11/16/2015 - St Paul wrote:

This was a moment! Lovely fresh and vital still. Red berries, earth and complexity. Layers of magic.

5/6/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Love this wine. Absolutely stunning. Quite Monfortino like with its pink generic color and elegance. Super wine!

5/6/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Absolutely stunning barbaresco. Super fine elegance with red berries. Vey feminine in style and I find it quite burgundian.

5/6/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Beautiful elegant and lovely wine with small nice red berries and the orange, licorice and a bit of truffle. Generic. Nice.

4/16/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Very fine with dark ruby fruit. It is such a baby still and will gain a lot with at least a couple of more years in the cellar. There is a power that has been let out yet. It is 07 like even if I find it not as flabby as some 07´s. Good wine.

3/31/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Very fine indeed. Perfect to the chicken. A bit young of course but very fine.

3/31/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Wonderful wine with sweet red berries, almond and cherries. Very elegant and pure. Absolutely magnificent.

3/29/2013 - St Paul wrote:

I was fooled to believe this was a burgundy. A top burgundy actually. A top effort from this great producer. Elegant and packed with big citrus fruit and white flowers.

3/29/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Exceptional wine with a stunning power and length. Packed with citrus fruit and minerals. The aftertaste goes on forever. It was against Domaine Leflaive´s Chevalier-Montrachet from the same vintage. The wines were very different and while the chevy was elegant and pure this was more power and maybe less sharp but very very complex and special. I love this wine.

3/29/2013 - St Paul wrote:

What a fantastic wine. Pure class through and through. Very intense citrus fruit with lovely minerals and so elegant and sharp. Roses and white flowers. A stunner to the magnificent halibut with butter and lemon.

3/29/2013 - St Paul wrote:

A lot of tropical fruit. Pears and minerals. A top Meursault 1er Cru. Love this wine.

3/29/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Absolutely stunning champagne. Long time since I had this wine but due to the fact that I had a fab 96 Oenoteque last week I wanted to try this now as well and strangely enough this feels younger and less developed. It was great when released but now it has taken the direction people in the know expected it to do. Towards greatness. Nothing less.

3/29/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Long time since I had these bubbles and from being sharp and closed it now was almost fully developed. Hard to say if it is a phase. There are many 96´s going this direction right now. There are some being extremely sharp and complex but a lot are falling apart. Is it just a phase? Time will tell.

3/29/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Love this wine. Exploding with black currant in the mouth. Very special. Still a baby but enjoyable.

3/29/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Beautiful wine. I was taken by the elegance here. MInerals and cream. Absolutely lovely.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Ok but not more.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Powerful and fine but a bit tight and not as sensual as I want them to be.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Very nice wine without being fantastic. Good red berries and a silky sensual texture. Good stuff.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Very lovely with great spices and red sweet fruit. Powerful and silky i texture. Very nice drink.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Sparkling win from Clos de Vougeot I think. Interesting but dos not give away much

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

This is a producer I rate very highly. Unfortunately this did not deliver what was expected. Could have been something wrong with it. A lot of basement tones with a raw green tone.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

I loved this wine. One of the best bottles of Ramonet I have had actually. It seems like I very often feel a bit let down when it comes to this producer.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Very fine lovely drink. Not as much Morey like i style I thought. More elegant. Good wine.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

A top Aligote. I felt like an odd bottle in the flight but Aligoté? It came as a surprise.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

This might be the first time I really appreciated a Clos de la Barre or I think I have had this before and appreciated it then as well. So this is my fave vintage of this wine of the ones I have been drinking so far. It is now lovely with a lot of yellow fat fruit. Very good village quality.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

I think this was close to Grand Cru quality. Very nice complex wine with citrus, exotic fruit and it is also a bit "fat" in the texture. Like it a lot!

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Quite exotic and sweet. Nice drink but it came out short against the Domaine Leflaive Batard which was on the same flight.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Absolutely lovely wine with a lot of class. It is deep and elegant at the sam time with a transparent structure that is so good. Big wine!

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

This is so good. Typical Dom Perignon nose with its roasted coffee and sweet berries. This is the best oenteque I have ever had I think. It is actually better than the normal vintage was I think. I will open one of them still stocked in my cellar to see how they are developing. Top champagne!!!

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Maybe the first time I have had this and it is actually showing something. It is finally developing. I had this blind and nailed it actually. This is lovely.

3/25/2013 - St Paul wrote:

This is a magical wine I think. It is so pure and elegant with soft texture and tons of small red sweet berries. Some licorice,truffle and orange. Not as breathtaking as last time but it came on very late as well.

3/13/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Deep quite heavy red fruit. Was tight at first. Needs to be decanted an hour at least.
Powerful and big. I like it.

3/13/2013 - St Paul wrote:

This is a beauty. Very good fruit especially wild strawberries. Clean and elegant. The aftertaste goes on for quite some time.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Quite creamy and fat with the typical d´Yquem almond notes present. Not as good as the 98 which it was up against but very nice even though.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Apricot and other tropical tones. Pear. Almost Tokaj like with its creamy tropical structure.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

2nd time and its a real treat with almonds and classical d´Yquem notes. Very fresh.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Against village from Coche and a 1er Cru from A Jobard and came out as nr 3. A lot of burned rubber and the 08 freshness was not there. I rarely get excited about this appelation and its the same this vintage.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

A pleasant wine with red cherry fruit and a bit of spices.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

This was not totally correct but drinkable.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

A great wine with sweet red cherries and minerals. Great structure.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Lovely quite complex wine with layers of red fruit and minerals. This was the winner for me against 59,78 and 85

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

This was amazingly fresh and alive. A real treat with nice cherries and other red fruit. Good length.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Very nice champagne with a quite sharp acidity and freshness. pleasant.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Very nice juice with layers of red and a bit blue fruit. Some green hints as expected but it feels like the 04´s are turning away from that super green they once were.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

A bit disappointed actually. This domaine always deliver so well. This time however it is a bit heavy on the oak I feel. Not a great structured wine. Decent of course but expectations are always very high when drinking this domaine.

3/12/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Lovely wine with an excellent freshness. Packed with stoney minerals. There are hints of petroleum but also lime and tropical fruits such as passion fruit.

2/13/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Very fine and smooth texture. Lovely black currant and also some orange and cherries. Nice length. They say the 82´s have reached their peak. I cannot say they have after tasting 3 very young 82´s this evening. Decanted for close to 4 hours though. Great wine.

2/13/2013 - St Paul wrote:

Very fine and smooth texture. Lovely black currant and also some orange and cherries. Nice length. They say the 82´s have reched their peak. I cannot say they have after tasting 3 very young 82´s this evening. Decanted for close to 4 hours though. Great wine.

2/13/2013 - St Paul wrote:

I have had this at least 5-6 times and it always blows me away. This time it did come in as the winner competing against 82 Leoville Les Cases and 82 Chateau Margaux. Absolutely lovely with its silky and elegant texture and its lovely fruit of black currant and cherries. A big wine with many more years to go.

2/13/2013 - St Paul wrote:

3,5 hours in the decanter and it did not show much more than green veggie tones but after another hour or so it started to show nice black currant and typical Leoville style. For me this is not one of the bigger 82´s. It lacks the structure but it might turn around. It is still just a baby.