5/20/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Light yellow- ripe orchard fruits and sweet flowers and faint tree nut oils all checked - yet a bit lighter and less zippy - acknowledging of course zippy acids is not a marsanne/rousanne trademark- than priors I have enjoyed - off list at resto but if I were a case long on this I’d probably put them on the front burner.

5/20/2024 - Tgood wrote:

BTG in Madrid’s La Bien Aparecida - nice billowing fresh tree nut oil aroma - medium bodied- bone dry - mild salinity- useful stretched table utility

5/20/2024 - Tgood wrote:

BTG from list at La Bien Aparecida in Madrid to accompany their lovely version of cheesecake and it was as noted below by so many and not unexpectedly as a 30 años PX an uber concentrated complex syrupy elixir which went well with my cheescake and my wife’s citrus based dessert and then with my espressos and then alone too. Raisons, coffee, toffee, etc. and enough salinity and tartness to keep it all focused and coherent on the palate. Bravo

5/20/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Luminous clear magenta - fresh floral lift with bright sweet perfectly ripe chiefly strawraspberry but a touch of cran brightness too - more Cote d’Or than grenache porto - “Rayas’sh” - nice juice - bravo!

5/19/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Very concentrated and saline - at home with the richest of food products such as the Cantabrian anchovies or perhaps with cured olives or rich deserts especially with a bevy of salt to neutralize the heavy salinity of this beast.

5/19/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Overwhelmed by powerful Cantabrian anchovies in Madrid but married quite nicely to rice and clam dish. Not a monument but up to this task. Moved to the much richer and saline 12 yr Palo Cortado for the anchovies.

5/19/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Nothing standing out or off throughout bottle that washed down pintxos - a little bitter citrus peel streak at end which is not to my personal liking but with food it works and is inexpensive.

5/18/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Dense opaque purple red - cinnamon predominate oak atop rich deep blacknblueberry compote - alcoholic rich velvety international- in a good way - a good choice from winelist when appropriately priced and a rich red is called for

5/18/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Nice - strawberries and cream - clean crisp finish - a real success and bargain to boot

5/17/2024 - Tgood wrote:

BTG in resto with burger in Bilbao- bright opaque pigment - lush thick velvety fruity - quite a nice surprise for a 6 euro BTG’r.

5/16/2024 - Tgood wrote:

From list at Fagollago in the hills above San Sebastien - great resto - easy cab to and fro and well worth the sojourn - anyway the wine - roasted pruneaux and coffee notes - luxurious structure - no hurries on well-cellared bottles but pulling a cork now is rewarding too. Seems to buck my impression of ‘14 being perhaps a cooler vintage relative to ‘03,’05,’10 and ‘15 but warm tones dominate - nicely.

5/16/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Banana and lemony aromas and flavors on faint yeasty background - crisp fuller body and clean as a whistle finish - 100% chard - a real treat and a steal

5/14/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Bright lively purple magenta - clear - luminous- bramble berries and earth dust - juicy energetic ready to enjoy yet plenty of fruit, acid, and tannins to sustain and reward cellaring - a tremendous qpr value

5/13/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Dense clouded ruby brown black - roasted coffee and dark chocolate dominate aromas and flavors overlying pruneaux fruit. Brusquely alcoholic with hefty tannins already thick and velvety. Roasted beast especially bbq styled with char points and a sweet and spicy sauce would be ideal partner

5/13/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Dense pigment a prelude to a dense concentrated palate of fresh berries - ample acids and tannins will see this one through where development may add complexity to the current lovely dense primary expression

5/13/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Light herbal clean balanced quaffer

5/13/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Lively crisp crunchy chewy orange tangerine kumquat and flowers - would drink again with enthusiasm - pinot blanc - 100% I think

5/9/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Brilliant deep translucent magenta’sh- fresh red fruited and floral nose along with dusty garrigue - sneakily tannic and of course quite tart - lovely now for its celebration of freshness and vibrancy - structure there to support melding over time into something differently lovely

5/8/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Shared table with two Tigger champagnes in Coulon and Dethune - rich notes of nut oils and yeasty bread - bitter grapefruit finish

5/8/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Crispy crunchy orange tangerine kumquat oils and juices - lengthy density - cool clean finish - bouncingly energetic

5/8/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Cool rope cage - pulsing energy - lemon oil, freshly grated ginger, salinity and electric citricity - long pure and clean - unobtanium future

5/8/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Dense crimson- smoked bbq red meat and fresh flowers - faint bell peppery pyrazine note - spicy cherries emerge on over ample regal tannins which along with sharp tartness help bouy this on a tightrope and ensure many tasty revisits for a long time.

5/6/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Asian pear and chenin citricity - medium rich - clean crisp finish

5/4/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Leavened bread with a pretty good soak of lemon juice and hard twist of the peel - creamy density

4/30/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F x nearly 20 years- Youthful dense purplish black - fresh lightly smoked pruneaux fruited nose - thick alcoholic and tannic still. Surviving and a real value cellar play though obviously not a timeless classic trophy.

4/28/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F since acquiring at release - clear black crimson - sweet flowers and dark fruits jump at Durand assisted corkpull of intact closure - always a good sign - ready almost billowing clean deep pure inexhaustible aromas of Agen pruneaux and drippingly ripe black cherries with a sweet fresh floral lift and a perfect espresso base all in a creamy velvety spicy tart lively verve-y vehicle.
An outstanding example of the value of cellar keeping. Well-cellared this gem currently resides in a long apogee. Congrats to those who have gone the mile with this one. Hard to put numbers on wines and art and people,etc. but I put a big number on it as other examples - perhaps not dutifully cellared or with closure failures, etc. have apparently not been as well received.

