Peter van den Besselaar

9.1

Vintage 2023 | Minerality, beautiful bitters. Chenin blanc beauty. | Paired with tartare de salmon in restaurant B Chartre sur Loir. — 4 days ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.3

Vintage 2020 | First day of spring. Intanticide perhaps, but jolly good now. Palle yellow. Smell with pear and Guadeloupe melon. Schist. Powerfull balanced taste with high bitters and blood orange zeste. Lovely wine, says the wife. Happy wife, happy life! Paired with chicocery with ham and vacherin mont d’or cheese from the oven and topped with spring onion and truffle. Find it and put some bottles in your cellar. — a year ago

Ross Bathgate

9.2

2004 Vintage Overtly green and herbal on the nose but still with lovely Cabernet sweet fruit and fine tannin. — 4 years ago

Steven Lee

9.5

Friend house warming. Recent discovery of cabernet blend in beechworth is pretty good. Vanilla and chalky mineral. Abit of white paper feel. there is also some blue fruit and floral taste like pomerol. Quite smooth and elegant but still got some background bitter taste. Plum sweet — 4 years ago

Martijn

9.3

Incredible glass of rose. Roses, almond paste, tart, some dried figs. In the mouth sweet, acidity and bitters so well balanced. — 4 years ago

Willem Jan Withagen

9.0

Proof that roero arneis does keep. No reason to fast finish in 2 years. Nice fruits in the nose: Peach and apricot. Some ripening butter tones. All is also on the pallet, in combinatie with some citrusfruits and lots of nice hazelnut bitters. All the more reason to store them at the back of the cellar. — 6 years ago

Big Wave Dave

9.5

Exceptional chardonnay with the latent power of a GC burgundy, but with salinity and tannic grip. Beautiful nose with reductive gunsmoke, apple, and baking spices. The structure is the perfect fit for the intense and powerful flavour bomb: lemon merengue pie, smoke, tangerine, all in perfect balance. The concentration and length are world class. As long as I can remember of ANY wine I have tasted. World class for A$90 — 3 months ago

Jan A

9.3

A regular buy, this is clean, with sharp acidity. Nutty and round. Some salinity and bitters in the aftertaste. Excellent pqr at around 19€ — a year ago

Benjamin Hickey

9.0

Med body, savoury acid, reasonably simple but nice length — 3 years ago

Johnno Harris

9.5

Stunning. Everything tied together beautifully after a couple of years in bottle. Delicious stuff!! — 4 years ago

Johnno Harris

9.6

Outstanding!! Super tight and focussed. Struck match, flinty and nectarine kernel complexity. Drink now or hold for 3-5 years. Wish it came in magnums! Ripper booze!! — 4 years ago

Big Wave Dave

9.2

Cool climate character; more Northern Rhone than Australia. As with all Savaterre, this is built to age but all the elements are there. Quite green/stemmy, but enough dark berry fruit, rosemary, and spice to give balance. Better in 5 yrs but wanted to like this more. — 5 years ago

Pinotman /// Andreas

10

The 18 is DRC quality a unicorn there is no other Pinot like it right now. It takes hour/days to reveal its layers and power. @40 min: Tannins soft and super well managed no rough edges here a hint of mint, faint touch of black tea bitters, herbaceous @ 15h: More round no oxidative disturbances.
Dark cherry, tart and closed. Finally @7days under Argon: Black Forest meadow, tannins resolved, glorious fruit, long. Dark black heirloom black forest cherries. The 18 E & M Muschelkalk beats out at Pinot I had in the last years . “I wish you where here”. — 6 years ago

Alex Tso

9.5

2017 far better than anything after 2021! — 6 months ago

Mark Rosse

9.7

A singular wine! — 10 months ago

Jeremy Shanker

Sommelier at RN74

9.2

The best sparkling Shiraz. Great! — 2 years ago

Big Wave Dave

9.0

Pretty classical chard. Lemon, grass, bread. Nice grip. — 4 years ago

Ross Bathgate

9.6

Absolutely gorgeous. Phenomenal rich luscious fruit and voluptuous tannin. Would not pick it blind as Sangiovese. — 4 years ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.1

On the fruitier side of LdH (darker in colour, too), with some dried cherry, dried cranberries, a touch of orange peel & orange bitters with the typical leather, wood polish, cigar box next. Some decent dark earthy notes, too. Needs a bit of time to open up.
On the palate this is poised, elegantly balanced, in a perfect spot. Medium body, vibrant acidity, the tannins finely grained & mellowing. Savoury fruit + a touch of spice & a hint of orange peel towards the finish.
A lovely wine! — 5 years ago

Martijn

9.0

2016 vintage from magnum offering a lot of joy. Strawberries, raspberries and good bitters to balance the fruit. Well made. — 6 years ago