5/17/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Orange gold color. Palate is as expected, stone fruit, well balanced with soft bitter floral tones. Savory at the same time (with grilled jalepenos w/ cream cheese n garlic). Feels like there’s harmony here that will continue with more time in bottle.

5/17/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Quince as quince can be. Peach. This is very good.

5/10/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

orange and hazelnut biscotti aromas. there's an underlay of shoe polish that just gets my saliva glands fire'd up. beguiling aromas, like being caught in a whirlpool. give me this with a plain cheesecake please. OUTSTANDING

5/10/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

next to 2020 Selvapiana Bucerchiale. Medium garnet color. earthy aromas. dried cherry and a little vitamin aroma. this is day 2 and the lift if extra-ordinary.
Sat next to Bianca Contini Bonacossi last evening at dinner, and I felt like we could have been sitting at an afternoon baseball game, so pleasant to talk to.
With just a little bit of time, the vitamin subsides...a touch coconut oil to the aroma?? w/ licorice. All in all, extremely harmonious aromas, loads of complexity.

palate shows the 12 yrs of maturity that the aromas do not. Medium minus tannin, medium plus acidity. Gonna have to start stuffing some of these wines away...

lots of time ahead of it, this is still way shy of mid-life. drink to 2045+

5/10/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

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5/10/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Jeez, anything short of a 93 and yr not seeing this. Dark cherry, crisco-laced blueberry aromas, no tannin. Medium acid. Color is opaque with a Rudy edge. Doesn’t get purple tinted, but at the cusp there of. shows light new oak to the palate in a modestly roasty way

5/10/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Day 2. Medium minus ruby color. Rose, cherry, rainwater aromas. More elegant than other generous experiences of some other vintages. Son of Federico is now the winemaker. Very nuanced, charming and structured. Some soy and sandalwood on the palate.

5/8/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Fresh and saline aromas. Mineral, lime pith, orange blossom. Very crushable, new fave white.

5/6/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Not earthy like Tenuta Nuova. Forcefully mineral aroma. Med /+ tannin. Medium plus acid. Could use more mid palate. Choc covered cherry.🍒
Opens up in the glass. Elegant as F

5/6/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Black raspberry fruit aromas. Burnished wood notes. More oak, roasted coffee and loads of savory spice on the palate.

5/6/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Dark purple, but fresh aromas. Licorice. Generous oak to the palate. Medium fine grained tannin. Sandalwood aromas. Substantive Geyserville, nice spice as always.

5/6/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Dry cereal and honeycomb aromas. Mild green olives. Candied Orange rind. Med minus extract. Just figured it out, triscuits. Tastes like truscuits

5/6/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Tender herbal tones, earth and sillage. Wonderful freshness and earthy red berry.

5/6/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Very open aromas. Shows well endowed oak, confident, not showy. Opens up to some cinnamon. Very suave, lightly ripe stem. Chewy red cherry

5/6/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Dark red berry aromas. Tres suave aroma. Med firm tannin. Really, has lots of potential.

5/6/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Mint to the nose veering to into Eucalyptus. Medium tannin, earthiness to the palate.

5/6/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Golden aromas. Snappy palate, not quite aldehyde, but refreshingly close

5/2/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Fresh red cherry and some bacon smoke aromas.

Day 5 and finally shed the bacon fat note. Fat dark red cherry palate, chewy for Marsannay and enjoyable for that.

5/2/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Day 2 and still not filling out for me. Today, distinct iceberg and freezer burn aromas. Wanting more.

Day three more enjoyable and more ‘perm’ than iceberg and apple-y palate, but not too off putting. Still a pretty mineral underbelly. Smoother today too. Where’d that extract bump go?

4/29/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

dialed back next to the 2022 Missouri Hopper Cab. loads of freshness, more purity of black fruit, with less oak and spice showing than the 22MS.

4/29/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

toasty aromas, generously styled with loads of spice cake to the palate.

4/26/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

At the office…
bricking (drying blood), sweet fruit, complex and in a nice spot. pollenesque sweetness and pleasantly, showing it's maturity.

4/26/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

At the office…

Ruby color, shows more floral acumen vs the 2009 with more fruit. here, mineral first, then fruit and floral. feels more classic

Later that evening. More astutely black fruit aromas and more concealed than the 2009 Palmer. Grilled bread aromas. Medium plus tannin still, really coiled. Ripe tannin, but still generous and in need of time to resolve. Approachable all the same. Mineral laced palate and loads of freshness, not feeling hard, but just in need of space/time/air.

