David Kline

9.5

Meaty-cherry nose has dark chocolate undertones and trumpet mushrooms, pretzel bread, bresaola, vaporous sarsaparilla-into cola, and pâté. Dried black cherry shows tart red into mid-palate, white pepper, cranberry and Crimini. Dark toast, raspberry and savory.

#2016 #monopole #ClosdeTart #closdetart #misenbouteilleaudomaine #estatebouttled #grandcru #burgundy #moreysaintdenis #msd4life #côtedor — a year ago

Todd Scurci

9.0

#frankies #reisling #grandcru — a year ago

with Annie

David Kline

9.8

Exquisite lemon-lime interlace couched in pith exemplifies the stated, but somehow simultaneously highlights a rounder, olive-floral, cherry and pear blossom otherness. Rich palate drives an olive and lemon oil union straight into an interesting baked lemon flattening with bright acid dichotomy. Incredible depth and infinite layers of stunning complexity. Needs many more years, but wow.



#batardmontrachet #montrechet #grandvindebourgogne #grandcru #bourgogneblanc #aoc #domainevincentetfrançoisjouard #côtedor #whiteburg #whiteburgundy #2019 — 2 years ago

with Courtney

David Kline

9.8

2009. Mint, eucalyptus, cedar dust, dried raspberry, orange peel, pomegranate, and sage. Showing some brick tinges but no flavor deterioration. Cinnamon, cedar and dried maduro, savory, cranberry and dusty raspberry, roobios tea, cracked pepper, cardamom, nutmeg and a tiny bit of blistered pepper.
Intense and silky; shifting strata of immense complexity.

#closdeslambrays #grandcru #domainedeslambrays #bourgognerouge #bourgogne #geandcrudebourgogne #redburgundywine #redburg #redburgundy — 3 years ago

David Kline

9.4

Coffee rye with baked, black currants, dried blackberry, cherrywood, cedar, light pepper, potable, African violet, fig, sarsaparilla and thyme. Grippy, grainy tannins awash in tart black cherry, cinnamon and savory. Young and green with tight tart edges, but open just enough to appreciated the complexities. Underrated sleeper vintage that just might come together. Finish is obfuscated at this juncture. Espresso is my guess, though!


#châteaupontetcanet #pontetcanet #grandcruclasséde1855 #pauillac #alfredtesseron #grandcru #bordeaux #bordeauxrouge #leftbank — a year ago

David Kline

9.8

Graphite and raisin, fig and marinated porcini, smoky dried cherries, black pepper on grilled beef fat, toasted sesame, dried black and red currants, all within an aura of damson and violet and honeyed rose petal. Palate leaps with damson and dried and fresh bing cherry, dried spiced plum, cedar and dried lavender, black olive, moist tobacco, and perfectly toned tannins which come off as a separate, undefinable taste of fruit skin extraction with stunning depth; tea leaves meet dried blackberry in a redwood stand. Soft date and creamy fig follow to a tart raspberry end.




#châteauchevalblanc #chevalblanc #1ergrandcruclassé #1995 #stemiliongrandcru #saintemiliongrandcru #grandcruclassé #grandcru #appellationsaintemiliongrandcrucontrolée #misenbouteilleauchateau #stcivileduchevalblanc #gironde #bordeaux #rightbank #bordeauxrouge — 2 years ago

with Courtney

David Kline

9.6

Chalky lemon and lime mineral nose, candied grapefruit rind, crystalline green apple, Bosc pear. Perfect balance in an adroit turn from tart citrus to tangy apple. Every facet shining. Lemon persists with a salinity that keeps giving. Sublime.



#domainemauriceshoech #alsacegrandcru #alsace #grandcru #riesling #furstentum #2019alsace #2019 — 3 years ago

David Kline

9.6

Nose of cherry and lemon, underripe strawberry and raspberry; brioche. Cherry tartness evaporates into lemon pith and peel, lemongrass, lime and tarragon.

#taittinger #grandscrus #grandcru #rosè #2007 #comtesdechampagne #reims #champagne #bubbles — a year ago

Vasanth Balakrishnan

9.0

This is your #riesling if you’re not a fan of the petrol / diesel notes, once this has had a chance to breathe a bit. While I don’t mind those, this is a nice alternative terroir expression - subtle floral and peach notes on nose. @Kurt Schuster is spot on with the crystalline descriptor. The palate is more about the luscious fruit texture backed by sturdy acidity and a touch of RS rather than a lot of complexity. Where else can you get #grandcru #alsaceriesling other than #costco for ~$18? — 2 years ago

David Kline

9.4

Smoky nose exhibiting a graphite streak; stewed, baked, and braised meats with cranberry, plum, black currant and black olive, cedar plank and tobacco eyelid that flutters between oak and violet. Graphite and iron lead the Connecticut shade entry, clove and pepper pop into view, dried rose petal and violet, tulip; firm tannins, super structured and complex!



#chateaumoutonrothschild #firstgrowthbordeaux #grandcruclassé #grandcruclasséde1855 #bordeauxgrandcru #grandcru #moutonrothschild #mouton #1855classification — 2 years ago

with Courtney