5/13/2024 - Nguyenning Likes this wine:

I gave the bottle an hour of air before I poured a glass and it was pretty tight. It improved after another hour and then I capped it and left a glass's worth for the following day, in which there was no payoff. I might be in the minority here, but I feel this should be saved for another couple years.

4/27/2024 - jepstein4031 wrote:

Took a few of these out along with some 2009 La Chapelle Hermitage for a special birthday meal of roast lamb. The Larcis Ducasse won hands down. This seems to still be improving. Many people dismissed its super high ratings, but it just needed patience. All classic Bordeaux characteristics. Still has a lot of time in front of it.

11/28/2023 - SARED wrote:

Lovely rich flavor profile. Wish it were slightly more chiseled though.

8/15/2023 - N.Bonaparte wrote:

After 7 hours in the decanter this was still a block of stone. Extreme dry extract up front. This was my first of 12 bottles and I’m going to hold these for another 5 years before trying again. I thought the 2010 classic cuvee was exponentially better.
My recommendation is to decant this over night at this point. This certainly has potential but is probably 15 years away from prime time. This is a 50 plus year wine. Revisit 2028

2/25/2024 - winelover1808 Likes this wine:

amazing. pretty nose immed hits you with lemon, wet stones, reductive notes. The mouthful has such pretty lemon curd with terrific bracing acidity and racy minerality. Medium bodied with a very pretty long finish. Pretty much all i look for in a top notch Boillot white burg is found here IMHO. Big fan of Henri Boillot whites...

11/17/2023 - joshabramson Likes this wine:

Very pretty, starting to show signs of maturity but still super fresh & youthful.

12/31/2023 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine:

Drank on NYE, with cassoulet. It's fascinating to see the differing opinions on this wine. My first bottle of 6 - I was stunned by how youthful it seemed. Very dark, obviously big, but not overwhelming (and certainly not from the alcohol). Lovely spice, lots of fruit. I really enjoyed this, and look forward to tracking the remaining bottles. It will also be interesting to see how this producer, in particular, handles the increased temps from global warming. Much like Bordeaux has better learned to handle the warmer vintages post-2003, Châteauneuf-du-Pape has hopefully done the same to prevent its Grenache from being a look-alike for Sine Qua Non. (Fwiw as a comp, my go-to CdPs are Pegau Cuvee Reservee and Vieux Donjon; both of whose '10s I love.)

4/6/2023 - Purple Tooth wrote:

A really hard to understand wine for those who have not had a mind blowing claret weight wine in their lives. I would say that this is either a miss, or simply it is a long, long way away from home. With time, it throws warm barnyard notes and the smolder from the iron tinged soil of saint estephe starts to easily float off the top and into the senses. Now now...If you would have told me back in 03 that this was going to be a 30 year wait and see wine, I would have bought the Montrose. I dont have more of this, but it is a wine to watch. It is becoming clear that there are winners and fillers in every vintage, including the great ones. In general, I dont find 2000 to be a great QPR year in left bank Bordeaux....HOLD_

10/5/2023 - Philippe_C wrote:

Huge nose of cedar, cassis, incense, smoke... Tobacco leaves, cigar box, ultra refined tannin, cigar box, roasted meat

9/29/2023 - jkwoodward wrote:

Still needs time. Best in last sip 3 hours in. Enjoyed at Bazaar meat. Best with suckling pig still very primary.

9/30/2023 - Chasse_spleen Likes this wine:

Very good, elegant and very balanced. Sweet fruit underpinned by acidity and complexity. Volnay at its best, very true to style.

9/26/2023 - adnorthup wrote:

20 minutes of air, fruit is so vibrant and alive: strawberry all over, sweet cherry on the finish. In a phenomenal spot.

9/15/2023 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine:

Decanted at the start of dinner; by the time we turned to this, it was just stupid good. I'm sure I've missed checking off a few bottles of this, but am hoping I've got 5 or 6 left. This was one of the best young Bordeaux I've ever had. It's even better now.

