Tree Kilpatrick

9.0

Dark color. Not explosive in the nose. Hint savory. Some herb/spice. Flavors are old. Books, attics, and leather. Bit strange. Almost has roasted beets and roasted meats. Extra complex. — 7 months ago

Aaron Tan

9.2

An impressive first run with this producer. Started off very pure fruited with high-toned black cherries and cassis, along with some light reduction that gave it a flinty quality. As the reduction blew away, it revealed beautiful stem aromatics - flowers and incense, with a strange, yet attractive iodine-like twist. Excellent structure, with chalky tannins, fleshy fruit, and limestone-derived minerality/verticality. A little volatile acidity perceivable in the backend, but it doesn’t detract from the lengthy finish. Frankly, it drank like a cru Beaujolais (would have called it if blinded), but perhaps with more weight and tannins (rougher too). Paired with some lamb tacos, this was in a league of its own. A one on the binary scale! — 4 years ago

Benedict Fox

8.9

A little funked up butterscotch. Starts small then drinks big. Has some kind of strange old people after dinner drink vibes but is really pleasing. Have no idea what to pair it with. — 5 years ago

Tree Kilpatrick

8.9

‘Cool castle bro’ label. Deep red color. Smells like old books, dry cherries and unsweetened chocolate nibs. Flavors are strange with gun-smoke tea, fancy tonic water and berry pies. Plenty dry. Chewy. Complex. Winey, like a Winesap apple. It’s not raisin-y. It could have more depth and bite perhaps, but overall it’s very enjoyable. — 6 years ago

Sam Lee

8.9

Soft perfumed light delitefully 🌈
Music is what I strong on
So we play every Friday night
Especially under these strange circumstances ☂️
Easy and stronger 🍒
Friday Night Dinner is a wine dinner 🥫 at our bars and grills 🤵🏼
Dark pinkish purple on visuals 🌈
Mid palate pepper spices vegetable of black olives Mediterranean tomato juicy 🍅
Finishes, structured integrated with vanilla chocolate and black juicy fruit 🍇 — 6 years ago

Kevin Løk

8.9

It’s actually their white. Delectable sleeping on the French wines big time. A lil strange and interesting. High alcohol but balanced with nice acidity and minerality. — 7 years ago

with Caroline

Willem Booij

9.4

Second sip of this bottle, improved in my opinion but it stays strange for me🤪 After the glass switch (mentioned in de comments) upgrades from 9.1 to 9.4 — 8 years ago

Paul J

9.2

Similar to my last note, strange and somewhat disappointing.

1hr+ decant. Dark red color. Dark fruit, almost stewed in nature on the nose. Wine starts out spicy, settles down, and loses its strength. Not sure what to make of this. — 2 years ago

with Brooke

Roberto Carli

9.5

Chablis-like restraint in a very good way. Nose is tense, citrus and lots of limestone, an almost reductive floral nose and a touch of silky softness to balance. Acidity is high but not crazy, strange considering the house style is supposedly to inhibit all malo. Great stuff, I want to drink lots of it — 5 years ago

Brian Kostreba

9.0

Aged 7 years so I would say time to drink, was the 2014. Still some taste of red fruit and oak tannins through out. Strange that it is sold in a burgundy type bottle. But, overall a very approachable Rioja. I prefer a bit more bite from the tannins in my Riojas. — 5 years ago

Benjamin Shirk

9.1

Whole Foods, $10

Dark and medium opaqueness with an interesting purple/brown hue. Freshly opened it had a pretty strong over-ripe compost funk on the nose and palate but mostly subsided after breathing for awhile. After breathing, lots of red fruit on the nose along with that strange funky compost, a bit like earth and chocolate maybe? Not entirely unpleasant. Tastes similarly, red fruit forward, like ripe cherries, with that underlying funk. Very smooth, little to no alcohol bite, low acidity, lowish tannins. Ultimately I thought it was a great value, interesting flavors and very smooth for the price! — 6 years ago

Tree Kilpatrick

9.2

Cool label. It’s terroir art apparently. Smells complex and strange. Blood orange peel? Sawdust from pine or fir? Flavors are strange. Pine needles and red/purple fruits. Complex and fresh even 10 years later. Licorice and fruit skins. It’s tart, chewy, woody, and inky. Deep and dense. Last long. It’s muy delicioso. — 6 years ago

Mark Eastom

9.2

Really cool beer. Super smoky, malty, yeasty, vanilla, malt balls, almost peaty on the palate with a finish of smoked oysters(strange, I know). I was reluctant to spend $16 on a 4-pack, but have to say, it’s worth it. Could honestly have used more descriptors, so complex.. Doug, you’d love this. — 7 years ago

Tree Kilpatrick

8.9

A unique and strange nose. Leather and crab apples. Has a sweet tart flavor. Raspberry and tasty tart pie cherries. WTF? This is Zin? It’s like a Barbera, Chianti, Valdigué, Zin. — 8 years ago

Dmitri

9.5

Gummy worms and sea salt nose, elderberry and lemon syrup mouth, fantastic ripe mouthfeel, strange but very pleasant — 8 years ago

Tree Kilpatrick

9.1

Trying again. Rubies in the glass. Smells like rocks and red berries in the sun. Flavors are zingy and clean. Some chewy and strange flavors in the mix. Still a great bottle at a great price. — 3 years ago

romo

9.1

Tasting machine 3oz pour. Deep orange copper color, tired mid-palate but just after swallow the finish explodes. Strange yet appealing — 4 years ago

Gilbert Van Hassel

8.9

For me a bit too much sweetness, almost cloying. Miss the grip of a great Chablis, strange for a 2019. — 5 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.4

Not bad from cork pop, but definitely better after 90 min of air. Nose is youthful oak and slightly ripe blackberry, sandalwood. Palate all ripe blackberry and attenuated pepper spice with a hint of sandalwood. Some iodine when moving to the mid-palate. Initially I was getting a a fairly strange Oreo cookie kind of note. The finish is a little direct and still a bit on the youthful side but this is gaining. The best years of this are ahead of it for sure. Going to be a force in 2023 and plan to hold my 3L of this for much much longer. — 6 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.2

From magnum. Had it next to the stylistically similar Fourrier Gevrey VV, but this was the better wine for me - it had a little more depth and texture. Started of similarly reductive, but quickly opened up to scents of roses, intense red cherry, and smoky insence. The palate's velvety, mix of red and dark fruits, rich but offers lots of freshness with its crisp acidity. Minerality plays second fiddle at the moment, but is evident in the long spicy finish. I bet this was how it looked like when it was first bottled, so time can only make it better. 1er level for sure!

NB: From WH - This plot is located on the southern side of Griotte-Chambertin alongside the Claude Dugat plot and below the Duroché plot of Griottes-Chambertin. It is quite strange that this vineyard has been classified as village as it’s located so close to the Grand Crus. — 7 years ago