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Very dark concentrated cherry red, it seems to have just lost its last shade of violet,leaving intensely colored legs behind on the glass.
It has a stunning powerful nose, tons of plush ripe dark fruit (brambleberry jam, juicy ripe plums and currants). It’s joined by a complex layered smell of soft...

The color is a medium brick red, slowly fading towards more pomegranate or even light brownish towards the edge.
The nose is very funky at first, stable combined with almond liqueur, not really appealing but luckily drastically improving over time. After 15-30 minutes in the glass there is even sti...

Poured from a bottle with level upper shoulder and slightly corroded capsule.
With the color still being similar to my grandmothers golden wedding ring I still had hope for this wine even though the fill level was far from optimal and the corrosion was covering some parts of the capsule, a tell tal...

In the bottle the wine had a slightly lower level (4.50 cm below the cork)and the fully saturated cork crumbled apart upon touching turning the
normally easy task of opening a bottle of wine into a true challenge.
But this wine was a stunning reward in itself : a sparkling golden liquid shone from...

A decade older than half a century, but this wine still looked lovely deep pomegranate red.
At first it reeked of oil or diesel, probably the influence of some old heating system that was next to the cellar where it had been stored, but luckily, this disappeared rather quickly. The aromas that reve...

The wine is lovely dark ruby in color, still not browning at all,despite is age.
An interesting mixture of fruit and garrigue slowly creeps out of the glass, there’s ripe plums and cherries intermingled with herbes de Provence and even some lavender. It has a nice woody touch too and a nuance of gr...

This bottle was made from brown glass, so probably a Belgian bottling,and sadly the cork had fallen into the wine.
After pouring it, only the very first glass contained a lovely transparentliquid, every next glass became more and more cloudy, until the verylast (mine) was really murky. Even after a...

Given the very high ratings from almost every professional wine critic I was looking forward to tasting this wine like a kid on Christmas morning.
This highly reputed Chateauneuf du Pape was made at the renowned Clos des Papes estate and thus by the hands of the legendary Avril family who literally...

If I’d have to give this tasting note a working title, it would definitely have to be ‘Never judge a wine by its color’.

We bought some older wines from a private collector recently, among which was this old white Burgundy. It had a good level, tight fitting capsule with no corrosion or signs of ...

This wine is produced from a tiny parcel (0.2 ha) situated on the western slope of the hill of Aloxe Corton, bordering on the town of Pernand Vergelesses.
Only 3 to 4 barrels are produced each year, so getting your hands on a bottle is already a great opportunity, being able to taste a +30 year old...