Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes This wine has turned out to be more impressive from bottle than it was in cask. It is a charming, intensely-scented wine with a tell-tale olive, earth, grilled beef, and black currant-scented bouquet soaring from the glass. Medium to full-bodied, with low acidity, and round, luscious, richly fruity… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes The evolved, soft, silky 2008 Talbot is unquestionably a sleeper of the vintage, offering a dark plum/garnet color, loads of roasted herb, berry, black cherry, plum and Asian spice aromas intermixed with an attractive forest floor-like note. Already drinking well, this medium-bodied St.-Julien should continue to evolve for… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes A plum/garnet evolved color leads to a relatively superficial, fruity wine with medium body, pleasant flavors, but no real persistence, depth, or complexity. Drink it over the next 7-8 years. Beychevelle remains the most conspicuous under-achiever in the otherwise brilliant appellation of St.-Julien. (Wine Advocate #158 Apr 2005)… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker (89-91) Tasting Notes While this may be the most impressive Haut-Batailley I have ever tasted, I am reluctant to go out on a limb and give this wine a higher rating until I can taste it a few more times from both cask and bottle. The wine exhibits a dense purple… Read More »
Ratings by Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes Proprietor Philippe Casteja continues to upgrade the quality of this long forgotten Pauillac. The user friendly 2004 offers sweet tannin along with copious quantities of herb and cedar-tinged black currant and cherry fruit. This medium-bodied, soft wine is ideal for drinking over the next decade.(Wine Advocate #171 Jun… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 91+ Tasting Notes From the same stable as Mouton Rothschild and d??Armailhac, Clerc Milon, despite the relatively high percentage of Merlot (44%) combined with 50% Cabernet Sauvignon and the balance Cabernet Franc, is dense, rich, tannic, and backward. Surprisingly muscular for this offering, which often exhibits a more precocious side, it… Read More »
Region Yarra Valley Grape Shiraz Tasting Notes Early-drinking, lightly fruited, sappy and metallic, this rather cooked and meaty shiraz lacks much by way of life and freshness to lift its plummy, pruney flavours. It’s medium in weight, but dries out towards a savoury, but slightly green-edged and meaty finish lifted by a modest but spicy… Read More »
VDT – La Mancha Grape: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon Tasting Notes Appearance: Red cherry with deep reddish-purple rim. Nose: Great aromatic intensity amongst which typical Cabernet Sauvignon aromas abound: notes of spices such as pepper, gentle aromas of balsamic, eucalyptus and liquorice and an intense fruity touch in which forest fruit predominates (blackberry-Cassis).The aroma of wood… Read More »