| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
|---|---|---|
| Red |
2015 Château Prieuré-LichineMargaux Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/21/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 91 pointsPlum, blackberry, tobacco, and dirt. Mainly black fruit. Well-blanced, soft texture with rich expression of fruit. Enjoyable but seems like too common, indistinguishable, standard bordeaux for now. Maybe more years will make some distinction for this bottle as it proves potential for aging. Great qpr overall. |
| Red |
2011 La Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva 904Tempranillo Blend, Tempranillo more |
5/13/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 93 pointsWho said this is bad vintage? This bottle is just stunning. Black fruit with herb, dill, which makes this feel so fresh, and that oak… Not much producer can handle oak like this. So elegant with proper tannin and acidity. And surely has great potential for aging, even for decades maybe. |
| Red |
2014 Produttori del Barbaresco Barbaresco Riserva PoraNebbiolo more |
5/11/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 92 pointsTook about 4 hrs to stablize the palate, though the nose was beautiful right aftet the opening. Rich dark fruit nose, leaves, dirt, oriental spice with dirt and leaves. Coarse texture and decent acidty. A little bitter aftertaste makes me hesitate to fully appreciate this bottle. Very good wine overall, but tbh, I prefer the normale to this one. |
| White |
2018 Domaine / Maison Vincent Girardin Meursault Les ClousChardonnay more |
5/6/2024 - brett228 wrote: 90 pointsClean and fresh meursault. Decent minerality with savoury taste. Citrus, grass, vanilla, with a little bit of grain. Not what I expect from meursault but quite well made. |
| Red |
2015 Casanova di Neri Brunello di Montalcino Tenuta NuovaSangiovese more |
5/5/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 93 pointsAnother bottle after 9 months. Consistent quality with a little more dark fruit and earthy notes. Needed more time to air than previous one. Aging well. |
| Red |
2015 Il Poggione (Proprietá Franceschi) Brunello di MontalcinoSangiovese more |
4/30/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 93 pointsBeautifully aged with intensive fruit, herbacious secondary note, and well-absorbed tannin. After an hour this bottle is just fabulous. Simple and straightfoward yet powerful enough, and no sign of degradation at all. Wish I had this more. |
| White |
2022 Jermann Pinot GrigioFriuli more |
4/20/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 88 pointsIntense citrus and goosebery nose with nice acidity and minerality. Basic pinot grigio that does what it does. Nice food wine. |
| Red |
2017 Pieve Santa Restituta (Gaja) Brunello di MontalcinoSangiovese more |
4/18/2024 - brett228 wrote: 90 pointsA bit basic, but textbook brunello. Cherry, blueberry, oak note with gamey, jammy taste and relatively long finish. Not quite interesting for the name of master of Piedmonte but surely enjoyable. |
| Red |
2021 Domaine Sylvain Pataille MarsannayPinot Noir more |
4/15/2024 - brett228 Does not like this wine: 90 pointsWell-made wine with nice red fruit, grapefruit, pepper, herbs in nose. Decent acidity, absorbed tannin, fresh and exotic palate. I just don’t like its natural wine nuiance. It’s in-between conventional and natural but more weighted to natural. And I don’t like that at all. |
| Red |
2013 San Giusto a Rentennano Chianti Classico Riserva Le BaroncoleChianti Classico DOCG Sangiovese Blend, Sangiovese more |
4/13/2024 - brett228 wrote: flawedSadly something’s wrong about this bottle. Perfect aroma, atypical acidity. Storage issue? |
| White |
2020 Giodo Carricante Sicilia Alberelli di Giodomore |
3/31/2024 - brett228 wrote: 88 pointsClearly not ready at the moment. Lemon, lime, white flower and minerality comes to nose but just too acidic and palate felt simple. Gets a glimpse of attractive grain, almond nuance but not quite enough. |
| Red |
2018 Gilbert et Christine Felettig Chambolle-Musigny Vieilles VignesPinot Noir more |
3/30/2024 - brett228 wrote: 88 pointsCherry, strawberry, dirt, spice and rustic note. Mild but long lasting bouquet. Very tannic and a little stuffy. Balanced but weak in palate. |
| Red |
2020 San Giusto a Rentennano Chianti ClassicoChianti Classico DOCG Sangiovese Blend, Sangiovese more |
3/16/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 93 pointsDefinitive chianti. Period. |
