Delish. Funk and yeast at first. Mellows over the hour. Fresh fruits and joy. Unfiltered glory. — 9 years ago
I'm upping my rating on this. Wine needed air to show its full glory. Today, it's blowing dark fruit, tree bark, big cinnamon and dark spice - yet, it remains fresh and vibrant. It still reminds me of really good Cru Beaujolais but the Mourvèdre character is more present. Yum! — 9 years ago
Late night. Eating jambon royal and sheep's milk chevre. 2010 gigondas in all its glory. This wine is phenomenal. Earthy and floral. Almost like a great garden. But also has dense delicious fruit. Just can't say enough good things. Sent me to bed with a smile. — 10 years ago
Le vin des amis - tastes exactly like le pain des amis — 10 years ago
Campfire ash peat in all their glory — 11 years ago
Beaucoup de structure et de concentration, très beau chinon bien typé avec un bel avenir — 11 years ago
Modern style of St-Emilion, deep ruby color, full body, scents of pain grillé, ripe but not over-ripe black fruit, kirsch liqueur fresh acidity with a long heady finish. Succulent! — 8 years ago
The Riesling that changed my mind about trocken. Balanced in all its fruit, acidity, and minerality glory — 9 years ago
The glory of hanging out with the young & upwardly mobile...the Luders ability to throw a party is unmatched ...cheers — 9 years ago
One of the best. My favorite Pilsner. Also great if you have stomach pain :-) — 10 years ago
A bit tired with noticeable VA. First few whiffs still showed its former glory though. Fully mature with tertiary notes dominating. Lovely. — 10 years ago
2000 vintage. Gorgeous, Quite Rich, medium to full bodied, lots of fresh lemon, citrus rind, honeysuckle, honey, "pain d'épices" and floral notes in every sniff and sip.
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Pure glory. — 10 years ago
Really complicated on these so suspect days, expose themselves with concepts such as: tradition, terroir, identity without falling into the most sinister rhetoric if not sounds just trite and hypocritical as the counterfeit currency with which even large-scale industries - supported by marketing - pays back its inattentive mass audience riding the wave of the country of origin or protected typicality. A diabolical mechanism this one for which even the most noble ideas probably the right practices and good experiences completed in the scale of centuries to human measure and not on massive industrial scale, are trivialized by sleazy slogan, emptied of meaning to be more or less surreptitious thanks to barbaric persuasion techniques and brain-washing propaganda.
Yet with the Valentini's Trebbiano you may not groped to summarize in words if not by drawing on terms so appropriate to express it. Now concerning this iconic label we've got behind it a local grape variety, a real family and a great wine that collect in a bottle the past and present story of a side of Abruzzo who claims to defeats victories and sacrifices to dominate the abuses (on and of) nature, miseries and splendours of agricultural seasons. Places, people, vision, wines such as Valentini are here to remind us how each bottle stay so proudly standing as non-reproducible beauty and fermented goodness expressing all its artisanal uniqueness and authenticity which are just that suspect to industrial wine production in manufacturing chains on standardized quantities; wines that are all equal to themselves even though wine itself is not much left at the end of the day/cycle. Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Valentini 1998 is what we have to rate right now: rusticity with class; style, purity and glory of a local grape recognized by many admirers from all over the world: act local think global this is another slogan-cliché which in this specific Valentini's wine exemple could sounds a little less false and more effective. — 9 years ago
Let 'er breathe and glory awaits! Lush berries and licorice notes dominate a balanced, elegantly oaked wine.
Also kudos on the detailed data on the label of the what, how and where of this Red Mountain wine. — 10 years ago
Domaine Henri Jayer Echézeaux 1988: Lush and silky, bursting with sweet black fruit and a commanding, complex perfume of Asian spice, musk, and minerals. Wines from the late, legendary Henri Jayer represent a singularly heightened benchmark for Burgundy and Pinot Noir. They are Led Zeppelin conquering the Garden in 1973 or Kurt Cobain rasping behind the stargazer lilies: pure glory, glorious purity. beetroot and menthol on the nose, velvet on the tongue, and exhilaration in the heart. Wines like these make even the most law-abiding drinker contemplate a life on the lam. — 10 years ago
So quiet and understated at first. 4 hours later I see the wine was just a wallflower at the start . A glory to taste, walking on the edge. Richness in the middle surrounded from the front and back by a piercing clarity. — 10 years ago
2007 in its glory. — 11 years ago
Pure glory. Tons of lead pencil. Remarkable. — 11 years ago
Lisa Albertson
Just perfect with our meal — 7 years ago