Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.1

I’ve had this vintage several times over the last few yrs. I had it two yrs ago w/ Andy Beckstoffer & Tor Kenward. This is the weakest link I’ve had. It simply lacked the proper storage of the previous bottles I’ve had.

The color is still dark and the fruit is still intact. But this bottle has just started its plum, date, dark raisin and fig stage. Let me say again…just.

This is 13% ABV…love it. As I do with many 80’s Napa & Bordeaux’s. It does get better with each coldish coravined sip.

The tannins are well resolved and there is complete integration & evolution. Ripe, juicy; blackberries, black raspberries, dark cherries, dark spiced strawberries & circling raspberries. Potpourri, baking spice delight-soft clove, nutmeg, cinnamon stick & vanilla, understated caramel, dark chocolate baking bar to chocolate pudding, milk chocolate, moist herbs, hints of mushrooms, saline, dry soil/limestone powder, forest floor with leaves, used tobacco & leather, gentle graphite, moist clay, dark spice w/ mid palate heat, withering dark, red flowers, violets & lavender, round, rainfall acidity with a well balanced, elegant finish that lasts 90 seconds and long sets on earth & spices. — 9 hours ago

Conrad Green

9.4

Very pure and old school. Delicious if austere. Dark plum and garrigue. Inky edges. Excellent but young — a month ago

with Peter and Gregg

Andrew Cullimore

9.1

Noticeably deep colour , deeper than all the others , medium deep ruby quite thin ruby rim . Quite herbal and deep on the nose , with darker fruit profile . Blackberry , dark plum, dark cherry , earthy herbal touches. On the palate this is quite dense and rich with dark cherry , kirsch, blackberry , and a richer frame . Quite gritty but ripe tannins , with balanced acidity . Decent lightly chalky cherry , blackberry, herbal tinged finish . Very different from all others , darker and richer , riper . However , still well made , though not that charming or , dare I say it ‘Burgundian’ , probably as expected . I believe this also needs some time , come back in 5 years and drink over the next 10 or so. — 2 months ago

Michael Patrone

9.7

Dinner with Anu/David. Wonderfully integrated. Still has tons of fruit, ready for another decade or two. — 3 months ago

with Meghana

Alvaro Bustillos

9.7

Cena granfinale troigoss — 3 months ago

Steve Messinger

9.1

Dark fruit forest floor and sassafras. Intense deep still you w some unresolved tannins — 4 months ago

Ivor

9.4

Drink je droomwijnen diner@rijks. from magnum and very open and giving from the get go. Warm burgundy fruits, balanced with beautiful oak and a long finish. You cannot not like this wine. While this is ready it still has decade(s) in the tank. — 5 days ago

Ron Siegel

9.4

Beautiful wine that was surprisingly open — 21 days ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.2

Eugenio b valle encimos#
No se que pasa con este productor pero apesar de ser la mejor parcela de ch m estaba muy flojo el vinito — a month ago

Jody Scharf

9.3

full holds on well jammy — 2 months ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.1

Miguel fdz gera julio daniel gtz @ stanton — 3 months ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.4

Primera cena troigoss — 3 months ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.0

1973 vintage. Okay fill. Opened with a Durand. Cork 80% saturated. Musty, hot, slightly “raisined” nose. Light medium body. Drank more like a Burgundy at this stage of life. Amplifying savory aspects currently. Definitely instructive and an absolute blast to hit the FLB (Friday Lunch Bunch) with. These formative, ancient Napa Cabs always so revealing, primal and archival. The 1973 cork a little longer than those short stuff 1968 and 1969 ones. 6.12.26. — 3 months ago

Mark S.

9.3

Amber. Complexity. Leather. Mushroom. Spices. Oak vanilla. Roasted. Matured raspberry fig mineral. Fe. Fruitiness M+ Sweetness M Acidity M+ Tannin M Soft Body M Finish M 13.5%
Elegant Balanced Alain Hudelot-Noellat Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru Pinot Noir 17 @1380/G, Fred, 260910 — 16 days ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.3

Steve pollack doc jay courtney — 11 days ago

Alexandre Pagliano

9.4

Medium rubi robe, nose of blackberries, anise, crushed flowers and a peppery note at the end. Its very smooth and mineral, medium bodied, great tension, long, asian spices, dark cherries and top soil, this is a top notch wine and very distinctive for the vintage. Great now but no rush. — 2 months ago

with Jose, veronique and 1 other

Alvaro Bustillos

9.7

Mathew king robert pavlovich thatcher courtney clayfu feng — 2 months ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.3

Jorge baeza — 3 months ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.4

Primera cena troigoss — 3 months ago

Ron Siegel

9.2

This had notes of dark berry fruits, earth, spice & mineral. — 3 months ago