7/4/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Offering a sublime tasting experience., the wine is packed with all the spicy cedar, tobacco leaf, cigar box, ash, currants, blackberries, and smoke you could ask for. Full-bodied, deep, long, earthy, rich, and long, the wine unfurls on your palate and stays there. This is still the best buy for a Latour that is close to maturity on the market today. Drink from 2023-2055.

8/5/2023 - csimm wrote:

True to form, this Mouchere follows suit with its past siblings in a broad and shouldery display of lemon and yellow and white stone fruit flavors unabashedly pouring on to the palate. Notable focus here, with the youthful heat in better check in 2020 than previous vintages. With a couple hours of air, clementine, kiwi, flint, acacia flowers, white travertine, and lemon curd notes emerge in flowing and controlled fashion. The finish is more about power and push than gradual length, but yellow fruit and chalk notes carry on through an extended back end that envelops throughout and maintains enough poise to stay sophisticated.

A wine to hold for a couple of years, where it will likely merit an even higher score and could be the most put-together Mouchere we’ve seen yet. Grand Cru quality here (I always hate saying that because it implies the tariff should be even more than its continuing inflated price - though it’s hard to argue its relative station in the world of top shelf 1er and even some Grand Crus, as its “worth” is surely compelling).

1/1/2023 - kitkat4 Likes this wine:

Day 1 93 points, day 2 only 87. Splitting the score for 90.

On day 1, a very pretty nose with green apples, flowers and a hint of brioche. On the palate, bright acidity with citrus, green apple, mineral accents and that same hint of brioche. Excellent - full bodied, but bright.

Day2 it fell apart. All the lovely mineral and brioche notes were gone, replaced initially by grapefruit and bitterness. The bitterness eventually fell off, but it remained as high acidity with nothing to balance it.

5/1/2023 - thesternowl wrote:

My first impressions of the 2020 Pégau “Cuvée Réservée”. I brought this bottle to Tasting Group and presented it double-blind to the crew, for science! The wine pours a deep ruby with a translucent core. Moderate staining of the tears; high viscosity. On the nose: the wine is moderate intensity; developing. Ripe cherry and bramble fruits with some strawberry, anise, exotic spices, garrigue, and lavender. On the palate, the wine is dry, medium+ tannin and medium+ acid and medium+ alcohol. The tannins are super grippy. The finish is long, herby and there is a streak of black pepper. Whoa…this is a gorgeously expressive wine! Some felt it was 1er cru Burg. Other thought something form Italy: Brunello or CCR. Only one, the only Advanced Somm in the group, called CdP, but he called 2016. Having had many 2016’s recently, I can see where he was coming from. But make no mistake, this will age well despite it’s current approachability. Drink now to enjoy its youth before it potentially (likely) shuts down. Otherwise, this will drink well for 10-15+ years.

4/30/2023 - chablis28 wrote:

Capital Grill MPLS Steaks & killer Aged BDX! Gary's wine tonight and another fantastic Leoville Barton. I own a couple and excited by how well this is drinking now and how much upside is still possible. A well fruited '00 with plenty of LB structure and lift to energize the fruit. 94+ Thanks Gary!

3/25/2023 - VinhoVerde Likes this wine:

Medium dark red color. Black currant, spice, and chocolate aromatics. Very rich fruit on the palate, it still has a little tannin in the finish. I think it will continue to evolve at least another 3-4 more years. A surprisingly strong showing for a 1998 vintage.

Tasted this at Mark’s yearly Bordeaux tasting. Sampled 12 vintages each of Château Haut Brion and Château Margaux. Great wines and comradeship, what an exceptional event to be part of!
Thanks to our host for his generosity in presenting a once in a lifetime Bordeaux tasting experience.

3/10/2023 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine:

Popped'n poured at friends with dinner. Barolo remains something of a mystery to me; I often wonder if I should be giving them more time. But the group certainly enjoyed this. Lovely floral nose, still some tannins.

