Vanessa

9.2

👁 This wine was medium gold with strong tearing and thick viscosity.

👃On the nose this wine had a pronounced intensity of youthful aromas. Aromas included dried apricot, ripe peach, ripe cantaloupe, honeysuckle, white blossom, beeswax, and lavender honey notes.

👄 On the palate this wine was sweet. It had medium acidity, a full body, high alcohol, and pronounced intensity of flavors consistent with the nose. The finish was long.

This was an excellent wine paired with an assortment of desserts. It has potential for further aging.

Chateau Suduiraut, Premier Cru Classé en 1855, Sauternes. Vintage 2017. ABV 14%. — 4 years ago

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Rachel Sours

9.0

2017. Very smooth from the first glass to the last. — 5 years ago

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9.5

Vivid ruby. An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red and pit fruits, potpourri and garrigue, and an exotic spice note emerges in the glass. Stains the palate with sweet raspberry, cherry and lavender pastille flavors that steadily put on weight with air. Conveys a suave blend of power and finesse and finishes extremely long and floral, with fine-grained tannins lending discreet grip. (Josh Raynolds, Vinous, February 2020)
— 5 years ago

Chris Grimm

9.2

Lavender. This is so amazingly delicious. — 6 years ago

James Muntz

9.0

Good but unfortunately didn’t wow me the way I hoped? I was looking for a complex mix of the selling descriptors i.e. Rosemary, lavender etc. I got some red fruits but it seemed loose not as tight knit or cohesive as I hoped. Maybe opened too soon (2013 in 2018 NYE)? Have a bottle left - we’ll see about that one in a bit. — 6 years ago

Lauren Atkins

9.0

Wow. Doesn’t taste like a Pinot!! Great spicy notes, easy to drink but complex — 7 years ago

Karyn Fricke

9.1

Cherry berry very nice. A little on the hot side but good. — 7 years ago

Jake Hajer

9.2

Mixed pepper, mixed red and black fruit. Was tart to open and then evolved beautifully. This will age! Rated 2016 last night 2018 tonight (feb)... Update, (2nd bottle of 2018, now late may): Those tart aromatics are piercing, rose water, lavender. It’s an intense wine. Medium bodied with light tannins. Very little oak influence. I think the cranberry and subtle white pepper will age and this wine will be nice for a long time. — 4 years ago

Rebecca Salazar

8.9

Blackberry, honey notes, fruit finish — 5 years ago

Dhiraj Mallick

9.2

Dirt. Chocolate. Lavender. Tobacco. Cherry. Strawberry — 5 years ago

Matt

9.3

This could be my favorite young vintage of Graillot. The freshness and balance this has is awesome, almost going as far to say there’s tension in what is normally an area that produces lipsmacking Syrah with so much jovial personality. This has a serious side. So much just ripe blackberry, currant, and marion berry fruit, lavender, crack black and pink peppercorn, salt cured olive, iron, animal, licorice, spruce and that classic Graillot tar note. The mid palate and finish wrap the tongue with stony mineraity, the depth too is awesome. The acid and “focus” almost make it an outlier for the house style, but there’s so much class to it. This has dimension and posture, I’m excited to watch it evolve. — 6 years ago

Matt

9.5

This is gorgeous tonight. Continue to find that Mas de Boislauzon is consistently one of the best value CNDP around, true to place and terroir driven on all fronts, from traditional cuvée to their prestige offerings. I think the hearty amount of Mourvedre and plenty of holdings in sandy dominated soils of the N/NE part of the appellation make for a remarkably dense, balanced and textural wine. I feel like some 07’s have hit their mark in the last couple years and this is in a sweet spot to me. Nose is meaty, lifted with smoke, hot stones, porcini, truffle, espresso bean, plum marmalade, lavender pastille. Palate is more kirsch, compote, cinnamon, licorice whip, candied bacon, woodsmoke, and stones again. Structurally theres a great interplay of moderate but present acid and granular tannin. Perfect foil for a bacon and mushroom cheeseburger 🤤 — 6 years ago

Gobindjit S. Dhaliwal

9.4

Elegant and extremely perfumed, a nice juicy red fruit core featuring ripe cherries, raspberries, and strawberries, followed by dried lavender, meaty beef jus, orange peel, undergrowth, sweet tobacco, charcoal, and intense black pepper. Delicious sweet red fruit flavors on entry with some dried apricots that lead to a umami rich midpalate filled with meaty notes, iron, and a slightly saline minerality that intermingles with intense peppery notes that linger for some time. Incredible silky mouth feel on this midbodied red, very light in structure but intense in flavors. — 7 years ago

Eric

9.1

Awesome wine for the 💵. Best attribute is its balance. Drinks best in its youth while the tannins can tame the fruit. Posting all of these wines in a row is making my hangover worse 😂 — 7 years ago

S.R.Alexander

9.2

In a very pretty place now with soft tannin and a sweet finish. High toned raspberry popsicle, lavender, and pencil shavings on the nose.
On the palate, raspberry semi-sweet chocolate, black olives, dried herbs and a hint of orange peel. — 4 years ago

Allison Hinson

9.0

Luscious and oily in the best way. Incredibly perfumed, honey, lavender and white flowers dominate the nose. Creamy yellow apple and pear on the palate. Fantastic. — 5 years ago

Spencer Spetnagel

9.3

Cherry, cassis, lavender, cracked pepper, dried herbs, textured and filling mid palate. Silky tannins, oak and fruit provide a generous finish — 5 years ago

Perrine M Ryan

10

An absolute dream. It smells like it wants to go to a campfire. — 6 years ago

Shay A

9.5

Finally getting around to posting Day 5 in Napa, our final day. 5 years in a row visiting...hope to make it 6 next year!

A wonderful wine, with room for score improvement over the next few years. Signature SLD to me. Mocha, dark cocoa, blackberry pie and a streak of ripe/rich red fruit down the middle. Dusty. Cinnamon and baking spice finish. Very good. — 6 years ago

DLynn

Penfolds Ambassador

9.5

I have never smelled so much lavender in my life......in anything... apart from being there. — 7 years ago

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