| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments Comment Date Community Score More... |
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2021 Pierre Gonon Ardèche Les Iles FeraySyrah more |
12/14/2023 - salil wrote: 91 pointsI had a bottle a month ago that came across a bit lean (though wonderfully fragrant, similar to brooklynguy's impressions). Another one showed much better, conveying the same floral-peppery-olivey perfume but with more depth to the palate. It's still a light bodied wine, but doesn't finish as thin/dilute as my first bottle was. |
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2013 Pierre Gonon St. JosephSyrah more |
7/10/2023 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRA bottle of Gonon that completely justifies and confirms the hype. Opened at 4:30 and poured off a taste, served at about 7:30. This wine is gorgeous aromatically, showing pungency and intensity of floral, dark fruit, and meaty components, with a savory finish to the nose, if that makes sense. Balanced and layered on the palate too, just a beautiful wine - complex, energetic, and there's no way it could be mistaken for any other place. Great wine. Hard to see what additional cellaring would bring, although it's certainly not on any kind of downward trajectory. It's just kind of perfect now, with some air.
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| White - Fortified |
NV Valdespino Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Fino "Inocente" MacharnudoPalomino Fino more |
9/7/2022 - Deaddeadwine Likes this wine: NRFrom an Inocente bottled in March 2019. I purchased a case, this is the 8th bottle consumed.
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| White - Fortified |
NV Valdespino Manzanilla DeliciosaManzanilla de Sanlúcar de Barrameda Palomino Fino more |
5/31/2022 - Michael Mackenzie Likes this wine: 90 pointsNew label on the bottle! Tasted against Hidalgo's Pastrana Manzanilla Pasada (see separate note).
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| Red |
2020 Clos Cibonne Tibouren Côtes de Provence Cuvée Spécialemore |
4/1/2022 - brooklynguy wrote: NRInteresting nose, truly unlike anything I've had before - super floral, almost candied flowers - girlfriend says it smells like those violette pastilles that come in a can. It's attractive and fresh and again, interesting, if not terribly complex - kind of one-note. It's balanced and tasty and lithe on the palate, and this is perfectly good wine. But there is nothing whatsoever that speaks of Provence here - that aspect of the wine is completely absent. I love the rose, this is not something I would buy again.
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| White |
2020 Textura Wines Dão PretextoWhite Blend more |
11/3/2021 - Gargantua Likes this wine: NRThat’s great. I might’ve wished it were just a bit less acid—it’s pretty intense, but this is pretty fabulous. I love how Encruzado wants to be tropical and pineapple-y, and how it’s kept in check by the mineral and spritzy, spiky mouthfeel that I’ve always associated with the granite it grows in. Most Encruzado I’ve tried that was done exclusively in barrel is blowsy—save for a couple exceptions. This is fermented in stainless & cement, and later 90% ages on its lees in the same vats, and 10% ages in French oak, presumably for body, complexity, and richness. Luis Seabra blended this with Bical (a curious, challenging grape on its own) and it is a screaming dry, racy wine. Honestly, as always in Portugal, there are probably other varieties kicking around in here in trace amounts. I had this with grilled pork, and I think it would be a great pairing were it not for the occasional unrequested sriracha incursion. I’d love this with a buttery halibut with some capers. Give it a buttery landing pad with some green herbal accents.
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| White |
1982 Bonneau du Martray Corton-CharlemagneCorton-Charlemagne Grand Cru Chardonnay more |
1/22/2022 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRFantastic! Immediately upon opening at 4PM we could tell that the wine would smell great. Decanted 15 minutes before serving and it needed more time to unfold in the glass. it was well composed and tasted great immediately, but was a bit closed on the nose, but 45 minutes in it blossomed to show some exotic fruit and flowers, and a with a lovely broadness and intensity. A pleasing almost-bitterness on the finish. Focused and pungent on the palate, just a very grand old wine.
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| White - Off-dry |
2016 Hofgut Falkenstein Krettnacher Euchariusberg Riesling Auslese #5Mosel Saar Ruwer more |
12/16/2020 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRTo be honest: I always enjoy Falkenstein wines but I never understood why they are generating this mad fervor among riesling lovers. I mean, they're good, but relative to other wines from the region, why these wines? Well, I drank the other bottles I had of this too early, This one, now at only 4 years old, was absolutely fantastic - a special wine. I think I get it now. Wispy and feathery in its elegance, both aromatically and on the palate. And this wasn't the case earlier, it's gained in elegance and harmony, which makes sense, but I didn't anticipate how much the wine would gain with just a few years. So delicate and also so pungent in its expression of stone fruit and acid and mineral. There is sweetness here but it is entirely balanced and it comes off as more of a textural element, if that makes any sense. Wow, I wish I'd waited on my other bottles.
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| Red |
2006 Simon Bize Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Aux VergelessesPinot Noir more |
10/23/2020 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRAbsolutely top class Savigny les Beaune, as good as I’ve ever had from the north side of the river and qualitatively equal to any Dominode I’ve had too. Darker and richer in style than those though, which makes sense given the clay soils. Opened and poured out a small taste two hours before drinking. Immediately gorgeous on the nose with florals, plums blackberries and also some bright red fruits too. Over a few hours a pungent earthy minerality emerges and sings just as beautifully as the fruit and the flowers. The palate is completely delicious and balanced with vivid acidity and good structure. Not as complex or detailed in the palate as on the nose, but my bet is that comes over the next 5-7 as this continues to unfold. It’s ready to drink now, but feels like it’s at the early part of its best stretch of life.
