Category Archives: Tasting Notes

Ratings By Robert Parker 85 Tasting Notes This wine is a medium/dark ruby-colored offering with a nose of toasty oak, dried herbs, sweet cherries, and spice. This elegant, medium-bodied wine finishes quickly. Drink it over the next 7-8 years.(Wine Advocate #140 Apr 2002) By Robert Parker

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Ratings By Robert Parker 91 Tasting Notes A breakthrough effort as well as a sleeper of the vintage, La Tour Carnet (50% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot) has been completely resurrected under the dynamic leadership of its visionary proprietor Bernard Magrez. He has turned out a dense ruby/purple-colored 2001… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 87 Tasting Notes This wine has completely shut down after being in bottle for several years. It still has an impressively saturated ruby/purple color and a nose of sweet berry fruit intermixed with licorice, tapenade, mineral, and herbs. The wine is deep, medium-bodied, with excellent purity and some relatively elevated and… Read More »

Ratings by Robert Parker 95 Tasting Notes This sexy, evolved, dense ruby/purple-tinged 2003 reveals notes of smoke, herbs, black currant jam, licorice and graphite. Full-bodied, opulent and flamboyant, it is another example of a stunning 2003 northern Medoc that can be drunk now or cellared for 10-15 more years. This irregular vintage hit its zenith… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker (87) Tasting Notes Dark plum/garnet-colored, with an evolved, mature, cedary, spice box, fruit cake, coffee, smoky, fruit-scented bouquet, this seductive, medium-bodied, fruit-driven 1997 offers plenty of appeal. Drink this spicy Pauillac over the next 7-8 years. (Wine Advocate #128 Apr 2000) By Robert Parker

Ratings By Robert Parker 89 Tasting Notes An impressive effort from this Haut-Medoc property, the 2005 Belgrave possesses a deep ruby/purple color as well as notes of damp earth, cedar, herbs, black cherries, and currants, good acidity, moderately high tannin, an admirable, layered texture, and fine purity and overall balance. Anticipated maturity: 2013-2022.(Wine Advocate #176… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 79 Tasting Notes This herbaceous, light to medium-bodied wine is cleanly made but has no substance or depth. In addition, the finish is attenuated. It is a disappointment. Drink it over the first decade of life.(Wine Advocate #140 Apr 2002) By Robert Parker

Robert Parker : 87~89pts DOCG – Chianti Classico Grape Sangiovese Rating & Awards Wine Front Review 94 Rated 4 stars by DECANTER Tasting Notes The 2007 Chianti Classico is a soft, fragrant Chianti bursting with ripe fruit, licorice and flowers. This vinous, generous Chianti is best enjoyed on the young side. It is a wonderful… Read More »

Region Hunter Valley Grape Cabernets Tasting Notes Slightly lighter than the 2003; long and fine; all the elements surrounding red and black fruits, in mainstream Folly style. -93 pts by James Halliday