Dorotea Elisabet

9.0

Nice, easy to drink, good structure, mild tannin, and yummy — 2 months ago

amy leigh morgan

9.0

Pizza Monday, wine bar owner (Dylan) brought it — 7 months ago

Jay Kline

9.4

It was Father’s Day and I had decided on grilled rack of lamb for dinner so I selected this bottle of 2011 Chateau Musar rouge from our cellar. According to Musar’s records, the 2011 vintage was one of the most challenging since the early 1990’s. It was ultimately a late-maturing vintage with harvest taking place on October 13th, the latest since the 1983 vintage!

I decanted this bottle about eight hours prior to dinner. It should be noted that immediately upon opening, the bouquet was strikingly gorgeous with powerful aromatics that were obvious from several feet away and this trait carried through until dinner time.

In the glass, the wine presents a deep garnet color. Slightly turbid with a near opaque core. On the nose, black plums, blackberries, cassis, tobacco, organic earth, exotic spices, leather, spiced meat, and pomegranate. I detect a touch of VA as well. On the palate, the wine is dry with medium+ tannins and medium+ acid. Confirming the nose with an added bit of red rope licorice. Lovely, long, savory…amazing. This was a brilliant compliment to the lamb (which was served with beets and goat cheese and fattoush) and everything I wanted in a Musar tonight. Drinking well now with a hefty decant and I expect well cellared examples to drink well past 2035. — 2 years ago

Brad Jensen

9.5

This was really unique and special. A nose that has some proper wild hints, like a natural wine, but with big bold fruits and an underlying musk, like a wet mulch, that playing in the background. Medium bodied with a deep red/purple color, the palate is more red fruit than the blue on the nose, with hardly any tannins to speak of. The palate has no sign of age, with prominent tart cranberry, rich minerality, slight smoke, and hints like Concorde grape, and some jammy raspberry or blueberry in there as well. Dry, fruity with a mineral spine, with a weight that plays lighter than it looks or smells. — 4 months ago

Justin

9.5

Very pretty — 9 months ago

Fabian S

9.2

red fruit, little earthy, mineral, some smooth tannins — 2 years ago

Jack Petras

9.0

Interesting organic red. Earthy herbal aromas with a zippy bright sour cherry and red candied apple fruit. A Pet Nat zestiness. Nice acidity. — 2 years ago

Peter Sultan

9.1

Thanksgiving wine- Catalanes red, 65% Carignan & 35% Syrah done up nice & dense almost like a baby CDF but less raspberry & more dark berry. Drank a 100% Carignan right after so interesting to compare. Very good & fresh style, but still more brooding & extracted given the Syrah I imagine. Throws off sediment so worth a decant. Rosenthal book. — 5 months ago

Mark S.

9.0

Apricot color. Match with Tomato. Medicinal herb and spices? Water like. Charming. Light body with elegancy. Interesting. Fig. Natural. Aramon from Languedoc. Mont de Amie Anatheme Rose @, arom, 240806 — 9 months ago

Matt Perlman

9.4

This is just brilliant. Intensely herbal, dark cherries, dried flowers, dusty earth, soulful and authentic — 2 years ago