2004 Château Camensac
On July - 31 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
(87 pts.) – Tasted 7/31/2010.
Popularity: 2% [?]
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2006 Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard Chassagne-Montrachet
On July - 30 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
(87 pts.) – Tasted 7/30/2010.
Popularity: 4% [?]
1996 Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve Colli della Toscana Centrale IGT
On July - 29 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
(92 pts.) – Tasted 7/29/2010.
Popularity: 4% [?]
2003 Château Giscours
On July - 28 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
un peu déçu et attendais plus de ce vin très bien noté. Moins d’opulence que d’autres 2003, beau nez complexe, fruits noirs, prune, bouche plus serrée, un peu court, trop jeune ? (89 pts.) – Tasted 7/28/2010.
Popularity: 26% [?]
2004 Yeringberg Pinot Noir
On July - 27 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Light ruby collie clear in the glass sour cherry and slightly raspberry on the nose. Complex palate showing smoky oak, cherry raspberry balanced tannins overall a silky and smooth wine – Tasted 7/27/2010.
Popularity: 2% [?]
2008 Alban Vineyards Syrah Patrina Alban Estate Vineyard
On July - 26 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Hmmmm, …Alban. Is this it? A new bottling, a new name below the masthead, what do we got here? I’m confused, this is like no other Alban I’ve ever tasted–so different. I miss the intensity that Alban usually offers up. And, is that cheap oak (say it ain’t so). Mr Buzz said this was a replacement for the old ‘Central Coast’ bottling, hmpf, I dunno know. My last experience with ‘Central Coast’ was the 02 ~3 weeks ago and it screamed Alban, all the way. This bottling is not giving it to me. Not my fave Alban, but here’s my take: nose: pure, strait-up, black olive syray-ness. a kiss of oak around the edges to soften things up a bit.
mouth: Un-mistakenly Alban in the mouth with beautiful tannin structure (how does he do it?). Still on the palate, this just doesn’t deliver the goods we are all used to from John. The fruit is sweet, but where’s the red fruit we love in the Reva or Lorraine? Not there. Arrgh. A great entry level Syrah for Alban, but certainly not what we Alban-philes are used to. There’s still a long way to go my friends (89 pts.) – Tasted 7/26/2010.
Popularity: 2% [?]
2005 Domaine Rebourgeon-Mure Pommard
On July - 25 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Tasted at EBW. 30% new oak. Fresh red fruit, floral, cinnamon/spice, earth. Good tannic structure, med acid, med body. Balanced. Similar to elegant US Pinots like Rusack 2007 SBC and Evesham Wood 2008. Structure may yield aging upside not found in US Pinots, but also priced accordingly. – Tasted 7/25/2010.
Popularity: 9% [?]
2008 Doña Paula Malbec Estate
On July - 24 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Top Malnec qualities. Smooth and complex. Great nose and wonderful mid-palate, relatively light, but pleasant finish. Actually drank a 2009 vintage, but adding this comment via Cor.kz and can’t see how to add a vintage. (90 pts.) – Tasted 7/24/2010.
Popularity: 4% [?]
2002 Bodegas Poesia Poesia
On July - 23 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
(90 pts.) – Tasted 7/23/2010.
Popularity: 2% [?]
2006 Nicholas Cole GraEagle Red Wing
On July - 22 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Tasted on 7/22/2010 Inky purple color fading to brick red on the rim; dusty nose with cherry pie, vanilla, dark chocolate, and spice; a delicious warm cherry flavor carried the palate with a peppery vanilla finish; medium finish. I had a hard time trying to figure out the cherry flavor. Then I started thinking about this cherry cobbler we had at the dining hall at UT – and it hit me. The warm cherry flavor is very reminiscent of baked cherries – delicious. Would like it more if it had more tannins and a little more complex of a palate. – Tasted 7/22/2010.
Popularity: unranked [?]