Michael Phillips

9.1

Mature dark berries leather and a hint of tobacco . — 5 years ago

Michael Phillips

9.4

Low acidity so a bit overly mature but very good — 6 years ago

Michael Phillips

9.5

Mature but still lovely. Long finish — 7 years ago

Willem Jan Withagen

9.4

Very nice mature. soft, smooth acids. Honey caramel. Biit of toast. Yeast has gone. No agressive apple — 7 years ago

Eric Guido

9.4

The nose was gorgeous, displaying sour cherry, plum, roses and violets, dusty spice, and hints of floral undergrowth.  On the palate, I found soft, lifted textures with amazing purity to it’s ripe strawberry and cherry fruits, along with inner floral tones and hints of spice.  The finish was long yet fresh with medium-grained fine tannin, dried strawberry and inner rose tones. This may not be a vintage to age for decades, it’s so beautiful already, the hard part will be saving them long enough to watch them mature. #collisioni17 — 8 years ago

Adam Crane

9.6

Mature but still holding on to a lot of fruit. Reconfirmed Pessac/Graves as my favorite Bordeaux subregion. Wow! — 9 years ago

Jean-Francois Pelletier

9.3

Garnet-brown color. Fully mature, with nose of pencil lead and sous-bois. Medium+ body, good acidity and long finish. Nice to try 40 years after the judgment of Paris. The second bottle we opened had more funk than the first one.Drink now. — 9 years ago

with Frankie and Matt

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.2

Expressive and showy, inviting you to ripe blackberries and cassis fruit, delicate hiding behind loads of toasty oak. Personally, I think the élevage is covering the fruit but it's a matter of preferences. Doubtlessly this perfectly mature version is of superior quality, but I was happy just tasting it. — 9 years ago

John Kemper

9.4

The dark bright ruby '00 Domaine Charvin Châteauneuf-du-Pape has not skipped a beat since my last bottle over two years ago. This fully mature Red Rhone still shows clean aromas of ripe cherry, tobacco, cracked pepper and briery herbs. The fully-integrated tannins make the lush palate of red fruit and licorice flavors soft and creamy. This is an elegant expression of a classic CdP. — 10 years ago

Yoon Ha

Master Sommelier/Wine Director Benu

9.8

So much life here, energy and freshness to spare. Lovely mature fruits, woodsy complexity over a velour texture. — 11 years ago

Philip Deibel

9.3

Home alone for 24 hrs! The perfect time to open something older. Fully mature Bordeaux... I mean Napa! Dried fruit and tobacco, there is still a frame of tannins but they are well integrated and slightly chalky in texture. Enjoyable but more mature than I prefer. — 5 years ago

Jordan Wardlaw

9.5

More mature, defined and complex than the 2006 today. More red fruit character, graphite and herbs on the nose. Palate is still very youthful and primary but there’s great energy and lift and a powerful mineral streak running all the way through. — 7 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.0

Leather. V. ast. Mature. Delicious. — 7 years ago

Duane Mason

9.2

Very smooth and mature. Hints in tobacco, balanced with some fruit touch of blackberries on the finish. Improves with air. Very nice BORDEAUX — 8 years ago

Conrad Green

9.5

Quite advanced. A lovely nutty, yeasty nose. A hint of butterscotch, great depth and length. Complex, mature and delicious. — 8 years ago

with George

Tom Kobylarz

9.1

Of the 2 Bordeaux drinking the best tonight, but long term the Brane-Cantenac 2005 will outlive this wine by 10 years easy. While very complex, a fine touch a green is traceable.

A classic currant and forest floor nose, fall leaves abound with a spike of spice and a barely there green that while subtle is apparent.

The pleasure here is higher for its more mature tasted and feel, while the brawny 2005 is a better wine it was not as enjoyable to me and feel it will be another notch enter in 3 years, and likely 2 notches better in 5.

The elegance and feel on this wine is ready to go and will easily go another 5+ years. — 9 years ago

Matt Moran

9.4

Mature Rioja with cherry and raspberry notes. 2005 was a good vintage and this wine is ready to drink. Great value at ~$30. — 9 years ago

with Lydia

Daniel Mahdavian

Consulting Somm-Daniel Mahdavian Ventures

9.0

Core of velvety crushed vanilla cherry candy, a bit closed, not showing as mature. Good little mint, herbs, black olives. — 10 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.4

1st vintage for Opus taken from an owc that was released with the 80 vintage. Dark color for a 36 yr old. Very Balanced and elegant, fully mature drinking like a great Claret. — 10 years ago

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

10

Wonderfully complex and perfectly mature, showing cedar notes, red currant fruit and still gripping tannins, all balanced by fresh acidity. Old school, but great. — 12 years ago

Hanibal

9.2

Very mature fruit. Prunes, black cherries some sweet notes and herbs. Delicious and still primary ! — 5 years ago

Pekka Holma

9.4

A little bit more mature notes than last time. Ripe cherry, liqourice and almost balmasic. Very nice! I want to see where this is going with more cellar time. — 6 years ago

with Nina

Ron Siegel

9.3

Another great btl of this vintage showing sweet red & black fruits, cassis, cedar, leather, with graphite & tobacco. This is rich bodied, fully mature & should drink well for many years. — 7 years ago

Narun P

9.0

Tasted at Chateau
CS 47% M 47% CF 4% PV 2%

Deep almost inky with slight sign of development on the rim, some bricking but still youthful.

Classic Bordeaux bouquet of savory infused black fruit. Complex nose of enticing barnyard funk, seabreeze, new leather, cooking spice.

On the palate, still very structured. Mouth stainingly full tannin, med body, dry. Cassis, blackberry, dark cherry commingling with mature signs of development. Sage, thyme, cattle range, forest floor, mushroom, smoky, and nutty new oak.

Impressively classic. Will need at least 10 years more to not be accused of committing infanticide. 90++ — 8 years ago

Lucas Wittmann

9.1

Gracefully mature. Enjoy nowish. — 8 years ago

Peter 0'Neill

9.3

I have suffered through a number of dull uninspiring bottles from this case but thankfully this wasn't one of them. Really delicious perfectly mature claret which drinks beautifully now. — 9 years ago

Leo Chyi

9.3

Burgundian style, started with cranberry but quickly became darker and earthier, nice forest floor elements — 9 years ago

Hermes Ortiz

9.5

1997 Joseph Phelps
Proprietary Red
"Insignia"
Napa Valley, California
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot
Ideal drinking window
Perfectly Mature
Impeccably Balanced
Developed Secondary Flavors
Black and Blue Fruit
Tannins fully evolved
Glad to drink now!
Paired with New York Strip Steak
— 9 years ago

Lewis Chester

9.2

1970 vintage. Ch. La Mission Haut Brion from half bottle. Mushroom, earthy, slight Brett, black pepper, pencil shavings, metallic - very mature. Interesting nose! On the palate, high acidity, high tannins - ripe and integrated, medium minus body, medium plus flavour concentration and medium plus finish. Still alive....just! — 10 years ago

Andrew Cullimore

9.1

Very elegant and balanced, now mature with spice ripe strawberry and red fruits, good acidity and long finish. Very enjoyable — 10 years ago