Jay Kline

9.4

Opened just prior to dinner. The 2008 Coteau de Vernon pours a deep straw color with medium viscosity. On the nose, the wine is developing with notes of peach cup with the pears and cherry too. There’s white flowers, honey, fresh mint and other herbs too. Wow! On the palate, the wine is dry with medium+ acid. Confirming the notes from the nose. The finish is long and oily. This bottle came across young. A benchmark Condrieu. Drink now through 2038. — 2 months ago

Mark S.

9.1

Lemon yellow with green. chalk mineral herbaceous woody vanilla oak clove. Honeysuckle. Pear peach. Fruitiness M+ Sweetness M Acidity M+ Bitterness M+ Body M Finish M Fresh Dry Elegancy and Excellently Balanced I am wondering how it changed for years. 13.5% Domaine de Chevalier Pessac Leognan Semillon sauvignon Blend 21 @31500, AD, 260226 — 3 months ago

Brad Jensen

9.5

Velvety red fruits, vanilla, rubber industrial tubing, cracked pepper and wet forest floor permeate the nose, with a slight malo character that pervades, along with an overall floral element that wafts throughout. You can tell the pedigree with this. Deep red/purple coloration on a medium to full body, and even though this in young, the acidity seems well aligned, with tannins perfectly integrated, dry, but not austere. Palate is rich and refined, with prominent red fruits, not overly jammy or fleshy, but silky plums, black cherries, granite or graphite, with pencil shavings, slight balsamic characteristics, and a loooong lingering dry palate that lingers for quite some time. Really impressive for a wine so young! — 3 months ago

with Tiva

Ki Punwar

Owner, California Wine Republic

9.3

Game day audible — 4 months ago

Jeremiah Diaz

8.9

Clear, pale ruby in color; on the nose, it's clean with medium intensity primary aromas of bananas, tart cherries, and violets; on the palate, it's dry with high acidity, low tannins, medium alcohol, light body, and pronounced primary flavors of pomegranates, strawberry jolly ranchers, and clay pots with a medium finish. This wine is exactly what it should be. Cheap and cheerful. Overall, I rate this wine as good. — 5 months ago

Conrad Green

9.2

Pure and lifted. Black cherry fruit and underbrush. Pretty and starting to drink well. — 6 months ago

with Major-General and Bex

Mark Mannebach

9.4

Smooth like silk, red fruit still there with soft tannins and long finish — 2 months ago

Mike Evans

9.4

Tropical but with lovely weight and depth. — 3 months ago

Alexandre Pagliano

9.1

Lunch at Union Square Cafe. Great match to the food. Asian spices, crushed flowers, earthy, good balance and very expressive. We loved it. — 3 months ago

with Jose, veronique and 1 other

Vijay Parikh

9.2

Slow oxed for 2 hours. Excellent nose! Seems a bit extracted and big though — 4 months ago

Ki Punwar

Owner, California Wine Republic

9.3

Initially tannic but this is full bodied and lush as it opened up — 4 months ago

Monique Gillioen

9.7

Onze laatste fles 😥 wat een wijn — 5 months ago

Brian S

9.1

Black tea, black soil, red fruit, mushroom. — 5 months ago

John Van Trijp

9.7

A very powerful full bodied Pinot Noir that I like — 3 months ago

Mike Evans

9.6

Stunning and agile. — 3 months ago

Matt Perlman

9.5

This stuff was might fine as you might expect from M. Laval. Will hang onto the next one another 5-10 years — 4 months ago

Andy@andyberke.com

9.2

Beautiful bottle. Classic cab w terroir — 4 months ago

Sam Friedland

9.3

Very nice, with some tannins. Probably would be better in a few years. — 5 months ago

Fabio Franchella

9.2

Superintense in the nose. Torf, rauch, speckig, teerig, leichtenzedernote, viel rückaromen. Nir och dezente dunkelkirschige frucht — 5 months ago

with Xenia

Lee Pitofsky

9.5

(En Magnum)…One to live forever, but with proper aeration it’s plenty giving, perfumed and seductive with a powerful, vibrant and structured palate with killer Grand Cru density and stunning length that seemingly never dissipates. For the long haul! — 6 months ago