Haut Médoc, Médoc
Château Duhart Milon
Pauillac Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot Blend 2023
Nicely open. Fruity and lean. Fresh and classy. — a month ago
Château Lafon-Rochet
Saint-Estèphe Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2016
rounded fresh fruits, deeply tannic still. aniseed, pepper, like a cured sausage taste. light oak on the nose and on palate. clove. slightly mineralic, granite and graphite, fresh olive, orange rind. — 2 months ago
Château Potensac
Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend 2012
Very good. Only a hint of modernist polish. — 3 months ago
Château Léoville Barton
Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 1988
Annual birthday WWC hosting. As normal, 1 sparkler, 3 whites, 4 reds, 1 dessert, all presented blind.
Fun to open birth year wines around your birthday, especially when you can do a Bordeaux and Napa side by side. While not a great vintage, this held up well after a few hours and presented as expected. Clean and zero Brett. Great color! Deep ruby with hardly any bricking. Leather, cassis, vanilla pipe tobacco on the nose. Sporting a good bit of dusty red and black fruits (mostly tart raspberries and blackberries), there was a little savory truffle note mixed with an herbal and mocha finish. Still quite grippy. Pretty. — a month ago
Château Rauzan-Ségla
Margaux Grand Cru Classé Red Bordeaux Blend 2023
Yum! Elegance and precision. Lacking depth on the mid palate but then it comes back with its evident classy personality. — a month ago
Château Margaux
Pavillon Rouge Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend 2023
Fresh, balanced, steady and consistent. — a month ago
Château Sociando-Mallet
Haut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend 2020
2020 vintage. Big, darkly-fruited nose that rolls over to the flavors. Medium body. Great complexity for initial and mid-palates, Finish is where things drop off a cliff. Solid banger for the price. If only some of that impressive, frontal assault could be transferred to the back end, we'd be in clover. Nice, first-time BDX to get the palate rolling/draw people in tho. 3.15.24. — 2 months ago
Château Brane-Cantenac
Grand Cru Classé en 1855 Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend 2023
Beautiful pure nose. Lacking mid palate deepness at this stage but overall a very nice and well balanced wine. Tannins are well integrated. Closes a bit harsh but this will surely improve with time. — a month ago
Château Clerc Milon
Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 2023
Nice orange peel touch. Lacking a bit on the mid palate but Then it waft back vividly on the aftertaste. 94-95 — a month ago
Château Branaire (Duluc-Ducru)
St. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend 2018
Wonderful Bordeaux blend from Saint-Julien. Super dry dark blue fruit seamlessly integrated with aged wood notes of dark chocolate, raw tobacco and leather (remember chewing on this as a kid 😁) and smooth rounded tannins. A great wine to just sip, reminisce and… wondering where the oldest vineyard in the world might be? You want to know? Check out our latest story on https://spokenwines.com/spoken-wines/ or jump directly to https://youtu.be/7qURFipuKBI?si=S1sjSbvfu_LLMWik Please comment and subscribe to help our wine story telling mission 🙏🙏 — a month ago
Château Margaux
Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend 2015
2015 vintage. Smooth plum and berry notes. Pair perfectly with steak. — 2 months ago
Château Haut-Bages Libéral
Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 2019
Fruit opens up after a while — 2 months ago
Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego
2009 vintage. Generous fill. Fairy tale cork. Decanted and tasted after 30 mins. Just a little bit of sed. Light-medium body as is the usual Giscours style. Some cherry prettiness melded with dusty earth and appropriate tannic presence. Nose a bit of dark plum that wasn’t forwarded onto the flavor platform-at least at the opportunity I had to enjoy it. Never an explosive style from this Château and this was opened about 5-7 years too early to hit the top of the specific bell curve. Drinking very very nicely now and (easily) for the next decade +. 4.20.24. — a month ago