Jeroen Koenen

9.5

Wow…
So fresh and vivid… seabreeze and squeeuzed lemon. Wonderful. — 2 months ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.2

Vintage 2019 | from the rather obscure carricante grape, what an effort! Floral smell, seabreeze! Nice bitters. Bought some for cellaring. — 3 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.0

Whoaaaa it’s a heady wine! Way complex, way deep thought-inducing but texturally it is more supple than one would imagine. Everything from seabreeze, licorice and roses on the nose give way to red cherries and white pepper on the palate. Bright with a tender bite. — 5 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.0

Pale golden in colour.
Shy nose, bright acidity and a saline, stony minerality on the palate.
Lemon juice, starfruit, some green herbs, seabreeze, wet pebbles. Actually, this shows very young, nervous and tight and IMHO it could use a tad more charm, rondeur, richesse. Maybe some extra cellartime will do the trick..? — 7 years ago

Narun P

9.1

Came out of a month-long tee-totalling pledge!

100% Malbec

Deep garnet, semi transparent, compact rim.

Slightly jammy fruit but not overly so. Blackberry, currant, dark prune. Some mineral undertone, ash, white pepper, and some earthy characters.

On the palate, this wine still has a solid structure - med plus tannin, med acidity. Classic but clearly New World with overt black fruity character. Salted brownie, seabreeze, espresso, white pepper, mushroom. Great finish.

At a great place right now and will perhaps hold for 5 more years. Not a lot of classic Mendoza Malbec going around among sea of spoofified fruit bombs. This is clearly a gem. 91. — 9 years ago

Narun P

9.0

Tasted at Chateau
CS 47% M 47% CF 4% PV 2%

Deep almost inky with slight sign of development on the rim, some bricking but still youthful.

Classic Bordeaux bouquet of savory infused black fruit. Complex nose of enticing barnyard funk, seabreeze, new leather, cooking spice.

On the palate, still very structured. Mouth stainingly full tannin, med body, dry. Cassis, blackberry, dark cherry commingling with mature signs of development. Sage, thyme, cattle range, forest floor, mushroom, smoky, and nutty new oak.

Impressively classic. Will need at least 10 years more to not be accused of committing infanticide. 90++ — 9 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.2

Best of the 3 bottles I had. Well structured, good concentration, pure, complex and interesting. Somewhere halfway a cali chard and a muscadet. If that makes any sense... Saline minerality, crustaceans, seabreeze combined with hints of peach, breadcrust and pine nuts. — 10 years ago

Andrew Cullimore

9.0

Quite pale lemon , straw colour . On the nose this shows good freshness with some white peach , lemon pith , white flowers and light seabreeze notes . On the palate this has a creamy texture with white peach , lemon notes , with a saline seaside tinge . Good freshness and decent length . I can imagine this going really well with bouillabaisse. Drinking well and probably continue to so over the next 3-4 years — a year ago

Martinez

9.0

The freshest of their 3 single vineyard Manzanillas. 100% Palomino from the Callejuela vineyard In Sanlúcar de Barrameda, located near the Guadalquivir River and the Atlantic Ocean. Four years of static aging under flor (no younger wine added). Pale gold. Fresh, lively. Seabreeze. — 5 years ago

Simone Pizzi

9.5

Flavio's dolcetto is glorious. The terroir shows in the glass with the strength of nature, deep ruby colour and intense, balsamic aromas. The wine is powerful, lively, clean and well balanced. The first sips are dry and masculine with slightly animal and vinous scents, but almost immediately the fruit comes forward, delicately, black and tart cherries, wild plums. Then, the balsamic aromas take over, intense, inhebriating : licorice, anise, eucalyptus, spearmint, seabreeze, mediterranean herbs, blood orange. It's grand. The terroir here shows its royalty, the forty-to-eighty-year vines do the rest to let Flavio work his magic. As the wine breathes in the juice gets softer, putting in light a smooth landscape with strawberries and fresh cream, tobacco and toffee. In the mouth the wine is broad, savoury, alcoholic, deep. Great persistence and length even at day 2 and 3 !
Outrageous pleasure for the price ...
I've definitely gone under the spell !! — 7 years ago

Matti Jokelainen

9.3

Dark golden color. Lots of minerals, seabreeze and wet stone combined with some forest floor and funk notes and some smoke. Broad and almost oily mouth feel. Fesh lemon and grapefruit, balanced acidity. Still more structure and minerality than fruit and excellent with seafood. Thuis is what properly aged and mature 1er cru Chablis is about. — 8 years ago

Natalya Pemberton

9.1

At first sniff it’s all blossom sweetness, but there’s only a suggestion of sweetness in the flavour. Tastes like the wedding of a saucy cantaloupe to a stiff seabreeze, in a bower of fresh flowers, officiated by a ripe lemon. It was the perfect porch-sitting wine yesterday on one of the last nice afternoons of the season. — 9 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.0

Pale yellow colour.
Lemon, pear, kiwi. Seabreeze, wet rocks, lovely vegetal veins and a distant hint of candyshop.
Very nice!
— 9 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.2

Pale straw colour.
Saline, seabreeze, oystershells, splash of limejuice, hints of earth and smoke. Tart and crisp. — 2 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.1

Aglianico rosé in California say what?! Seabreeze, peach melba and herb salad yayyyy — 4 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.2

Seabreeze, lemon and wet rocks. Mouthfeel is pretty waxy and lush. Refreshing and interesting palate. Beautifully ripe but understated nose.
Yum! — 5 years ago

Lynn Gowdy

8.9

Pale yellow; lemon/lime pith, pungent blossoms, herbal notes, silex, seabreeze with smokey undertones; a citrus, mineral driven, salivating palate with a tacky mouth feel. Grapes on Argile and schist soils. — 7 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

8.9

Clean, mineral and racy.
Chalky mouthfeel, green apples, seabreeze, and a dash of peppery spice.
Very nice. — 8 years ago

Narun P

9.3

65 % CS, 28 % M, 7 % PV

Bricked garnet, widened rim, but still a lot of youthful sign left.

Superb bouquet of classic mature Bordeaux claret. Complex expression of savory infused cassis, blueberry, dark cherry framed by notes of seabreeze, antique leather, violet, sage, and thyme.

Completely integrated. Smooth and silky mouthfeel. With just a touch of new oak still, this wine is really a result of perfect evolution. Balanced midpalate and finish very long on that enticing savory black fruit note.

Stored in Chateau's cellar for 21 years, removed, uncorked on site. Drank at a mille-pates party at the chateau prior to the marathon. 93. — 9 years ago

Ceccherini Cristiano

9.3

Had it March 2011.
Straw yellow. Nose of pineapple, lemon, Apple, pear, toasted pine nuts, pine tree itself, elegant green part. Seaweed, seabreeze, turquoise, wet rock. Salted butter. Gunpowder and kerosene. Mouth: little sweet, all very ripe. But very balanced( like a balanced spatlese). Good length, easy to drink, complex and still young. Finishes with mountain lawns scents. — 10 years ago