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| Red |
2017 Moric BlaufränkischBurgenland more |
7/29/2020 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRDecanted for an hour and drank over the next hour plus. Lovely black cherries on the nose, some rosemary type herbal notes too. Smooth and silky tannins, easy drinking and delicious and perfect balance at 12.5% alcohol.
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| Red |
2008 Domaine Robert Chevillon Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les CaillesPinot Noir more |
4/9/2020 - robferguson1 wrote: 90 pointsI was disappointed in this bottle , felt it was lacking in length , but I had rated another bottle 93 , so maybe I had a bad day and not the bottle
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| Red |
2005 Domaine Lignier-Michelot Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Les FaconnièresPinot Noir more |
9/13/2019 - bevetroppo wrote: 86 pointsI've spilled enough digital ink in praise of the '05 vintage that I need to be honest about it when one disappoints. Such was the case here.
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| White |
2010 Domaine Huet Vouvray Sec Le Haut-LieuChenin Blanc more |
9/18/2018 - brooklynguy wrote: NRA bit flat - lacking drive aromatically and on the palate too. If this is representative, not a great year for this.
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| Red |
1982 Domaine Jean Gros RichebourgRichebourg Grand Cru Pinot Noir more |
7/29/2018 - Boone's Farm Likes this wine: 95 pointsA first rate old Burgundy. Still with fruit but lovely tertiary flavors of sandalwood, asian spices and light delicate nuances of leaves and forest floor. Earthy mineral flavors with some dried cherry. Very long on the palate. A really nice wine.
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| Red |
2006 Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Clos de la MaréchalePinot Noir more |
7/26/2018 - Pknut wrote: NRDark fruited palate, sides are smooth, sort of murky to me but Suzanne praises its purity. Noreetuh.
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| Red |
2015 Tissot (Bénédicte et Stéphane / André et Mireille) Poulsard Arbois Vieilles Vignesmore |
11/11/2017 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRBest showing yet, just excellent wine. Bright red and blood orange fruit that is quite energetic and expressive, and is also showing complex undertones that are herbal and forest-y. The wine is fresh and focused and perfectly balanced, and highly expressive of place. There is no wine I am aware of that smells and tastes like good Jura Poulsard, and this bottle provides an example of what that should smell and taste like. I should have bought more.
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| Red |
1988 Château TrotanoyPomerol Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/25/2017 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRDecanted an hour before drinking. This wine had about a half hour where it was just excellent - rich, pungent, and very detailed aromas that show tobacco, wet soil, stone, and some surprisingly fresh dark fruit. Beautiful nose that translated perfectly to the palate, where the wine was equally expressive and detailed, very well balanced, and entirely satisfying in that way that mature Bordeaux can be. But the hour that preceded this was no where as good - the wine showed murky and without a clear expression. It was as though a veil were lifted and we had this gorgeous wine for a half hour.
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| White - Fortified |
NV Equipo Navazos La Bota de Fino 15 "Macharnudo Alto"Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Palomino Fino more |
2/4/2018 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRAbsolutely outstanding bottle of this great Fino. 10 years in the cellar and the wine is a mellow, complex, finely detailed expression of the chalk and sunshine of Jerez, of Macharnudo. Salt, nuts, butter and toffee, fruit! This is just gorgeous wine. Pungent and long on the finish. Sad to say goodbye to this, the last bottle I had, and likely will ever have.
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| Red |
2007 Moric Blaufränkisch Alte Reben NeckenmarktBurgenland more |
2/24/2017 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRExcellent, really outstanding. When first opened the wine shows such intensity of aroma, flavor, and texture - yes, the texture is intense. There are 15 minutes of utter glory - brightness and energy and beauty of fruit and complexity in bloody animale foresty minerality. The wine is gorgeous. It falls off a bit to become something that is merely excellent wine, showing silky and balanced and substantial and complete. Those first 15 minutes though...those are truly Grand Cru.
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| White |
2010 Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine sur lie Vieilles Vignes Clos des BriordsMelon de Bourgogne more |
12/3/2016 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRThis is the finest bottle of Muscadet I've ever had. The aromas are wild and complex with preserved lemon and savory herbs and black licorice and smoky minerals - absolutely pungent and fascinating and alluring. Palate is balanced and fresh, and shows a complexity that is equal to the nose, and the citric and saline and mineral finish just goes on and on. Wonderful wine, by any measure.
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| Red |
2015 Domaine de Saint Pierre Poulsard Arboismore |
11/21/2016 - brooklynguy wrote: NRReductive in an intense way, and with this bottle, never entirely blew off. It has the right texture and body, but the wine comes off as a bit dilute, which is odd considering the 13.5% alcohol. There are some typical aromas of cinnamon and cranberry, but not terribly detailed or compelling, and marred a bit by reduction. I have another bottle and will look forward to seeing if this is a bad bottle, or if this is not a great Poulsard.
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| Red |
2014 Pierre Gonon Ardèche Les Iles FeraySyrah more |
10/31/2016 - brooklynguy Likes this wine: NRDelicious approachable meaty syrah, with aromas and flavors that are animale and wild, and also floral, fruity, and peppery. You can see where this is not given the St Joseph name in the finish, which is not very complex and in fact a bit clipped, but that's not at all a knock on the wine. It's just the difference between one terroir and another greater terroir. Lovely wine.
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Comment posted by brooklynguy:
12/22/2023 11:23:00 AM - Hey Salil - I had exactly this experience with my second bottle! Seems like a better wine than I initially thought.