3/4/2024 - Burgnick Likes this wine:

First time trying this producer's wine. It was pure and clean with minimal oak influence. Loved the transperency of this. Definitely drank more Cote De Nuits over Cote de Beaune. Not sure if it can age for the long haul, but it was delicious today.

12/28/2020 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

Very seductive sweetness, intermixed with spices. Very good intensity and focus, with touch of high class oak perfume. Loaded with darker fruits.rounded and elegant on the palate. It grows and grows, with just a touch of tannic grip suffered the young stage, and very nice depth, powerful long finish that still displays sense of restraint. A very very good wine .

11/16/2019 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

From 375ml.
Amazing light yellow, premox? not existed! Such sweet seductive and airy aromas of roasted hazelnut, white flower, Orchard fruits, sweet herbs , highly lifted, powerful yet super focus. Hauntingly beautiful and I can’t stop sniffing it. Such perfect harmony on the palate with intense sweet fruits, acidity, minerality, sweet spices combines with salinity, power and elegance. Old Leflaive is such a bomb when it is on form. Delicious!

7/13/2017 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

Used to be my go to Village back then but price has gone up exponentially.... Drinking very well and perhaps a bit advanced compare to the previous bottle. The complexity is there but lack a bit of the tension to shine in this line up.

9/8/2019 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

Is there any wine that can top with the intensity of a great Barolo from great maker? Yes and we were happy to serve this Amarone after the Barolo. Incredibly complex on the nose with seeet blue, darker fruits and flowers, licorice and roasted herbs. The richness and depth is pretty much off the scale, sensuous mouthfeel and complex, almost opulent finish. What’s most amazing was the balance, freshness, purity, elegance and weightlessness of this 16.5% Amarone. No alcohol heat, not heavy and indiscernible tannin. He is a master, a legend, period.

11/11/2019 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

2014 - 2017 (Le Soufllot): Very ripe on both nose and palate. Roasted hazelnut, walnut, loaded with sweet yellow fruits, touch of pepper and smoke. Very rich on the palate, accompany by underlying minerality, umami and ripe, low acidity. Powerful, almost opulent, so broad and rich but lacks a bit of tension. Very good length, a touch of heat and bitterness coming to the forth at the very end. Acidity starts to show after long aeration, giving better shape to the wine but still rather heavy to my preference.

Continued to taste the remaining wine in the bottle for next few days. It iss holding well with more salinity, leaner as the fruits mellowed down few days later. Would be great to access this again in another 5-7yrs.

5/28/2018 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

One of my TOP favourites CDP, this wine is, like its name, Pure. However, this 2007 is, weird. A bit fizzy. Secondary fermentation? I heard some exp the same, not only Pure but other TOP CDPs from 2007.

3/6/2019 - etyc Likes this wine:

An extra bottle that I brought. Last bottle of the evening, and this was popped & poured. Wow, this came out (almost) screaming "I'm pretty, I'm pretty", and I have no doubt that Cailles is perhaps the most elegant & pretty of all Chevillon wines. Unlike my recollection of the last bottle that was opened, the colour showed a bit of age this time round. Nose was mostly spice, sandalwood & roses. Most (if not all) had this as a Vosne. Beautiful wine, and it continued to grow and put on weight in the glass, without losing any of that elegance and perfume. So very good!

9/24/2018 - m_arcon Likes this wine:

The 2010 Clos St. Jacques is the real deal and another proof why those wines are that rare and expensive. It’s the (nearly) perfect combination of pure elegance, tension, focus but also power combined with an incredible drinkability. Dancing on the red fruit, grapefruit and some herbs back and forth and flowing down the throat like water. A truly great wine and definitely Grand Cru level imo. Nothing more to add.

2/24/2019 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

Theme: Burgundy (Summer Pavilion @ Ritz Carlton): Opened at 12pm and serving at around 930pm. Single Blind.
Vibrant ruby. Lovely red fruits on the nose intermixed with flowers, sweet spices and forest floor. Firm on the palate with power and substance for the long run. Not surprise from a young Bonnes Mares, not showing much but you can sense the purity of fruits, fine tannin and freshness.

