Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey
Bourgogne Aligote
Tightly reductive, floral and coy citrus, palate feels a bit empty, linear acid driven finish — 5 days ago
Domaine Tempier
Bandol Rosé Blend
Salmon color with copper reflexes. Nose of grapefruit, and Mandarin peel, lemon juice, pink flowers, and petrichor. Faint Aperol on the back. Palate is explosive but not effusive. More grapefruit oil, lemon pith, garrigue, waves of saline minerality and a bright acidity that makes it go on and on. Pretty serious argument on why it deserves its reputation is the best rosé in the world  — 2 months ago
Venica & Venica
Ronco delle Mele Collio Sauvignon
Great wine even though it didn’t hold up to my memories of former vintages, maybe because it’s a rare wine in its class that’s both excellent but drinks better young. It shed its primary character and left behind some ginger, vegetal tomato leaf and a silky texture with a long finish, driven by very prominent phenolic bitterness. Drinks like an austere high-quality white Bordeaux without the oak, but I miss the vibrant fruitiness and stronger Italian quality I get in its youth  — a month ago
Domaine de Chevalier
Pessac-Léognan Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend 2021
Everything a white Bordeaux should be.  extremely intense nose, feels oily before you taste it, spiced apples, vanilla, candied cedar, orange oil, lanolin. A tingling spicing sensation hits on the palate, followed by waves of citrus oil in a long finish, combining citrus both, bergamot and woodsy notes. It will balance out further with time, but it’s quite the experience already  — 2 months ago
Château de Fosse-Seche
Gondwana
Wow, two wines in one. Nose is a dark, stemmy cab franc, Saumur style, lots of green pyrazines and a bit of soft berries in the background. Palate is totally different, smooth, crunchy, very soft on the tannins. One of the most clever uses of carbonic I’ve seen — 6 months ago
Roberto Carli
Interesting dry vino da meditazione. It’s clocking it at 16.5% alcohol with still a barely-there touch of RS just to show it still had gas in the tank. Starts with opulent thickly layered dark fruit, concentrated and over ripe, but not jammy. The pallet opens things up by actually leading with very surprising acidity, turning fruit more red and fresh, revealing a subtle touch of sweetness and then continuing for 40+ seconds with different shades of fruit, from ripe figs to dry berries, all carried by the acidity and alcohol that never stands out of balance with the abundance of everything else. Both ridiculously out there and in balance: crazy high ripeness, crazy high alcohol, but crazy high acidity! — 3 days ago