Lovely amd complex and showing the beginnings of some maturity. Lots of different flavour elements, dark fruits, spice and earth and leather with some oak notes.
Ex cellar release bought last year. Will last for decades but very enjoyable now as well.
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When you have Swiss Lamal health care coverage you can smoke tobacco rolled in bacon and dipped in ricin and still laugh your way through recovery. #swisshealthcareforever 
N.B. these butts weren’t mine, only artists still smoke 
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2016 Clos du Clocher, Pomerol
This wine has left me cold. I’m indifferent to it. Tonight is my second bottle over the last three months, and I followed this bottle over two nights. It’s a very decent well-made wine, and it clearly is fairly priced. Unlike the majority of 2016 vintage Bordeaux that I have been enjoying and buying deeply, this wine simply lacks that critical hallmark of 2016: Freshness. It’s not fresh at all. I cannot say that it is cloying or overly sweet, it just has a plodding feel to it. It’s a bit glossy and round, but just not crisp. I’m good for a glass and then I’m just completely bored.
I bought six. Will likely feed the remainder to family.
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Your love for your family is truly inspiring.
As for me, I waited to open this bottle because @Will_Hamilton signed it for me but it’s in a wonderful space right now - tropical, crisp, spot on. I’d happily pour this for my family, or Alfert’s!
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2021 Rochioli Big Hill Pinot Noir - Last BH I opened was a 2018 and it was decent, but at the same time sort of ‘meh’ and nondescript.
This 2021 is just fantastic.
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I bought a case and a half on release for under $34@ all in.
I’ll take six dozen pigs in a blanket.
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FIFY
“Cigs in blankets”
Sounds like something Mainway toys would make:
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Mostly unknown to me- took a flyer-glad I did. Crisp and clean-good bit of fruit-but more edgy than fruity.
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I recently opened one of these as well. Glad it hit for you. It seems to be evolving more slowly than my 19s, keeps a nice spark with a hint of reduction. Lots of freshness and still very precise. Cheers Todd
A beautiful late Autumn day here, clear and cloudless and 16 deg C (61 deg F for the Americans).
Feeling like something beautiful to drink. The 2011 Ch. Magdelaine delivered in spades.
This is just a superb wine, it is an elegant balanced long middleweight. It has a fresh crispness to it that is very appealing. The fruit profile is cool and red, there may be just the fainest hint of some dried herbs. The lovely acidity is driving the feel of freshness. The tannins are gentle and well integrated. Although it clearly has a long evolution in front of it, it is a marvelously satisfying and enjoyable wine to drink now. Every sip makes me want to take another one. I doubt I will ever find out what this wine may be like in 15 years time as I will have drunk them all by then.
Cheers Brodie
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“Alyssum” Gamay from Sato, Central Otago. 2021. 883 bottles made.
No carbonic maceration so the banana‘ish profile of the Beaujolais is not present here. Instead it’s a quite upright berry, pepper and spice forward thing. It has a solid tannic grip so it’ll age rather fine from here. It’s stylistically more along the lines of cold vintage Beaujolais, which I really like. At 75NZD it’s perhaps a little high for its quality, but it’s none the less a great bottle.
A rare DIAM cork closing.
CT says I have 2 more 2002 Taittinger Comtes, and I hope that’s true, because this was simply sensational. It’s the kind of wine that makes me a poor dinner companion because the wine is a lot more interesting than anything I am likely to say at the table.
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Fabulous note. Fabulous wine.
You definitely captured its essence. I’m drinking it as fast as you are.
This.
Oh, and this.
And so much of this!
Yeah, my stash is also looking meager. Gotta add more.
Dominique et Rémy Passot Beaujolais Village Blanc Polaris 2023
Served blind. I called Chardonnay but that’s as far as I got. Not bad. Mostly pear and stones on the nose. The palate shows decent balance with good chewiness (mâche) but there is a distinct savoury/ herbal streak to this. It worked well with the wood fire grilled chicken brochettes but it is atypical.
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Merkelbach Kinheimer Rosenberg Spatlese 2017:
Perfect wine for a hot day. It bursts with juicy peach and orange flavors perfectly in balance with racy, refreshing acidity and salt. There is a pleasing creamy weight on the palate; the perception of sweetness is low. I feel a twinge of guilt for opening this, as it is immediately apparent this wine should improve with a few more years in the bottle - the tertiary complexities are just starting to emerge - but this is downright gulpable now.
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Thanks for the temperature conversion, but you failed to explain to us Americans how it can be autumn in May, because it can’t. 