Basking Lizards

Delinquente Wine Co.

Tuff Nutt Riverland Bianco d'Alessano

basking in the sun and eating pineapple after swimming in the quarry. fizzy and fun! — 3 years ago

Domaine Jamet

Côte-Rôtie Syrah 2004

Jasmine Hirsch
9.1

Last night, basking in the magnificent hospitality of @engvinny. — 7 years ago

Vinny EngMichael Cruse
with Vinny and Michael
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roland benedetti

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Hard to go wrong with Jamet!
MICHAEL COOPER DipWSET

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I totally agree with you and 9.1 for the price of that wine means kinda one thing to me. #Overrated
Jasmine Hirsch

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@MICHAEL COOPER I love this wine but this was not a great bottle alas. I've had it on prior occasions when it was much better. I think Jamet is actually great value for the complexity and age worthiness. You can't find much comparable burgundy or BDX for the same price.

Saintsbury

Pratt Vineyard Pinot Noir 2019

If Saintsbury was alive, he'd add it to his notes from the cellar. Definitely a California speaking Pinot basking in the Pacific sun... — 4 years ago

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Pascal Janvier

Coteaux du Loir Chenin Blanc 2015

Beautiful green to gold. Crisp scent, like tarragon, citrus, and mangos. Lightly sweet with a really pleasant acidity. Feels like a basking in an herb garden by a rocky coast with the sun on your face. A “last meal” wine, for sure. Paired with Alison Roman’s seared scallops and corn from her book Dining In. Together, it was ethereal. — 7 years ago

Shacksbury

The Basque Craft Cider

Sean K McNeely
9.2

Round and creamy and fresh and floral funky. Basking in this balanced Basque beauty. — 8 years ago

Germain-Robin

Craft-Method Brandy

The color of earth basking in a Mendocino sunset, baking spice, apple, and pear. — 9 years ago

Brooke Barnett
with Brooke
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Giancarlo Ceci

Parco Grande Rosso Castel del Monte Uva di Troia

One of them lizards wines. Very good a little bit lighter and more fruity and citrusy then the Kashmir. — 4 years ago

Bodega Cauzón (Ramón Saavedra)

Cauzón Vino de la Tierra Norte de Granada Tempranillo Merlot

It’s alive, medium bodied, singing songs and basking in our bread.#vinewine — 7 years ago

Jacques Puffeney

Cuvée du Jubilé Arbois Poulsard Trousseau 2014

How do I even begin to comment on the privilege of lapping up the last drops of a life's work? Puffeney's 52nd vintage, his final potion. The wine that made me aware of the Jura, that first sparked sensation of time and place, a wine that exists equally in bottle as it does in brain. When you find yourself paused mid-step on the walk home, paralyzed by the distant sound of a youthful pianist stretching their hands across blessed white and black keys. Recognizing the tension that folds over their shoulders in tandem with the all encompassing lightness of body that accompanies practice. There is something so real about the way they are playing, without too much fluidity, they stop and start again and somehow that's better than an unstopping song. There is no performance here. What is it about the walls, windows and air between you that deliver these wafts of sound in such a pleasurable way? How does the space aid the aesthetic? You keep standing there, basking in this auditory coat, and for a sliver of time you want nothing. You want no one. You have everything. This pianist will never meet you, nor you them, yet there is partnership, a unity, an offer and reception. An electrical circuit you have both worked to complete. You want to cling tightly to this moment and you find yourself searching for evidence to make you present. The sky was blue, the pavement was wet, I was just about there, I was happy. But all of this is already phrased in the past tense, the moment has already slid away from you. You pick up your forgotten step and continue forward, dizzy from experience, left with only a stamp in your mind that you can picture but never fully revisit. Little death. — 7 years ago

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Andrew Schirmer

Andrew Schirmer

Beautiful review X