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2007 Bordeaux : Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Overpriced (Jul 2010)

Bright red-ruby. Scented nose offers violet, minerals, menthol, tobacco leaf and pipe tobacco. The palate displays lovely subtle intensity and inner-mouth perfume, with precise flavors of red fruits, minerals and mint expanding and rising on the firm back end. Finishes with fine-grained tannins and a light touch. With 24 hours in the recorked bottle, this…

Sharing Alike: Petrus 1947 – 2015 (Sep 2018)

The 2007 Petrus is certainly one of the over-performers in an otherwise mediocre vintage, although you still have to pay through the nose for a bottle. Served alongside the 2009 and 2010, it has impressive fruit concentration with a mixture of red and black fruit, those traits of black truffle and pain d’épices still evident…

Penfolds Collection 2021 (Jul 2021)

Light, green-tinged yellow. Mineral-accented nectarine, Anjou pear, lemon pith, iodine and white flowers on the intensely perfumed nose. Taut and dry in the mouth, the 2019 offers concentrated orchard and citrus fruit flavors that are complemented by suggestions of sweet butter, tarragon and vanilla. Shows superb depth as well as energy, finishing minerally and impressively…

The Lord Giveth…Burgundy 2023 (Jan 2025)

The 2022 Puligny-Montrachet Village, bottled in March, is very minimalist on the nose. It doesn't deliver the fruit you would think the season would bestow. The palate is balanced with light malic notes. It's a little soft around the edges and this needs more tension on the finish. This is par for the course.

Pump Up The Volume: 2019 Burgundy – Blind (Dec 2023)

The 2019 Volnay Les Champans 1er Cru seems quite muddled on the nose and lacks the focus of Comtes Lafon’s Champans. The palate is bitter on the entry, displaying sour cherry and rather coarse tannins that seem to dry out the finish. I am not sure how representative this is. Tasted blind at the Burgfest…

2011 Bordeaux from the Bottle (Jul 2014)

Medium bright ruby. Sappy aromas of black cherry, blackberry, violet and sassafras. Fresh and juicy, with nicely textured, concentrated flavors of dark berries, bitter chocolate and spices. This solidly structured Pomerol finishes with firm but ripe tannins and lovely floral perfume. Well done.