3/23/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

Full of alluring Vosne spices, earth, truffle, perfume rose petal with a hint of meatiness around with loads of very ripe dark and red cherry core. Very powerful, fullish palate with highly concentrated sweet cherry fruits and rounded Vosne spiciness, mushroom, dried tea leaves that showing off the remarkable depth and complexity. When you thought the long finish is about to let go, there is this second wave of attack present which continue the adventure with ripe, medium level of tannin accompany by firm, solid acid spine that perfectly balance with layer and layer of dried herb, spices, sweet dark fruits all wrapped in a very elegance, polish, harmonious package that flow into the superb long finish that last more than a min. Brilliant. This still have very long life to go! Buy - A must have!

4/1/2018 - m_arcon Likes this wine:

Special Easter lunch (Restaurant Schwarzwaldstube ***, Baiersbronn, Germany): Opened at lunch and decanted. A much more feminin nose than I´ve expected. I´m not very familiar with those wines, because normally this is out of my personal price range, but I thought Bonnes Mares is much darker and masculine. Lots of red fruit like wild strawberries, red currant and a bit of raspberry alongside wild flowers and some herbal components. On the palate super fresh, elegant but still with a lots of energy. The tannins are not recognisable but there is so much backbone behind this wine. Very long and so so elegant. Samer said: "Thats like a red Riesling" and I think he perfectly puts it. Still a very young GC with so much potential and chance of development.
One more thing: It´s very easy. If you can drink the best of Burgundy you don´t need anything else. These wines are so unique.

11/11/2017 - dcwino wrote:

2017 Villa d’Este Wine Symposium - Kelly and Kevin's excellent adventure; 11/9/2017-11/14/2017 (Villa D’este, Lake Como and Milan): The most elegant, pure, balanced and enjoyable wine of the CSJ flight. Beautifully perfumed nose displaying raspberry water, crushed blackberry, rose, exotic spices, sesame and strong limestone. Perfectly harmonious palate, airy and weightless, so finely layered subtle red fruit, bright acidity, incredibly mineral and a seamless subtle red fruit and sesame driven finish. The palate to die for, simply ethereal. Can a seven year red Burgundy be drinking perfectly? For me, yes!

12/31/2016 - Ramberg wrote:

This is always such a treat to drink, and the 2010 vintage of this wine exceeds every other vintage I have tasted of this wine.
Amazing 1:er cru, so much better than so many Grand Cru wines. (Priced thereafter, but for a reason, and worth it)
Nose is simply breathtaking, and so very 2010!
Dusty stony minerals, raspberries, red cherries, Asian spices, red airy flowers with more underlying powerful animalistic and meaty notes.
Another real sniffer, that just keeps revealing more and more impressions as the content in the glass rapidly and unfortunately sinks.
Palate is the reason behind the sinking level in the glass.
Not short of perfect, indeed.
Such a depth and so spicy and complex, yet so clean and sexy.
Red and darker fruits and berries over a layer of pure minerals, woven in great spices and a perfect balance of acidity.
Sweeter ripe raspberries and wild strawberries mixes with cranberries and red and black cherries.
A perfect mixture of wild and tame, sweet and sour, yin & yang.
This will reach the absolutely highest shelf on the scale, but enormously enjoyable and surprisingly accessible already given its youth.
Amazing, how you can make this out of grapes.
The Rousseau Chambertin - 2010 was to me a 100 point wine, flat out amazing, and this is not far behind its big brother.
What a perfect way to finish 2016!
Happy new year all CT users!
(96 – 97++)

2/3/2019 - Collector1855 wrote:

PoB - Burgundy 2017 En Primeur (Hong Kong): Walkabout tasting, only brief impressions. The current generation of Henri Gouges has changed the wine making style. While staying true to the classicism, the tannins are now much more sophisticated. Great earthy aromatics in this wine, good QPR, at this stage on par with the Les St.Georges.

2/3/2019 - Collector1855 wrote:

PoB - Burgundy 2017 En Primeur (Hong Kong): Walkabout tasting, only brief impressions. Very mineralic, gunflint, fine and precise. Grande but not for early drinking. Paul Pillot is one of these rising stars who can make wines in a reductive way that will likely defy premature oxidization. 95-96

2/3/2019 - Collector1855 wrote:

PoB - Burgundy 2017 En Primeur (Hong Kong): Walkabout tasting, only brief impressions. Lots of red fruit, polished tannins, good density, earthy notes on the finish. Very good.

