Billy michael x — 6 months ago
Juicy yet acidic Cabernet franc #tschida #engelauferden — 5 years ago
Opened, and stayed the same pretty much the entire time. A solid well blended wine with chewy, tans, and fully mature and ripe flavors of what you would completely expect of a Bordeaux style blend. Savory and slightly earthy flavors, very good.  — 10 months ago
Amazing mazon sbiatti This bottling is from the British wine merchant Avery's. who bought barrels of wine and brought them to England for bottling until the practice was banned. The wine would have been labeled Domaine René Engel in France, but it was under the stewardship of his son Pierre at the time of this bottling. The wines under his reign were quite notable through the 1969 vintage. Pierre fell ill in 1970, and the estate was neglected until Pierre's son Philippe took over after wine school. The vintage was very good in Burgundy, though it is often overlooked because it was such a disaster in Bordeaux, says K&L's Burgundy buyer Keith Wollenberg. In 1999, the critic Clive Coates of the Vine wrote of this wine: "Full, very vigorous colour. Hardly any sign of age. Full, ample and spicy. Fat and Plump. Very good grip. This has length and quality and richness...Yet it has the fat, succulence, intensity and vigour. Fine Plus." — a year ago
Daniel M
We had this along a "canard à l'orange" and I thought it was a delicious pairing, as the residual sugar complemented the tenderness of the meat and the bitterness of the orange very well. The nose is typical with rose petal and lychee notes, with a botrythis touch showing honey and a tiny smoky note. It's very inviting. The palate is a bit monolithic, lacking tension and can feel a bit heavy when the wine is tasted on its own but plays an entirely different game when paired with the duck. Nice thick matter, oily, with lychee and tiny tangy citrusy notes. There is of course some residual sugar, even maybe some botrythis notes with honey, honeycomb. The finish is long, lingering, showing lychee, honey, and a tiny bitter note in the very end. — 10 days ago