Day 2, wonderfully harmonious. Just needs air/time to come together: blackberry fruit palate, medium plus acid.

4/26/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

At the office…

garnet color, more primary and dark fruit, a little earthy, more than 3 years worth of difference between this and the 2006.

After half of the day open, this is just singing…red and black fruit aromas, mingled with emerging mature notes. A little earth, not too mineral. Much more harmony over the 2012, still relatively wound up. Here, almost the richness of coconut oil, but coming up short of it. Earth, sillage, fruit, lightly gunflint tinged. This is excellent Palmer…

4/22/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Modest and crispy tree fruit and mineral palate. Not blisteringly dry.

4/20/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Honied and mead-like. Pollen and salt. Medium minus straw color. More than I’d expect.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Made in amphora, reductive and mineral, pear and quince. Mostly Treixedura. Excellent and I’ll have to ask for more.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Thanks to Henry for bringing. Really earthy at the cork pull, with time really steps into the barnyard note and gets quite straight poopy to the note and palate. Still enjoyable all the same. Big and rich, hedonistic and not to hard edged.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

With time open this gets into that harmonious and character driven tango of rhubarb and chrysanthemum. Sweet fruited palate, with some stems underpinning the palate. Seemed to be favorite at the table tonight. AKA Tango Sur.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Thanks to Andrew for bringing this one along from his cellar…fresh as a daisy, pepper and meaty palate, citron, and with time open dives into a mouth-watering celery seed note. Loads of time ahead

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Lots of buttery aromas. Honied and rich to the palate, soft and generous. 60% PN, 40% Chard 49m, disgorged March 2023

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Tickly mineral palate with some light TDN aromas. Lots of ripe pear, love drinking this.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Marmite aromas and cherry pit to the palate. 2021 Disgorgement. Excellent Champagne. 70% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay, 84m on lees. 10% new barrel

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Wild cherry aromas, again supple palate. Fresh m/- tannin, earthy and shows light and pleasant steaminess.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Delicate and supple palate, not too dry or hard at all. Leans into rhubarb. Excellent and this wants to go side by side with some Folk Machine Vecino PN.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Approachable, dark red cherry, m/- tannin. Dry, not band-aid, but close.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Most enjoyable of the non-Chablis wines in this line up. Well composed structure, light oak, not too much spice. More subtle and charming than the Beaune Marconnets Blanc 2019.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Palate is more golden in flavor, snappy, light oak, really good and pleasantly aldehydic. Again, almost out of character for Boisset, but I’m loving what they’re putting forward here.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

More serious than the subtlety to the 2020 JCB Monthelie Blanc, but not seriously more my style. Solid expression.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Nice and subtle. Cleaner than the Bouchard Marconnets Blanc 2019, and on the palate creamier too. Charming and easy to drink white burg. Value for what it’s worth too.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Aromas are a little too keyed up. Getting into tire burnout territory, a little flint behind that, but too distracting. Solid palate, but that sharp oaky tone leaves a mark.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Creamier, yeastier nose, not oaky aromas. More acidity than the 2020 Vaucoupin. A little extract, more seashell than any oak imprint.

10% Barrel ferment and barrel aged, not noted as new.

4/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Clean, probably a little oak (10-15%?), some easy pear fruit, a light flintiness (nice, but almost a little out of character for what’d i’d expect from Moreau.

Yes, 15% second and third fill barrel for 12m.

4/10/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

@ Rootstock. Saline, picks up on the French fry aromas. Fresh. Mushroom, good acid, but not ripping to hard. Dry honey comb palate.

4/9/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Holy Smokes. This is dynamite at the cork pull. Fruit, structure. !!! Red red red cherry aromas. Pronounced aromas. Medium plus acid & medium fine tannin. Not overbearing, not full full bodied. Med plus bodied. Chewy and f*** a duck this is marvelous.

4/8/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Orange zest, fresh whipped cream, still loads of freshness. Light flintiness. Drink to 2030, no doubt…

3/19/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Elegant, but bursting red cherry flavors. Such a delightful drink.

3/16/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

blue fruit aromas. Medium bodied, light tannin. Medium plus acid. Fun to drink as always. Bring on the pizza!

3/16/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

12.5% ABV. Feels carbonic. Still ripe plum fruit.

3/14/2024 - nzinkgraf wrote:

Dark raspberry, bacon and black pepper aromas, and palate. Fresh, light tannin.