David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.7

I would invite you to find a bottle like this older & well stored 03, “The Sisters. “I would enjoy tasting this blind w/ Napa Cult wines & lovers. Then, watch their eyes open wide when I pulled off the brown bag. Many would call Colgin, Scarecrow, Harlan, Bond & the like etc.. I recently paid $50 for this 2003 at auction. That includes tax & auction fees. For vintage, they would call 10, 13 or 14. This is still youthful. Beautiful M+ somewhat rounded tannins, fruit buffet w/ dark pronounced spice. This has ten years plus left.

The palate is round, plush, phat fruits of; blackberries, black raspberries, plum, dark cherries, strawberries, purple fruits with blueberries. Dark, well pronounced spice, soft baking spices, sweet graphite, soft, fresh, tobacco notes, used leather warm, gray clay, river-stone, mocha, caramel notes, dry crushed rock, limestone marl, some dry top soil, dark, purple red fresh & withering florals, excellent, round acidity and a well made, balanced, beautifully structured and elegant finish that lasts minutes falling on elegant earth & spice.

TRB made wine. Stunning!!!! — 3 months ago

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.5

@Delectable can you please add the 2003 vintage. I keep getting error message 2000.

It’s a very good night when you have an Allen Brothers Ribcap and an older Pichon Lalande. It is my favorite beef pairing. The 03 is just starting to move into its good phase. I would not open another 03 for at least 5 more years and has another 10 plus years of good drinking ahead.

I decanted it for about 2 1/2...could have used another half hour. Once it was fully open, the body was elegant and the tannins like velvet. The ripe black raspberries & raspberries led the rush onto the palate. Followed by; blackberries, dark cherries and a little strawberries on the long set. Gentle earth of; stones, clay & loamy dry soil, fresh tobacco, graphite, suede style leather, some dark spice, understated baking spices of; vanillin, cinnamon, nutmeg and just a dash of clove. Dark, red, purple & some blue florals. The acidity was excellent. The creamy, velvety, elegant, well balanced in fruit and earth was harmonious wire to wire.

The pairing causes my eyes to roll and let out an mmmmm.

Photos of; Chateau Pichon Lalande, stainless steel tanks, side garden area of the chateau and their barrel room. — 4 years ago

with James and Christina

Christine Kidder

9.1

Excellent value — 10 months ago

Thomas Richards

9.4

29-05-23: Indigo colour with pronounced oak. Very nice. Drink at 5 years post vintage — 2 years ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.2

A seriously delicious experiment in fermentation. Fresh, funky, kaleidoscopic red fruit and honey aromas are deftly balanced by a streak of lactic/citric acidity in the mouth, perfumed with rose hips and enlivened by delicate tannins. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. — 5 years ago

Michael Mugmon

9.7

Purple Canadian gin I picked up in Vancouver last year. — 5 years ago

Jim Nelson

9.0

Scouring a wine list, my eyes always perk up at the sight of a Spatburgunder — a year ago

Richie Davies

9.4

Not as sweet as 2019 — 4 years ago

Ron R

9.3

BC with age - you can’t go wrong! Close your eyes and you could be in Burgundy. — 5 years ago

with Anne-marie and Mo

Ron from VA

9.0

What fun fine at whole foods - 18$ for a mature, oak/ML Italian chard. Wifey loved it...and I loved WF’s rapid chiller (fair lakes location) which allows for the immediate use of a shelf selected white/sparkler. — 5 years ago