Have you looked at the château in 3D on Google Earth?
2009 Domaine de Chevalier. My dear friend @Robert.A.Jr, who hates pleasure, would trade this in a heartbeat for something thin and weedy, but in this (if nothing else) he is wrong. Just gorgeous.
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I just went cycling with a stress fracture in my left foot! Pain is pleasure! You soft hedonist! 
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After 3 champagnes (see appropriate thread) we did a white and then hit the hooch.
Bright, natural, fresh. Decant, swirl, move, shake all about. Needs air, violence and turbulence!
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Sounds like you need a 2009 DdC to dull the pain !
Lovely vintage of Magdelaine! I bought three bottles last year and drank them in like 6 weeks! Not an ager but just lovely.
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We want to know how it is Robert!!!
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Cruise ship wine dinner, the sommelier replaced the 2012 Giacosa white label for a 2007 Giacosa Red Label!
It was the star
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2019 Jadot Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Estournelles St.-Jacques
Today I decided I was going to pick something out of the cellar at random that I have never had before.
This wine reminds me of Liam Neeson somehow. Its like an old man smashing young gangsters using old-man-strength and sheer brutality. Not un-drinkable, there is some bright red fruit here, but this needs to rest until retirement age before approaching.
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Beautiful stuff. It’s that next generation of producer that is really doing wonderful things, I will concede, It is a bit polished, but I would not call this modern in the negative sense of the word. A very heady aromatic perfume that is pretty intoxicating. No pun intended. I think you will like it.
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2003 SQN Papa Syrah:
I was expecting a much more outrageous wine than what I got — not a bad thing in that this was to me a beautiful example of New World Syrah. Yes it’s big, but it wears its abv pretty well. I think this would be hard to confuse with a N Rhone, but on its own terms this really was delicious and surprisingly refined and balanced, for all its opulence.
From CT review:
1 hr decant. I don’t think the time matters (this is going to air about as fast as the Pyramids) but a decant helps. I was surprised at how young this tasted in a way: the age is betrayed by the smoothness of the tannins rather than the very big plum / dark cherry tastes. A touch of tobacco, but not much typical Syrah pepper. Some anise showing up about 2 hrs after decant. Unlike some other TNs I did not feel the finish was marred by heat.
Really, I have come to expect pyrotechnics and OTT flavors from SQN and this was not that — impressively integrated, well balanced and not as heavy as I expected. Still a very New World Syrah, but an excellent example of it.
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