| Red |
2014 Telmo Rodríguez Ribera del Duero MatallanaTempranillo more |
3/14/2024 - brett228 wrote: 90 pointsBlackberry, plum, spice, leather with rustic earthy note and rounded oak. Quite promising in the beginning but easily lost its beautiful bouquet too soon. Mild and smooth texture is sweet at first, but feels greasy as it lacks proper acidity. Very approchable at first, a little disappointing at last. |
| Red |
2015 Kosta Browne Pinot Noir Sonoma Coastmore |
3/9/2024 - brett228 wrote: 91 pointsSweet and flamboyant in nose. A little too sticky and spicy in palate. Strawberry, cherry and flower nose are attractive and quite intuitive… just like coke. But I don’t expect pinot noir to be sweet and sticky like this. Just not my thing. |
| Red |
2012 Domaine de la Janasse Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles VignesRed Rhone Blend more |
2/23/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 93 pointsPlum, raisin, blackberry, fresh mint and smoke. Intense fruit nose, meaty nuiance and smooth texture in tongue. Shame I drank this up too fast. It show the quality after 3+ hrs and goes up and up. |
| White |
2016 Vie di Romans Flors di UisFriuli Isonzo White Blend more |
2/21/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 92 pointsAfter some time, this one had became very different from when it was young. Nutty character reminds me of Jura white, while the fruitness and intense floral note comes from behind. Clear and neat. Alcohol is stabilized within a hour, and then it continues to evolve to represent each varietal. Really attractive friulli though I prefer the younger bottle a liittle bit more. |
| White - Sparkling |
NV Veuve Clicquot Champagne BrutChampagne Blend more |
2/21/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 90 pointsDecent as always |
| Red |
2017 Château TalbotSt. Julien Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/21/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 91 pointsOak, vanilla, cassis, cocoa, chocolate, and black fruit. Nice smoke note and decent acidity with residual sugar. Evolves over time though I only had 4 hours of the bottle. Approchable but could be better with more years. |
| White |
2020 Franz Haas Petit MansengVigneti delle Dolomiti IGT more |
2/18/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 90 pointsVarious tropical fruit, citrus, smoke with minerality. Mid+ acidity and mild sweetness in it. Colorful, wild and powerful wine though it comes down from the peak quite soon. |
| Red |
2021 Jean Foillard MorgonGamay more |
2/17/2024 - brett228 Does not like this wine: 86 pointsLight and acidic. Strawberry, spice note comes clear but couldn’t stand the funky taste. Not my thing. |
| Red |
2019 DeLille Cellars D2Columbia Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/12/2024 - brett228 wrote: 87 pointsDark black fruit, cigar, strong spice and pyrazine. Well-structured texture with mid-acidity. Well made but a bit disappointing compared to 2018, as it loses fruity nose quite soon and gets strong alcohol taste. Moreover, that pyrazine doesn’t seemed to be well-controlled. |
| Red |
2017 Azienda Agricola La Torre Brunello di MontalcinoSangiovese more |
2/9/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 92 pointsAlmost everything I expect for normale BDM. Red cherry, meaty, nice exotic spice nose with fresh ginger. Mid acidic, and well absorbed tannin makes nice texture in palate. A little jammy at first but slowly gets the balance. All in good form in 3 hours, and lasts very long time. |
| Red |
2020 Frank Cornelissen Susucaru RossoTerre Siciliane Nerello Mascalese more |
2/7/2024 - brett228 Does not like this wine: 85 pointsLong lasting reductive nose hardly gets off. So funky and cherry, strawberry nose emerges soon. A little fizzy and light in tongue, clear and transparent. Quite interesting but wouldn’t have this again voluntarily, because of the bitterness in aftertaste. |
| Red |
2017 Boffa Carlo Langhe Na MiraLanghe DOC Nebbiolo Blend, Nebbiolo more |
2/4/2024 - brett228 Likes this wine: 91 pointsReally nice expression of nebbiolo blending. Flamboyant floral nose with spice, chocolate, cigarette, and a little bit of nail polish remover. Reminds me of Gaja sito moresco but this one is more easy-drinking and intuitive. Definietly barbera shows the influence, and CS shows a bit, too. Though the sweetness in it would bother some people, this is nice suprise for me. Great qpr. |
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