Aaron Parrish

9.4

Full bodies. Lots of fruit. A small linger. Smooth. Perfect la Rioja wine — 7 years ago

with Jennifer

Chris England

9.3

Another lovely label from Chanin with great contents @ £40 & better than the 2014 as more vibrant in aroma & flavour as-well as lovely balance 👍 Yummy 😍

📍 Los Alamos Chardonnay 2015

🏵 93 points

🍷 Golden straw

👃 Beeswax, lemon oil, bananas in pyjamas, honey goo, vanilla creamy custard, pear compote, minerals, grass & light tropical pineapple

👄 Med+ body of banana, melon, tropical fruits, guava & citrus curd in slightly gloopy honey vanilla cream silk w/ green fruit tones

🎯 Long touch dry but sweet tropical banana driven cocktail w/ a mineral, soft citrus, pear & apple linger

🦃 Paired w/ Lemon sole goujons — 7 years ago

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9.4

Luminous deep red. Captivating aromas of sweet red berries, cinnamon, violet and licorice. Then also very fruity in the mouth; refined, juicy red plum and raspberry flavors linger brightly on the fresh back end. Has a delightful red fruit cocktail quality that makes it practically impossible to put the glass back down. And though it is simply bursting at the seams with early appeal, this truly lovely Brunello will also age well. Unless my memory fails me, this may well be the best entry-level wine from Casanova di Neri that I have ever tasted. (Ian D'Agata, Vinous, April 2018) — 7 years ago

Chris McClellan

9.1

Stunning ...the nose is melted licorice, spice, slight menthol..wonderful smell with ripe red/dark fruit. Med acid/med tannin...long linger. This is day 4 and at its best. Good decant would have made me drink the entire bottle in 2hrs! — 8 years ago

Jason and Jennie

9.6

Lush. Very lush. Not huge tannins but they linger for a while. Almost got pink bubblegum on the first pour but it blew off. — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.5

👊💥 £39 unbeatable QPR Pomerol & my favourite 👍 This Chateau is next door to Petrus and produces stunning wine for a fraction of the price! Perfect to drink now to next 5 yrs 😎

🍇 80% Mer & 20% Cab F

🍷 Dark ruby red w/ purple hue

👃 Dark jammy plum & blackcurrant through smokey oak, double choc mocha & minerals

👄 Med+ creamy smooth ripe dark plum & blackcurrant body with mocha infusion 💥 🥊

🎯 Long dark fruit, mineral & rich mocha linger - oh yeah 👍 — 8 years ago

David Valenti

9.5

Just marvellous. Scents of toast, roasted coffee and burnt rubber. Molten chocolate on the palate. Greatly structured, powerful. Great linger. — 9 years ago

James Aldridge

10

Beautiful soft/dull red color. Earthy flavor. No acidic linger. Soft, yet full bodied. Fruit forward, yet subtle. — 9 years ago

Dock Hooks

9.0

So, it's like 60 degrees outside plus massive rain on this mid-December day, with Christmas around the corner. Lisa and I are splitting the French presentation by Chef Chris @ sweet Lauren's Soundside, Steak & Seafood (and more) Restaurant (our amazing local bistro in west Morehead City, NC) where the food is only outdone by the people! For us, it's a large chicken breast with hand-handling drumette😎 and broccolini dipped in an old favorite, (but crazy good when it's good) French onion soup (amazing)! Then there's the wine working its magic making all this good stuff exactly what it was meant to be😎! It's a sensuous nose of coarse chocolate hiding in a lid-bag (words from yesteryear) opened, nakedly exposed and sensually inhaled at the same perfect moment of biting into a late-spring perfectly-fetched strawberry followed by a similarly chocolate-coated Bing cherry, all at once luxuriously coating the front of the lucky drinker's mouth, as it starts a sexy, slow dance home - near magic, but somewhat unfortunately interrupted by a strong hand-to-throat tannic twist that tightens and squeezes either enticingly or curtly (depending on how you like it) as you fantasize another pour, perhaps another year (maybe the 10) where you might languish, linger in a sweaty finish (a good night or a wine fantasy - your choice...)
Cheers! PS inexpensive, but expressive... — 10 years ago

