Scott Kieser

10

I have only three bottles; I opened this with great trepidation, thinking the odds were high it would be shut down. Nope. This is open for business and incredibly intense.

I had this bottling once before. The 1992 vintage in 2010. Neither I nor the retailer had ever heard of the estate. It was ultimately the best wine I had ever tasted, and it remains my benchmark for fine wine today. I have thought about that bottle every day since. While this bottle didn’t achieve the same heights, I travelled back in time with the first sip. It has the same full throttle intensity with paradoxical elegance. It posses the same weightless density, the same salty mineral depth, the same electricity on the finish, the same silkiness, the same well-mannered explosiveness, and the same ability to furlough me from my perpetual stoicism. This is, of course, a young wine and has a lot of baby fat - delicious, apricot flavored adiposity - and needs time for the sugar to integrate. (The 1992 tasted completely dry. No idea if this dries out to the same extent). While this will certainly evolve and improve for some time, I not only have no regrets about trying this early, I adore this youthfully exuberant phase. I’ll probably open another soon to enjoy with duck. @Lyle Fass — an hour ago

ADAM STROMFELD

9.6

Very tight and black cherry cola soft and tart. This baby needs 20 years although drinking great now. Smoked duck and lamb on the upper palate. Yum!! I — 7 years ago

with Chris and Bob

Mark Lindzy

9.1

Still very much a baby, but showing great potential. I wish we had more time to let it open up and flesh out texturally. A solid choice for BBQ duck. — 9 years ago

with Josefa

David Kline

9.2

Apple cider amber with thick day-fog top layer that reduces to snow crystal tam. Mutant duck pond straggling lacing soon becomes window sill insect anatomy graveyard. German beer nose with tinges of orange rinds dried and fresh. Yeasty-haziness gives it green plantain and lightest spearmint marshmallow and artichoke. Damn tasty though, despite its jumble of signals. Jamaican coco bread, rosemary bits, polenta, beer-bitterness that the style usually glosses gives it a nice perspective lemon peel and lime, candied ginger and grapefruit; all low-keyed and harmonious. Lemon bread with poppy. Tasty yeasty baby beastie.


#sixpoint #sixpountstooper #stooper #hazyipa #hazy #ipa #nybeer #brooklynbeer #beerisculture #stoopbeer #citrahops #galaxyhops #hops — 2 years ago

with Courtney

Carlo Maria Rossotto

9.0

Top Syrah from Croatia - Dalmatia. - Had it at ManO2 in Zagreb. With duck breasts and beets on Cabernet Sauvignon reduction, baby carrots and beetroot foam. Fine Zagreb dinner. — 6 years ago

Evan Bienstock

9.3

A baby 2015 Pinot from the Keefer Ranch. I really like this. It is less fruit intense than many CA pinots and its drinking nicely this young. I get some Syrah notes here. I opened it 2 hours before pairing it with duck. Thank you @Ehren Jordan — 8 years ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.2

2019 vintage. Easy, Tuesday nite Rhônefest. Dark plum, raspberry, cherry and modeling clay (!!) on the nose with some acidity/astringent notes. Medium/medium-light body and lacking the youthful and overt baby fat of some C-H producers/efforts such as/those of Delas. Pretty mid-palate, Burgundy-styled flair. That plum bouquet note transforms into spicy dark plum and ample tannins on a decently long finish. Would simply love to pair with duck or a thumb thick piece of swordfish. Has some pop and short-term (2-12 years) aging potential and can think of much worse fates than pulling the last bottle of this in a decade and opening. Has enuff stuff to cellar dweller. 3.7.23. — 2 years ago

Stephen Redenbaugh

9.3

What a delight… 11.5 ABV Pinot Noir with Granor Farms marinated duck breast and oven roasted baby butternuts and griddled potatoes. Ripe, blackberry and black cherry notes… medium weight, bright acid/fruit balance. Growing complexity as it warms…. Long, loving finish. A surprise with this label. — 2 years ago

admiral von schnauzer

9.0

I suspect wine of the night for most of us. Crazy new car ish floral smell, awesome acidity up front but do not fret.
Baby got back.
Consumed with some kinda sweet savoury duck thing @ the legendary @pekingduckhouse. — 7 years ago

SF

9.2

Vibrant #raspberry #pomegranate notes , light and #lowtanning . Easy to drunk and perfect to go with spring time favorite like duck and Ravi of baby lamb. Worth encoring ! — 9 years ago