2/3/2019 - Collector1855 wrote:

PoB - Burgundy 2017 En Primeur (Hong Kong): Walkabout tasting, only brief impressions. Fantastic wine, so aromatic, nose of barnyard, earth, smoke. Wonderful

12/17/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

2011 Simple Dinner Series 12 :: M's farewell (Jade Palace Seafood Restaurant, The Forum Shopping Mall, Orchard Road): Alcohol :: 16%
WOW, the color is opaque ruby with purplish hue that imply this must be a huge wine. Not surprised, this wine display huge, powerful aromas of sweet plum and cassis fruits, kirsch, violet and smoke meat. With time, pepper, spices and ink note emerged. You can find the the essence of Barossa Shiraz here: highly concentrated, opulent, flamboyant with melted sweet tannin with endless layer of sweet dark fruits, creamy vanilla. However, this was well balance and layer, it is heavy but not those OTT that you can't even take a sip. The super powerful, long, juicy sweet finish is loaded with dark chocolate, milk chocolate aftertaste. Very well made and I believe this has the right balance for the long run. While this is not to my liking, this is not doubt a one of the outstanding Barossa Shiraz.

10/20/2017 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

Theme: Musigny Grand Cru

Touch of stem w blue fruits and sweet spices. Fresh, rounded, crunchy, effortless on the palate with lovely inner perfume too, lovely length with spring water like sweetness and lightness, very good. Showing caramel and some sweet spices complexity with air.

4/13/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:

2006 anything goes dinner. A sweet (wine) to finish the dinner... Usually I'm not too enamoured with sweet wines, but this was good... very good! Honey, nectarines, pineapples, wow! And very, very well balanced with acidity that the notion of cloying sweetness didn't even cross my mind at all. Almost like sweet, cold spring-water! Have to say I actually liked this more, as opposed to the '83 d'Yquem that I had almost 2-wks ago.

4/20/2017 - etyc Likes this wine:

Lots of lime, some white-flowers and even a tad of pineapples on the nose. Minerality-driven on the palate, with citrus, slate and good freshness/acidity. Good! However, my most memorable VdF is still the 2012!

5/30/2013 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

Alcohol :: 12.5%
Dosage: 5g. Definitely a treat to have this. I thought this would be dominated by the solid structure and acid from the 1996 vintage but I was wrong. This is showing superbly well and everyone in the room get hooked immediately. Extraordinary focus, depth and complex with touch of oxidative note that blossom from the glass along with chrysanthemum, lily, hazelnut and intense yellow fruits. On the palate this is all about harmony. Impeccable balance between the vivid acid core and seductive fruits. Complex layer of flavors continue to expand and linger on the palate effortlessly. Palate staining intensity yet remains so elegance, lively and weightless. The grip at the finished is firm but no forceful, with complex salinity and sweet juiciness lingering. Bravo.

4/19/2013 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

Alcohol :: 14%
Slight dark garnet core than the 98. This is not really showing and I only able to get hint of smoked meat, dried fig paste, kitsch and spices. Not expressive but it is focus and lifted. Medium bodied. Soft entry but expands on the palate effortlessly with complex flavors growing. It has good depth and intensity but the wine remains fresh and delineated. The tannin is ripe and firm but well integrated which giving the rounded, silky mouthfeel with good energy driving to the really long, persistent finished.

12/14/2011 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

2011 Special Session 3 - Mid week lunch: Alcohol :: 12%. Dosage: 10g/l
Popped and poured. Unlike some of the 1996 special cuvee that dominated by the huge acidic backbone, this was rather expressive and approachable, I believed the high dosage - 10g/l is the main factor. Light golden with very fine bubble that gently raise from te bottom of the glass. Kinda tight at first but with some air, this started to reveal complex, soft aromas of yeast, hazelnut and almond along with baking spices surrounded the core of sweet pear and melon fruits and additional layer of fresh honey note. The bubble is energetic and explosive at the entry that is a bit sharp. Rounded up toward the mid palate, excellent intensity but relatively light on its feet, good purity and finesse. This has complex, lush mouth feel of saline minerality, earth and tons of ripe citrus, pear, melon as well as honey sweetness that zoom across the palate with long lingering finished that possessed tremendous freshness and focus. Excellent. I believe this will getting even better in 3-5yrs time. 92-93+

11/5/2012 - Sleepy Dave wrote:

Alcohol :: 12.5%
The legendary Latour. Almost hit the peak (at least for the bottle). It has all the greatness of a Latour: incredible depth, scale and class. However, the overall profile is not as bright as I would expect from a great Latour, a little bit musky which I thought took away some balance and purity. Well, I ain't complaining though! I will reserve my rating until I have tasted another bottle to compare.