2/19/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:

Garnet color. A touch of brett that stays in check and garrigue on the nose. Pleasing medium weight, quite supple. Lovely, fresh ripe plum and cherry, pepper, herb, and gentle soil. Light tannins and excellent acidity. Mature but balanced to last 5+ years. I love Vieux Donjon's savory, understated style.

2/16/2023 - Gourmet Christian Likes this wine:

English text below:
Nach einem Las Cases 1982 genossen. Was für ein gewaltiger Unterschied. Kork fast wie neu. dunkles Rubin, minimal orange an den Rändern.
Kirschen, Tabak, Veilchen, Blueberry , blackcurrent, das schreibe ich sonst Nie : Umami ! wunderbar integrierte Tannine - ewig langer Abgang. mit 12.5% äusserst bekömmlich. Ein hocheleganter tanzender Marquis auf dem absoluten Zenit

after enjoying a Las Cases 1982. What a huge difference. Cork almost like new. dark ruby, minimal orange at the rims.
Cherries, tobacco, violets, blueberry , blackcurrant, I usually never write it : umami ! wonderfully integrated tannins - eternal long finish. at 12.5% extremely digestible. A highly elegant dancing Marquis at its absolute zenith

2/21/2023 - blacktruffle Likes this wine:

You can tell immediately that this site got a lot of sunlight, as the citrus fruit is ripe and full. Bright acidity balances out the abundant fruit. They picked correctly on the earlier side. No sign of high alcohol. Saline and tannic finish. Impressive. A wine to buy.

6/30/2022 - Burgundy Al wrote:

Birthday Dinner Featuring Bonneau du Martray and the Very Best of Chambolle-Musigny (The Bristol - Chicago IL): In 06/07/08/10 vertical, preceded by 11/12/13/14 vertical. Maybe this just got lost in the brilliant vertical, but it certainly seemed like another 2010 getting too tired too young. But this is the first time I have had this problem with Bonneau du Martray. Drinkable, but nowhere near the quality of previous bottles.

1/20/2023 - dnnk88 Likes this wine:

Nice nose. Easy drinking, gained weight with time. Not bad. Drink up earlier rather than later.

1/14/2023 - grapenomad wrote:

Medium lemon in the glass. Opened and kept overnight, was still pretty much alive and kicking the second night when I tried it. Pronounced nose showing boatloads of citrus fruit, peach, nectarine, lemon curd, crushed rocks, fresh bread. Acidity is great, zippy but not out of sync, highlighting the fruit gracefully. Rounded texture, long finish. Love it.

10/16/2022 - csimm wrote:

At Cyrus Restaurant, Geyserville.

Well now, this is a big boy athlete with MC Hammer pants and tribal tattoos strutting chest-out with significant look-at-me bicep flex and drive, pumping out yellow citrus, pear brandy (without the overt booze), orange oil, matchstick, and white rock flavors that initially hit you silly on the palate and make you wonder if you got punched by a Pitbull or slathered by a Labrador.

It's quite the ping-ponging of flavors on the initial pour, but throughout a couple hours of consumption, this comes back to center and begins to show a more refined meathead posture. Never clunky or rude, but certainly assured and bold, this version of Mouchère is a powerful pony compared to the 2017 and 2018. True enough, the latest renditions of Mouchère have never been shy guys, so many of you holding bottles know this already, but the 2019 is a tick up in everything from frame and bones to succulence and concentration. The drive is stylistically pronounced and dynamic, but it still holds its focus and finds glide and beauty once it devours a few hours of O2.

It's not an angry nor waspy execution by any means. It's just an Amazonian Maria Sharapova with a forehand topspin that may leave your pecs feeling a bit gassed out by the end of it if you're not adequately trained-up before your first sip. Be sure to properly stretch before taking on this mancow shock jock.

