Baron Cristal
Les Griffons de Pichon Baron
Pauillac Red Bordeaux Blend 2015
2019 vintage. A bit more Merlot than Cabernet, but the latter seems to dominate the nose. — a month ago
Baron Philippe de Rothschild
Mouton Cadet La Bergerie Red Bordeaux Blend 2020
Cuvée Héritage — 12 days ago
Baron-Fuenté
Millésime Brut Champagne Blend 2014
Yeasty, ripe tropical fruit nose. Fleshy, creamy and dry palate. Perhaps a little time to show it's best. — 2 months ago
Louis Roederer
Cristal Brut Rosé Champagne Blend 2013
Tasted from magnum, the 2013 Cristal Rosé is ravishing. Dense, creamy and powerful, the 2013 captures all the qualities of the vintage, specifically the interplay of rich fruit from the warm summer and cooler inflections from a year that started late and ended late with a rare October harvest. Today, the 2013 is deep and beautifully seamless, but it is also young – far too young to be at its best. Dosage is 6.5 grams per liter, a bit less than for the standard bottlings, a decision taken to balance longer aging on the lees and a bit more residual sugar that is always left in the magnums after fermentation. Readers who can find the 2013 in magnum will experience one of the greatest thrills in wine. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, March 2024)
— a month ago
Andrew Cullimore
Medium lemon yellow , persistent fine perlage . At first quite shy , needs a bit of time to get going . Then buttered pastry , confit lemon and roast nuts , quite bold and rich , just a hint of chalky minerality . On the palate the richer , deeper theme continues , those pastry and buttery notes , confit lemon and a creamy mouthfeel . Long balanced finish , the chalky acidity really helping to cut through richer , mouth filling profile . Coming back to this at the end of the meal , having sat 6 hours in the glass , this still shows remarkable freshness and life. This seems young to me still , certainly has everything for a long life ahead , better in 5 years perhaps and will show well a further 10-15 perhaps . — 6 days ago