San Leonardo San Leonardo

Tasted blind. This has a left bank Bordeaux quality to it but it is fruit forward and meaty with bloody beef stock with a semi-sweet caramel note on the slightly oaky finish. Grippy tannin. This stumped us all and is a good ringer in a blind tasting.

2001 vintage

DWS; Alto Adige (@RvdH) : Dark berries and autumn forest in the bouquet. On the palate dark berries, chocolate, plums, some sweet spices, round acidity and tannin. Fully mature and still very delicious.

2001 vintage

Holds up despite being past its prime. Little mushroom smell dissipates after it airs. Plum and cherry and some leather notes beautiful follow through light not overpowering.

2001 vintage

Tasting at Tenuta San Leonardo, great experience to taste their newest addition of 2019 side by side with ripe and fully developed 2001. A blend of 60% CS, 30% Carmenere and 10% Merlot, aged for 24 months in new, 2nd & 3rd use FR oak barrels. Deep garnet colour. Intense complex aroma of cassis, prunes, blood, tobacco, leather, potpourri whiffs. Medium+ body, multilayered flavour profile dance of fruit and tertiaries, still in a great shape. Well integrated bright acidity in …

2001 vintage

BYO Centropa "vin utenfor Frankrike" (Centropa, Oslo, Norway) : Dyp, mørk rød. Fantastisk god lukt med solbær, sigarkasse og sødmefulle bær. Bordeaux-toner! Følger ikke opp i munnen - godt utviklet, nedtonet frukt med mørke bærtoner, middels syre og tannin. Mellomlang smakskurve med mørke bær i avslutningen. 94 p til duft, 88-89 til smak - og totalt 90.

2001 vintage

Very nice,maybe a bit advanced, nice fruit and complex nose. Good mouth feel, balanced

2001 vintage

Super Bowl 2022 (Alpharetta, GA) : Cloudy dark core with thin purple rim; dark fruit, plush, purple fruit, violets, meaty and rich, chocolate, eucalyptus, herbaceous, rounded tannins, touch of bacon fat, wet earth, truffle, very Bordeaux; '05 Domaine de Chevalier?

2001 vintage

Super Bowl 2022 (Alpharetta, GA) : Tasted blind. Maybe it was palate fatigue, but I couldn't place this wine. A decent wine, but just confusing.

2001 vintage

Cabernet Sauvignon 60%, Cabernet Franc 15%, Carmenère 15% and Merlot 10%. However, at this time and up until 2008, they labeled their Carmenere Cabernet Franc because similar to Chile’s story, they didn’t know it was Carmenere until the late 90’s and they had to keep it secretly labeled as Carmenere for another 10 years to stay within the parameters of the regional rules. By the way, they do make a single varietal Carmenere-one of the few producers to do so …

2001 vintage

Back on form, this was delicious and kept improving steadily through the night. Based on this bottle, this vintage now appears to be fully mature and perhaps slightly past peak for the lovers of fruit. For me however there is so much interesting savory development, and the texture is still developing. I think this 2001 has better freshness but less concentration (and presumably, longevity) than some of the vintages I've drunk from the 90s. Nonetheless I'll hold my last bottle …

2001 vintage

This was a singleton purchased from WineBid, and dammit it's cooked. Cork shows about 20% travel of old/dried wine. Baked red fruit with a strong BBQ quality and some celery salt. Very tired whereas pristine bottles of this are still approaching the peak.

2001 vintage

Popped & poured last nite with what-turned-out-to-be a very spicy pasta dish. Coffee aromas on the nose. Medium body, showing some age at the edges. On the palate, nuances of espresso, tobacco, dust and earth. I notice some green pepper here as well. Fruit not quite as ripe as I recall, and seemed almost a bit vegetal (as in Cab Franc). Could be due to the spicy pasta dish. I'll be finishing the bottle today, so let's see where this …

2001 vintage

Very primary still, hold easily 5 more years

2001 vintage

Tuesday Night Double Blind $40+ (Bin 75 Alpharetta, GA) : Black core with thin pale maroon rim; green coffee, espresso, vanilla, iodine-ish, coffee bean, rusty, fresh plum, clay, earth, a little modern, ripe fruit, peppery; seems like a luxuriously oaked Italian with some green notes that almost leads me to Chile, considered Paleo and Scrio; showing quite youthful for age.

