Matthew Cohen

9.3

This needs another couple of years. I’m drinking it on its fruit bc I wanted a pernand.

DO NOT POP and pour.

N: lovely cherry fruit. A hint of sweet cherry licorice. As it opens beautifully savory. A gorgeous hint of Blood.

P: sweet cherries. Dense. Good balance. Juicy. Great spice. As it opens, more integrated and savory.

Fass selections — 12 days ago

Joe Christenson

9.2

Deep red fruit, leather, violet, cocoa. Lots of depth, weighty without being dull. Drinking well right now, 2017 vintage. Perfect at cellar temp. — 5 months ago

David Peifer

9.4

The OG “Original Girard” wine I fell in love with. The best wine they make in my opinion. Great sweet petite grape. — 5 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Just a gorgeous nose. Sweet, ripe but never treacly cherries. Mid season. Birthday cake. Cranberry skin. Poised and detailed. Wow this is a 9.6 nose. So nimble yet expressive. Huge finesse and refinement and that classic 21 achy beauty. My goodness this is so elegant. Barely any tannin and needs some time to develop but this is very fine. Palate is complex and so fine. Juicy and so clean. Unreal pitter patter of a finish. — 6 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Dinner wine. So fine. Gorgeous plump reddish blackish fruit and supple texture. Nose is deep, rich and bright. Opulent and chiseled but more opulent than chiseled. So great. — 16 days ago

Jason Shidler

9.0

We had it again in Narragansett. Great affirmation that we like this wine. — 2 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Another epic Fichots from Girard. Deep deep mid to late season cherry and glorious spice. Wow the fruit in 22 is so aromatically expressive at the moment. Just gorgeous. Stunning palate with deep deep fruit but also those fierce Fichot tannins. Juicy, silky and sweet but structured and epic. Wow the tannins. This needs mega air but this is a monumental Fichots. Tasting today and still a beast but has that absurd 22 fruit. I’d wait a decade at least. — 5 months ago

romo

9.0

Without all the wood, I thought, for a minute, maybe I do like Tempranillo. — a month ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

22’s having a moment now. This has glorious texture and mouthfeel and just takes over your palate with clear fruit and lovely spice. Out of the gates it’s raging. We will see if it closes up. As this opened the nose had dizzying spice and gorgeous, clear black cherry fruit. Unreal fruit density and sapidity. So close to a 9.5. — 2 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.6

Nose: the most beautiful smoke. Cherries. A gorgeous herbal aspect. Cherry flowers. More savory as it opens. So precise it’s utterly penetrating.

Palate: so bright and fresh and clean. The purest cherry juice. A mineral cherry stream. Changes every 15 minutes. Elegant licorice. Cherry silk. Wow.

Fass selections — 5 months ago