Category Archives: Tasting Notes

Hermanos Lurton (Verdejo), Rueda DO 2009

Grape 100% Verdejo Ratings&Awards WINE ENTHUSIAST 87 Tasting Notes Beautiful pale yellow robe with glints of green. A fine nose showing notes of mineral, stone and white glowers. The Mouth is full and voluminous, but also has good acidity. –by Official Website  *unoaked, aged on fine lees for 3 month. *Francois Lurton is a wine… Read More »

Penfolds RWT 2002

GrapeShiraz  Ratings *Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range Excellent – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine Robert Parker 93 Jeremy Oliver 93 James Halliday 94 Wine Spectator 93 Tasting Notes Colour : Deep red with a dark core. Nose : A distinctly Barossa nose of dark chocolate, blueberry and a hint of liquorice. Stylish, ‘glossy’, oak… Read More »

Chateau Pedesclaux 2005 (Magnum)

AOC – Pauillac Grand Cru Classe – 5eme Grape 50% Cabernet Sauvignon45% Merlot 5% Cabernet FrancRatings & Awards Robert Parker 82 Rated 5 stars by DECANTER Tasting Notes Even though this may be one of the finest wines yet made at Pedesclaux, it is still a pleasant yet herbaceous, uninspiring effort for the vintage. The… Read More »

Chateau Longueville au Baron de Pichon-Longueville 2002

Ratings By Robert Parker 89 Tasting Notes This is an elegant, deep ruby-colored wine with notes of sweet cassis, cedar wood, and tobacco with a hint of chocolate in the background. It is a layered, moderately weighty wine with pretty, even understated fruit flavors, excellent concentration, and a long finish with relatively ripe tannin. Anticipated… Read More »

Chateau Leoville-Barton 1996

Ratings By Robert Parker 92 Tasting Notes This impressive wine is a classic. Although backward, it exhibits a dense ruby/purple color in addition to abundant black currant fruit intertwined with spicy oak and truffle-like scents. The wine is brilliantly made, full-bodied, and tightly-structured with plenty of muscle and outstanding concentration and purity. It should turn… Read More »

Chateau Brane-Cantenac 2004

Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes A beauty from the Margaux appellation, this savory, floral, plum, cherry, and black currant-scented 2004 exhibits wonderful sweetness, medium body, and enough fresh acids to provide definition. An ethereal quality results in a pure, seductive wine that should drink well for 12-15+ years. How good it is to… Read More »

Chateau d’Issan 1997

Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes An elegant, dark plum-colored effort, this 1997 reveals sweet cranberry, black cherry, licorice, and floral aromas. Medium-bodied, ripe, and round, with low acidity, it is a lovely, stylish, soft wine to consume over the next 7-8 years. By Robert Parker

Chateau Malescot St. Exupery 2005

Ratings By Robert Parker 97 Tasting Notes This estate??s finest effort – ever, the 2005 Malescot St.-Exupery should be sought out by readers looking for intensity combined with superb richness, fascinating elegance, and a surreal concoction of blue and red fruits, a silky texture, and a delicate yet powerful wine that builds incrementally, never becoming… Read More »