Michelle Hagen

9.7

Current nose. slight nice tannins with a Berry explosion with black cherry flavors. Opened quickly and the flavors linger in your mouth! Yum! — 12 years ago

Chris England

9.7

Super smooooooth creamy silky velvet Hermitage @ £85 to £120- A shaved piggy wiggy wearing decadent silky pajamas & silk slippers 🐷

📍 Paul Jaboulet Aîné La Chapelle 2011

🏵 97 points & will improve 😉

🍷 Ruby w/ purple hue

👃 Cloves, olives, thyme & other spiced herbs, wet earth & blackberry w/ touch of liquorice, cherry, tar, dried piggy meats & cracked minerals - a full on nasal tease 🐽

👄 Med+ body incredibly super smooth rich creamy olive tapenade, chewy concentrated blackberry & dark earthy chomping thick cherry w/ dollop of liquorice silky sauce

🎯 Long dark fruit gooey gloop & dark olive pure silky velvet earthy mouth coating licking linger 😍 — 7 years ago

Chris England

9.4

At £75 this millennial Pauillac is drinking just lovely now 👍 One of my favourite on value for quality 😎

🏵 94 points

🍷 Opaque ruby

👃 Char smoked oak, pencil lead, gravel & minerals through blackcurrant & berry w/ soggy earthy leaves

👄 Med body of mocha & liquorice loaded black berry fruits in oozy minerals w/ a burnt sooty earthy tone

🎯 Med+ charred oaky dry mineral infused dark fruits w/ a mocha & liquorice earthy linger — 7 years ago

Chris England

9.6

Bolly GA pink hits the spot & this £74 05 is no exception!

🍾 Disg’d May 15

🍇 72% PN & 28% C

🍷 Peachy salmon pink

👃 Toasted almond brioche & yeasty fresh bread, soft oak soaked peach, fallen red apples & red currant w/ pink blossom & smoke

👄 Med bodied fine bubbled creamy zesty fresh persistent mouse of red apple, sour peach, citrus zests, red currant, cherry, bread & creamy shortbread biscuit in med acidity

🎯 Med+ citrus zest, red apple & cherry dry biscuity linger w/ a touch of pink grapefruit — 7 years ago

Chris England

9.3

Superb €38 now £65 personal fav from St Em in top year 👍 w/ fab QPR & a soft spot for me as I had this same vintage from the barrel 😍 93 going 95-96

🍇 71% Merlot & 29% Cab F

🍷Opaque ruby w/ purple hue

👃 Chocolate coated black cherry, berry & plum through smokey oak, liquorice & wet crushed mineral rock w/ violets

👄 Med+ creamy silky mocha dark berry plum bang w/ liquorice & minerals

🎯 Long mocha berry plum slight dry mineral linger purple teether — 8 years ago

Craig Williams

9.4

Balsamic cherries; lovely length and intensity. Sweet tannins... that linger on the palate. — 8 years ago

David Valenti

9.3

Oh yes. Mocha and cocoa flavours. Full-bodied, ample round with acid notes reliniscent of black cherry pie. Great linger. — 9 years ago

Cynthia Langstaff

9.2

2011 vintage. Still a bit young, spicy & fresh but undercurrent of blackberry & slight bitter tannins which soften on the tongue to a long pleasant linger of fruit & astringent tannins. Somewhat two dimensionalbut still very good — 9 years ago

with Nicole, Todd and 4 others

Christine Havens

9.0

From the acclaimed Mount Veeder appellation, Mayacamas 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon spends 13 months on new French Oak and sees and additional 5 years aging in bottle prior to release. Complex, heady aromas of black currants and black cherries, roasted game, black olive tapenade, and a lovely wafting tertiary note of violets. High altitude and cooler growing conditions have endowed this Cab with tart, high-pitched red berries, underpinned by savory notes. Dried herbs a mineral vein linger on a persistent finish. — 9 years ago

Adam Greenberg

8.9

Drinks as smooth as Hawaiian punch, but very nice. Not much of a linger. Beautiful bouquet — 10 years ago

with Jennifer and Eric

Louy Theeuwen

9.2

Rich dark fruit flavors that linger warmly through a lasting finish. Perfect with grilled filet mignon. — 10 years ago

