Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.2

Merry Christmas! 🤶 🎅 🎄 🎁 ❄️ ⛄️

Previous notes still apply. — 12 days ago

Alvaro Bustillos

9.4

Arroyo seco fin de año — 4 days ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.0

2023 vintage. Screw cap. Trader Joe’s selection. Have picked up a few bottles of this every year over the last decade just to have as haus wine-esp during the holidaze. This is the best vintage I’ve had. Structure. Fruit. Accessibility. It has rolled at $7.99 a bottle as long as I can remember. Grabbed a bottle without checking the price but assuming it’s still $10 or less. Drinking like it’s a $25 bottle. Picking up more this week. 11.18.28. — 2 months ago

Keith Richardson

9.0

Dark currant
Cherry
Light oak
Moderately tannic
Dry to medium mouthfeel — 10 days ago

Craig Becraft

9.1

Drinking wonderfully right now beautiful complexity, depth, and nice, dark fruit earth and herbs and just the right amount of tannins in finish — 23 days ago

David Hale Smith

9.4

Apple lemon custard with fine bubbles and a dry finish. Interesting delight pairing with duck! — 2 months ago

Michael Younkins

9.4

Delicious, semi dry, lots of bubbles. Nice light amber color, apricot taste. — 3 months ago

Bob McDonald

9.1

Aromatics of new leather and dried fruit. Not your average Côtes du Rhône as you would expect from Chateau de Beaucastel. More full bodied than expected to go with our chicken dish. Far richer than Guigal’s version of Côtes du Rhône. — a month ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Lovely nose of tobacco, leather and blackberry and great drive on the palate but faded after 3 hours. — a month ago

Donald Williams

9.4

Wonderful with two different duck entrées. — 2 months ago

with Bonnie