3/25/2024 - Lord Rodney wrote:

It’s braking up - this wine seems to continue it’s downward spiral. The plums keep turning into prunes and dried fruits. The palate is the worst though. Drying dark berries and dusty chocolate- even a little harsh. Think this wine was just too extracted and couldn’t handle it. the alcohol is seriously showing up - drink up. This was my 5th bottle out of 6.

9/18/2022 - Lord Rodney wrote:

Nice but a little underwhelming for what it was - very ripe but lacking serious acidity and freshness for the age. It survived the Roquefort but only barley - cheap but there are much better Sauternes to buy now for the same price

5/5/2023 - JimHow wrote:

2010 Fleur Cardinale: This is a very unexciting wine. The good: The color is a rich deep ruby, quite beautiful. The nose is modest but pleasant. The bad: This is flabby, boring, un-thrilling. No acidity. Hard to imagine how anyone would think this will improve with another five or ten years of aging. Yuck. This is nothing like the crazy 16% Tropling Mondot that Jacques and Jill brought to my house a couple summers ago, which was crazy and alcoholic, but certainly not flabby, it was racy and voluptuous, over the top. This Fleur Cardinale was certainly not sensuous or sexy. It was droopy, flabby, a relic of a Parkerized era that is hopefully behind us. An alcoholic, Parkerized mess. Australian-like. Rating: 87 points.

JimHow
www.bordeauxwineenthusiasts.com

7/9/2022 - jhbrower1 wrote:

For the price, absolutely stunning. Gorgeous, varietally correct nose full of dark fruit, pork fat, olive brine, black pepper. Fresh, lively acidity, restrained alcohol and tannins -- everything a good, drink-young northern Rhone syrah should be.

10/13/2021 - Fuel55 Likes this wine:

Beautiful Chablis. Does need 2-3 more years to integrate the oak fully. Creamy limestone, citrus - all the GC hallmarks in here. Amazing QPR.

8/2/2012 - Lord Rodney wrote:

Still an awesome wine! But more full of orange peel and apricot than a year ago. Long long finish. Still just a notch below last year

10/1/2021 - Lord Rodney wrote:

This was a dissapointing bottle - simply no fruit to speak of. I simply can't grasp that this was so good the first time!

9/11/2021 - watcheslover Likes this wine:

Incredible, I just saw that Jasper Morris gave his best Burgundy score of 2019 to these Reignots, even ahead of Romanée Conti !!! Finally someone who recognizes the true genius of this winegrower. And more, I am very proud of my palate. If I had a bottle, I would uncork it to celebrate.
Buy everything, even villages, before prices explode

8/5/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote:

La Tâche Dinner (RPM Steak - Chicago IL): Very dark color, darker than I recall from most previous bottles. Ripe fruit, showing both mature and dried apricot, along with burnt caramel sauce. Good concentration, slightly lacking acidity and lift for d'Yquem.

7/18/2021 - Lord Rodney wrote:

I have tried these wines before and would really like to love them but simply I don’t. Drinkable with spicy dishes but really too crude and cordial for me

5/29/2021 - chbeaumont wrote:

Salmon pink; dried Provençal herbs, lavender oil; dry, quite rich, weighty, low acidity, finishes positively. Very long. ‘It’s no Tempier’.

5/16/2021 - martinvolmerpedersen@gmail.com wrote:

First slight disappointment with a Taganan. Mostly peppery on both nose and palate. Lacks the wonderful juicy element that these wines usually have. Too one dimensional this bottle.

7/10/2020 - pren wrote:

还不错，水果尚可。

4/17/2021 - LB88 wrote:

At this stage so primary and also disappointing green. Not sure if this will improve

3/26/2021 - Guillaume-en-égypte wrote:

Oxidised :( ....I have had plenty of 2010 white Burgs / Chablis recently that have been drinking beautifully, even at village level, but this was shot. Poured a deep golden yellow, had distinct oxidative notes & was completely dead on the palette.
I suggest the 69% of community holdings still in cellar be approached asap & would love to know if this is across the board or just a bad bottle?
(Removed from bonded storage last week, so provenance should not be an issue) EDIT: next bottle was perfect & seems to have plenty of life left in it

4/8/2021 - the player Likes this wine:

Outstanding finesse this gorgeous golden yellow colored vivacious champagne never ceases to amaze me. Fine bubbles, very refined nose of marzipan, pineapples, golden apples, citrus, chalk, brioche, you name it and its there! Mineral, fat and buttery entry on the palate, crisp mid palate and a Montrachet style finish. Definitely my kind of champagne. Would love to try to 2002 BdB if I can find it.

2/12/2021 - rcg62 wrote:

Premox. This was well stored and bought on release. Sometimes I ask myself why I buy white burg at all. Feels like premox is 1 out of 3.

2/21/2021 - Lord Rodney wrote:

Hmmm difficult wine - we are talking pre-premox stage. But still rich lovely fruits!! I love white burgundy but this is the downside.probably/hopefully there are more fresh bottles but do you dare to wait further?

2/2/2021 - Reblin Likes this wine:

I like this wine now more than I did 4 years ago. It has mellowed and come together with age. Ample fruit, moderate acidity, light earthiness. Drinks well and held up on the second day.

