Damian

9.1

Dark red, dark fruit on the nose, with medium acidity and some grippy tannins. Taste of dark fruit, baking spices, chocolate. Better with air on it. — 25 days ago

Conrad Green

9.2

tart and tangy. Red cherry. Blood and light floral notes. Very petty. Light — a month ago

with BOT, Matt and 1 other

Roberto Anesi

9.4

Frutto scuro, evoluzione, tanto mentolo. Rotondo. Elegante, tanino ancora ruvido. Molto molto buono — 2 months ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.0

Vintage 2012 | great smell with all Saint Julien characteristics, taste falls back in this modest year. Lovely effort though. — 2 months ago

Stan Nguyen

9.3

Slight fizz from Malo. Light and juicy. Really great — 4 months ago

Hiroshi Tominaga

9.0

Balanced wine. Bought at Enoteca for ¥7,800. — 8 months ago

DAL 9000

9.1

Mild bouquet of dusty dark fruit. Quick mild sour cherries upfront with a dusty fruit mild tobacco finish. Definitely old world style. — 9 months ago

Alan Johnston

9.6

3.6. Wonderful, complex Saint-Julien with smooth aftertaste. We have just had three Bordeaux over the past three nights, each better than the last. This was the best. All three were on sale for $29.99. — 21 days ago

DAL 9000

9.2

Decanted with a candle. Swirled in a decanter. Bouquet of dusty dried cherries and plums. . Initial bold fruit and dry finish before it opens up. Afterwards, the fruit moves to a dusty middle. Medium tannins. — a month ago

Vino Joe

9.7

Even more fantastic than the previous bottle of 2010 I enjoyed a year ago. Decanted and enjoyed over 7 hours. This was good from first pour but became great and then magnificent over the next 3.5 and 7 hours. It was still full of verve on the last sip! Early only it was more dark fruit but over time the wines softened and became a bit sweeter and rounder. Tremendous length and complexity. — 2 months ago

Camilo Viafara

9.6

Fan Fuckingtastic — 2 months ago

Andrew Cullimore

9.1

Medium ruby , thin slightly pink ruby rim . Quite dark fruit with cassis , blackberry , grafite . On the palate quite ripe and juicy , but with good balance , slightly gritty but ripe tannins , good cassis tinged , grafite finish . Overall this shows well , with good density and juiciness , sweet but importantly with a very balanced , refreshing personality. Enjoyable now , fruit forward , but no doubt can age well over the next 10 years. Enjoyable and moreish . — 4 months ago

John Willison

9.1

Charleston Food and Wine Classic…Rhône tasting. — 8 months ago

Francisco Perez

9.0

Cotes Du Rhône Village. What a great an unassuming red. Flavorful, rich red great aroma smooth and complements my spicy baked red snapper. Life is good! — 2 years ago

Ashraf Attal

9.5

Bar des Pres with my date — 19 days ago

Conrad Green

9.3

Slightly medicinal notes. Dark fruit, leather, cedar, plum and bitter cherry. Soft and long. — a month ago

with BOT, Paul and 1 other

Boris Mathiszik

9.1

Beautiful left bank BDX. ‘19 vintage at a nice stage now, opens up quickly. Classic earthy tones on the nose. Nice structure and layers of fruit. Delicious. Perfect with burgundy Tri tip BBQ for Easter. — 2 months ago

Andy Stabile

9.6

Damn good bottle of wine..

Edit… came back as I couldn’t stop thinking about this bottle all night.

California wines were my ‘gateway drug’. I moved away from these wines as I learned about and tried the many many varietals around the world. Ultimately, I fell in love with the quality and, frankly, accessibility of Italian wines. Over the last 5 or 10 years i’ve tried many Italians, travelled to and gotten to know the regions reasonably well. Italy vino is my thing.

But French wine… it eludes me. I know there are great wines — maybe the best. But the country is so large, the regions and varieties so diverse, the price, sometimes too discouraging, that I simply haven’t learned enough about the wines to know my way around the offerings or how to find the wines I love.

But… I know they are there. I’ve had my share. And just how “every now and then a squirrel finds a nut”, so to do I, from time to time find my way to a great French bottle to remind me I’ve leveled up.

This bottle, for me, was one of those reminders. I actually opened it by accident. While bummed it had no age, I was so happy to drink it. I’ll probably buy a few more to cellar… and, yeah, will probably now spend a little more time and money brushing up on my French…

— 3 months ago

ewwaunel

9.1

Vin doux et fruité, très agréable! — 5 months ago

Stefan Dolhain

8.9

2014 vintage. — 9 months ago