Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.3

1982 vintage. Tremendous color. Decanted and tasted over the course of two hours. Throwing respectable sed. Ridiculous body for a 1982, esp considering the Saint-Julien pedigree. Big, initial fruit in the entry palate that carried over into the mid-palate. Thinned out noticeably at the end. Woulda guessed 1990. Have had approx 7-8 '82's this year and they were all consistent throughout with the lean body. This one was a joker for sure. Based on this example, not improving but can leverage the performance for another 3-5 years without significant drop-off. Full disclosure...love older St. Julien reds but not a fan of Branaire. 9.16.23. — a year ago

Paul K

9.3

Champagne is great. Trying to figure out how to leverage my kids water bottle to take to work... Happy New Years to you all. May 2021 bring each of you great wine! — 4 years ago

Chris Coulter

8.9

Yummy cherry, vanilla med-full body Sold out — 9 years ago

"Odedi"

9.2

Dark ruby in color with a wide reddish rim.

Full bodied and smooth, with medium acidity and long legs.

Dry and very fruity on the palate with nice complexity.

Showing blackberries, black currants, blueberries, oak, licorice, spices, chocolates, vanilla, coffee, tobacco, earth and peppercorn.

Long finish with fine grained tannins, tangy raspberries and red chili pepper.

This 5 year old GSM blend from Paso robles is drinking very nicely now.

Showing nice complexity with a soft, smooth mouthfeel. Creamy and tangy. Fruit forward and spicy.

Will continue to age nicely in the next few years. A delicious wine.

Good by itself as a sipping wine, and good with food too. I paired it with brie cheese.

A blend of 50% Grenache, 35% Syrah and 15% Mourvedre. Aged for 18 months in (40% New) French Oak barrels. A small production of only 7 barrels.

15.2% alcohol by volume.

92 points.

$64 (current vintage). — 2 years ago

George Chen

9.4

A little bottle shock as you just brought back from HK...Leverage! I’ve never used this descriptor before but it just ratchets up every level of intensity and complexity as she opens! Wow! — 6 years ago

Julian Schroll

9.4

Needs to breath for a bit to leverage all flavors to full extent. Cherry and black berries, by no means juicy though. Strong acidity and full body. Elegant and full at once. — 8 years ago

Peter Sultan

9.1

At 20$ in my relatively local shop (which tends to leverage the best prices in NY area given their volume of business),a screaming bargain. Black cherry & ribena palate, excellent concentration, acidity nicely balanced. Most of all, easy and ready to drink or hold. — 3 years ago

Susan C

9.0

Enjoyed on 1/23/2001. — 4 years ago

Lindsey King

9.6

Plummy, dark cherry, violet, bark after the rain, the forest is fresh and renewed. Quite funky upon open but it blows right off after a few aggressive swirls of your glass. The relationship between tannins and acidity in this wine are totally stunning, like a gymnastic duo miraculously gliding through air, using each other as leverage and hitting the balance bean together with silence and grace. Total gem! — 7 years ago

Jonathan Lipsmeyer

9.2

1998 Roagna Crichet Pajé Barbaresco. Leathery, a bit of rustic olive-laden barnyard brett, but not enough to drag the dinner into the barn; you are...drier than you are sweet, you have a garden with roses in your backyard, you are fresh and alive in your tart cherry vibrancy; you are not greying in the least. You seem a bit volatile at your deepest core; but you leverage that and still manage to be bright and aromatic with acid-laden, cranberry and bruised apple aromas on the finish alongside the roses, leather and tiny allusions to milk chocolate -- and even tinier allusions to eucalyptus. In spite of your bruises, you feel young all the same, with at least half of your life before you, or at the very least you still have many years before you are constrained to a walker or God forbid a wheelchair. Your drying tannins and lively acid are proof of your rustic vitality. And the fact that I purchased you from an unknowing merchant, whose former buyer left 7 yrs ago, for only $81.12, who warned me it "those wines stored up there were tasted recently, and most were bad...I gotta warn you this is probably not good", kind of bolsters my belief in Easter miracles. I gave you a 5% chance of showing well, and you rose on the third day (after buying what should have been your dead corpse). — 10 years ago