Theresa Bairaktaris

9.1

Delicious bottle of Rose’ taste definitely French. Crisp, maybe hint of grapefruit, nice smooth wine. — 11 days ago

Courtney Bo

9.2

Accent on Wines — 2 years ago

with Cheryl

Coleen Wheeler

9.1

2019 vintage. Refreshing. Light to medium bodied. A bit tart with a nice minerality. Good summer wine! — 4 years ago

Michael Chelus

9.0

Grapefruit, pithy lemon, tart apple, slate and dried apricot. Racy acidity and great minerality. — 4 years ago

M Y

9.5

In the glass, the Virevolte Haut-Médoc unfurls like a velvet curtain parting on an opera at dusk. Its robe is a brooding garnet—deep, moody, suggestive of candlelit chiaroscuro and philosophical malaise. The bouquet is an olfactory aria: first, a plume of graphite and cigar box, as though the wine spent its formative years in the library of a Parisian diplomat. These give way to whispers of stewed blackcurrant, truffle ash, and petrichor on polished leather, evoking an autumnal horseback ride through the forgotten paths of Gascony.

On the palate, the wine does not so much speak as pronounce. The structure is austere yet self-assured, with tannins that march in double-breasted formation. Merlot offers a baritone plushness, while Cabernet Sauvignon contributes a tensile, almost Stoic verticality. Subtle mineral tension runs like a minor key through the mid-palate—an ode, perhaps, to the gravelly terroir that birthed it.

The finish is prolonged and philosophical—less an end than a Socratic ellipsis. One is left pondering not only the provenance of the wine but the transience of joy itself. — 7 days ago

Randall Brater

9.0

A great plume of fruit on the nose. At pop and pour, it was quite mellow with juicy fruit and low tannin - almost merlot-esque. Then the wine opened into the more typical black cherry, cassis and a follow through of licorice and tobacco. Quite good. — 3 years ago

Benjamin Kinzer

9.5

Wow, chocolate huckleberry plume explosion with a nice finish. — 4 years ago

with Chloe

Greg Bencivengo

8.9

50/50 destemmed/direct press. Light fizz on opening that dissipated. — a year ago

Mary H

9.3

Antica Terra Collective Tasting. An herbaceous grenache?? Is it possible? A plume of rosemary and thyme aroma in the face that doesn’t back off. Strawberry fruit plays in the background. — 2 years ago

EpernayBae

9.3

I love this stuff, what can I say. The easiest and sexiest birthday bottle I had, with bright fruits and a medium sized (relative to champagne) but elegant plume of bubbles. This is the stuff of dressed up dance parties at home, celebrating yourself, or date night. — 3 years ago