Category Archives: Tasting Notes

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Ratings By Robert Parker 91 Tasting Notes A fabulous wine for the vintage, this well-endowed St.-Julien exhibits a dense purple color in addition to a sweet bouquet of charcoal, burning embers, blackberries, cassis, and a hint of graphite. Dense, full-bodied, and surprisingly concentrated with more body, texture, and length than most 2007s, the wine possesses… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes Performing much better than it did from barrel, Lafon-Rochet??s 2001 exhibits a dark ruby/purple color along with complex aromas of underbrush, melted licorice, black fruits, and tree bark. Smooth, polished tannins are found in this medium to full-bodied, monolithic but attractive, well-endowed St.-Estephe. It is revealing more aromatic… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes The 1995 has turned out well, displaying a dark ruby/purple color, and aromas of minerals, black currants, and smoky new oak. In the mouth, it is a medium-weight, backward, well-delineated Pauillac with plenty of tannin, and a true vin de garde style. Anticipated maturity: 2002-2015. This estate has… Read More »

Ratings by Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes This property is clearly on the upswing as evidenced by this wine. The open-knit, evolved 2003 is undeniably a sleeper of the vintage and a very good value for a top Pauillac. Deep ruby purple in color with an evolved bouquet of smoked herbs, cedar, creme de cassis,… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes A delicious wine, this 1997 reveals plenty of herb, cedary, black currant fruit, medium body, fine concentration and stuffing, low acidity, and a soft, attractive, velvety-textured finish. Neither dense nor long-lived, it is an ideal selection for restaurants as well as consumers looking for a wine to drink… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 89+ Tasting Notes One of the finest wines I have tasted from this estate, the 2005 Cos Labory exhibits a deep ruby/purple hue, aromas of road tar, blackberries, creme de cassis, forest floor, smoke, and graphite, medium to full body, and abundant tannin. It is a complete, dense effort with high… Read More »

DOCa – Rioja Grape 95% Tempranillo 5% Graciano Ratings & Awards 90 points by Guia Penin 2012 91 points by Guia Todovino 2012 Silver Medal – International Wine Challenge Catavinum 2012 Tasting Notes Ruby red, clean and bright. Good aromatic intensity, notes of ripe red fruit on the nose over a very elegant balsamic background.… Read More »

Region Hunter Valley – NSW Grape 100% Semillon Tasting Notes As always, a beautiful colour with luminous greens. Distinctive Hunter lemongrass/straw aromas as a young wine. Sweet fruit flavours initially on the palate indicating perfect ripeness at harvest and in fact a bit riper than usual. Excellent acid structure, long flavours of lime and apple… Read More »

Region McLaren Vale Grape Cabernet Shiraz Tasting Notes An honest, gutsy wine, skillfully assembled from various parts of southeast Australia; good value. -87 pts by James Halliday