Simon Gilligan

9.3

Medium bodied, juicy black/red fruits, peppery (seems a Grampians trait?), fine tannin, balanced good length. Continued strongly into a second night, great QPR, easy to buy. — 6 years ago

Ulrich Kipper

9.2

Not a typical Talbot, very fine and elegant. No blockbuster, lots of Finesse. — 8 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 — 8 years ago

Kevin Cahoon

9.2

Aromas of baked apple, lemon curd, acacia flowers with a real persistent mineral laced accent. Vibrant palate with a fine balance between tension and richness. Mineral flavors with hints of bread dough, lemon peel and pear fruit. Disgorged September 2015 — 9 years ago

"Odedi"

9.5

For my son's 20th birthday, I think this 19 year old, Australian Cabernet, will be appropriate. It's also going to take care of my Friday's fix nicely...

What a beautiful color on this beauty. Ruby in color with a burgundy rim. Almost showing no age at all.

After an hour in the decanter, fruity nose with blueberries, cherries, strawberries, black currants, leather, oak, vanilla, licorice, light green pepper, smoke and black pepper. Very gentle and aromatic.

Medium plus in body, smooth and elegant, with medium plus acidity and awesome looking legs.

Dry and fruity on the palate with blackberries, blueberries, cloves, licorice, vanilla, cedar, leather, dirt, pencil lead, earth, cola, white pepper and spices.

A very long finish with very fine grained tannins and tart cherries.

What an awesome wine this is. Well-balanced and very enjoyable by itself. So elegant, complex and velvety.
It smells and tastes a lot like a Napa Cabernet, which surprised me a little.

Aged for 15 months in American oak barrels.

14% alcohol by volume. — 9 years ago

BurgundyFan

9.4

Charming, sweet with strawberries. No edges, no dryness, well structured. Very fine — 12 years ago

Andrew Cullimore

9.3

Opaque core , quite fine pink rim. Really stains the glass , very large legs . Rich blackberry , cassis, chocolate , violets. On the palate rich and quite sweet blackberry fruit , chocolate tinged , cassis liqueur , long on the finish however and surprisingly hiding most of that alarming 15.2 % alcohol. Reasonable acidity and suave fine tannins , long finish . Should age pretty well but already shows well with a bit of air. Will improve over the next 10 -15 years or so I suppose. The following day showing more liquorice , pretty sweet blackberry liqueur. It is pretty big and rich , no subtlety , but it is well made and successful for the style in which it is made. Harmony of the Seas , main dining level 4 , somewhere off the Cuban coast. — 7 years ago

Jay Kline

9.4

My notes on this from May of 2017 still apply. Popped and poured. Drank well over two days. Immediately this wine impresses visually. Sure, the color is an expected deep garnet but what's most striking is the fact that it's never completely opaque at the core. You can just barely get the faintest amount of light to see through it. It's quite beautiful, really. The nose is initially a bit reticent but a few minutes of air in the glass does the trick and then it really begins to show off the most lovely perfume of mixed red and dark fruit; so fresh and pure with just a flash of garrigue. No perceptible heat on the nose. On the palate it's a veritable wonder of berries, Rainier cherries, black berry liqueur, and just a touch of fine white pepper. The body is perfectly proportioned and the finish lasts for over 30 seconds. In summary, this is an incredibly balanced 2010 CdP that is already hitting its prime. Personally, I felt it was really at its very best about two hours in which leaves me to believe it should be a great pop and pour for the next couple of years and potentially has the balance to be great for longer. That being said, there is no need to decant, just pull the cork, pour and enjoy the evolution in the glass. The hard part is allowing it to last for two hours and longer. It should be noted that this is dangerously quaffable wine and it wouldn't be hard to take the whole thing to the head. Might as well drink these sooner than later as I'm always a bit wary of CdP much beyond the 10 year mark, where I tend so find many of them fall apart on the palate. Perhaps others with more experience in the long-term ageing of CdP can chime in though. Absurd value at $30.

