Bedrock Wine Co. Sémillon Lachryma Montis, Botrytized Old Vine Monte Rosso Vineyard

Man this is tasty. Fortunate to have a few bottles of these left so I popped the one with the darkest color. In the mouth, your palate is instantly engulfed with an amazing mix of bright citrus, peaches, marmalade, and a hint of brown sugar. The fruit is deep and pure, but washed down with a literal explosion of acidity, creating a beautifully light and almost ethereal mouth-feel. So good, and ao much going on here, that it's hard to …

2009 vintage

So nice tonight. Has developed a nutty nose yet still fresh on the palate. A bit of roasted pineapple matched with fresh sugarcane structure.

2009 vintage

Sauternes Chinese Banquet Dinner : Half bottle. Tasted blind. Full yellow. Lots of botrytis and sweet stone fruit. Some secondary perfume. Quite sweet and liquoreux with vanilla and spice. Rich but reasonably well balanced. Very good Sauternes look alike.

2009 vintage

All-sauternes dinner; 12/2/2023-12/3/2023 (R&G Lounge, San Francisco) : Tasted blind. Orange marmalade, balanced, not overly alcoholic, simple on the finish but very nice! Probably one of the better examples of a botrytized wine outside of sauternes. 88

2009 vintage

All Sauternes, All Night (R & G Lounge, SF) : Drank as part of a blockbuster Sauternes night - my blind ringer. A bit ungiving aromatically. Light in color and body, softly sweet, with apricot, barley sugar, grapefruit peel. A bit on the simpler side, but very tasty.

2009 vintage

Last night we hosted our annual Halloween dinner party (no costumes we are all getting too old for that) and after 2 bottles of Meursault, 1/2 of a bottle of chardonnay, a half bottle of cabernet, a magnum of an excellent Hermitage. The group wanted dessert wine to go with my wife's incredible, almost legendary, cheese cake. So I opened this bottle (I love my friends dearly but at this point I was not going to waste a bottle d'yquem …

2009 vintage

Quite dense and oily. A little cloying, needs some acid to go with the pleasant honey and stone fruit.

2009 vintage

Monthly Tasting Group: Blind Worldwide Chardonnay (COV, Edina, MN) : Deep gold color. Drank a small glass over 30 minutes. Dense, oily, full bodied, apricot, peach, condied orange peel, spiced, high toned, broad and honeyed.

2009 vintage

I have resisted drinking this wine for 11 long years and my patience was rewarded. I wish i had purchased more than one bottle but back then i did not know what i did not know. It was a wonderful sipping experience with flavors of honeyed pears, peaches and apricots that lingered on and on without ever becoming cloying or too sweet. stupidly delicious. Lucky for me i also have the 2011 version which i will hold off on drinking …

2009 vintage

Amazing Sauterne-like wine from CA! Tastes like a good French Sauterne without the pedigree. Maybe just a little thin at times, but at others, its really very lovely. Great effort from Bedrock.

2009 vintage

Absolutely delightful. Richly perfumed nose. Gobs of honey on the palate, extremely long-lived finish. Admittedly doesn't have a ton of remaining acidity, which has seemed to have dissipated since a tasting a number of years ago. But there's still enough balance for me. I also can enjoy a higher acid rendition, but this one is perfectly suited to tonight's occasion. A great aperitif.

2009 vintage

Wow - perfect tonight. Happy (early) birthday Monica - oldest semillon in the new world. This has settled into a nice state - maturing-ish, and will probably continue to evolve and not lose a step for two decades + given the acid, sweetness, structural balance. So lovely.

2009 vintage

Brad Feels Like Cooking Dinner (Brad's Place, St. Paul, MN) : Medium gold color. Small taste from 375ml. Orange, mango, very tropical, sappyy and very sweet. This has a very flashy nose, but there just isn't the acidity to adequately balance the level of sweetness on the palate for me. A little goes a long way. Those who don't need the acidity will find this better.

2009 vintage

Similar tasting notes as previous tasting. Very well done, delicious!

2009 vintage

Pop and pour. Nose: Medium expressiveness, apricot, pine apple upside down cake, creme brulee, nectarine, and peach cobbler. Palate: Thick and sweet attack, creamy mouth-feel, apricot and canned pear appear thru the mid-palate, good persistence from front to back.

2009 vintage

I don't really write notes anymore, but this was awesome. One of the best California dessert wines I've had outside of Mr. K/SQN. Sweet, but not cloying, rich, but not dense. Apricot, honey, hints of spice--wow!

2009 vintage

Lovely stuff!

2009 vintage

Are you freaking kidding me. This is seriously just silly, SILLY, delicious. Great nose of what I associate with strong late harvest semillon based wines (i.e. honeycomb, white florals, etc), but the palate. Oh man, the palate. Honestly, this is in the running for my top 5 WOTY. Honeyed peaches, pears, spices, and everything nice. Very deep and sweet, but plenty of acidity to keep this from reaching that 'over the top level'. This wine walks the line but clearly …

2009 vintage

13% alc, 200 g/L RS. Wow is this sweet. Candied peach and apricot, a hint of lemon drop, and sugar sugar sugar. In fact, some of the sugar had precipitated out of solution and was left in the bottle. Concentrated but not exactly syrupy, there's a lot of acid but not enough to really cut the sugar. This was too sweet for me on its own -- it needed to be poured on ice cream or offset by cheese or …

2009 vintage

TN: Dinner 95 & 98 Rayas, 03 Lafite, 95 Trotanoy, 04 Blankiet, 05 Dom and etc. (Eddie V's) : Opulent tropical fruits, mango, apricot and honey. Quite dense but not cloying. Impressive polished palate. Not terribly complex but really delicious.

2009 vintage

Lemon Meringue, passion fruit, appricot, nice extraction and balance. Not super complex but the QPR for this is outstanding.

2009 vintage

PEACHES, NECTARINES, AND MELONS IN THE NOSE AND FLAVOR. NICE LEGS AND A LONG FINISH.

2009 vintage

Full rich flavors of honey, apricot, mango, and candied citrus with a background smokiness. Good balance and restrained sweetness for a dessert wine, with a surprisingly light body given the rich, full flavors.

2009 vintage

unbelievably good

2009 vintage

Gobs of apricot and honey, with a touch of orange acidity on the finish. Full bodied but very nimble. Lovely dessert wine.

2009 vintage

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Bedrock Wine Co. Sémillon Lachryma Montis, Botrytized Old Vine Monte Rosso Vineyard

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