Ely Cohn

9.5

The difference 40 years makes is maybe just a thin wooly blanket.

Pull it back and this thing's full of life - bright, vibrant, gas in the tank.

It’s brighter yellow than tired gold. Theres more fruit than decay. Sour apricots and yellow canned peaches, white popcorn and greasy bacon, and that foggy musk.

Acid rips through and does not give. Barely sweet with the demi-sec tag thats written right there but I'm not buying it.

Tonight this is 40 years old, just gettin' goin, just like me. — 13 days ago

Ely Cohn

9.1

Biscuit, crisp yellow apple, chamomile, squirt of lemon.

It's traditional, but with little nuanced notes and a rich enveloping, mouth coating sweet salty profile that make it very reliably enjoyable. — 2 months ago

Ely Cohn

8.7

Boxy spectrum of blacks, purples, blues, reds, and greens. Woodsy, vegetal, an imperfect combination of both dark dried and bright red fruit.

Notes of mint, tobacco, violet, prune, tart cherry, and cedar. — 2 months ago

Ely Cohn

9.2

Cool Cali style (from Raj Parr).

Purple fresh and lively acidic, with crunch but not crunchy. Leans heavily on black pepper, blue plums and red raspberries with bits of spruce, mint and sharpie. — a month ago

Ely Cohn

8.5

Stripped, barren, salty as the ocean. Refreshing, but minimalistic.

Seaweed and damp clam shells and bitter lemon juice concentrate, faint white flowers. — a month ago

Ely Cohn

9.3

Balanced, elegant nose, but the main event is the gravity blanket texture and deep concentrated flavor that goes and goes and doesn't feel showy. It's a powerful dichotomy with momentum up and to the right.

Sweet tobacco, cocoa, graphite, cherry, black pepper, and lavender. — 2 months ago

Ely Cohn

9.2

A less wild, thicker, charismatic version of Liaison. More filled out. Still with that E&M corduroy murk, more glow for par.

Candy coat with cherry, raspberry, and acetone.

— a month ago

Ely Cohn

9.1

Honey nectar where time has carved out concrete smoothed smokey cool aromas of grilled pineapple and canned apricot.

Sweet and weighs like a brick, thick with nuance to sift through. Yellow peach, burnt popcorn, green coriander, lychee last to say goodnight — a month ago

Ely Cohn

9.3

2023 Le Mont Sec is so full of golden Chenin character despite its pearly glint.

Close your eyes and its thick pierced red apple skin, browning cores and buckwheat honey with a strong floral character.

My favorite dynamic of sweet suggestions, dry deliverable. — 2 months ago

Ely Cohn

8.8

Alpine sting, hot with layers of insulation. Layers of saturated cherry cola syrup, pine, cedar, minty menthol, black prune, and roses floating in the background.

Plushy and supple. Sweet and alcoholic and medicinal, a little too hot for summer, a ripe drink riper for a cool night. — 3 months ago