Big Wave Dave

9.1

This really took time to come alive. Started simple and short but developed significant body, structure and spicy/savoury grip with air. Too young and lacking a bit of mid palate weight, but decent. Not great p/q — 3 years ago

Lee Hill

9.1

Jadot Pouilly-Fuisse with the volume cranked up a bit. Opened the night before but showed better the second night with both a citrus salmon and a tomato risotto. Right where you’d expect it to be somewhere in between the village P-F and some of their other 1er Cru whites — 3 years ago

Daniel Bloom

9.3

Burgundy comes to Oregon.
N: Svelte cherries that died and went to heaven. Slight cranberry, soil tinged wood.It has that quality of tiny red berries being popped between your fingers.
P: Silky Smoothness, acid on the long finish. Mid bright, not red nor brown. Mid -lighter weight, still has some grip.
An excellent partner to citrus, paprika braised chicken and leeks. Consistently calls you back for more.
Given time and air, the rewards are huge.
Thanks@FassSelections — 3 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

8.9

Vintage 2016 | This wine developed itself fine with a few years cellar. Expressive cassis, decanted three hours, afterwards very good drinking with a good structure. Pierre Ardoin - a oenologist at the Bordeaux university - makes this wine with a wink to its more reputed colleague vintners on the other side of the Gironde river. | paired with bbq, incredible good p/q. — 4 years ago

Daniel Bloom

9.2

Infanticide!
But…there it was. It sang it’s siren song.
N: Big , beefy, dirty red beet, musky black cherries. Smoke and tar.
P: Black cherries, blood, iron, earth, dirt,
It’s said the Coté du Py Gamay vines are 100 years +. It shows. A knockout structured Beaujolais that’s always a fave. Delicious, if I was 40, I’d make plans to stash some away for 20 years.
A bit saved, day two, blacker and more tannic.
To quote Romain..” I love it.”!!!

— 4 years ago

Frithjof Jensen

9.3

Top P/L... Schöne Farbe, tolle Frucht und Balance.. — 5 years ago

Sarah Altenhofen

9.0

At the lake with mom and don. P and I like it! — 6 years ago

Big Wave Dave

9.2

Pale-med lemon. Really opened up with air. Some sweet citrus, and candied caramel on the nose. Med body, med intensity, a bit of cream, and strong vanilla and caramel notes from the oak. Decent but not great p/q — 3 years ago

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9.4

Named after the ancestor that originally bought the parcel, the 2021 Chablis Les Clos Grand Cru Hommage à Louis has an intense bouquet with praline and white chocolate touches infusing the vibrant citrus fruit. The palate is very well-balanced, with a powerful opening. It's spicy like the Les Preuses, though many without quite the same ambition on the finish. But this is still very impressive. (Neal Martin, Vinous, September 2023)
— 3 years ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.3

2019 vintage. Excellent white Burgundy value with both splendid body and acidity. Don’t be afraid to plunge into the unfamiliarity of Pernand-Vergelesses now. With white Burg prices escalating as they have been, P-V will be priced at Chassagne/Puligny/Meursault levels soon enuff. Get in and get familiar now. — 4 years ago

Daniel Bloom

9.2

N: Very grassy, stony, a hint of pineapple coming through.Mineral, almost the beachyness* of Chablis or…Manzanilla.
P: Subdued Green apple, crunchy, some salt, Interesting wood on the palate from combination of French & Oregonian oak.
It’s there, but not interfering. No but-tah.
Delicious, snappy, refreshing.
Thanks @Fasselections — 4 years ago

Daniel Bloom

9.2

Decanted 3 hrs/Chilled 45min.
N: Dried honey,Apples, pears, butterscotch, pink grapefruit, mineral, Big nose that jumps out of the glass.
P: completely dry but tangy as all get out. Lots of grapefruit surrounded by rocks, prickly. mouth filling at the same time. Impression of fatness. Green, very refreshing. If one had the patience to lay some down….oh my. Raised at least partly in native Oregonian oak, that Martin Woods coopers. Not a trace on the wine.
Thanks @Lyle Fass — 4 years ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.6

Lic estu mfs omar y saul — 5 years ago

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8.9

The 2013 Clos Saint-Denis Grand Cru has a slightly dusty bouquet at first, more black than red fruit, cooked meats, a touch of sous-bois and singed leather. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly rustic tannins. For a Grand Cru, I would have wanted more depth and grip, though that said, it is fresh with a pleasant dash of balsamic on the finish. Fine. (Neal Martin, Vinous, October 2023)
— 3 years ago

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9.1

The 2020 Fleurie Chapelle des Bois has a little reduction on the nose, but there is good concentration here with wild strawberry and red cherry. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins, very pure and smooth. Touches of blood orange furnish the long and lively finish. Delicious. (Neal Martin, Vinous, May 2023) — 3 years ago

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9.1

The 2020 Chablis Vaillons 1er Cru has a well-defined bouquet with hints of peach skin, undergrowth and resin scents, becoming more floral with aeration. The palate is well balanced with a fine thread of acidity, quite tensile with a touch of dried honey emerging towards the finish, reflecting that warm summer. Very fine. Tasted blind at the BIVB tasting in Chablis. (Neal Martin, Vinous, September 2022)
— 4 years ago

Daniel Bloom

9.2

N: smashed strawberries, tobacco, licorice, mascarello cherries, dirt,
P: Nice tannic grip, Black cherries, lots of earth, a buoyant frame, definitely concrete and old fourdes. I’m so glad to have found this. As Louis/Dressner says, if you know all the grapes they grow, you’re probably a master of wine. — 4 years ago

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Chris Bensick

9.3

Just as good, if not better, than the last time we opened one of these. A gift from Alex’s godparents the Larsens. Signed by Louis P. Martini in 1993. — 4 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.1

2nd wine with creamy garlic shrimp. This also showed very well. It was slightly more opulent than the 2014 Louis Michel 1er Monte de Tonnere, but similar. — 4 years ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.7

Cumple ximena
9/16
Cafe central — 6 years ago