Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.1

Merry Christmas 2025! 🎅🎄🎁🍾 ❄️ ⛄️

Nice mousse w/ pleasant, lively acidity. Blood orange citrus blend-orange with peel, lime, lemon, hints fresh of rhubarb, bruised, soft, strawberries, white spice, dry limestone, seabed, light yeasty notes, baguette crust, sun tea notes, wet stone, nice acidity, well balanced, good tension-structured, elegant finish that last a full-minute and lands on volcanics & spice. — 5 months ago

LS S

9.2

Fantastic champagne - dry, light and flavorful! Helps to drink overlooking the Duomo — 4 years ago

David Kline

9.4

Chocolate ganache nose sows lime zest and cedar, vanilla panna cotta, lemon tart, hazelnut, absinthe film, and orange rind across a semi-hot surface that resembles an exotic, forgotten cocktail; tea biscuit, lavender and creme caramel. An olfactory feast that endlessly inspires. Soft and warm palate with herbaceous thyme, chive, cilantro, basil afloat on vanilla-caramel, lemongrass, tea tree oil, bay, lemon zest, lime pith, and candied lemon. Cappuccino and bakers chocolate, spun sugar, dark brown sugar, apple blossom honey, treacle, baklava, pine nut, pecan, and coffee cookie. Most interesting is the layers of cascading flavors maintain their original impact while generously allowing the next to shine seamlessly. I have had this many times sans analysis, without fully appreciating its impeccable composition. A triumph! .
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Sharon Davis

9.8

Cognac. Love it ❤️ 😍 — 10 months ago

Byron Hewett

9.4

Excellent. Long, toasty caramel. — 2 years ago

garry post

9.4

Amazingly good. — 4 years ago

Paul T, Missing My Beautiful Wife 24/7

9.7

Post steak 🥩, nice with a cool breeze in the backyard.
Wine Advocate: 98 points

The Tesseron family (currently the proprietors of St.-Estèphe’s Lafon-Rochet and Pauillac’s Pontet-Canet) made its fortune in the Cognac business, and it is one of the few families to possess ancient stocks of great vintages that have not been diluted with water or manipulated in any manner. They released small quantities of Lot 29 (1929), which remains the most ethereal Cognac I have ever tasted. I’m no expert, but their newest release, the 1953, seems close in quality to the 1929. Slightly darker than the 1929, the 1953 is pure silk, which at this alcohol level is very dangerous indeed. The complex aromatics can fill a room.

— 6 years ago

Karen Tripson

9.6

Dangerously smooth. — a year ago

Yury

10

Великолепный коньяк. Лучше всоп не проблвал — 2 years ago

Charlie Tapp

9.6

Hot cross buns. Yeast and smoke.. — 5 years ago