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  • 2002 Renaissance Cabernet Sauvignon

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    5/12/2024 - James Kim Likes this wine: 93 Points

    My last bottle. Stood up for 24 h. Decanted off some pretty good amount of sediment. Drank with dinner 4h later. Lovely aromas of dried cranberries, cassis, currants, brown tobacco, leather and cedar. Palate w dried cranberries, currants, cassis, leather, brown tobacco, mild balsamic vinegar and some earth. Medium body w excellent acids. Mild-med tannins. Lovely finish. Just so elegant with a nice amount of complexity. A throwback wine where the savory flavors play as much of a role as the fruit. Beautiful with reverse seared NY strip steak. Just lovely. 93+

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  • 1992 Weingut Wilhelm Weber-Ostermann Wintricher Großer Herrgott Riesling Spätlese

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    5/12/2024 - James Kim wrote: flawed

    Drank last night over 4.5h. Very slowly unfurled over the night. Pretty simple at first. But really bloomed in balance of acid, mildlt sweet fruit and texture. Also there was a funk on the nose, in particular, that smelled like cork taint. But it never really got stronger, just stayed there. Not day 2. Initially, some of the barky funk on the nose that was there last night. But then the nurse shuts down and doesn't give much. Palate is pretty simple again. Tart apples, just support pineapples and a hint of lemon. Medium body. Nice acids. Pretty short finish. I think this bottle is mildly corked where the taint just mutes the wine rather than give the obvious cork taint aromas and flavors. It certainly seems off.

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  • 2022 Sandlands Assyrtiko Lodi

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    5/11/2024 - James Kim Likes this wine: 90 Points

    From memory. Decanted for 1h then back into bottle and brought to dinner. Drank over several hours. Definitely a good resemblance to Greek assyrtiko with only a hint of the saint component that I find is assyrtiko from Santorini. Never had an assyrtiko from the mainland. Regardless, this is a nice wine with some complexity, nice acidic crispness, and very refreshing but also with some gravitas. Nicely done. 90+

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  • ChairmanKao says:

    11/27/2021 12:53:00 AM - Thank you for the reply message regarding the 2015 Anne Sophie Dubois l'Alchimiste Fleurie. I definitely won't touch them until the 15-year mark (at the earliest) since I have plenty of '09 and '11 Cru Beaujolais, which I'm also cellaring for a while. I know these wines can age just as well (if not better) than some of the Bourgognes since they're made by the same Burgundy producers. Sadly, many of these Cru Beaujolais have drastically increased in price like the rest of Burgundy (insert sad face).

  • srh says:

    11/25/2021 1:53:00 PM - *Great* TN for the 2019 Bonny Doon Vineyard Le Cigare Volant, James! :) IF interested, check the strand of 10/15/21 re what's goin' on with this label. [I'd have posted all of this under your actual TN, but since comments were blocked... ]

  • srh says:

    11/10/2021 3:18:00 PM - James, TY for your KIND comment on my message board earlier today! :)

  • oldwines says:

    11/27/2020 5:52:00 PM - You’re welcome! And curiously we do seem to have many similar tastes...! My daughter and son-in-law live in Richardson... and she is due to give birth to my third grand child in March 2021, so once the pandemic is over I expect to be down there a bit. It would be nice to perhaps share a bottle or two... Happy Holidays!

  • tcavallo says:

    3/20/2018 8:57:00 AM - We drink all the same stuff. Crazy!

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