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 — 4 days ago

Drew Summers

Sales Northampton Wines

9.4

Le Phébus x Applewood Manor (Night 1) — 2 years ago

David Kline

9.4

Black cherry rim to rim. Rayon and linseed, baker’s chocolate, eucalyptus, graphite, peppercorn, applewood, dried mint, plum and black currant simplify the aromatics. Surprising fruit with juicy black currant, bits of blackberry, and black cherry meat. Graphite speckled, but fruit led. Pepper, cinnamon, clove and rosemary, black olive, cranberry, and tart red currant.
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#kirwan #chateaukirwan #margaux #grandcruclassé #bordeaux #cruclassé #1855 — 4 years ago

with Courtney

Brenda Terzich-Garland

9.6

Luv this Cab! A beautiful deep purple magenta color. Big aromatic notes: Blue-red fruits with a blackberry lift and a touch of perfume followed by herbaceous and meaty smoked applewood. OMG — yummy! Nice structure where the flavors and the feel of the wine is creamy, a bit jammy and coats the palate. Flavors of dark cherry fruit , milk chocolate, minerals and pencil lead with second notes of spice, cassis adding to its espresso long finish. — a year ago

with Karin and Jill

Drew Summers

Sales Northampton Wines

9.6

Le Phébus x Applewood Manor (Night 1) — 2 years ago

Andrew Liguori

8.9

Young and too bold, needs another year or two. Dark inky purple with concentrated black fruits and black currant aromas. Hints of mocha and Applewood bacon. Medium acid, full body, svelte tannins. Blazing 15% soaked up by some oak infusion. — 3 years ago

David Kline

9.2

Great Thanksgiving wine! Dried cherries, rose petal, gum Arabic, cedar-Saigon cinnamon-oak, elderberry, currant, nutmeg, blueberries. Black pepper on entry softens to black and red cherry with lavender and violet. A touch of cherrywood a smaller touch of applewood, a minute touch of hickory and a nano shaving of mesquite. Laden with inlay. Sour blackberry finish speckled with lingonberries and myrrh.


#marotticampi #orgiolo #lacrimadimorrodAlba #doc #proprietariviticoltore #rossovino #rosso #vino #vin #wine #wein — 2 years ago

Drew Summers

Sales Northampton Wines

9.6

Le Phébus x Applewood Manor (Night 2) — 2 years ago

Austin Baird

9.0

Very tart raspberry, light baking spice and herb, applewood. Should be great in the next few years! — 3 years ago

Paul J

9.5

1hr+ decant. Lovely purple, dark red color. Amazing nose of cigar box, dark cherries, and ever so subtle green elements. Wine was deep and chewy to start with a touch of vanilla and oak at the end, which wasn’t out of place at all! It did start to fade towards the end or I would have been @ 96. Reminded me of all those great Bordeaux’s we drank in London!! Finish was medium plus. Paired lovely with mustard and applewood marinated ribs. — 4 years ago

with Brooke