Celebrating back-to-back work anniversaries with my wife 🥂 Lovely nose on this vintage Rosé bubbly from house VCP. Crisp strawberries, orange rind, and Provençal spices on the nose with an elegant richness and poise on the palate that certainly denotes its age while also revealing an underlying youthfulness and vitality that suggests this has many more uphill years yet to live. Disgorged 11/2017. — 5 years ago
this 0.84ha slice is the immediate uphill neighbour of romanée conti.
medium intense nose of cherry, raspberry, chocolate, cherry liqueur, wood, traces of tea.
drinking it even makes more sense - high end tannins, minerality, ever long finish...
besides that firm and still youthful structure i'm missing some tension and playful charme...
may i add stephen tanzers review from 2002 here:
"Full deep red. Subtle, aromatically compelling nose of bitter cherry, raspberry, minerals and licorice, along with a distinct aspect of menthol austerity. Tightly wound, cool and backward, with the wine powerful minerality and structure currently dominating. But this uncompromisingly dry grand cru already offers compelling inner-mouth perfume and terrific persistence. A very classy wine with pronounced soil character. (94+ points)" — 9 years ago
Light color, no nose, light in flavor.. What should one expect with a French non-native grape in Friuli? The native grapes blow away the non-natives. I wish non-native grape winemakers the best, but a real uphill battle, pun intended. — 2 years ago
Surprisingly rich, earth and raisin notes, excellent at this price point. — 5 years ago
Bought for a bargain in Hong Kong as the wine shop told me that no one likes it. Well, yes, if you are not a Bordeaux in HK it's already an uphill battle... But on initial pour this is hardly drinkable. Overly vegetal, a little hot, pucker finish. But having had M vintages back to the '80s I knew to wait. By the 2nd night there was only a hint of the disaster left and everything smoothed out to a relatively elegant wine for an M. Behaved into day 3. While it was a bargain and will likely improve with age, 2009 still seems to be a miss, and I would gladly pay more for a better year of Mayacamas ('88, '96, '10 etc). — 8 years ago
The nose is full throttle from the get-go—a surprise reminding me of my recent trip to Magic Mountains, as West Coast Racers is a roller coaster with no slow-burn climb uphill. Oh no—you zoom out the gates and go through a series of twisty-windy loops and it’s a shock to your system but then you’re like “let’s do it again!”
And so with this. That explosive nose is savory and earthy like a blackberry compote kissed by a forest spirit. On the palate the tannins are the epitome of velvety and well-integrated. I get all the aromas of the nose here, plus some more red fruit. And vanilla. And then again with almost an…iodine herb thing I always associate with Italian wines, no matter the grape. And then a hint of…Montenegro? Is this the wine for both roller coaster and amaro aficionados? Stand-up Merlot. Do it. — 3 years ago
Elegant, uphill from the previous heathcote — 8 years ago
Ceccherini Cristiano
For the first year this label is 100% Mantonico
Indeed i am truly loving this local variety
It grows often quite high uphill, even 5-600 metres over sea level
It results a bit aromatic, quite fullish to be a wine that is kind of considered a entry level wine
I guess it stays on the lees for a bit
However the result is delicious, quite mineral, very easy drinking and persistent
I am very curious to see how this could age for a couple of years
Btw i paid it 7.50 euros🤫🤫🤫 — 2 years ago