David Kline

9.1

Age has turned this 2010 magnum coffee-chocolate brick brown, but if memory serves this is an appassimento, Amarone-esque wine. It shows raisin and plum behind grill notes and black tobacco, fig and date. Tart dried cherry palate echoes tobacco, espresso and offers a cassis note. Earthy and bold. This wine exudes muscle, but does not lean on a Jammy-ness or blowsy-ness to deliver it. Really different, and singular.



#giovannatantini #tantini #ettore #rosso #rossoveronese #igt #italianwines #2010 — a year ago

David Kline

9.4

Loveliest of mushroom-violet, saddle leather and fresh wool, dark legume, black olive, cool licorice notes and lavender. A graphite tip made of concentrated grape; a fig parchment carefully folded over smoke. Outstanding nose.
Tobacco flaking blackly over licks of flame, chicory, black licorice, cloves and black olives dance and darken to blackberry, charred elm and black pastry. Biomass folding in crystalline-spiked, smoky, charred cedar. Burnt cinnamon and peek-a-boo plum. Loamy and dense earth that encapsulates. Great wine to grow on!


#stemiliongrandcru #rightbankbordeaux #bordeaux #bordeauxgrandcru #bordeauxrouge #closlamadeleine #2010 #2010bordeaux #saintemilion #misenbouteilleálapropriéte #appellationsaintemiliongrandcrucontrolée — 2 years ago

Marti Zuccarello

9.5

Who knew that earthy cherries could capture your undivided attention for an hour? #spice #earth #cherries #mascarello #2010 #eleganceinaglass — 7 years ago

David Kline

9.5

Cherry,dried and black; scribbles of graphite in a tinder box. Campfire smoke, and dark tobaccos brood in clusters of black currant. Glints of plum skin and baked raspberries. Cinnamon and cedar shavings. Dried cherry and black berries persist into the palate, with green peppercorns and dried violets dusted in graphite. Smoke snakes around black bread with currants, fig and black raisins. A phenomenal fall treat. That’ll do the trick!


#chateauCosdEstournel
#cosdestournel #saintestèphe #saintestephe #appellationsaintestèphecontrôlée #2010bordeaux #2010 #misenbouteilleálapropriété #Bordeaux #bordeauxrouge #deuxiemecru — a year ago

David Kline

9.4

Sweet tobacco notes interspersed with woodsy mushrooms, warm rye bread with toasted sesame and grill notes. Cherry and baked currant tart. Silky soft cherry open reveals exquisitely suspended smoke framing black cherry and cedar dusted black currant and dried blackberry with sage and nutmeg.


#branaireducru #chateaubranaireducru #saintjulien #2010 #2010bordeaux #4thgrowth #crubordeaux #1855classification #bordeaux #appellationsaintjuliencontrolée #cruclasse #grandcruclassé #grandcruclasséde1855 — 2 years ago

Mary H

9.1

What's not to like about #2010 #brunello — 7 years ago

Kristie Tacey

9.1

Cranberry, cinnamon, savory, fine tannins #2010 #magnum — 7 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Blueberry whiffs, maple coals, precise graphite smudging, raisinate black currant, bacon fat, periwinkle, heather blossom and wildflowers aromatically. Graphite amplified throughout blackberry black cherry and black currant magnificently. Sliced, ripe black plum, cardamom, licorice, black tea and pepper.


#chateaukirwan #margaux #2010 #grandcruclassé #schröederetshÿler #bordeaux #leftbank #appellationmargauxcontrolée — 2 years ago

David Kline

9.3

2010 Magnum doing just fine! Says Shiraz, so not a blend per se. Big mushroom nose of porcini and cooked chanterelle. Blackberry, smoke and black pepper with espresso grind and cocoa powder. Intense extraction with leather, blackberry, black plum, prune, black olive, charred beef, dried violets;chewy, deep, earthy, lovely. Incredible musculature.

#paintedwolfwines #pictusII #shiraz #syrah #southafrica #southafricanwine #2010 #africanwine — 2 years ago

with Courtney

Sage Shimoda

9.3

Grgich Hills Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2010

Mike Grgich, one of the founders of Grgich Hills, was the one who put California chardonnays on the world wine map winning the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 with his 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay. Probably more well-known for its chardonnay, Grgich Hills also makes great age-worthy cabs. This 2010 cab is fully integrated. Beautiful. Rich, dark berry fruits with cedar, mocha, leather notes.

ガーギッチと言えば、カリフォルニアワインの名声を世界に知らしめる契機となった1976年のパリ・テイスティングで白ワインのトップとなった1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnayをつくったことで知られるマイク・ガーギッチが設立したワイナリー。白ワインの印象が強いですが、熟成に値する素晴らしい赤もつくっている。2010年のカベルネは、凝縮したリッチなダークベリー系のフルーツにシダー、モカ、レザーなどが見事に調和した素晴らしいワインでした。

#wine #redwine #grgichhills #grgichhillsestate #napavalley #2010 #cabernet #californiawine #california #agingpotential #ワイン #カリフォルニアワイン #赤ワイン #カベルネソービニヨン #ガーギッチヒルズ #ナパバレー #ナパ — 6 years ago