Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.4

2023 vintage. Courtesy of @Pinotman /// Andreas. 12.2% ABV. Light-medium body. Slight hint of initial sweetness before casting it off. Obscene amounts of stone fruit flavors on the finishing palate. Clean almost to a fault. Trace amount of petrol made a cameo appearance on the intro after 1.5 hours open. Nice bleep @Pinotman /// Andreas. Thank you again! — 3 months ago

with Pinotman

ESF

8.9

On the downslope but still tasty - this was my last anyway... anyone squirreling these away, drink up! — 5 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.1

Deep dark reddish purple. Opaque. Medicinal nose. Notes of cherry kirsch, anise, herbs and spice. Very ripe fruit in the mouth. Hot. Like cough syrup almost. Needs to develop and shed the heaviness. Not my style of CdP. — 6 years ago

Joe DAscoli

9.2

Very good but not the best single vineyard from duck horn — 6 years ago

LS MacNamara

9.5

Not a great photo but love this wine from Waiheke island — 6 years ago

Bill Bender

9.6

Another wine that shook me late on Saturday night along with the Shafer Sunspot and Schrader T6. With such a horn a plenty at the table certain bottles just had that extra gear. The depth and complexity here were astonishing. Woke up my mouth and mind immediately. Sandalwood, cherry pie, liquid leather and exotic spices. Best ‘Cos since ‘82 for me. — 7 years ago

Shay A

9.5

Shed its baby fat. At its best today...won’t get any better moving forward. No milk chocolate, faint cherry filled dark chocolate nose. Little bit of cherries jubileee and cedar. While really smooth, I think these are best with 8-10yrs on them as opposed to 18 like this one. However, for what this is and how it aged, it’s pretty impressive. Also, look at the ABV here...shocking to see on a Hundred Acre wine! — 8 years ago

with Dan and Mark

Roberto Carli

9.1

Great wine even though it didn’t hold up to my memories of former vintages, maybe because it’s a rare wine in its class that’s both excellent but drinks better young. It shed its primary character and left behind some ginger, vegetal tomato leaf and a silky texture with a long finish, driven by very prominent phenolic bitterness. Drinks like an austere high-quality white Bordeaux without the oak, but I miss the vibrant fruitiness and stronger Italian quality I get in its youth  — 6 months ago

Stuart Johnson

9.0

An excellent sweet red wine that Denise also enjoyed. Bought it from Barbrooks in Sep 2021 — 5 years ago

Craig Appleton

9.0

Sweet, but as a new wine drinker with a sweet tooth it goes down nicely. Goes well with a curry. — 6 years ago

Arden Barnett

9.2

Fun bottle. Shed the fruit, turn up the scent and taste of a nice cigar, cedar wood, coffee, and scorched earth. Grippy finish. Still fairly tannic. — 6 years ago

Robert McCall

9.4

Wow. This guy shed its youthfulness within the hour after it went into the decanter. Evolved several times over the next two into a real treat. Dark fruit, cedar, leather, lavender. Scent geek stuff. Silky tannic grip emerged to frame dark fruit, tobacco/mint, a l’il spice box. This producer delivers every time for me. Quickly becoming my go to Bordeaux house. Awesome again. — 6 years ago

Severn G

9.2

On the Lawn at Tanglewood this afternoon with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Our conductor Andris Nelsons is leading GERSHWIN (Piano Concerto in F), GERSHWIN (Variations on “I Got Rhythm,” for piano and orchestra) and STRAVINSKY (Petrushka) with the amazing Jean-Yves Thibaude as the piano soloist on the two first works presented today. Jean-Yves is by far among our favorite pianists to grace the Koussevitzky Shed stage, so graceful, yet poignant!

Hot days call for cool wines, today there are some fun ones planned for sharing.

Similar notes from our last bottle.
Savory herbs, beeswax, citrus pith. So wonderful! — 7 years ago

Joanne

9.0

A lovely easy to drink red with dinner. — 8 years ago

Matt

9.6

In a great spot. Appears to have really shed some baby fat, the sucrosity of the fruit diminshing and the mineral and tertiary notes coming to the front. Lavishly textured, great length, a wonderful accompaniment to an array of vegetable dishes. Pineapple upside cake, roasted nuts, cooked yellow plum, marmalade, garrigue, cruahed stones, yellow blossoms, marzipan and honey, cream, olive oil. — 4 years ago

Doug

9.3

It's duck horn move on — 4 years ago

Ira Schwartz

9.6

Winter headed my way so I brought out the wine equivalent of a down comforter.
Nothing makes me happier when I pull the cork of a bottle with 20+ years on and the cork looks like it did the day the wine was bottled. I feel like I held up my part of the bargain. This was decanted for an hour. The bottle had tons of very fine sediment. A nose that offered up a kaleidoscope of fruit with zero alcohol. The wine flooded my mouth with raspberry, licorice, sweet vanilla and plums. Definitely starting to shed its intensity and replacing it with complexity. Much more round than previous bottles. Tannins and acid still there . No time pressure to open remaining bottles. — 5 years ago

David Shaw

9.2

Revisiting the vintage; see previous tasting notes. — 6 years ago

Shay A

9.0

Very dark profile aromatically! Fairly surprising. Only 13.5ABV, but expected with the vintage. Lots of sweet baking spices, ripe red, blue and black fruits berry fruits with currant too. On the palate, the fruit is very gummy...like fruit roll ups. Candied sweet tarts, cedar and a semi thin finish. It’s not on a decline, but it’s certainly not going to get better, and with the structure how it is, gaining more age to shed the fruit away will make this more thin than it already is. — 7 years ago

Julia Geisler

8.9

Still not a Chardonnay fan, there’s just something annoying about its bite that reminds me of someone poking me relentlessly or a car horn going off. It’s smooth on the finish but leaves that bothersome chemical taste from the first hit. — 7 years ago

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