James Sligh

9.0

So, aligoté. In what other variety can you see some of the best winemakers in a prohibitively expensive appellation at work? At five years of age still fresher than a good many white Burgjndy producers have found their 2012s, but looser & blousier even than the '10, which I've tasted a few times, altogether rich, soft, gently on its way out. But still ludicrous in comparison to its classmates, — 8 years ago

James Sligh

9.0

Pretty toothsome. Fresh fruit, lots of smokey oolong tea dried rosemary—that is to say, marked by brett, which may be a deal-breaker for some of you—but I like this more & more as it’s open. Warm, its feet in the earth, but fresh. Ninety percent lladonner pelut a.k.a. ancient Catalan grenache, ten percent carignan. — 9 years ago

James Sligh

9.5

Favorite of the three single vineyards I tasted: picture compressed shelf of shale, crunchy layers of texture & fruit, crackling acid. Finger Lakes grosses gewächs. — 9 years ago

James Sligh

10

Fuck my tasting notes. This is crystalline, superlative, special wine from a gentleman whose work we will not see again, — 8 years ago

James Sligh

9.0

To standard-issue txakoli as something like Pépière Clos des Briords is to standard Muscadet: deeper, richer clay soils, more concentration, a creamy, waxy intensity bound by acid that guides it like rails. — 9 years ago

James Sligh

9.5

Texture, freshness, life. I will never not want to drink this. — 9 years ago

James Sligh

9.0

Sappy, vinous. Mulberries & ivy. Really good. — 9 years ago

James Sligh

9.5

Savory/reductive/smoky do decant, beautiful wine from a difficult vintage — 8 years ago

James Sligh

9.5

Yes yes yes — 9 years ago

James Sligh

9.0

Verging on hot Italian, in that sour cherry sundried tomato red pepper sandwich topping vein. Not without development, primary fruit alive, still a little boozy/alcohol/glycerol on finish, on reflection—though to be clear, 13.2% on the label. 10-acre vineyard planted to cabernet in 1945, merlot added in ’83. — 9 years ago