Category Archives: Tasting Notes

AOC – Sancerre Grape 100% Sauvignon Blanc Tasting Notes Style: dry, elegant, aromatic Aromas: broom plant, jasmine, acacia,boxtree. – by Offical Website

Region: Barossa, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra Variety: Shiraz, Cabernet Cellar: 36 years (2016-2054) Alcohol: 14.3% Ratings *Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range Exceptional – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine Robert Parker 99 Jeremy Oliver 98 James Halliday 98 Wine Spectator 98 Tasting Notes Colour : Dark, deep red (at 5 years of age). Nose : Enticingly… Read More »

Grape 100% Riesling Tasting Notes The colour is lemon/gold. Bouquet carries notes of linden and orange blossom, perhaps from the early but low-cropping year, overlaid with a touch of honey. The palate is full and rich, balancing the vintage, marked acidity and the slight phenolic grip sought for this wine. This structure will ensure the… Read More »

AOC – Chablis Vieilles Vignes Grape 100% Chardonnay *half bottle

Ratings By Robert Parker 99 Tasting Notes Its bigger sister, the 2000 Haut-Brion (a blend of 51% Merlot, 43% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Cabernet Franc) showed incredibly at the tasting, and for me is one of the three or four most prodigious wines of the vintage. A compelling nose of roasted herbs, scorched earth,… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 95+ Tasting Notes One of the stars of the vintage, and a remarkable achievement in 2008, with impressive richness, this dense purple colored wine is almost as opaque as the 2010. Spring flowers, crushed rocks, creme de cassis and some subtle oak are followed by a full-bodied, concentrated wine that transcends… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 93 Tasting Notes One of the candidates for wine of the vintage, this beauty has a dense purple color to the rim and a classic, noble nose of graphite intermixed with black currant, spice box, licorice, and red and black fruits. Medium to full-bodied with exceptional precision and definition, this beautifully… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes The dense, ruby/purple-colored, unfriendly-styled 1996 is tannic, backward, and in need of 8-10 years of cellaring. The wine does seem to possess the requisite fruit and extract, however, to stand up to its powerful structure. Although pure and rich, this wine should not be touched for at least… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 89+ Tasting Notes This backward, tannic, strikingly oaky St.-Julien reveals a big structure as well as copious power and muscle, and a modern-styled combination of ripe fruit and new oak. While it requires a few years of bottle age to shed its cloak of tannin, and develop more Bordelais character, it… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes Elegant and sweet, but relatively light, this medium-bodied, attenuated Margaux reveals dusty, earthy, black currant, and cedary notes as well as moderate length and depth. It is meant to be drunk over the next decade. (Wine Advocate #134 Apr 2001) By Robert Parker