but some dark baked prunes and figginess remains. Nice old Bordeaux, on its last legs I think. Stood up really well for the last 45 years though... — 10 years ago

Edmond Ng

9.5

After some oyster and Swedish cheese, heavenly....the acidity was gone, just pure creaminess... — 10 years ago

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9.1

This keeps getting better with air. It's almost gone now, after 2.5+ in the decanter, and it's probably a 92 at this point. — 11 years ago

Naomi Brancheau

9.1

Light sav blanc - not typical California wine. Lighter, more bright - not as dry as NZ sav blancs — 11 years ago

Saman Hosseini

Writer Maison Abattoir

8.9

Massive. Basically the Macalllan 12 of chardonay; it might as well have been aged in sherry casks. Liquid apple cobbler/piñappple upside down cake. impressive in its own context. — 12 years ago