Somewhat surprisingly, this pairs great with food - Asian-fusion type fare is a solid marriage. Even still, best to let this gym junkie cycle off the horse juice for a few years before introducing it to mom and dad. Try again in 2026+.

12/25/2022 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine:

Popped'n poured with Xmas dinner. Drinking beautifully, but maybe the first time of having the '09 and '10 together where the '10 was clearly ascendant.

12/23/2022 - larsum Likes this wine:

Initial funk, albeit lesser than what I remembered. The fruit forwardness in earlier bottles have partly been replaced by a more nuanced presentation. This was aired for 4 hours. Has evolved beautifully. Very good right now, but may have a couple a years of development. One of my best Rhone wine experiences. Bought 4, should've bought 12, just for the enjoyment of it.

12/23/2022 - jc12wings wrote:

JS wine of the year in 2018

12/19/2022 - Purple Tooth wrote:

One of my bottles, poured next to a 2007 Clos de Papes. Both wines showed fantastic today with the Papes showcasing muscle and power, and the pegau showing allure and sexiness. This bottle outclassed the powerful 2007 de Papes with ease as it effortlessly pranced along to its own beat of terroiristic snobbism, displaying just the right amount of barnyard and smoldering tobacco that is associated with a serious wine. The finish was beautifully re-emerging, brining back more barnyard and a cashmere like warmth. I preferred this by 2 points over the 100 point Clos de Papes, making this 102 points. But all jokes aside, for my taste the Clos de Papes comes in at 94 and this in comparison, was an easy 96. Drink!

To me, the 2009, 2010, and 2011 are the 3 glory years of Pegau.

12/14/2022 - jshufelt wrote:

I enjoy my own notes - yeah, like I'm really going to wait another 20 years before opening another bottle. Three weeks, 20 years, what's the difference. I crack me up.

Anyway: sometimes I'm glad I don't take myself too seriously when it comes to tasting notes. This bottle was noticeably more open than our prior bottle, with more pronounced strawberry and cherry aromatics, and ample cherries, plums, currants, and secondary notes of rose and asphalt on the palate, with manageable tannins throughout. Still on the early side of the drinking window, to be sure, but better than looking at the window longingly from a distance.

12/15/2022 - asparagus Likes this wine:

reticient on the nose, but very, very good on the palate. it took some time to come out of its shell - but this had so much material. loved it

11/11/2022 - Geoff7777 wrote:

Corn/wheat flour tones to the bouquet. A richer, fuller and more classic Mouchère palate with a very faint botrytis influence. A Puligny Grand Cru equivalent on this showing. A great wine 19.5

12/13/2022 - acyso wrote:

I was only able to get one bottle of this on release, and this being a new vineyard in the Boillot stable, I figured it was worthwhile to take this out for a test spin. What a spectacular bottle of chardonnay. This is pretty much everything I love about white Burgundy. A flinty but generously oaky nose showing plenty of ripe fruit, but also a smoky, mineral note. This drinks very broadly, with a fullness on the palate that is very pleasing. Lots of complexity in both the mineral and fruit department, with very well-balanced acids. A stunning new release.

12/12/2022 - joshabramson Likes this wine:

Nice weight and acidity, really tasty stuff. I prefer Boillot's 19' Clos de la Mouchère, but this is also very good.

12/11/2022 - UFGators Likes this wine:

Excellent quality for price. Unmistakably Meursault and that’s what is important. Drink or hold.

12/3/2022 - Purple Tooth wrote:

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.........nnnnK
Love it. Drink or Hold

11/17/2022 - DCHawkeye Likes this wine:

Popped'n and poured at dinner with friends at La Piquette in DC. This drew a mixed response, as '03 Bordeaux often does. A couple of the much more experienced tasters (the types whose cellars are still filled with '82 Bordeaux) thought this "hot", while the folks whose Bordeaux experience started in the '90s loved this wine (I've always loved the '03s from St-Esteph and some of the other northern Bordeaux communes.)

