Brendan Baker

9.6

Exuberant, floral nose, red and black fruits, medium bodied with silky resolved tannins, some meat and olive brine, layered and powerful. Spectacular showing 🤩 — 9 days ago

Joe DAscoli

9.5

2 hour decant. Shredded cork. Filtered the wine.

Wow. This was just gorgeous and smooth. Tannins very well integrated and the fruit was excellent.

One of my favorite vintages with some age — 8 days ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.5

2005 vintage. Decanted and tasted immediately and over the course of 4 hours. Medium body with a continually morphing nose. Super-impressive bouquet throughout the night. Overt fruit fallen off the framework and replaced with secondary attributes/complexities. @Bill Bender remarked twice about a lack of “heat”since the usual CDP ABV range seemed underwhelming One might think that would present issues but, rest assured, it did not. Great wine possibly at its’ zenith/top of the bell curve and living its’ best life now. Backed up the hype and then some. Tied for WOTN along with the 2006 Krug Clos du Mesnil Champagne (missed a picture for that one) for both myself and @Shay A 09.21.25. — 22 days ago

with Shay and Bill

Joe DAscoli

9.2

Used the Durand on the cork - soaked to the edge. Decanted for 2 hours.

This wine had some gaminess. Smooth. Fruit was a bit wild and overpowered by the savory flavors.

Paired well with the chicken skewers and onions. Needed complex flavors in the food to pair well.

Good but quite a bit below the Beaucastel — 8 days ago

Ron Siegel

9.4

This had dark cherry, berry, graphite, licorice, spice, mineral, meat, pepper, olive & violet — 16 days ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.5

Gpo 2 aguas Cuu con ludo — 4 days ago

romo

9.3

On point. Lithe but dense. Black tar compote. — 9 days ago

Ed Chin

9.3

What a difference a little time and air makes 🤪. A little game a little iron and pepper and black fruit that became more expressive as time passed. Light and elegant. I think I got lucky. — 2 days ago

Jan A

9.5

Paired with stamppot boerenkool and stamppot zuurkool. Traditional Dutch food. Comforting! — 3 days ago

Conrad Green

9.4

Plush and rich and plummy. Pure and bloody. Excellent — 21 hours ago

with Matt and David