Brandon Boesch

9.2

Northern rhone, cool climate California. Earth, blood, strawberries, boysenberry, menthol, rock. Very good with food. So different from Zaca Mesa I had last night. I like both for different reasons. — 6 days ago

Chris MacLean

9.2

New producer for me. Very impressive. — 4 months ago

with Sarah

Brandon Boesch

9.5

Needed to decant. Black tea, cherries, baking spices, some apple, long finish that coats the palate. Ongoing cherry, spiced cider, good acidity. Just lovely. This has a very long life ahead of it. — 8 months ago

JPG

9.0

Has a unique character, agree with another review about the “funk” in wonderful way — 25 days ago

Craig Becraft

9.2

Wonderfully structured complex wine with black cherry herbs, chocolate black currant, fine acidity bit of slate nice Dusty tanins clean finish great with grilled steak all that and only 13% — 2 months ago

Brandon Boesch

9.5

This is outstanding right now. Great fruit with some baking spices but really well balanced. — 7 months ago

Willem Booij

9.4

This 49 years old LLC was in the first sniff a bit dull, but then miraculously this grand master of BDX stood up and showed its pure class. Ok it’s not a young bastard but what a pleasure to drink with friends. — 8 months ago

with Kees and Hans

Rob DeShane

9.0

Substance makes one of the best <$20 wines I’ve had in the last year. So I had expectations. Jeb Dunnuck rated this very high and I agree: a nose that reminds me of northern Rhône with a meaty flinty mineral quality complimented by violets and purple fruit. The wine has a lithe quality with dry tannins tending towards an earl grey tea in character and medium finish I wish was longer. Overall, a good wine. Is it 3x’s better than the cheaper bottle….I would say yeah…sure. 2018 vintage, Powerline vineyard. — a month ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.4

2021 vintage. Last tasted 2.1.24 (9.4) and 11.3.23 (9.3) starting to knit together a little better every visit. Medium body. Popping spice pieces in play. Excellent length of finish. 5.23.24. — 4 months ago

Tree Kilpatrick

9.2

Still great. I was wondering if it would hold 10 years after release, and it’s a hint more rusty, but the flavor has even more of that complex ‘old-wine’ stuff in it. — 8 months ago