Suneal Vishnupad

9.6

Not quite as good as I remember it, but still excellent. Graphite, pencil shavings, leather, tobacco. 3+ hour decant. needs lots of time but really special.  — 11 days ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.4

Always great. Fresh and delicious. Deserves more time in the cellar. Another 5 yrs before opening another. — 3 months ago

GaryWEdwards

9.7

Who am I argue with 100 point rating from Dunnuck and Wine Advocate? And it is a youthful beauty. I typically find the great vintage of ‘09 approachable earlier than ‘05, also a great Bordeaux year. This is perfectly enjoyable right now but I’ll SAVE at least 6 of these because this baby is a distant runner with lots of legs left. Wow! — 5 months ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

Great vintage for this wine with lots of red cherry, strawberry fruit, earth, spice & floral — 8 months ago

Robin Bundy

9.5

Full bodied with lots of flavors. A weekend at the shore in Margate, NJ with family. — 3 years ago

Lauren Young

9.0

Solid medium dry sercial; fine predinner — 4 years ago

Skip Smyser

9.5

What a Fantastic mature wine. A rare opportunity to experience a wine of this quality. Everything is subtle and understated. Still alive and vibrant. I have 2 bottles left that I will drink in next two years 🍷🍷🍷🍷 — 5 years ago

Conrad Green

9.5

Still fresh but definitely lots of secondary notes. Pear and wet stone and a light sweetness and salinity. Good tension. Excellent — a month ago

with Ara and Paul

Tom Garland

9.5

1 hour decant(lots of sediment). A gorgeous purplish garnet color. On the nose: Intoxicating musky notes of dark fruit, potting soil, worn leather, truffles, stewed meat, slight menthol. Taste: velvety, seamless, balanced, intense wine with dark fruit, cassis, earth, tobacco, mineral, herbs, and a chocolate graphite long never-ending finish. YUM! This wine has aged gracefully and has more gas in the tank. Enjoy. — 3 months ago

with Brenda

Ed Chin

9.0

Start of the holiday season. I’m kind of disappointed with this. It came offf as flat almost boring. Just a hint of lemon but mostly bread. Age was not kind to this. — 7 months ago

David Koenen

9.5

Birth year tastings, evening 4.
Polished leather, nuts, ecoline, grilled red pepper, tomato leaf, gingerbread, pepper, salty savoriness, tannins still present, still youthful, lots of future. Muscular! Beautiful. — 9 months ago

Lauren Young

9.0

Funk on the nose- old books. Needed more time than we had to decant. Barely opening at an hour. Lots of earth, tobacco, but thinner than expected — 4 years ago

Wes Aguas

10

Best Madeira I’ve had yet. Can’t wait to try the others in the series — 5 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.5

Wow. Brewed coffee. Plums and luxardo cherry. Old but a rare treat. So alive. Almost 45 years young. — 5 years ago

Andrew Cullimore

9.8

Tasted blind. Medium deep garnet ruby and medium garnet ruby rim . Quite cool and restrained , again lots of grafite and mineral , dark fruits . This is quite deep and dark spicy cassis , blackberry and sea spray , saline . Quite dense and robust on the palate again , lots of fine but ripe tannins. Very long , dense , cassis , cedar grafite saline finish . This is a complete and great example of 2005 , great balance and enormous length , the longest of all on show here. Drinkable now , but surely it’s best days are in the future , wait another 5 -10 years , will last well a further 20 - 25 if not more . The apex of 2005 ? For me this had to be the Latour , and an archetypal example of Latour no less . 1st place and the gold medal . — 2 months ago

Tyler Felous

9.2

Lots of chunky sediment. This was delicious. Could have drank the whole bottle but shared among good company — 5 months ago

Todd Leung

9.4

The taste is rich and multi-layered. Let your tongue feel it, and then go deeper until you reach the back of your tongue. It ranges from sweet to sour, and the aroma of the wooden barrel comes out, very intense. — 6 months ago

Benjamin Hickey

9.6

Worth all the accolades it receives. Dry, long, complex. — 9 months ago

Jenks

9.2

Paired with nothing. Madeira is the desert. — 3 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

Always impressed with this wine in an off vintage showing lots of dark fruits, meat, olive, nice spice, licorice, violet. — 4 years ago