Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Knockout nose of bright red berry fruit, leather, and high toned minerality. Licorice. Spice. So refined and elegant. Refined and elegant aromas with remarkable precision. Palate is super precise and has lovely, focused and concentrated red berries. A lovely acid spine as well builds on the velvety and ripe tannins. Very complex and long. Awesome and explosive. Chalky tannins. This has at least 15 years ahead of it. So young but so good. A bomb ass Marginale. — a day ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Finally got myself a bottle of one of the rarest wines I import. Only got an allocation in 18 for the first time. Anyway this is an insane bottle of Chablis. It’s basically Fabien’s Grand Cru. Nose is spicy and mineral. Sea water, hint of discreet wood. So salty. Nose is so classic and the most ethereal of the Dauvissat wines. Wow, the palate is so intense and explosive. Awesome minerality and electricity. Juicy and so pure. Backwards and will need air. So much sap and dry extract. Lime echo on the finish. So so long. Awesome power, majesty and density. What grip. What an intense wine. The length is crazy. — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Oh baby is this in the zone. Nose is incredible. Wafting aromas of black olive, black berry fruit with a crystalline purity to it. So dense. So aromatic. Just killing it. Wow. Stunning clarity. Had good luck with Gilles recently. Amazing palate. Just unreal fruit and it’s everywhere! Just saturates with granite infused juicy, lip smacking insanity. So dazzlingly pure. The granite expression is crazy. What a finish. So complex and has that extra that makes it a great vintage. Unreal depth and concentration. Holy shit. This is total genius. — 6 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

What an aroma. Tar, dried dark roses, huge minerals and earth. Wet leaves. Burgundian. Chestnut. So aromatic. No fruit but it comes. Palate is mega juicy and deep. Beautiful pure dark cherry fruit and terrific sap and energy. Does close down on the finish. But so pure with a hit of opulence and unreal roundness. Awesome. Balanced and so much fruit. But structured and built for the long haul. — a day ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

What a nose. Grapey, yet mineral infused Dolcetto greatness. Awesome dark berry fruit that is so clean. Some blueberry and a hint of delicious funk. Palate is ripe, juicy and chiseled with a blackberry, granite infused minerality and energy. So pure. Dogliani is the truth for the best Dolcetto. The energy and minerality mixed with the classic dark berry yet bright Dolcetto fruit makes this a winner. Terrific and thoroughly ripe tannins and just incredible fruit purity. Wonderful. — a day ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Oh man what a great bottle of wine. Stunning nose of cherry flower, gorgeous smokiness, some high end leather, sopping red cherries, so deep, so high quality. Wow, what fruit. So decadent yet fresh and such energy! Really loads of cherries and just so so pure. Awesome purity. Velvety tannins and they just pump that sweet, pure fruit onto your palate. Invigorating, luscious and so so good. As it airs nose has a lipstick like intensity to it. One of the best BR’s ever. Terrific concentration sap and sweetness but finishes very mineral. — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

8.6

Nose smells very natural. Very funky. Like Natural Wine TM. Not sure I’m that into this! Older vintages of this less natty. I’m a 7.9 on the nose for now. Palate is elegant, ripe and complex. Big tannins that are juicy. Nice palate but not special. Tannins become quite dry at the end. Nose becoming a bit more candied and confectionary. Quite elegant and juicy. Great energy. But at the end or the day this is lacking. — a day ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

There has been a resurgence at this estate and this wine is why. Stunning nose of wild flowers, amazing clarity here. Superb meatiness. But also floral to the point of a kink. It’s exaggerated but you cannot resist. Superb. But under all the florals is a serious mineral/granite that is so refined and elegant. Wow, so elegant, juicy and refined but also a wild edge. Stephan vibes here. Minerals comes out as intense as florals now. This is a crazy wine. Super olive as well. Great concentration and power. Depth is great. Just awesome. A totally awesome wine. Wow. — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Very pretty nose. Gorgeous, high toned cherry fruit, layered and so pretty. Earth, minerals and some gorgeous tweed jacket, wet grass and mushroom scents. Gorgeous. Really just slamming. Palate is ripe and juicy with lovely concentration and purity. Finish is a bit short initially and dominated by tannins and minerals. But there is lovely mid season cherry fruit that is bright and a lovely complex mid palate and even more complexity on the finish. This seems like it will need a hour. — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Just an incredible wine. While obviously young it is truly elegant and beautiful stuff. It’s got a purity to the Pinot fruit that is just amazing. The nose is a little woody right now but none of it translates to the palate which tells me it will integrate quickly. There’s serious minerality as well. So floral. Spice and incense. So aromatic. The palate is a masterpiece. A Pinot lover’s dream. So luscious. So much pure mid season cherry fruit. Hint of sweetness. So tangy, so ludicrously luscious. Amazingly ripe and just perfect tannins. Wow. Sweeter with air and just terrifically restrained concentration. Notable length. This is buttah! Love this estate. I’ll be back once it airs. 9.6 for now. Nose is getting more integrated and the wood has receded into the background. Superb spice. Incense store. Under that a deep penetrating minerality. — 6 days ago