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1996 Domaine Francois Mikulski
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Les Santenots - 1er Cru
(France / Burgundy / Cote de Beaune / Volnay)
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RATED: 05/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Very light garnet, very clear, black touch, fine tears. Very PN-typical nose, expressive red berries. Medium body, well balanced, some fruit, fine acidity spine, soft tannins. Aftertaste silky acidity. Very flexible with food. Score: 50 + 3 for optic + 14 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 7 for overall = total score of 91.
I don't have much experience with Volnay so this was a nice surprise for a reasonable price (70 Euro in a restaurant).
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1999 Chateau du Cedre
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Le Cedre - Sue-Ouest
(France / Southwest / Cahors)
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RATED: 05/01/2003 |
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(single blind): Dark ruby, clear, medium tears, tints slightly the glass. Dark berries in the nose, fresh roasted coffee beans. Full to medium body, very well balanced, fine acidity. Aftertaste bit mouth impregnating. Score: 50 + 4 for optic + 14 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 94.
This wine was a really nice surprise, found even some finesse here - not a bit rustic what you would expect from a "black" wine.
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1996 Jacques Prieur
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Grand Cru
(France / Burgundy / Cote de Nuits / Chambolle-Musigny)
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RATED: 05/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Brilliant ruby, black touch, fat tears, some sediment. Intensive PN-typical nose, multitude of red berries. Medium body, silky, soft tannins, bit acidity. Aftertaste silky acidity, slightly mouth impregnating. Some oxidation after one day in the open bottle. Score: 50 + 4 for optic + 14 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 7 for overall = total score of 92.
This wine was not so fine as I thought it would be and was also hard to pair with food - found no perfect match here.
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1997 Marengo
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Brunate
(Italy / Northwest / Piedmont / Barolo)
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RATED: 05/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Dark garnet, clear, fat tears. Dark fruit and some oak in the nose. Medium body, fine fruit, well balanced, good spine. Velvety aftertaste. Score: 50 + 3 for optic + 13 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 92.
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1992 Les Cailloux
(France / Rhone / Southern Rhone / Chateauneuf du Pape)
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RATED: 06/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Light garnet, brown black hue, nice tears. Expressive CdP-nose with some rotting vegetables and lots of sweet dark berries. Medium body, well balanced, soft but with a spine. Finish mouth impregnating. Score: 50 + 3 for otpic + 14 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 92.
Nice wine from a not so great vintage.
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1997 J. Confuron-Cotetidot
- Les Suchots
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1er Cru
(France / Burgundy / Cote de Nuits / Vosne-Romanee)
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RATED: 06/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Very light garnet, brilliant, nice tears. Brooding PN-nose, bit alcoholic, some wood. Medium body, good acidity, some red fruit. Finish with delayed aftertaste after fruit and slightly bitter tannins, very long, mouth impregnating. Score: 50 + 3 for optic + 13 for bouquet + 16 for taste + 7 for overall = total score of 89.
Nice wine for a hot summer evening.
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| SCORE: 89
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| BY: Wilfried
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In 1-3 years |
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1989 Aldo Conterno
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Bussia Soprana
(Italy / Northwest / Piedmont / Barolo)
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RATED: 06/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Brilliant garnet, bit of brick, dense tears. Nose bit mineralic, hint of liquorice and maybe a bit tar. Medium body, very well balanced, soft tannins, fine backbone. Aftertaste soft tannins and silky acidity. High hedonism factor. Score: 50 + 3 for optic + 13 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 9 for overall = total score of 93.
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1999 Chateau Saint-Cosme
(France / Rhone / Northern Rhone / Cote-Rotie)
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RATED: 06/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Clear ruby, fat tears, light rim. Nose ascending alcohol and toasted wood, velvety, dark fruit behind. Medium body, massive fresh fruit, bit acidity, some tannins. Finish velvety acidity. Score: 50 + 3 for otpic + 13 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 7 for overall = total score of 90.
