Ground Control
Château Angélus
St. Émilion Grand Cru Red Bordeaux Blend 2000
Azienda Agricola COS
Pithos Rosso Vittoria Nero d'Avola Frappato 2014
2nd day open with leftover lasagna. There is bret, but it really seems integrated if you can imagine that. It just seems to accentuate and lift some nice character. Pretty levels of VA as well. Bright aromas of sour cherry/candy, dried flowers/rose. Same on the palate with some herbs just yanked out of the ground with dirt still on them. Moderately tannic but with mouth-moistening acidity balancing it out.
Structure and fruit profile actually reminds me of a Langhe or northern Piedmont Nebbiolo... But with bret.
I had kind of been down on COS and Occhipinti recently, but this was nice. — 9 years ago
Château Calon-Ségur
Saint-Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend 2001
2001 developed well in in the glass. Definitely found some coffee ground notes in addition to the currant and tobacco. Medium body. — 10 years ago
Hallowed Ground
Proprietary Red Blend 2014
Delicious tart cherries and vanilla finish. Love it, great sipper on its own — 11 years ago
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe
La Crau Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhone Blend 1999
Tenuta dell'Ornellaia
Bolgheri Red Bordeaux Blend 2005
Big nose with concentrated notes of dark cherries, licorice, forrest ground, leather, coffee and bitter chocolate. Very big body, massive but still elegant fruit, complex aromas, potent tannins, well balanced, long aromatic finnish. — 9 years ago
Paul Jaboulet Aîné
La Chapelle Hermitage Syrah 1975
In English and French.
What a luck !
- A magnum Hermitage La Chapelle 1975 from Paul Jaboulet Aîné.
Bottle opened 24 hours before drink.
The wine is brown and trouble.
A big density, the bouquet offer lot of spicies, cinnamon, dried grappe, old cherry in alcool, date fruit.
The palate :
Full of spicies, deep. Again the cinnamon followed by date fruit and dried grappes, smooth and elegant, a long and fresh finish on the ground aromas like mushroom an old and luxury wood.
Not so old ! A great wine. Loved it.
Around 1200 - 1700 €
- Chance incroyable !
Degustation autour de ce magnum de 1975. Rare. Bouteille ouverte 24h à l'avance.
Sous sa robe usée, trouble et marron, ce vin cache une ceritable fraîcheur.
Son bouquet s'ouvre sur les épices, cannelle, fruits secs, raisins secs, cerise à l’eau de vie et dattes fraîches d'Iran.
Un grand bol de fruits secs, d'épices, de dattes, beaucoup de matière et de tendresse. Un style tout en élégance.
Une longue finale sur des notes tertiaires de mousse, champignon, et de vieux cèdre.
Très beau. J'ai beaucoup aimé.
Attention, le goût de vieux vins est toujours particulier !
Autour de 1200 - 1700 €.
À bientôt.
Florian. — 9 years ago
The Ojai Vineyard
50% Roll Ranch Vineyard 50% Bien Nacido Vineyard Syrah 2000
An opaque red/purple, the '00 Ojai Syrah '50% Roll Ranch 50% Bien Nacido' is richly scented with black raspberry, ground pepper and dark cherry notes. Powerful mouth-coating flavors of ripe black fruits with spicy cracked peppercorn accents then flood the palate. The fully-rounded and well-integrated tannins make the lingering finish lip-smackingly delicious. — 10 years ago
Marcel Lapierre
Morgon Gamay 2013
Ground breaking! Thanks to one of my best buddies.. Happy Thanksgiving! — 11 years ago
Arianna Occhipinti
SP68 Bianco Terre Siciliane Albanello Muscat of Alexandria 2012
Peach jolly rancher wrapper with a hint of ground cherry. Creamy, yet bracing. Super nice! — 11 years ago
Bruno Debize
Morgon Gamay 2009
Deliciously pure black fruit 09 flavors wrapped up in granite and ground pepper. A blast to drink.. — 13 years ago
Higher Ground
Monterey County Pinot Noir 2014
Dominus Estate
Dominus Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 1985
Sweet ceder, ground coffee, sweet dried meat coated in a distant vanilla molases sauce, fresh moss / distant moss, med, lean, — 9 years ago
Ground Effect
Never Say Never Syrah
Thanksgiving! — 10 years ago
Pierre Gaillard
Malleval Côte-Rôtie Syrah 2009
Some of the best damn Côte Rotie I've had. Love this producer. Aromatic intensity with no shortage of ground pepper and bacon fat aromas. — 10 years ago
Edmunds St. John
Higher Ground Syrah 1997
Dog fell asleep on this beauty! — 11 years ago
Ground Effect
Rock Garden Red Blend
A standard for Grenache/Syrah blend — 11 years ago
Real Companhia Vinicola do Norte de Portugal
Vintage Porto 1847
The year when Kristianstad burned down to the ground. A mind blowing wine. Room filling bouquet, vigorous, balanced and an infinite length. Decanted 2,5 h — 12 years ago
Ron R
Look, most of the crew came to play, as you can see. They brought the Napa cults in spades. We wanted to spoil the U.S. party, so we dropped this into the mix.
It was a change of lanes, but the Angelus was on cruise control. Different genre in relation to the Napa penis extensions, but it held its own. I suppose, as a European, I would characterize this as an intellectual wine. Donald Trump may not appreciate this... 😊 — 9 years ago