Domaine de Chevalier 2009 / Black and brilliant with red glints. Ripe and intense nose of blueberry, blackberry mixed with fresh leather, pine tree resin, balsam and graphite. Menthol freshness. Really very impressive and complex. Full bodied, pulpy and silky. Very tasty and precise, concentration, tannins like velvet, nice acidity……
This is really a fantastic wine!
Finesse and distinction of Domaine de Chevalier’s style.
Very long and extremely tasty finish.

Grand Malbec de Angeles 2009 / Deep and brilliant rubi red color with blue and purplish hues around the rim. Sweet and delicate aroma which evolves and slowly reveals a great complexity and intensity as it develops in the glass. Aromas of plums and fresh red berries along with a delicate floral note. It shows a very soft attack in mouth to then surprise with complex, intense and concentrated flavors and a lingering aftertaste. 

Soft and sweet tannins. With vanilla notes and soft toast flavor which denote it is mildly aged in the most delicate French oak barrels for 14 months. Remarkable varietal typicity together with the extraordinary freshness and particular fruity expression, typical of the grapes from this vineyard. An elegant and intense wine, complex and balanced. It has an aging potential which makes it worthy of aging for at least 10 years. It is recommended to decant the wine before drinking. Best served at 16° - 18 °C.

Bonnes Mares is a largish vineyard by Burgundian standards, and possesses, as you can see, a large number of owners. The 1.52 ha which lies in Morey are owned by the Clair family, and most of this is leased until 2016 to the Fougeray de Beauclair domaine, after which the parcel will revert to Bruno Clair, making him the second largest domaine in the climat.

Before the Clair-Daü estate was split in 1985 what is now owned by the Domaine Bart was also part of Clair-Daü. They were then the most important proprietors.

Château Cos d'Estournel 2013
APR 14 Ruby. Vanilla, spices, raspberries and some plums nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, fruity, rounded, refreshing, almost brilliant fruit, slightly tight and dry finish, long. Lovely wine and hopefully a new direction under Almeric de Gironde takes Cos away from those Napa wines made here recently, impressive, yes, in a way, but is it Bordeaux? 12,7% alcohol.

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Pol Roger Grauves Vinothèque 1928. Disgorged in July 1998. Ridiculously young! I'd heard that this wine was supposed to be exceptionally lively and pale, but I would never have been close in my guesses if it hadn't been served in the last round at Villa Pauli in 1999, where there were only oldies. The nose was fabulously, beautifully braided, with notes of lime, linden, and lily of the valley. The taste was super-fresh, with a wonderful oily fruitiness that lasted for several minutes. My second bottle of this “out of this world” wine had the same date of disgorging, so it was with a certain hesitation that I dared wait five years before releasing the cork.

The wine was enjoyed at one of the most magical dinners in the history of Swedish gastronomy, at the Pontus in the Green House restaurant in Stockholm, March 2003. That evening we drank a 1986 Selosse, three legendary vintages of Bollinger, two phenomenal Dom Pérignon Rosés, a '61 Comtes de Champagne, Ramonet, Lafite, Romanée-Conti, Richebourg, Romanée-Saint-Vivant and a 1947 Cheval Blanc. The '28 swept the floor! The nose was so intense that I was moved to tears.

Its already phenomenal bouquet of aromas had expanded further, with exotic notes of coconut, papaya, and mint chocolate. Somehow, this wine—on the very day we opened it—stood at the apex of its life it succeeded in uniting the '79 Krug Clos du Mesnil's acidic elegance with a '76 Comtes de Champagne's exoticism and a '38 Krug's mint notes. I must admit that—spoiled and pampered as I am—I didn't think that a wine could affect me so deeply as this wine did that evening. I am in love!

Château Suduiraut 1975 / Its dazzling old gold colour is impressive. The wine has a highly developed, well-integrated bouquet with notes of orange, wax, wood and tobacco with tones of undergrowth. The linear palate is also impressive for its clarity. It reveals spices (turmeric) and citrus aromas, in particular orange, quince, rancio and a trace of bitterness in the finish combined with a hint of saffron which is present in many mature Sauternes wines. It has great persistence.

This is a magical wine that is in its prime. With ageing, power has given way to finesse and complexity. 

This has become a wine that provides a fabulous match for a wide variety of dishes 

The Italian Mixed Lot: A mixed lot of wines from Italy was waiting in todays tasting and offering an interesting inside to the world of Tuscany and Basilicata.