It's interesting to see how our early tasting experiences shape our perspectives. (I, for instance, who cut my teeth on French wines, detest anything in American oak, especially California Pinot.)

11/17/2022 - Collector1855 wrote:

From MAG. Very much in the Vaucrain style. Earthy, tannic, a touch rustic, smoke, animalic but the fruit can carry the structure. Very aromatic, even wild.

10/27/2022 - dcwino wrote:

Mostly Bordeaux dinner (Eddie V's - Tysons Corner, VA): Expressive nose displaying concentrated cool black fruit, crème de cassis, crushed blackberry, cedar, lead pencil, a hint of luxurious oak and mineral. Excellent concentration, layers upon layers of intense cassis fruit, silky, beautiful detail and balance, bright acidity, strong mineral, very fine tannins and a long intense cassis fruit driven finish with lead pencil at the end. This nicely expresses the classic 96 vintage and the clean cassis driven Chateau style. It remains very youthful which to be expected.

3/29/2022 - Jeff Leve wrote:

Perhaps seeing a 100 Pt score is not a surprise here, but the devil is in detail as every vintage carries a unique signature, and this is the point of tasting and comparing. I am jealous of the younger generation of consumers that will be able to compare the 2018, 2019, and 2020 on maturity, as each vintage has its own strong points and character. The 2019 offers a vibrant, rich, refined, powerful, concentrated, smoky profile with countless layers of roasted, smoked red and black fruits, herbs, spice-box, cigar wrapper, cedar, and burnt leaves. Even though this is incredibly dense and intense, it is also light on its feet. Effortless to drink, with a beautiful, elegant, silky, refined finish that surpasses the 60-second mark, this will be seen by future generations as one of the great vintages of Haut Brion. Drink from 2032-2075.

10/15/2022 - Justin S wrote:

Hard to get a read on the wine this time because it was chock full of super fine sediment that I had neglected to decant off properly (it all got mixed up when I removed it from the cellar). That said, I can tell that it's a very different wine than a few years ago, the fruit has receded and the alcohol poke up a bit. I would probably start drinking these for my preferences but could be totally off base given all the sediment.

11/1/2022 - csimm wrote:

Bordeaux tasting - with a few pirates: This was drinking rather beautifully, perhaps much in part to its handler’s decanting protocols prior to arrival. Bravo for that! Medium bodied flavors of red raspberries, cedar, earth, old cinnamon stick, plum skin, and iron parallel notes of unsmoked cigar, leather, and torched orange peel. Balls up a bit on the finish, with a firmness that keeps it in classical mode, not allowing the fruit (what remains of it) to fully give way. I sensed a slight bit of funk here, but nothing that didn’t blow off with some swirling in the glass.

The 2015 Cases was served beside it, which I personally favored, though the 2015 was pretty strait-laced for most of the evening.

11/12/2022 - The Guzz wrote:

Full throttle. Def decant if possible. Big brown sugar, orchard fruit aromatics. Big big volume. Big character. Somehow balanced by mondo acidity. Once this mellows out should be great.

11/4/2022 - Motz wrote:

Tasting Rendezvous with Rick, of Rick & Ilsa: Rick brought this to our tasting rendezvous, to my great delight! It was one of two bottles that we brought to a steakhouse for dinner.

About one quarter of the cork was saturated, otherwise, in perfect condition. Splash decanted, the enthralling perfume emanating as I poured it. Light+ bricking. Redcurrant, blackcurrant, red plum, pomegranate, pyrazines, gravel, the most beautiful compost funk imaginable, century-old discarded railroad tie, covered in moss and sous-bois, powerful umami, black earth, and ripping minerality! The Bordeaux deities be praised!!! I would have walked away satisfied just smelling this...but I tasted it too!

