What bottle of wine did you open today?

[PCLIN]

A very good ‘95 Pepe Clement, much better than expected, full of typical Graves smokiness and burnt tobaccos.

[Mark C Johnson]

1998 Clos Badon Thunevin corked.

[Curtis Chen]

Skipped the wine, poured some Doc Swinson #7. Big fan.

[Bill Sweeney]

1995 geantet ponsiot charmes chambertin

Ready, finally. Absolutely lovely, not blocky like the vintage tends in general. As good as the 1997 was ten years ago...

[Sherri S h a p i r o]

2010 Il Marroneto Brunello di Montalcino - is in a great place.

[Ethan Abraham]

2007 Ridge Santa Cruz - love opening these older Ridge wines, really one of the wines that for my into wine. This one showed great, still quite a bit of ridge american oak signature

[Mike Hert]

2013 Ridge Torre Cabernet. I have a couple of bottles and wanted to see where it was at now. I wish more wineries would offer up ideal drinking windows on their labels like Ridge does.

[Steen T Olsen]

Birthday wine on the 26th: Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons 2016 Bichot; brilliant with oysters
As my Birthday fell on a weekday this year and corona restrictions in Copenhagen are now so tough you can´t go a café or restaurant (it has been like that for over a month now ), I have had to change my Birthday plan. Usually I go to Copenhagen and stick to a very firmly preprogammed schedule, including morning church and coffee, lunch and wine bar(s). This January, everything is closed.
So I have moved almost all wine related activities to this Saturday. TNs will be posted after Saturday.

We share a birthday. Cheers

Cheers Brian

[A1ex H]

2017 Paul Pernot et ses Fils Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Champs Canet: White flowers and green apple on the nose. The palate is clean and floral with notes of apple, white peach and lemon rind.

1996 Louis Jadot Clos St. Denis: A beautiful nose of sous bois, earth and dark berries. The palate has high acidity with notes of dark cherries, forest floor, iodine and black fruit. A tasty wine that is very much ready to drink.

[Mike Evans]

1995 geantet ponsiot charmes chambertin

Ready, finally. Absolutely lovely, not blocky like the vintage tends in general. As good as the 1997 was ten years ago...

Thanks for the note, I’ve been sitting on a lone bottle of this for years and now may finally pull the cork on it.

[Yao C]

2002 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese
Like an Eiswein with concentrated bursts of clean white and tropical fruit; little detectable botrytis or petrol; creamy texture and just enough acidity to stay fresh; quite enjoyable with strong flavors at dinner; good

[Jayson Cohen]

2002 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese
Like an Eiswein with concentrated bursts of clean white and tropical fruit; little detectable botrytis or petrol; creamy texture and just enough acidity to stay fresh; quite enjoyable with strong flavors at dinner; good

I hope you saved some for Day 2. A bottle I opened last year kicked into another gear on the second day.

[Yao C]

2002 Joh. Jos. Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese
Like an Eiswein with concentrated bursts of clean white and tropical fruit; little detectable botrytis or petrol; creamy texture and just enough acidity to stay fresh; quite enjoyable with strong flavors at dinner; good

I hope you saved some for Day 2. A bottle I opened last year kicked into another gear on the second day.

Big pour for the waitstaff and we greedily drank the rest, but I will have to keep this in mind for next time

[Mikko Tuomi]

Opened the first BD12 purchase. Bien Nacido 2018 Pinot Noir.

[PatrickW]

2019 Bedrock Syrah...short decant and it started to show. Good QPR

[Rob_S]

Françoise Bedel - Comme Autrefois

This champagne was absolutely, totally in my wheelhouse style wise. 55% Meunier, 30% Chard, and 15% Pinot Noir, 11 years on the lees, 100% oak.

Great autolytics, red apple, dried red berries, good minerality. Big champagne but still lively.

[Marcus Dean]

[Kurt_L]

2016 Chateau Marquis d'Alesme. Ordered more 2 sips in.

[john enea]

2005 mount eden estate pinot. awesome, as expected

[Andrew Demaree]

2012 EMH ‘Black Cat’ - these are in a really good place right now.

[DaveStandridge]

Benoit Lehaye Rose de Maceration. Don't drink a lot of bubbles but this one really did it for me

[Craig G]

2017 JM Vincent Montagny 1er Cru: Super

[A1ex H]

Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2006 - paired wonderfully with sushi.

