former somm, now just a guy. sacramento, ca
vaguely cab franc-esque wine from SW France, pleasant and earnest with food, a bit angular and tough on its own 🍒🫑🐴🪱 — a month ago
final bottle of 3, from my final purchase from Premier Cru… this bottle ended better than that did 🍋🍯🧀🦪 — a month ago
zippy, juicy, medium weight goodness. only in mags, number 58 of 70 🍓🫐🌱🐦🔥 — 20 days ago
starting the holiday season right, with the most consistently excellent champenoise in California 🍋🍈🍞🐚🌊 — 23 days ago
preserved citrus and baked pomaceous fruits, dried flowers and honeycomb, flinty gravel, and that old wool sweater that you risk 3mins in the dryer for, just to pull on warmth on a cold morning 🍐🍋🍯🌗🧶 — a month ago
bright green-gold like it was <10yrs. grilled stone fruit, dried flowers and honey, waxy, wooly and flinty. off-dry with thrilling acidity 🍑🍯🧶😤 — 22 days ago
carignan et syrah, carbonique et sauvage 🍓🫒🏇🥩 — 23 days ago
bright and textured, good value for early drinking 🍐🕯️🪨 — a month ago
kinda like cab franc but not really? earthy and a tad rustic. simple enjoyment 🫐🫑🐴 — a month ago
David Metcalf
completely different from the more coastal vineyards, more of a brutish, thick-skinned mountain fruit feel. not quite what I was looking for but enjoyable 🍒🫐⛰️ — 20 days ago