Ryan Moore

9.3

Fruity and nice — 14 days ago

Hayden Hamilton

9.0

Beautiful. Fruit forward. Strawberry jam, little blackberry. No tannin. Nothing not to like. — 3 months ago

Brandon Boesch

9.4

Tasting great. Well balanced with a ton of spice and cooked fruits. It had sandalwood, plum jam, earth, some herbs as well. Went great with pork shoulder. Much better than than 2021. — 5 months ago

Mike Coppola

9.1

At Martighale @ Portsmouth NH (9/2/2023) w/ Beth and Parents — 8 months ago

Douglas Braun

9.2

2019 -Vintage - medium red , strawberry jam, spiced strawberry jam, earthy, stones , medium acidity- love this producer — 13 days ago

Drew Reynolds

9.3

Tasty. Very sweet and black cherry — 4 months ago

Chasidy Kearns

8.9

This is a blend, but hit all the high notes I love about Zin. Bright big red berry jam and black pepper! — 8 months ago

Jeremiah Diaz

9.4

Deep purple in color; plums, black cherries, and oak on the nose; high acidity; high tannins; a little hot; tastes like black plums, licorice (I think), and blackberry jam with a long peppery finish. Nellie likes it. I do too, but it's more fruit forward than what I prefer lately, but very good — 8 months ago

with Nellie

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.4

Second Sauternes pairing with my homemade Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Didn’t use the additional crushed pineapple this time. Both preparations are very good. I think I prefer it w/ less pineapple.

In 2014 I attended the Bordeaux En Premiere. One of the six days, we toured 8 Chateau’s tasting multiple vintages at each in Sauternes & Barsac. Then, went back to Chateau Guiraud for dinner. Before the dinner, Bill Blatch then arranged for a Sauternes tasting after tasting at 8 Chateau’s in Saternes & Barsac. We tasted 50 Sauternes in basically in 60 minutes. After that, my hand was like Winne the Poo in the honey jar from dumping. After, my wish wasn’t necessarily for the forthcoming dinner, but rather wished to go to a Dentist for a teeth cleaning I had so much RS in my mouth. None the less, dinner was fantastic and started with warm Foie Gras & gravy. Perfect as is w/ the Pineapple Upside Down Cake tonight.

This 05 is everything that you taste in the Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Perfect paring. Newly a quarter century and no fading in its evolution.

Dry; stone fruits, pineapple, orange citrus, pineapple. Marmalade, caramel, saline, limestone, honeycomb, beeswax, coconut, vanilla, saline, round acidity with yellow florals, toasted nuts with round acidity for days. Elegance, balance, structure and round, rich polish that goes in and on. Coravined from 375ml.

Bill Batch (who worked for Cristy’s & owned his own negotiate company) has somewhere around 5,000 bottles of Sauternes. He does a Sauternes & Sausage party bi-annually. Good luck getting a well sought after invitation. There are more people in Bordeaux who want to attend then there are available invitations. — 13 days ago

Brandon Boesch

9.0

So ripe and big. Goes better with dessert than the meal. Huge vanilla oak with sweet berry jam, there is mint dark chocolate, and tannin, cedar on the finish. Overall when I really think about it, this tastes interesting, but there is a sweetness throughout the entire palate that I do not love. There’s an artificial sweetener like flavor. Really interesting. Decanted for 4 hours. — 8 months ago