The last wine we tasted before dinner was the '11 Fonseca. This cleansed my palate from the outset, leaving it without a lingering hint of sweetness or fortification. Resplendent! All bouquet elements grace the tasting experience, in inflection-changing waves! Holy God!...getting chills reliving the experience now! Staggering balance! I most appreciated the elegant lightness, that touched every part of my palate, without a whisper of excessive weight or flamboyance. Perfect with several cuts of beef, prepared different ways.

Medium plus to high acid, saturates, cleanses, and re-saturates. Sweet, steely tannins make their presence known, unobtrusively. Seamless oak and alcohol. Knee-weakening, unclockable finish!

One of two red wines (2001 Château Latour the other) that I have scored 99 points. One of seven Bordeaux that I have scored 98 points, or higher. The best wine of the year for me, edging out the same vintage Montrose. Among the very best wines of my lifetime!

As an aside, I knew this was a 98 point wine from the outset, but was leaning heavily to 99 points, knowing it made a greater impression than the same vintage Montrose, tasted in May, and the Léoville Las Cases, tasted a few years' back. I resolved to score it 99 points, then looked at the pro scores. I was amused to see that ST, who was brutal on Bordeaux, scored this 96 points. Tanzer was one of the only professional reviewers...notice that the 'professional marketer Freudian Slip thing' did not happen here...who I paid attention to...and my favorite overall. My longstanding rule of thumb for any ST Bordeaux score is: add three points. The formula worked again!

As for longevity...I would expect this to be in exceptional form roundabout 2050...and not the least bit surprised if it held for a decade thereafter.

I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to Rick for bringing this transcendent wine to our tasting rendezvous. Cheers to him!

10/22/2022 - Eric wrote:

ESTG does Barolo at Marianna's (Renton, WA, USA): My favorite wine of the night. Fiercely tannic at first yet opens up into a beautifully classic and wonderful Barolo. Just gorgeous.

10/23/2022 - Cailles wrote:

Heitz MV vs Dominus: Tasted double blind from half bottle. At first, this showed so intense and broad and a bit too sweet and tropical but the longer it sit in the glass the more it morphed into an excellent Chardonnay full of salty minerality and with a good cut. Ever so slightly changing. Sublime and easily 95/96pts.

TN: At first very extreme, intense nose full of deep yellow flowers, yellow fruit, a touch of smoke. On the palate this is some old tropical fruit, some fine ripe pineapple scents, with time more fresh fruit, orchard fruits, some yellow and white flower scents and a more pronounced minerality and that salt streak towards the finish. Good, round acidity which comes forward with time and keeps it balanced and round. Overall quite harmonious and complete with good length.

Decanting: Not decanted, needed 20+ minutes in the glass. This would have certainly benefited from an hour or two in the decanter but it was interesting to follow its evolution in the glass.

8/24/2022 - Cailles wrote:

Tasted double blind. I guessed this to be a 8 to 10 years old as it showed so perfectly integrated and already with a touch of creaminess to it. This drinks beautifully today, it’s very complete with lots of fresh, zesty fruit and a strong saline minerality. I could drink this all day and it’s certainly is one of the best young 1er Cru’s I’ve had in the past year thanks due an impressive depth paired with a high freshness and superb harmony. Impressive. Boillot seems to have a bad track regarding premox and still doesn’t use DIAM, so it’s maybe better to enjoy this beauty over the next few years. 96 pts.

TN: Very expressive nose displaying lots of fresh green apple, citrus and lime notes, some popcorn and flint and a layer of minerality. The complete package. Same aromas and full intensity on the palate with a beautiful bouquet of orchard fruits with lots of fresh green apples, citrus, lime but especially a beautiful mineral, salty backbone. Saltiness and sweetness in perfect harmony. Superb acidity, high enough and well-integrated. Overall quite round and harmonious wine with just a slight touch of creaminess. Good, long, salty finish.

Decanting: Not decanted, good from the go, no decanting needed. Followed over 1+ hours with little change.

10/15/2022 - acheng wrote:

Once again beautiful showing and consistent across the board. Red fruit predominates with complexity and density. Needs more time