David Kline

9.4

2009. Fresh from my COMA (can’t opine much anymore), I am greeted by the opulence of sauce Périgueux over smoked applewood bacon wrapped top sirloin. Four black truffles gave themselves to the dicing knives to achieve the feat. Purple Black and cloaked in sooty tar. Rings of pipe tobacco brooding. An olfactory, fungal, tor impudicus waving its spongey menace. Candied currants, bursting blackberry, dessicate plum, and dark earth beneath the litter of the fall. Braised offal. Coffee rye. Tart and black cherry punctuate the entry of swift and silken shadow overwhelming palate. One’s heart is black but this is blacker. Baked blackberry jus.


#chateaubranon #pessacléognan #graves #bordeaux #bordeauxrouge #leftbank #famillegarcin #grandvindebordeaux #misenbouteilleauchâteau #vinfrançais — 16 days ago

David Kline

8.4

Privatbrauerei Eichbaum Perfekte Zeit Wheat Pale Ale.

Cloudy amber, apple cider vinegar coloration. Hazy head of off-white cigarette butt with spit bugs eggs to burlap mask dissipation and slug leaf lacing. The nose is a pretzel dough, bierocks and dried lime mix. The palate is sparse with an amputated endurance. Not unpleasant, with bitter bits and snippet suggestions, but not their best offering.

#privatbrauereieichbaum #eichbaum #mannheim #deutschebier #ale #paleale #wheatbeer #wheatpalesle #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — 3 months ago

David Kline

9.3

Klosterbrauerei Neuzelle GMBH dark lager.
Ebon black with auburn highlights. Crema colored head that puffs porcini. Slo-mo thorn drops lacing. Clean nose with dark bread freshness. Pecan palate shows golden lemon zest dicing. Dark toast with a black lime element, nano clove and black sesame.

#leckerundfrisch #klosterbrauereineuzelle #traditionsgebräu #darklager #lager #deutschland #deutschebier #bier #beer #biere #birra #cerveza #neuzelle — 3 months ago

David Kline

9.2

Lovely ruby reflectives. Dried, ripe and hard red candied cherry aromas. Plummy with porcini and trumpet mushroom, sprinkles of cedar and cinnamon. Dried cranberry and cherry echo on the palate, amplified. Warm strawberry and cola complete the fruit picture, but it is not simply fruity exhibiting white pepper, soft sage and a minuscule rosemary. Generous.


#benmar #pinotnoir #pn #benmarspringbox #springbox #yamhillcarlton #oregonpinotnoir
#oregonpinot #pinot #burgundian
# — 3 months ago

David Kline

9.3

Privatbrauerei Eibau Helles Landbier

Golden straw color. Yeast and lemon nose with a film of caperberry. Snow White corona with card suite lacing. Lemon continues through the palate with zest and oil, pith and pulp. Lime and grapefruit follow.


#eibau #privatbrauereiEibau #deutschebier #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — 3 months ago

David Kline

9.7

2000 Monte Faustino Amarone
Showing age with brick red and brown. Dark cherry nose showing baked fruit, brown sugar. Cinnamon, cedar, raisin, bread pudding, treacle, dried roses. Palate of dried cherry, dried red currant, baked plum, cola, sarsaparilla and clove.

#montefaustino #montefaustinoamarone #amaronedellavalpilicella #valpolicella #classico #amarone #rosso — 3 months ago

David Kline

9.3

Lovely garnet-ruby color; complete. Nettle, sage, and chive nose shows some cherry and cola. Briary entry has peppercorn, raspberry, rose petal. — 3 months ago

David Kline

9.9

Incredible depth and breadth on this 25 year old. Still boasting tannins that are round and firm. Meaty, chewy and impeccable, with a bresaola nose, dried blackberry, cassis, chocolate, espresso, cedar and tobacco. Black cherry, graphite, maduro cigar, blackberry, and bay.


#pichonlonguevillebaron #pichonbaron #bordeaux #deuxiemescru #bordeauxrouge #paulliac — 3 months ago

David Kline

8.9

Red amber body, bone head. Strawberries and cream lacing. Almond butter, toasted coconut, green banana. Sweet malt notes with a barley overtone. Dusty cherry.

#privatbrauereieichbaum #redale #ale #redbeer #beer #bier #deutschebier #biere #bieres #birra #cerveza — 3 months ago

David Kline

9.3

Privatbrauereieibau Zwick’l Naturtruß
Yellow amber sporting a sticky bubble egg white chapeaux. White mushroom funk is mild but leads to yeasty brown bread notes on the olfactory with lemon oil mist. Tart lemon and lime shine like stars in this light weissbier.

#privatbrauereieeibau #eibau #zwickl #weißbier #weissbier #deutschebier
#deutschland
#wheatbeer #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — 3 months ago