2001 vintage

At Walter's house to watch NFL divisional playoffs. . PnP. Crimson red in color. Cherries and tobacco on the nose. Initially there was some acidity and chalkiness on the palate which quickly dissipated. Now come cherries, berries, cedar, cocoa and some lead pencil. Ever changing spices with the wine remaing intense upon completion.(It went nicely with our pasta Bolognese.) Still seems youthful.

2001 vintage

This is right in the sweet spot now. Very bordelais- cigar box, chocolate, graphite, a bit of classic cab franc red pepper, and that just right sense of fallen leaves, forest floor. Elegant tannins. This was just beautiful. Excellent value.

2001 vintage

PnP & drink... Garnet color with some light bricking. Tobacco & dark fruit aromas. Love the earth & tobacco elements. Still youthfully vibrant with focused elegance & class. Will this wine ever show its true age? Drinks like it around 6-10 years old. Next to the larger scaled Cakebread Dancing Bear Howell Mountain Cabernet this shows less ripe and less extracted. I liked both wines and might even give the edge to the Cakebread tonight. That said this never got …

2001 vintage

녹아내린 타닌이 벨벳처럼 입안을 감싸듯 녹아내렸으며, 산도도 적당하고 올빈의 매력이 올곶이 살아꿈틀이는 멋진 와인.

2001 vintage

녹아내린 타닌으로 인해 벨베티한 팔럿이 아주 매력적인 와인. 정점의 내리막을 느릿느릿 내려오고 있는 아주 멋진 와인

2001 vintage

Opened and double decanted back into the btl almost immediately leaving a high shoulder / low neck fill to slow ox for 2 hours. Still semi dark ruby color. Love the tobacco & dark fruit aromas. Cork looks like its only 5 years old with 1/8" soak. Another great btl tonight with the extended family and homemade pizza. Love the earth & tobacco elements, youthfully vibrant fruit and focused elegance & class. Just a very special wine that taste like …

2001 vintage

Medium crimson color. Old-world, Bordelais nose of dried cranberries, cedar wood, and dry earth. The palate is punchy, with tart red fruit underpinned by a persistently rocky sense of terroir. Drinkable now, but the dry tannins indicate at least another 5+ years of life on this one. Strong, classical, and firmly-grounded wine.

2001 vintage

Another great recently acquired btl. Drinking even more youthfully fresh than prior btls from another source. This seemingly, is a good 3 -5yrs from peaking. I love it now as, with previous btls it shows terrific depth and mature layers. One more left to find out if I can keep my hands off these. Since this is so very under the radar you get a $100 plus experience for $45. A poor man's La Mish!

2001 vintage

Drank in Vegas alongside a Pio Cesare Ornato 1996. Decanted for apps. 30 minutes. This wine is a dark ruby color, nose of tobacco, some hints of menthol, and earth. Medium bodied, a bit shy of ripe fruit, but lots of pepper, minerality, earthiness, dust and tobacco. Solid acidity level, soft tannins & a fairly long finish. Complex and concentrated, this wine is not the type to jump out and hit one in the face. It's well balanced but has …

2001 vintage

Deep red center, red rim with clear signs of age. Sweet, black cherries, dusty, a little ripe banana, green peppers, chopped green chilies, pepper, toasty oak, crushed black olives. Smooth, bell peppers, pyrazine (good), cherries and black plums, modest tannin and acidity, good length and finish. Excellent as before, aging well, drinking well now.

2001 vintage

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