Tom Casagrande

9.2

The boisterous nose is worth the entire price of admission on this one. Cedar, cassis, black and red berries, gravel, graphite, roasted herbs. Dark and intense in the mouth. Flavors on the lower end of the register. Tacky tannins still very present, but the flavors are nicely evolved. I’d say this is peaking soon, and probably won’t live to see the tannins totally softer, but they’ll be tamed by the porterhouse I’m about to grill. — 4 months ago

Rob Brobst III

9.7

Wowzers words don’t describe the texture and mouthfeel of this bad boy! Worth the price of admission…
— a year ago

Bryan Kesting

9.5

The nose alone is worth the price of admission. What a beautiful and graceful wine! I feel it can even get better over the next year or two. — 3 years ago

Seth Masterson

9.1

A blend of all estate vineyards.
Most malo of all tasted.
Vanilla, lemon meringue, clove and a wee allspice on the closing notes.
Represents a very well crafted, expertly crafted wine but it has a bit of a generic character of 'Cool climate California Chardonnay'.
The ticket price of $95 retail is an expensive admission for this show. — 9 months ago

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.2

Happy birthday honey. 🎂🥳🎉🎈Love you endlessly.

Right inline w/ the 2012 vintage. Fruity and light earthiness. I see the critical range of 92-94. It depends on your love of fruit vs earthiness. The fruit loads on the front end and the earth & complexity comes on backend. The thing that holds this back from becoming more is its lack of depth. If you like fruit over deep complexity, you’ll love this 12. 3 hour decant and the truth is it picks up weight in the very end. For this producer vintage, not worth the price of admission. — a year ago

Bryan Kesting

9.4

The nose on this one alone was worth the price of admission. Beautiful wine… — 3 years ago

Pontus G

8.9

Quite like it, rather apple-y. Not entirely sure it's worth the price of admission, but tasty — 4 years ago

Peter Sultan

9.0

Not sure if reviews of the Crianza got mixed in here, but this is the Riserva from a great Rioja vintage & is a solidly medium bodied wine. The nose alone is worth the cheap price of admission: ripe cherries, leather, all the classic barrel aged notes of dill & vanilla. Very very fresh though on the palate. Those ripe cherries, dark chocolate notes pick up intensity. For a rich wine ( which is not to my taste) & producer I never tried I was impressed — 9 months ago

Severn Goodwin

9.3

How does anyone not hoard (regular) Sazerac at ~$25?!
Incredibly smooth, great sweet note to the finish. Again, why haven't I not been buying this for years...?

(BTW Kirkland Bourbon at $30 is worth the price of admission, earthy oak note on the palate is quite similar to Buffalo Trace.)

Counter-Clockwise from top left:
Buffalo Trace (single-barrel selection), Jefferson's Reserve Very Old/Very Small Batch, Knob Creek (9yo), Kirkland Bourbon (7yo), St George single-malt (SM 015), Hillrock (Ancram NY, solera aged, Barrel No. 174), Berkshire Mountain Distillers Shay's Rebellion and Wild Turkey Master's Keep (Batch 0001, 17yo). — 3 years ago

Severn Goodwin

9.4

Nose has pineapple, tangerine peel, lightly buttered popcorn, lemon zest, green melon slice and cold butter.

Palate has warmed lemon peel, Clementine slice, lightly oxidized apple, cold honey with a long finish, light barrel notes arrive as the wine warms.

A fantastic bottle of Bourgogne Blanc, but not sure it's worthy of the price of admission, even acquired on the secondary market, as I had. Future bottles should enjoy a minimum of a 6-8 year rest, revisit 2026+.

The longer the wine has been open (+4H), the more expressive all of the aforementioned traits become, an absolutely amazing BB.

Some celebratory wines for our wedding anniversary today; 2017 it's the vintage year we got married. — 4 years ago