Dave

8.9

Birth year wine.
"Looks like a tricky one"... if I had a dollar for every time I heard that.
This is Chateau Latour Martillac, Graves, 1975.
This wine is slightly over the hill, but has survived 50 years. Just like me.
I'm assuming this is Cabernet, Merlot, and maybe something else. Fine, pale brick color. The nose is lively and generous with fruit, though there is a bit of grandma's basement.
The palette is driven by tertiary flavors. Mushroom, truffle, wet leaves, and pencil tend to drown out a bit of dark cherry. A little astringent. Maybe some Petit Verdot.
I wouldn't kick this out of bed for eating crackers, but I would prefer it with some lamb.
Hope you all are having an awesome Sunday!
Listening to Dexter Gordon. — 2 months ago

with Tegan

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

The “Un-Rose” as I like to call it. Nose is strawberry, cherries and citrus. So clean. On a mineral bed. Smells like summer. Watermelon as well. Blood orange with air. Dense, deep and sappy for this wine as 18 vintage carries a lot of weight with it, but it’s so caressing, so supple and so succulent the extra weight is carried off effortlessly. Amazing palate presence and finesse. The palate is surprisingly mineral with some mid season cherry fruit. This will open as it aerates. But this is best since 15 for me. — 5 years ago

Henry Luiker

10

A magnum from The Reserve Cellar $462. A heavenly bed of roses, about as good as this style of Barolo can get, for a not immodest price. — 4 months ago

Conner Massey

9.3

Savory smoke, mint, sweet fruit notes. Trashy tv in bed. — 5 years ago

Tree Kilpatrick

9.0

Lighter red color than I expected. Kinda a dark rose color. Nose is pencils and damp granite gravel river bed. And cherry Coke. Flavors are very dry and the whole classroom pencil sharpener. Also has rose petals and black chocolate mixed with anise and charred meats. Hint of blood. — 6 years ago

Beth

9.3

Not bed, sweet with little bubbles - — 7 years ago

Tommy

9.1

Rocky with lush, concentrated black fruit flavor. — 8 months ago

Ron R

9.5

First time trying this, and it’s prodigious. Balanced and laser-focused.
All my scores are rolling to the center of the bed at 95. — 4 years ago

with Diana, Joe and 1 other

Jakub Kalinowski

8.9

Juicy yet elegant Gamay fro the Loire. Black currant and black cherry on a bed of rock. Pure in it’s fruitiness but with nice structure coming from the granite.
Drinking very nicely and a perfect fit with goat cheese. — 5 years ago

Kristine Bissell

9.5

Fruit forward and easy drinking red wine on a nice summer evening. Good value for this vintage 2016. Had to be less than $15 at Bed Bath and Beyond/World Market. — 6 years ago