Tasting Notes: Weekly Roundup

Happy Friday! Before we celebrate the coming weekend, we want to look back on drinks the Delectable community enjoyed and consumed this week. We've gathered a handful of reviews and notes that caught our eye. From detailed notes to standout photos, the Delectable community was busy this week, and there are so many great posts to read. Mark your favorites and pick up a bottle to try this weekend. Cheers!

Pommery

Cuvée Louise Brut Champagne Blend 2005

Star bright burnished yellow gold with persistent tiny bubbles and a rapidly dissipating mousse. Abundant nose ("Can I just smell this?" asked my dining partner) of ripe pear and airborne ash. Medium palate is crisp (medium plus acidity) and confirms the nose adding fresh apricot and royal Anne cherry, the latter particularly assertive back palate and on the moderate finish. Pommery's tete du cuvée is on point as always, and this vintage isn't showing its age yet. Complexity to complement almost any cuisine but still in range for that special toast. Drink now through 2030 or so. — 6 months ago

Vin, Austin and 12 others liked this

Château Capbern

St. Estèphe Red Bordeaux Blend 2019

Nicely aromatic with plush dark fruit (blackberries, black currants) with a dash of cassis and a gravelly undertone. After some time fresh black currant leaf emerges and some cedar wood. Enticing.
Lovely mouthfeel, layered, juicy, with creamy black fruit and plush, juicy tannins that have not fully mellowed yet.
Somewhere between the austere protestant claret the more seductive Tuscan Bordeaux blends.
Beautifully balanced, was surprised this is 15% alc as it drinks like spring water.
A lovely steak-frites accompaniment.
Need to get more as the price value is brilliant.
— 6 months ago

Peter, Daniel and 8 others liked this

Château Moulin de Tricot

Haut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend 2019

Spicy, earthy with dark fruit and peppercorns. Good tannins — 6 months ago

"Odedi" and LM liked this

Domaine du Chateau de Meursault

Clos des Epenots Pommard 1er Cru Pinot Noir 2015

Lovely, still young so more to offer — 6 months ago

"Odedi", Andrew and 5 others liked this

Shafer Vineyards

Relentless Napa Valley Syrah Petite Sirah 2016

Wow!!! Just wow!!! Paired with Grilled Rack of Venison. This wine is 7 yrs old but still very young. So smooth and still full of fruit. One of the best wines I’ve had in 2023!! Cheers!! — 6 months ago

Joe, Shay and 14 others liked this
Jamie Lauder

Jamie Lauder

Great pairing with venison!!
Well played.
Raul Puga

Raul Puga

@Jamie Lauder cheers 🍷 paired very well

Marcel Lapierre

Morgon Gamay 2021

Lovely and complex. Opened up nicely over the course of a fall steak dinner. Earthly but still crisp and lovely. — 6 months ago

Joseph Lewinski
with Joseph
David, Skip and 4 others liked this

Domaine Tempier

Bandol Mourvedre Blend 2018

14% ABV. Medium red color, earthy. Nice Mourvedre blend. — 6 months ago

Ted, David and 10 others liked this

Domaine Méo-Camuzet

Volnay Pinot Noir 2018

Translucent red rose petal glinting star bright. Raspberries and violets, carnations and St. John’s wort, wisps of fungi, live tobacco. Palate floral with rose again and lightest cedar note playing into dried raspberry and tarragon. Pointy acid offering notes of cranberry and pepper with a neatly rolled singularity of purpose. Green and young at this stage, but will unravel to enormous depth.


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— 6 months ago

David, Paul and 15 others liked this

Von Winning

Winnings Riesling 2021

2021. Saw that the wine tent at the beer festival had one of my favorite QPR Rieslings, so I had to mix in a taster! — 6 months ago

Daniel P., Juan and 8 others liked this