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1999 Chateau Malescot St. Exupery
(France / Bordeaux / Margaux)
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RATED: 06/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Light purple, brilliant. Cacao, coffee and taost in the nose. Medium body, taste corresponding to nose, in the middle rather slim, very nice decent fruit. Soft velvety in the finish, decent fruit. Score: 50 + 4 for optic + 14 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 7 for overall = total score of 92
For me the ideal wine for a picnic on the banks of the river Dordogne (near Bordeaux) - if only in imagination.
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1999 La Spinetta Rivetti
(Italy / Northwest / Piedmont / Barbaresco)
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RATED: 06/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Brilliant garnet with black touch, fine tears. Nose primary wood, decent dark fruit behind. Medium body, very well balanced, good spine, bit austere. Aftertaste long and velvety, satisfying. Score: 50 + 3 for optic + 13 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 92.
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1999 Robert Chevillon
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Les St. Georges - 1er Cru
(France / Burgundy / Cote de Nuits / Nuits-St-Georges)
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RATED: 06/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Violet garnet. Closed PN-Nose, rather austere. Medium body, intense fruit, good match with cherries and strawberries. Fruity aftertaste. Score: 50 + 3 for optic + 12 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 7 for overall = total score of 89.
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1999 Chateau de Beaucastel
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Blanc Roussanne VV
(France / Rhone / Southern Rhone / Chateauneuf du Pape)
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RATED: 06/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Golden color, extreme viscosity. Nose after Sherry and Trockenbeerenauslese. Full body, taste of Sherry, nuts, dried yellow fruit. Velvety aftertaste, wine grapes fruit. Score: 50 + 4 for optic + 13 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 93.
This wine is nice to drink at red wine temperature and rather impressive - but one bottle a year is may be enough.
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1999 Chateau de la Negly
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Clos des Truffiers
(France / Languedoc / Coteaux du Languedoc / La Clape)
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(single blind): Black purple, fat tears, tints the glass. Lovage, soy sauce, bit fat. Full body, fat, liquorice, dense. Dense fruity aftertaste, port like. Score: 50 + 5 for optic + 14 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 7 for overall = total score of 94.
This wine is certainly impressive but I cannot drink a second glass here. Seems nearly identical with the Porte du Ciel bottling. But this is a wine (means Truffiers or Ciel) to identify with absolute security when tasting blind.
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1999 Ernst Triebaumer
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Marienthal - Blaufrankisch
(Austria / Burgenland)
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RATED: 08/01/2004 |
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(not blind): Black ruby, violet rim, fat tears, tints the glass. Lead pencil, restrained dark fruit, cacao, coffee, dense. Medium body, not too fine but persistent tannins, dark fruit, acidity with elderberry touch, dense. Long finish, dark fruity velvety. Bit tight but very interesting. Reminds me somehow of the Lynch Bages 1988 I had some days
ago from Magnum. This is definitely an outstanding wine with great potential for cellaring. Score: 50 + 5 for optic + 13 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 93.
Dinner in a nice restaurant. Decanted shortly before drinking, Riedel Syrah glasses.
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2000 Bayer-Erbhof
Pinot Noir
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In Signo Tauri
(Austria / Burgenland)
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RATED: 06/01/2003 |
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(not blind): Brilliant ruby, hint of violet, fat tears. Nose on the border of a fault - fresh chalked wall, swimming pool (chlorine). Full to medium body, concentrated fruit, massive, low acidity of very well hidden, sweet oak. Aftertaste little bit impregnating. Score: 50 + 3 for optic + 10 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 6 for overall = total score of 86.
Nose changes to honeycomb in the empty glass, so this gives some hope that the bouquet will evolve into something nice over time. Some red fruit in the taste and the impregnating aftertaste gives a hint that this could be PN - but this wine seems a very good example to me of how to make wine against the varietal.
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1999 Conterno Fantino
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Monpra
(Italy / Northwest / Piedmont / Langhe)
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(not blind): Light ruby, clear, dense tears. Dark brooding nose, bit alcoholic. Medium to full body, good fruit, fine acidity, some tannins. Velvety finish, long. Score: 50 + 3 for optic + 13 for bouquet + 17-18 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 91-92.
