Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.3

2020 vintage. Last tasted 3.16.24 (9.2). Medium-heavy body. Nice richness, dill and fruit up front along the dial. Took approx an hour but the tannins finally started rolling in. Tannic handshake upped the score from a 9.2 to a 9.3. 7.7.24. — 4 months ago

Tom Garland

9.3

+2 hour decant(little fine/cloudy sediment). A brooding dark magenta color. On the nose: very aromatic notes..lots of blackberry, floral, pencil lead, wet forest floor, sweet oak. Taste: blackberry, cassis, bitter chocolate, herbs, pepper and a gravelly/new leather long finish with some still there kickin tannins. YUM! Gonna give my next bottle a few more years for a better score. — 9 months ago

with Brenda

Josh Morgenthau

9.3

Raspberry coulis, blackberry juice, mushroom, violet, minerals and barnyard. Tart, explosive purple fruit, some feral, bramble notes on the structured palate, and a succession of furry, prickly tannins. Finish is smoky and bitter. Really massive and opaque, in its own way, hard to evaluate even on day 2. Expect this could gain .2 or more in score as elements resolve. — 2 years ago

John Van Trijp

9.9

A potential perfect score in future. Still dark forrest fruit — 6 months ago

Ruud Verhagen

9.1

90-95 , found it hard to score, probably drink from 2030-2035…🤔 — 9 months ago

Tom Garland

9.2

1.5 hour decant(decent fine/cloudy sediment). A young looking exquisite dark purplish garnet color. On the nose: Subdued hints of dark cherry, dusty earth, graphite, smokey vanilla, cigar wrapper, olives. Taste: soft, smooth, creamy wine glides across the palate with black fruit, tar, chocolate, cedar, and a plumy pencil lead medium finish with a little tannic kick......More time? Will the fruit hold? Got a few more bottles to see if the score will improve. — 2 years ago

with Brenda

Kenneth Rosal

9.5

Appearance: Medium Garnet.

Nose: Pronounced Strawberry, Raspberry, Oak, Tobacco and Earth.

Palate: Dry. Medium Acidity. Medium Tannin. Medium Alcohol. Medium Body. Pronounced flavours of Blackberry, Plum, Cedar, Mocha, Leather and Earth. Long Finish.

Conclusion: Very Good Quality Wine.

Score: 95 — 3 years ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

8.9

1986 vintage. Ripped through six bottles (one corked) for a 1986 BDX dinner @ Mister A's-San Diego. All bottles appropriately aged fill and decent+ corks. Double decanted and tasted over the course of 5 hours. Mix of powdery and stubborn (non-chunky) sed amongst the 6 bottles. Light-medium body throughout. Somewhat muted experience overall. None of the bottles (with variation) shone/sung. Wine is firmly on the downside of the bell curve with best days behind it (based on the 5 + corked bottle examples). There was none of the usual P-L flavor markers but the body hung in there. Pains me to say this but drink up now unless you've got a larger format bottle. Maggie (+) would probably yield a higher score. 3.14.24. — 8 months ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.5

2005 vintage. Almost tastes like it could have been released last week. Super youthful with dark berry and plum blasts. Decent structure but not oppressive. Catching this one just below the top of the bell curve. Hopefully, you’ve got more than one bottle kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown. Other-worldly now but methinx it’s about to get even better. Last tasted in mid-June and same score but this bottle was slightly better. Seek this out-now. — 2 years ago

Brent Young

9.2

Served with the Vinloq System from a 375ml after CNY dinner

Day 1
👃Apricots and honey🍯. Also peaches, and with time: pineapple and some light florality.
👅Peaches, tropical fruit, acetone. Hints of vanilla/oak especially on the finish.
Proper acidity and med sweetness
Alcohol not exposed. Nice 👍

Preserved in fridge under preservation gas. Sauternes resists oxidation well for multiple days or longer without preservation. However, I didn’t return to this bottle for over 4 weeks

Day 29
A new perfume note this time that I didn’t be notice on Day 1
A little more soft and rounded in character now but the same score
Still drinking nicely — 3 years ago