No detailed notes, but here are a handful of tasty recent bottles:
Clos Saron 2013 Sierra Foothills Syrah, "Stone Soup." Second of three bottles and the first one in a decade or so. Surprisingly high-toned and puckery at first, with great aromas but a lot of tannic grip; integrates decently on the first evening, and when finished on night three, it's lost some aromatic complexity but is silky-smooth. Will hold the last bottle a while.
Goodfellow Family Cellars 2023 Ribbon Ridge Chardonnay, Whistling Ridge Vineyard, Berserker Cuvée. My case of Goodfellow from last year's Berserker Day was one of those that were stolen from a shipping facility en route to me, but Marcus and Megan were able to replace three of the six bottles I'd ordered of the BD Chard (and generously replaced the other three with other single-vineyard wines). First one of these we've opened. As expected, a fresher and less oxidative style in this cuvée, taut and focused but already drinking nicely.
Domaine de Chevalier 2014 Pessac-Léognan Blanc. Had one of these younger and found it overwhelmingly tropical, but this has matured into something much more pleasant -- still some tropicality but with the volume turned down so that you can sense the interesting earthy-herby-waxy dynamics behind it.
Corison 1999 Napa Valley Petite Sirah Acappella. Who else could make a restrained, even delicate Petite that ages this gracefully?
Thierry Violot-Guillemard 2015 Pommard 1er Cru Les Rugiens. It's been a month now, so I don't want to try for descriptors, but I remember being very pleased with where this was -- at the leading edge of maturity, expressive, slightly aggressive. I think it was chosen for a mushroom pizza and it worked great.