12/9/2020 - chbeaumont wrote:

Bonza nose;, butterscotch, sherried, powerful; dank feel to plate, 'oxidised'. Brutal. Quite long, regretfully. not my thing,

12/10/2020 - dchain wrote:

Dark and brooding. See my earlier rant about the 2000 vintage (GPL 2000 tasting note from the same night). So little pleasure to be had. Some ripe cassis fruit but all locked up in a straight jacket of not fully ripe phenolic tannins. This has not been pleasurable since tasting it en primeur and it is still hard to get much pleasure. I will sell my 2 cases bought en primeur bought at $45/bt as I cannot be bothered to wait to see how it finally turns out. Unlikely to set your world on fire however long you wait, it is simply the style of Montrose back when it was made. Again, other than the fluke, flawed, Bret laden 89 and 90 who has had a pleasurable, fruit driven, perfumed Montrose? Wines are for enjoyment right, rather than to be worn as a sackcloth like some endurance badge of honour...

4/1/2020 - Egatniv wrote:

This bottle tasted oxidized. Drank with fried chicken, which it worked with pretty well, but as an aperitif, wasn't enjoyable.

8/25/2019 - Robert Pavlovich Likes this wine:

Starts slightly citric, but begins rounding out fairly quickly. Shows many good components, with good savory, mineral accents, and well judged butter/cream impressions underneath. Has light to medium fruit weight, with a mix of fresh lemon and lemon meringue flavor. It does miss a bit on depth and doesn’t quite have that finishing kick of complexity you hope for with a Grand Cru. An enjoyable, classy drink nonetheless, and one to drink over the next few years, judging by how quickly it opened. Would not really recommend decanting as I did. Followed over most of the day, and became simpler as it opened.

1/20/2019 - JefCon wrote:

Used for cooking but saved a glass. Ripe berries and very juicy. Tannic. A young burgundy.

8/10/2019 - MC2 Wines wrote:

Smokin Meat and Serious Syrah 2.0 (Westport, CT): Interesting as I had a very different experience from the person before me. These are always some of my favorite pink bubbles. Drank this with a large group of friends and this was the first bottle that was finished even though it was one of the later champagne/whites that was opened. It's fresh and easy and bits of red fruit and unlike some of the other champagnes that seemed to need food to be as compelling this is a wine that stands quite comfortably on its own.

1/10/2019 - guitarguy wrote:

This wine has some type of nasty, skunky, musk nose and taste that has persisted from bottle one to 5. It just trashed the wine. I’m just abhorred, as a long-time MB collector to see Ridge add that name to this trash. What is going on with Chardonnay up on the hilltop and what did the critics taste, certainly not this garbage. I should probably call the MB collector club and complain. Is it Brett?, some other nasty organism? Anyhow, hard pass from now on.

11/10/2018 - Puteljen! Likes this wine:

This bottle back on track. Lovely stuff! See previous notes.

11/1/2018 - esh44 wrote:

Still pretty darn reductive. This was better on day two where the citrus fruit meshed well with all the chiseled stone-y tones. Love these.

6/29/2018 - Milliontown wrote:

Bitterly disappointing. Really funky. Smelled bretty so I decanted it. It didn’t blow off. In fact, it gained more funkiness and developed intense VA. Full on nailpolish. Not that enjoyable to drink. One of the few times I have felt duped by the price of a wine. So disappointed by this. Sad.

2/24/2015 - acyso wrote:

Dinner at RPM Steak (Chicago, IL): So, this is a fantastic wine at $25. Add a zero to that? Nah, not so much. The nose has tons of fresh green apple, and as Alan mentioned, sour beer. Lovely fresh acidity that just keeps going. There is a certain funk (I think it's a very minor oxidative element) that makes it clear that this isn't Burgundy (premox jokes aside), but this is excellent chardonnay in its own right. This would be a delightful wine to drink with some roast chicken on a lazy weekend afternoon, and while this is delicious, there's no way it has the complexity of a $250 bottle.

11/16/2014 - Iceman611 wrote:

Expensive but definitely a flawless Cali cab. One of the best I've tried.

12/17/2013 - Lord Rodney wrote:

overripe and oaked

9/25/2013 - budh wrote:

I'll wait on rating this wine until I've tried it again. Did a Coravin 3 oz pour and let it sit in the glass for two hours. 16.2% abv, and it seems like more. I switched from a Syrah glass to a Bordeaux to let the alcohol blow off a bit more, but it still overpowers. Very full bodied and massive fruit. Silky texture. After a a few sips, you can get past the alcohol (maybe the senses are just numb by then), but I don't see the typical syrah earth, leather, tobacco, funk characteristics - just syrupy dark fruit. For me, it's much ado about nothing....

7/3/2013 - Lord Rodney wrote:

A very good Spanish indeed. And even though it had a bit of prunes to it I think it should age further.

8/28/2011 - MayValley wrote:

Black blockbuster. Some sweetness, ripe but be aware af the alkohol.

7/31/2011 - Terkel wrote:

Brilliant rose color. Very aromatic, perfume, rose petals, strawberry and minerals. Exciting and fresh on the palate with intensity and grip, loads of red raspberry and strawberry fruit. Great length with minerals and flower perfume.