David Kline

9.4

2000 vintage. Warm, brown bread, cherry-blackberries baked with dried black currants and nutmeg. Further aromas of porcini, portobellos, and cornflower. Smooth, with raisin and round tannins, prunes and dried cherry. Spiced judiciously with vanilla, cedar, and espresso.


#chateaulynchbages #pauillac #1855classification #bordeaux #bordeauxrouge #grandcruclassé #appellationpauillaccontrôlée — 8 months ago

David Kline

9.3

Blueberry whiffs, maple coals, precise graphite smudging, raisinate black currant, bacon fat, periwinkle, heather blossom and wildflowers aromatically. Graphite amplified throughout blackberry black cherry and black currant magnificently. Sliced, ripe black plum, cardamom, licorice, black tea and pepper.


#chateaukirwan #margaux #2010 #grandcruclassé #schröederetshÿler #bordeaux #leftbank #appellationmargauxcontrolée — 2 years ago

David Kline

9.4

2010 vintage. Cocoa powder, black currant, river bank, cedar, cinnamon dusting, gingerbread, dark rye, espresso, sapodilla, and croissant nose. Red cherry, red currant, cinnamon bark, black pepper, espresso, tart blackberry, crushed violet, light anise and cherrywood. Lovely wine with lots to grow, and lots to love.

#chateaupichonlongueville #chateaupichon #chateaupichonlonguevillecomressedelalande #lalande #pauillac #grandcruclassé #grandcruclasséen1855 #1855 #bordeaux #leftbankbordeaux #leftbank #appellationpauillaccontrôlée #misenbouteillealapropriété #bordeauxrouge — 3 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Nano hazelnut chocolate on coffee rye, blackened sponge cake, well done steak, black sesame, lavender and baked blackberry. Well knit.
Graphite glimmers on dark chocolate and cedar-oak slivers, smoky tobacco leaf, and tea. Immersive.



#cosdestournel #grandcruclassé #bordeaux #stestephe #appellationsaintestephecontrolée #misenbouteilleauchateau #saintestèphe — 3 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Smoky plum and black currant also shows a blueberry undercoat; nutmeg, cedar and black tobacco. Tart cherry, black cherry, blackberry and tobacco coalesce in the forefront, while pepper, cedar and tobacco finish this lovely wine.

#chateaukirwan #kirwan #margaux #grandcruclassé #grandcruclasséde1855 #bordeaux #bordeauxrouge — a year ago

David Kline

9.4

Smoky nose exhibiting a graphite streak; stewed, baked, and braised meats with cranberry, plum, black currant and black olive, cedar plank and tobacco eyelid that flutters between oak and violet. Graphite and iron lead the Connecticut shade entry, clove and pepper pop into view, dried rose petal and violet, tulip; firm tannins, super structured and complex!



#chateaumoutonrothschild #firstgrowthbordeaux #grandcruclassé #grandcruclasséde1855 #bordeauxgrandcru #grandcru #moutonrothschild #mouton #1855classification — 2 years ago

with Courtney

David Kline

9.4

2009 is warm and inviting, with leather and clove, cinnamon and coriander. Wheat bread browned darkly. Black cherry, muddy puddle, blackberry, black currant, mocha. Round and supple on the palate with velvety tannins, black and ripe red cherry, tart raspberry and black olive meeting black pepper. Solidly built, boasting muscle beneath the flowing subtleties. Amazing wine!


#chateaulangoabarton #saintjulien #Bordeaux #langoabarton #misenbouteilleauchateau #grandcruclassé #grandcruclasséen1855 #1855 #leftbank #leftbankbordeaux — 3 years ago

David Kline

9.8

Graphite and raisin, fig and marinated porcini, smoky dried cherries, black pepper on grilled beef fat, toasted sesame, dried black and red currants, all within an aura of damson and violet and honeyed rose petal. Palate leaps with damson and dried and fresh bing cherry, dried spiced plum, cedar and dried lavender, black olive, moist tobacco, and perfectly toned tannins which come off as a separate, undefinable taste of fruit skin extraction with stunning depth; tea leaves meet dried blackberry in a redwood stand. Soft date and creamy fig follow to a tart raspberry end.




#châteauchevalblanc #chevalblanc #1ergrandcruclassé #1995 #stemiliongrandcru #saintemiliongrandcru #grandcruclassé #grandcru #appellationsaintemiliongrandcrucontrolée #misenbouteilleauchateau #stcivileduchevalblanc #gironde #bordeaux #rightbank #bordeauxrouge — a year ago

with Courtney

David Kline

9.4

Sweet tobacco notes interspersed with woodsy mushrooms, warm rye bread with toasted sesame and grill notes. Cherry and baked currant tart. Silky soft cherry open reveals exquisitely suspended smoke framing black cherry and cedar dusted black currant and dried blackberry with sage and nutmeg.


#branaireducru #chateaubranaireducru #saintjulien #2010 #2010bordeaux #4thgrowth #crubordeaux #1855classification #bordeaux #appellationsaintjuliencontrolée #cruclasse #grandcruclassé #grandcruclasséde1855 — 2 years ago

David Kline

8.8

1992 vintage. Has a smoky bbq note that echoes with dried lychee skin, baked grape, plum reduction, blackberry tart, dark croissant and old cinnamon; allspice and oregano under painting. Low texture and light-medium body shows oaken heart, tart cherry, spindly graphite skeleton, cranberry, red currants, pepper dusting, and white strawberry. Tobacco and cold brew coffee, light leather and violet. Could look better at twenty years, but I was surprised it was alive at all considering tough vintage. Not unpleasant, but lacks the depth and breadth characteristic.


#chateaumoutonrothschild #moutonrothschild #mouton #grandcruclassé #1855 #firstgrowthbordeaux #firstgrowth #pauillac #rothschild #misenbouteilleauchateau #phillipinederothschild #appellationpauillaccontrôlée #baronnephilippinederothschild #classépremiercruen1973 #bordeaux — 3 years ago