[MikeL238]

2009 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon Le Clos Guillot- just wow. Very slight funk upon opening that blew off right away and had the perfect cabernet franc notes that I absolutely love-bit of greenness, tobacco, and sweet black fruit. Wish the finish was bit longer, but enjoyed it greatly. In a perfect spot right now.

[Joseph Grassa]

2016 Brotte Gigondas la Marasque
2005 Les Cailloux Chateauneuf du Pape

[Yao C]

2007 Domaine Roulot Meursault Luchets
Big and buttery to start but tightens nicely to reveal citrus and a hint of the exotic, coming to a nice point on the salty, mouthwatering finish; the flavors are supported beautifully by the substantial mid-palate, which just goes on and on; lives up to Luchets' reputation for producing forward, fruity wines; though this is missing the fine detail you come to expect from Roulot's best, it is beautifully proportioned and satisfying; I don't think this will develop much further; good plus plus

[Brent C l a y t o n]

2016 Bibbiano Chianti Classico GS Capannino
2017 Luigi Maffini Kleos Aglianico Cilento

[Jake Dvoskin]

2010 Alta Rioja ardanza reserva seleccion especial
2010 Ehlers estate 1886
2013 herman story Larner v/a

[joejolesch]

It was a Geyserville kind of night without popping a Ridge -
Magnum of 2013 Hawkes Cab
2016 Trentadue La Storia Reserve Block 303

[LMD Ermitaño]

With T-bone steak this past Friday dinner - both decanted for aeration in my cav for around 2 hours before serving. The young BdM riserva had the body/drive for a better pairing; but the NSG les Boudots was a clear over performer.

[melvinyeo]

• 2019 Domaine de la Cras (Marc Soyard) Bourgogne L'Equilibriste - France, Burgundy, Bourgogne (14/2/2021)
  Marc Soyard worked under Bizot for a while and the vineyards are almost next to the urban centre of Dijon. A low intervention and low alcohol wine (11%), clearly natural style with a little spritz but very clean winemaking here. Dark ripe fruits of cherries and bramble, more dark Bojo than Burgundy but worth a try if you can find this at a good retail price of around 50 SGD.

[Robert.A.Jr.]

Love this approachable vintage of Gonon, so impeccably balanced for my palate.

[Joseph Grassa]

2016 Arrocal Ribera del Duero Seleccion

seems very slightly corked. still very drinkable but feels just slightly off. think I will open another tomorrow.

[Jake Dvoskin]

2013 Caymus S/S

[Rodrigo B]

Some appropriately themed wines for Valentine's Day

[Ramon C]

Amabuki Junmai Ginjo Himawari Sake

Complex and appealing aromatics with anise and potato notes. Smooth texture, hints of sourdough bread and saltiness, refreshing medium-big body. Good length.

Drank nicely by itself and mostly with ordered-in sashimi and negimaki Sunday dinner. Served chilled.

[Julian Marshall]

Had a very enjoyable Issan 2006:

Wonderful fresh bouquet of raspberry and spring flowers, then quite a hedonistic mouthful of raspberry, along with the blackcurrant one expects, but sufficiently elegant and restrained to avoid any syrupy feel to it. The only thing preventing it from being really excellent is for now the dry tannins, which pop up midpalate and stick to the throat. But after five hours in the decanter, these had somewhat receded - so for now, a long decant is necessary but in a few more years this should be really great stuff.

OTOH I had a wine last night which I really did not like - Belgrave 2010.
Like Cantemerle, Belgrave is a wine that I enjoyed in the 80s but which I have never found to be as good again since. The Belgrave 1985 was the first wine I ever bought E.P., for all of 7 Francs a bottle (those were the days). It was a wonderful wine which resembled a Margaux. Since then the style has gone all over the place, from mock-St.Julien, back to Margalais, with a very oaky patch between, and now, well at least in 2009 and 2010, full-on Rolland. I'm not totally anti-Rolland, there are some wines he advises on which I like, but not this one.
The 2010 is medium-bodied, but rich and heady, with surprisingly low acidity for a 2010, which gives the 14° a very free rein. The creamy blackcurrant, cherry and vanilla flavours are, depending on one's taste, compelling or off-putting. I did admire the complexity of the layered flavours but not the syrupy finish.
It's clearly quite ambitious, looking for attention and approval, but I can't help but feel it misses the point.

