Kevin Dale

9.6

Let it open up for about an hour and a half. Tasted well even out of the bottle, but the extra time made it worth it. — 9 months ago

Arden Barnett

9.5

Always a treat. Same notes as last week. Had the ability to decant this bottle for an extra hour. Depth of this wine really showed with that little extra help. — 4 years ago

Neal Krishna Devaraj

9.2

Opens up beautifully after an hour. Plums and raisins — 4 years ago

Weijie Shi (Jay)

9.7

Epic wine. Great showing of white sesame seeds, tropical fruits and toasted wood. Good acidity. Need decanting for at least 1 hour. Still very young. — 5 years ago

Conrad Green

9.8

A treat. Dark in color, slightly cloudy. A powerful nose with dark, very mouton fruit. Incredibly aromatic, blackcurrant, mint,graphite, dried herbs, eucalyptus. The palate is extraordinary. So dense and powerful for a wine of almost 70 years. Dark fruit with a savory undertow- leather, thyme, sour cherry, dark chocolate. Really precise flavors and long. After an hour or two in glass there’s notes of coconut and soft wood. Extraordinary. Clearly there’s a lot of age on this but the sheer quality makes for a really dynamic wine. An exceptional bottle, and a teal treat. — 6 years ago

with Howard, Tony and 1 other

Vladimir L

9.3

This cannot be cold. This time left out for 3 hours and 1 hour open and it is spectacular. — 7 years ago

Ruth Alexander

10

This was a fantastic experience, opened and decanted an hour before drinking, retained its character, fruit through out dinner. So glad I opened this for my Birthday — 8 years ago

with Joseph and peter

Mike Saviage

9.2

5-Oh Bday Dinner... From a half bottle. Deep red and purple color. Mostly opaque and thick in the glass. There is still some good fruit in the nose with gravel and soil notes. Very round in the mouth. The wine hung in there over the hour it was consumed. Nice experience with an 80+ year old wine. — 9 years ago

Robert McCall

9.4

Pours clean dark purple into the glass showing no age. I'll be damned if one couldn't enjoy the dark fruit aroma from 5 feet away. Wow. Dark fruit, leather and pleasant oak quality supplemented with a silky tannic structure that gave a 60 sec finish. Not the most complex Latour I've enjoyed at this point but this bottle actually tightened up over an hour after opening indicating much life ahead. Sheeeit! — 9 years ago

Nathan Phillips

9.5

After an hour of opening up this became fairly epic — 10 years ago

Shay A

9.4

This was served during my annual WWC hosting. Typical format of sparkler, three whites, four reds, one dessert, all served blind.

Poured alongside the 2003 Mondavi VHR as a comparison. 60 cab/40 merlot.

Decanted an hour. The similarities between this and the ‘03 Mondavi VHR the first hour was shocking…even as the host, I wondered if I switched the wines. Slight hint of brett but certainly not overpowering. Leather, herbs de Provence, sweet vanilla pipe tobacco, graphite up front aromatically. Dark roast mocha, red and black berry fruit, cassis, really nice vein of acidity and tannin. This remained unchanged during the lunch. Seems like it’s in a peak window (maybe close to the top?) where I imagine it will hold another 5-7yrs easily before turning more tertiary. — 9 months ago

Mike R

9.5

Wine Nerd herd virtual tasting of various vintages from 90s, 00s and 10s - mine was the 2013 - 88% CS, 8% PV, 3% merlot and 1% CF from various vineyards in the valley floor region - four hour decant - this is less fruit than you would expect but certainly an amazing wine - Napa finest at a modernist style Bordeaux blend - nose was rich with tobacco leather cocoa and forest floor - heavy to medium body yet the wine was soft because the fruit was muffled - mid palette with black blue and red fruits - orange peel cinnamon and sweet silky tannins integrated nicely - this could easily go 30 more years but not sure it will get better so if willing to decant and maybe even double decant for an afternoon this wine is ready for being paired with a cowboy bone in rib eye steak and will not let you down - truly an enjoyable experience as was all vintages tasted last night - HUGE SMILES — 3 years ago

