Rick K

9.3

1999. Another fantastic bottle of Chave. Still primary but hard to complain. Try again in 3-5 years. — 10 years ago

with George

Matthew Denci

9.4

Flashed chocolate, and some primary fruits before subsiding into a meaty mushroom earthy cloud of deliciousness with that lovely combo of integrated oak and dark prune minerality. Great time to drink this. — 10 years ago

Casey Curbow

Sales Associate Windsor Wine Merchants

9.2

Ripe red fruit. Healthy showing of spice and tobacco. Silky mouthfeel, lifted weight. Clean acid. Drinking well, however still primary with glimpses of depth and age. Excited to watch this go for the long haul. — 11 years ago

Chip Stryker

9.5

Wonderfully enjoyable wine. Seemed very well advanced for such a young pup. Round and balanced with all the right primary fruit aromas layered with developed earth and coffee notes. — 11 years ago

Jonas Mendoza

9.2

Dark cherry, "sweet" dirt, black raisin, dried mushroom, dried jerky, hoisin. Admittedly, the flavors were all over the place, but regardless a very complex wine where the primary fruit flavors are evolving into secondary and tertiary ones. — 10 years ago

Eric Egan

9.0

Every time I open a bottle of this (and I've kept my eye on it for a decade now) I think it's flawed. It just retains this dumb tannic hold for the first day after opening it. So I sucked the air out of it and kept it in the cabinet for 72 hours. Now it tastes great! Not a lot of primary fruit left but a seriously delicious musty blackcurrent compote. If the secondary berries that seem to be poking their buds through the soil now develop as I hope they will over the next two decades, this will be a very nicely integrated, balanced, and textured wine. It'll be fun to find out! — 10 years ago

Akshay Venkitasubramanian

9.3

Nice drinking table red — 11 years ago

Conrad Green

9.5

Fantastic stuff. Still primary. Intense brambly fruit with a gamey saline quality. A deep sour cherry and dark blue thing. Real character and precision yet rustic in the best way. Excellent — 10 years ago

with Rajat and Larry

Alex Barty

Winemaker Blood Moon Wines, Senior Retail Assistant Blackhearts & Sparrows Wine Purveyors, Cellarhand Stonier Wines

9.3

Some good primary fruit and reasonable acidity giving good length. Some developing complexity. Intriguing wine that went well with our gyros! — 10 years ago

John Wight

Sommelier/Wine Director Luce Restaurant

9.7

So tightly wound, still lots of oak and primary fruits! — 11 years ago