Owning a CC in Haut-Médoc must be increasingly tough - there are literally dozens of Crus Bourgeois snapping at their heels, producing wines which are as good at half the price or less. So what should they do? Well, I would have thought the answer would have been more classical elegance, or a concerted move towards organic farming, to produce something like Clos du Jaugueyron, just down the road. I certainly cannot fathom why they should produce a wine like this 2010.

Anyway, my wait goes on for another 1985, just like it does for another Cantemerle 1989.

[Paul Miller]

2014 Sojourn, Cabernet, Home Ranch
Ripe, juicy red fruit, with a spicy streak running through it. Was absolutely delicious. My last bottle - wish I had more.

[Yao C]

1998 Musar
Fully tertiary red fruit with a high-toned lift from the VA and band-aid from the brett to add complexity; gleefully, transgressively delicious because you know you're not supposed to like these faults; in a lighter bodied, fresh style that is very easy to drink; like a cross between old-school Bordeaux (esp from the brett) and old Southern Rhone; good plus

[Jayson Cohen]

1998 Musar
Fully tertiary red fruit with a high-toned lift from the VA and band-aid from the brett to add complexity; gleefully, transgressively delicious because you know you're not supposed to like these faults; in a lighter bodied, fresh style that is very easy to drink; like a cross between old-school Bordeaux (esp from the brett) and old Southern Rhone; good plus

Thanks for the timely report! I’m looking forward to halves of this vintage and a couple others in the coming weeks from a recent ex-cellar offer.

[Ramon C]

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Love this approachable vintage of Gonon, so impeccably balanced for my palate.

The 2011 is in fine cool zone these days.

[Steve Gautier]

2014 Sojourn, Cabernet, Home Ranch
Ripe, juicy red fruit, with a spicy streak running through it. Was absolutely delicious. My last bottle - wish I had more.

Good to hear. I haven’t had one in a few years.

[Paul Miller]

2014 Sojourn, Cabernet, Home Ranch
Ripe, juicy red fruit, with a spicy streak running through it. Was absolutely delicious. My last bottle - wish I had more.

Good to hear. I haven’t had one in a few years.

Home Ranch is a perennial favorite

[Steve Gautier]

2014 Sojourn, Cabernet, Home Ranch
Ripe, juicy red fruit, with a spicy streak running through it. Was absolutely delicious. My last bottle - wish I had more.

Good to hear. I haven’t had one in a few years.

Home Ranch is a perennial favorite

It is what turned me on to Sojourn.

[AstridKG]

2002 Harrington Pinot Noir from WB day

[Justine DiPrete]

Keeler Estate 2017 Chardonnay - biodynamic and not your typical chardonnay, loved it!

[Joseph Grassa]

2016 Arrocal Ribera del Duero Seleccion

seems very slightly corked. still very drinkable but feels just slightly off. think I will open another tomorrow.

It was... opened another the night after to see for certain. Amazing how subtle it was, but the first bottle was definitely not right, although it was still very drinkable. No one else noticed anything until they tried it again the next night.

[Brian Pinci]

2001 Ogier Cote Rotie. After over a month and a half of no wine due to doctors orders, I opened up this bottle for one glass. No idea why I picked a Cote Rotie to celebrate my freedom from restrictions. Syrah is not normally my favorite grape variety. But this was quite interesting. Lots of barnyard smells on the nose, not in a bad way. The palate showed roasted meats as well mushrooms and earth. Definitely at its peak or a bit beyond. Enjoyed the glass while watching Bourne’s Romeo+Juliet, fantastic!

[Jayson Cohen]

2015 Dirty & Rowdy Shake Ridge Ranch Mourvèdre:

[Bdklein]

Anderson Conn Valley Right Bank 2015.

Yummy