Brandon T

9.4

Again, one of the best QPRs around. Amazing wine for around $65. Opened up after about an hour and improved steadily over the next 2. — 5 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.2

Compared to a Spottswoode 06, this one seemed to have similarities but and it was over all this one has more tobacco and slightly less of the dark mature raspberry and black cherry. However, this one even after an hour was still a little disjointed and out of balance. I don't know if this is just on the decline or maybe a little bottle variation. I'd think about drinking this. — 5 years ago

with Dan and Shay

Bret Barker

9.3

Off vintage but who cares? Tignanello is a personal favorite. Took a good hour to open up, this wine tastes surprisingly young. cherry, earthiness some mineral and a little smoke flavor as well. Very good — 7 years ago

David L

9.3

05' Spottswoode Cabernet. Decanted for an hour. The color is a ruby red. The nose is striking earthiness & perfume. The palate blueberry, cedar, minerals, light acidity. Tannins flow easily through the palate. Feminine style of wine . This is not a bruiser...very enjoyable. Happy Father's Day! — 8 years ago

Scott Samlan

9.6

Fantastic. Let it breathe for an hour. Drank w our two friends who own Manousakis Vineyard in Chania. Very special wine that is full bodied with soft tannins. Full of soft cherries and forest floor. It's the bomb — 8 years ago

Tom Riley

9.2

Twelve years in and this wine is so damn perky. Let me get back to you in another hour. Maybe it will be a tad less exuberant and a bit more relaxed. No matter what happens it's still gonna be delicious. These folks are so delightfully reliable. 13.0 abv — 9 years ago

Charlie Beatty

Buyer wineworksonline.com

9.7

Power full with 1 and 1/2 hour decanting I think this wine needs serious ageing . Brooding huge powerful wine much more like a great Bordeaux !! Love it but next time will open and decant 4 hours or more!! I rate this 98+.. Impressive — 10 years ago

Makoto Someya

9.0

Thicker than 2003. But we can drink it from the beginning. Black currant. Concentration. Ink. 1 hour decanting is necessary. 2005 @3850, Eva - LGM, 221218-220121 — a year ago

Pooneet K

9.3

An absolutely wonderful Talbot. Perfect condition and with a 2.5 hour decant this is drinking wonderfully. Excellent pairing with a medium rare dry aged strip steak. Quite seamless on the palate with excellent acid and a hint of menthol. Deep dark fruit and earth. Just lovely. — 2 years ago

Robert Rothfield

9.6

From Magnum......4 hour decant......just spectacular! — 4 years ago

with Warren

Carsten Rudolph

9.2

Excellent Cabernet from napa, a little closed the first 0,5 Hour and a little tired after 3 hours — 4 years ago

David Stein

9.3

Believe it or not. Ready to drink. Decant an hour and then enjoy. — 5 years ago

with Allan and Bruce

Lori K

9.4

Great dark fruit with pepper. Nice blend. Low acid, great overall dark red. — 6 years ago

Patrick Derdeyn

9.4

At first i picked up a lot of acetyl in this relative to the other wines. After an hour that had blown off and this blossomed. Everything you hope for in Monte Bello. — 7 years ago

Howard Greenfield

9.3

3-4 hour decant. Opened up nicely — 8 years ago

Sean Genn

9.0

Took about an hour to open up but eventually opened up nicely. Sour Cherries, roses, raspberries. Still young with persistent tannins on the finish. Give it a couple more years. — 8 years ago

Michelle Calhoun

9.5

Tight after pulling the cork. Started to open after 1 hour in the glass. 3+ hours of decant and shows beautifully. Smooth mouth, long finish completely lovely. — 8 years ago

Paul T HB

9.3

Needed to open something good after a 7 hour flight turned into a 10 hour ordeal, way to go united airlines, thanks for the memories,,
This isn't too bad, not as refined as the 94, but it will do the trick,
Pay no attention to the rum behind the curtain, — 9 years ago