Bit of international style here but well made.
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1981 Domaine Pegau
(France / Rhone / Southern Rhone / Chateauneuf du Pape)
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(Magnum, not blind): Ruby, clear, slightly brownish. Ripe nose after dried fruits. Medium body, well balanced, rather soft, hint of acidity. Aftertaste bit mouth impregnating.
Score: 50 + 3 for optic + 14 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 93.
Beautiful wine, but not overwhelming, expected a great wine here.
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1997 Jean-Jacques Confuron
(France / Burgundy / Cote de Nuits / Vougeot)
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(not blind): Light garnet, fat tears, light rim. Dark PN-nose, alcoholic. Medium body, some acidity, rather thin in the middle. Silky tannins in the finish. Score: 50 + 3 for otpic + 13 for bouquet + 16 for taste + 7 for overall = total score of 89.
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1999 Hacienda Monasterio
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Crianza
(Spain / Castilla y Leon / Ribera del Duero)
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(not blind): Black purple, fat tears, tints the glass. Dark berries in the nose, fine. Full to medium body, dense but well balanced: Fruit, acidity and tannins. Long velvety aftertaste. Score: 50 + 5 for optic + 14 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 95.
Rather international style here, but a nice effort with 70% Tempranillo, impressive.
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1999 Paolo Scavino
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Bric del Fiasc
(Italy / Northwest / Piedmont / Barolo)
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(not blind): Dark garnet, brilliant. Fine red berries in the nose. Full to medium body, well balanced, fine tannins. Velvety finish. Score: 50 + 4 for optic + 14 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 94.
Never had a young Barolo fruitdriven like this before. Don't know if I look for this in a Barolo, I prefer them rather austere.
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1999 Falesco
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Montiano
(Italy / Central / Lazio)
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(single blind): Clear purple, very dense tears, tints the glass, extraordinary heavy sediment for such a young wine. Vanilla and dark fruit in the nose (lots of new oak here), but agreeable. Medium body, rather soft fruit, low acidity, lots of tannins. Velvety aftertaste. Score: 50 + 4 for optic + 13 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 7 for overall = total score of 91.
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1995 Prieure de Saint-Jean de Bebian
(France / Languedoc / Coteaux du Languedoc)
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(not blind): Brilliant ruby, dense tears, tints the glass. Soft tannins and dark berries in the nose. Medium to full body, soft tannins, well balanced, velvety. Long. Score: 50 + 4 for optic + 14 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 93.
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1999 Chateau Lafleur
(France / Bordeaux / Pomerol)
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(single blind): Brilliant ruby, fat tears. Dark fruit and alcohol in the nose, without edges. Full to medium body, fat acidity, nice fruit. Aftertaste very velvety. Score: 50 + 5 for otpic + 14 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 8 for overall = total score of 95.
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1982 Chateau Leoville Poyferre
(France / Bordeaux / St-Julien)
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(not blind): Dark ruby, opaque. Intense nose after sweets, chocolate, cacao, coco flakes. Medium to full body, powerful tannins, good acidity spine - could go for a rather young but very good Sangiovese. Very nice. Score: 50 + 3 for optic + 15 for bouquet + 18 for taste + 9 for overall = total score of 95.
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1990 Andrea Oberto
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Vigneto Rocche
(Italy / Northwest / Piedmont / Barolo)
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(not blind): Clear garnet, light rim, fat tears. Fine dark fruit and some mushrooms in the nose. Medium body, some acidity, some fruit, lots of tannins, rather austere. Aftertaste hint of furniture polish. Score: 50 + 3 for otpic + 13 for bouquet + 17 for taste + 6 for overall = total score of 89.
This does not sound really appealing - but you have to try this wine with dandelion (not the flower but the young leaves including a bit of the root in early spring) salad and you have top harmony in taste.
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