As a side note, this paired very nicely with pan fried pork savory bacon wrapped filet mignon. — 8 years ago

Scott Plambeck

9.6

Opened a Magnum, soft cork — split in half but recovered nicely with no residue falling into the bottle. Decanted for 30min prior to pouring into glass. Beautiful color, light nose and mouth feel initially. Later noticed fine grain tannins on the palate, with no sediment whatsoever , No Brown at the edge of glass or carafe. Light fruit developed over the course of the hour we enjoyed it. Three of us enjoyed this excellent wine with a NY Strip and Filet as main course and a chocolate decadent cake for dessert. This wine still has room to grow. — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.8

💯pointer 1st growth @ £930 as a special treat to celebrate life, love, friends, family & the generous spirit of humanity 😍

Enjoying with friends so no detailed notes but this is still so young & took 4-5 hrs to open!! 98-99 but needs time for 100

🍇 75% Cab S, 20% Mer & 5% Pet V

🍷 Garnet ruby w/ brown edge

👃 Perfect nasal seduction 😍

👄 Superbly balanced but a little lighter than I hoped on palate yet incredibly smooth & fine with nothing to object to

🎯 Elegant long silky finish — 9 years ago

Albert Pak

9.3

Classy. Ripeness but contained. Oak is both subdued and seemlessly integrated. On the nose is explosive fruit, freshness. No secondary aromas detected. On the palate, medium tannins, fine, with great balance. Acidity shines through. Goes on forever -- endless length. — 11 years ago

Melissa M. Sutherland

Importer Winebow Wines

9.1

2014 was fine for the Valle Isarco. Not as much rain, humidity or trouble from the invasive fly. Great acidity. Super fresh and clean. No botrytis. — 11 years ago

Seth Morgen Long

Broker • Arterberry Maresh / Winemaker • Morgen Long

9.8

Quite the monstrous beauty, savory and broad, but with fine, chalky tannins which are amazingly well knit into a richly complex array of fruit, florals and earthen elements. I’ve had this bottling a few years back, which I recalled as a beast, while this time, it has no doubt hit its stride. — 7 years ago

David G Brown

9.4

Well-rounded and smooth on the palate, great texture and well balanced, with a robust fruitiness which ends with a fine finish with no sharp edges, freshened by balsamic notes. — 7 years ago

Stephanie Ratanas

9.5

Tastes like strawberries and cream, fine delicate bubbles! — 8 years ago

Chris England

9.4

Rare 96RP Priorat, only 1,008 bottles @ €146+ that's just beautiful & will age into 96-98 divinity 😍 Mrs E says "It's as smooth as Antonio Banderas' moves" I said "No as smooth as Penelope Cruz breasts" 😁

🍇 100% Carignan

🍷 Dark ruby w/ purple hue

👃 Strawberries & red cherries w/ touches of blackberry & raspberry seduced by oak, earth, farmyard, violets, liquorice & fine smoke

👄 Med silky polished delicate dark & red fruits that just seduces your taste sensations

🎯 Med+ soft earthy summer fruits 💋 — 8 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.5

Mid Crimson with a tawny rim. Enticing aromas of Cassis, blueberries, dust, cedar and memories of McBarens Plum Cake Pipe Tobacco when I smoked a pipe at University. Medium fine tannins. Fruit drying out to a savoury delicious Claret. No further cellaring necessary. This is why one cellars Bordeaux. — 9 years ago

Christanna Honer

9.2

Bar none best Chilean wine I've tried. No pyrazinic dominance; instead we've got lush dark fruit, chocolate, tobacco, leather, potting soil, manure, tree leaves, cedar, etc. and the structure of a fine Bordeaux. — 10 years ago

Jonathan Tharp

9.5

Excellent mid palate and great structure. Fine, elegant mouthfeel and nicely integrated oak — 11 years ago

Jonathan Klonecke

Sales Revel Wines

9.8

very fine. based on 2008, mainly chard. pear, ginger, caramel, mousse builds. long finish. — 13 years ago