Chris England

9.4

I’m a huge Ygay fan so getting hold of the latest 09 @ £85 was like a kid gone wild in a candy store 😁 It’s showing fabulous already but time will definitely bring immense happiness 😉

Needs 4-5 years to shine more 👍

📍Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay 2009

🏵 93-94 with 96-98 potential

🍇 81% Tempranillo & 19% Mazuelo

🍷 Opaque deep ruby

👃 Buttery cocoa vanilla bathed dark cherry in light soft smokey oak w/ balsamic, red fruit tones, subtle blueberry & raspberry liquorice

👄 Med+ body of rich ripe dark cherry bathed in cocoa cram w/ a dry balsamic vanilla backbone

🎯 Long dark cherry & red liquorice cocoa smooth creamy balsamic linger w/ a touch dry end — 7 years ago

Chris England

9.7

One of my favourite hidden gem BdB champagnes that I loved in 90 & 96 so excited to try the 02 @ £140 that was a generous gift 😍 Tied with string to hold the cork 👍

🏵 97 points

🍷 Golden yellow

👃 Butter baked brioche, cheese scone, tarte tatin, green cooking apple, citrus curd, honey, torched caramel & rock minerals

👄 Super fine bubbled med bodied mousse of citrus, caramel & sour green apple, pineapple & dry stone minerals

🎯 Med+ dry mineral citrus & honeyed fresh cut green apple w/ a burnt caramel linger — 7 years ago

Chris England

9.5

1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣7️⃣

🗞 🌎 Stock 📉, Kings Cross 🔥, Simpsons, -1 second
🎵 Faith, Livin' On A Prayer, With or Without You, I Just Can't Stop ❤️ You
🎥 Three Men & a Baby, Fatal Attraction, Good Morning Vietnam, Lethal Weapon
🗣 Nobody puts Baby in a corner
🌍 4.98B

Stunning Cos @ £180 - RP83 🤣

🍷 Deep ruby

👃 Gravel, flint, minerals & soggy earth through black berry fruits w/ herbs, soot, smokey oak & mint

👄 Med body of smooth b/berry loaded w/ mocha, liquorice & minerals

🎯 Long linger of ⬆️ w/ black tea — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.2

🎅 Advent 📆 Day 0️⃣9️⃣

Santa’s on a roll with another top year in one of my favourite St Estephes @ £37 for a halfy 👍 this is a great 91-92 now but will age to 94-95 easy 😉

🍇 51% Cab S & 49% Mer

🍷 Opaque deep ruby

👃 Dark morello cherry, damson, spiced blackcurrant & blackberry through light smoked oak w/ violet, earth, mineral & cocoa tones

👄 Med creamy silky body of plump blackcurrant & dark plum in chocolate w/ a hint of liquorice

🎯 Long dark fruit & mocha linger — 8 years ago

Angela

10

My favorite go-to blend. Full and fun with a hit of sweetness. Plum and some juicier berries with and expansive linger that makes it memorable. — 8 years ago

Brian

9.1

Beautiful wine with an elegant full body. Did not linger in the mouth as long as expected. The fruit tones were slightly muted. Drank this with a 1975 chateau Beychevelle — 9 years ago

Cynthia Langstaff

9.9

2001 at winery April 2016. Nice full creamy honey flavor well balanced with acid. Moderate consistent linger. Truly excellent! — 9 years ago

with David

Michael Horkay

9.3

Surprise and I mean surprise for new world at 30. Let that linger fit a moment but Randy should have gotten more credit for this wine. Sexy and sleek this wine was like a well seasoned athlete. Explosive aromatics of figs sesame car is were crazy good. — 9 years ago

Steve Haro

9.2

The initial smoked meat nose transitions smoothly into forward flavors that include roasted mushroom and wild game with flinty earth and blackberry compote nuances taking over the back palette. The finish still has a lot of fruit left with well rounded tannins that linger. Fantastic for 15 years!! — 10 years ago

Robert Bingham

9.0

Solid Margaux with earth notes with hints of thyme and soft multi textured tannins that linger show that this a wine that could go the distance. — 11 years ago