4/27/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Agree with Grizzlywine just might add for those who dig herbal green freshness - it is there in the form of muddled moist spring grass - and the density of pigment and flavor concentration along with structure and style (?carbonic and noncarbonic blend?) makes this a doppelgänger for a solid fresh N Rhone syrah.

4/24/2024 - Tgood wrote:

NV - mousse and bead of cremant but not champagne of course - fairly deep yellow gold - apples, pears, fermented straw, rather concentrated, flavors and aromas expected from the Jura. High value in the genre of cremant especially if Jura fruit suits your tastes.

4/23/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F x 20 plus years - youthful dark crimson - peppery minty deep ripe fresh AF cherryish fruit - spicy tannins which are now largely polymerized into creamy velvet and sparky tartness keep the wine alive on the palate- tremendous success - Bravo

4/21/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Grassyherb and lime and tin/aluminum - tart and thin - cleanly made

4/20/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Dense luminous crimson red - freshly crushed red berry melange pushes from corkpull - tangy juicy concentrated as a fresh Jamet - gushing with pure deep primary fruit with heaps of fresh spearmint and fresh fragrant flowers swirled in - carbonic in Burg? This fruit bomb has structure too - I mean it must - as the wine fleshes out and feels rather complete on the palate even though the tannins present are completely smothered by the avalanche of fruit. There may be some earthy and spice notes that emerge overtime but at this moment the wine drinks like a most dense and juicy Beaujolais or a juicy fruit CR. Bizarrely concentrated fruitbomby BR - Bravo.

4/19/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Medium clear slightly tawnied crimson- nose of somewhat distant clean fresh red fruits from cran to straw to rasp to cherry with floral and menthol lift - spicy powdery tannins and bright acids within spitting range of balance - for its pretty fresh fruit and balanced structure I will consume in the remainder of my 6 pack in its lovely youth.

4/18/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Drank alongside Bruno Colin’s ‘20 BB and Bernard Moreau’s ‘19 BB - bottomline all 3 are well made and tasty BB’s redolent of orchard fruits and lemony citricity. This one has golden delish and Barlett pear notes with nicely integrated/balanced citricity with faint bitter orchard fruit skin close.

4/17/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Clear light yellow- clean deep aromas of flowers and golden delish apples and pretty vanillin oak - lemony tartness joins in on palate - nice BB

4/17/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F since acquiring on release - Translucent clear crimson- floral raspcherry ready clean deep and pure - lively and spicy tartness and tannins - no hurry on remaining bottles
Day 2 - no delta - still sparklingly crystalline raspcherry- ima beleva

4/16/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Popping color- ready clean aromas and then flavors of strawberry and citrus - snappy palate presence and a clean finish devoid of bitterness or hyperacidity. Nice juice for the price.

4/16/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Side by side w Pierre Cellier’s rose’ - aromatically pinched with a bitter grapefruit note that appears early and stays late on palate

4/14/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F since acq on release - florally lifted spicy peppery capsaicin strawraspberry delight - the astringent tannins so prevalent in this wine’s youth and from vintage to vintage now tame - showing beautifully tonight

4/12/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F since release. Continues to ride a high plateau marked by graphite,charcoal, black cherry and fresh floral lift. Tannic bite balanced with stuffing.

4/12/2024 - Tgood wrote:

DG date obscured by Zachys computer id sticker - buttered sourdough toast spritzed heavily w lemon juice - thick and creamy

4/12/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F since release - deep opaque ruby - rich blackberry and spearmint nose - thick tannic still velvety mouthfeel - long bitter anise note at tail

4/10/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F SAOR - Dense translucent ruby black - ready clean and fresh florally pushed sweet strawberries and plum - oak gone - amazing freshness for 23 yr old - rich velvety and alcoholic- a real vinous treat.

4/9/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55 SAOR - deep black at core cloudy maroon - espresso blackberry prune - thick w extract and alcohol and wuite tannic still yet. Dry. Aged vintage port.

4/3/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F SAOR - Light translucent cloudy crimson - restrained clean pretty floral underripe strawberry and orange oil. Featherlight.

4/1/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F SAOR - sweet raspcherry nose - spicy liveliness on palate as tannins initially astringent have faded. Even cellared examples need drinking up - shelved example’s probably over advanced.

4/1/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Week old specimen sitting on counter corked with a glassful still in the bottle from my son’s recent night out with friends before heading back to school. Leftover pasta with arriabata sauce for breakfast - finished coffee - off for the day - a few bites left - poured this and surprisingly drinkable - soft and pruney - certainly better than grocery plonk of last century though I won’t be stocking it nor would I suppose any CT’rs - but if your college age offspring park this on the counter and you need a gullet wash it isn’t toxic.

3/30/2024 - Tgood wrote:

55F since acquiring on release - Medium transparent crimson- florally pushed cinnamon and crushed raspberry - fully smoothed tannins - in optimum

3/27/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Deeply pigmented - energetic fresh fruit - clean - balanced stuffing, tartness, and tannic structure - vivacity persists on palate - bravo

3/26/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Deep dark luminous purple red black at core - pure crystalline clean blackberry fruit with some black pepper and charcoal at base. Stiff tannins and tart tannins bode well for future - bravo

3/17/2024 - Tgood wrote:

Lemony fresh flowers and talc - light fragrant and fresh -ideal tartness