Taken to Hawksmoor in NYC for our uncle’s 75th. Decanted in hotel for 7 hrs before dinner. Dark reddish amber edges with dark tawny color center. Opaque. Great aged Bordeaux nose. Notes of black fruit, tobacco and cigar, cassis, old desk wood, saddle leather, some anise, some barnyard and a little mint. Rich and silky in the mouth. Long finish. The bottle (mid shoulder) wasn’t in as good of condition as the one we had a few weeks ago, but the outcome was similar. Family and the Somm all loved it, as did I. — 2 years ago
レモンピール
ハーブ
少し苦味のある爽やかな味 — 5 years ago
drank the white- lovely drinkable non oak — 8 months ago
Wildly funky, leather, pipe tobacco, solvent, clean hotel room — 2 years ago
Elegant, velvety in mouth and very balanced. 2015 red — 3 years ago
Pair this classically perfect 14-year-old Rioja with cheese and crackers that you share with your beautiful wife, ideally in a hotel room after you’ve been evacuated from your home for a week due to fires caused by lightning storms. Your appreciation will be elevated if you precede your wine with a few days of cooking paella for hundreds of evacuees and firefighters. If this is not a possibility, I suggest pairing your Tondonia with grilled lamb, which will play well with the wine’s tobacco, leather and cranberry notes. — 4 years ago
20250224 Hotel Kranz Luttingen (AgiCompetition Albbruck) with Wakano
Excellent wine from the Priorat like last timenin 2023!
EUR 42.00 — a year ago
Dark ruby in color with a reddish brick rim.
Dry and fruity on the palate with medium acidity, and a strong fruity nose.
Showing black plums, stewed cherries, blueberry pie, chocolates, prunes, mocha, coffee, sweet cedar, cola, vanilla, licorice, tobacco leaf, Mediterranean spices and peppercorn.
Spicy finish with soft tannins and tangy raspberries.
This is a very tasty Cabernet Franc. Easy drinking and good right out of the bottle. Drinks like a Napa Merlot right now.
Showing nice complexity now, but
will not last long, so drink up.
Aged in French oak barrels for 27 months. A tiny production of only 3 barrels.
13.4% alcohol by volume.
91 points.
$52 (current vintage). — 2 years ago
Hotel Terramar — 3 years ago
"Odedi"
Dry on the palate and elegant, with medium acidity.
Full bodied and bold with nice complexity.
Showing citrus, yellow apples, pears, lemons, light earth, oak, spices, vanilla, nuts, smoke, light almonds and white pepper.
Long buttery finish with almonds and limes.
This is a very tasty and elegant 4-year-old oaky Chardonnay from Lazio in Italy. Aging nicely now, and will continue to do so in the next few years. Would be nice to revisit it in couple of years.
A good quality wine, and better when not too cold.
This is not my favorite style, but this one is really nice. Feels like a white Burgundy.
Good by itself as a sipping wine.
Chardonnay grapes were aged in French oak barrels for 12 months.
13.5% alcohol by volume.
91 points.
$65. — 4 months ago