Ron Siegel

9.3

Beautiful aromatics, open, expressive showing dark cherry, cassis, mineral that is elegant,floral with pepper, spice & violet — 14 days ago

LM Segal

9.4

Impeccable balance from the perfect bing cherry nose to the fine tannins loading pipe tobacco, sour cherry, and lean plum notes. My 1st Balthazar (12 litres) was a charm! — 4 years ago

Sam Jones

9.0

Lovely stuff — 5 years ago

Chris MacLean

9.2

I’ve never had a bad bottle of Graillot In 20+ samples. slightly more metallic and lean than the Balthazar Crozes. — 5 years ago

with Sarah

Andrea Watt

8.9

Violet, blackberry, licorice, and cedar. Lighter than I expected given how dark it is. — 2 months ago

George Hesse

9.2

Ken Wegner Hunt 2024!! This was a Balthazar!!! That’s 12 liters of wine!! 16 bottles!! — 2 years ago

with Garrett and Tom

Manny Abascal

9.3

1969. Secondary and tertiary flavors, forest floor, some cherry fruit, really lovely bottle. At Balthazar restaurant in NYC. Great food. — 4 years ago

Jay Kline

9.4

As Noël Verset started to divest in his vines, there were several producers who came away with some real treasures. The most famous was Franck Balthazar who was able to purchase Verset’s prized holdings in Chaillots. Perhaps less known is Auguste Clape also purchased some ex-Verset vines in the Sabarotte lieu-dit. The 1997 Clape pours a much deeper color, nearly opaque purple. Dense brambles with some black licorice, lavender pastilles and minerals. Somewhat reticent even at 25+ years old. The venison, umami bomb, potato and pearl onion helped coax this Clape from slumber though. Drinking well now but easily has the stuffing to see 2037 and possibly beyond. — 2 years ago

Anna M

10

Had with dinner at Balthazar and loved it. Light tannins, drinkable and interesting but not funky — 4 years ago

Lynsey

9.2

Easy drinking, refreshing, good porch drinking summer wine — 5 years ago