Queen's Gambit

Queen's Gambit

California Zinfandel

EJ
9.2

Smooth and fruity, very good. Part of costcos wine advent calendar. — 7 months ago

Queen's Gambit

Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

Love this. It has the "wine" taste that I like. Full bodied with a lit of depth. From the Wine Voyage, Variety pack from Costco. (Queen's Gambit | Cabernet Sauvignon| product of France | 2020) — 4 years ago

Vigne Rada

Stria Vermentino Di Sardegna 2016

Rich, but still crisp and refreshing. Lots of flavor running the gambit from orchard fruit to wet stone to spice. Very satisfying and fantastic retail value. — 5 years ago

Knight's Gambit Vineyard

Alexandra's Cuvee Monticello Petit Verdot 2015

A pretty good Petit Verdot. Nose is light if white pepper. Taste of a good Petit, light tannins but still good acidity. — 7 years ago

Charles Wagner Family

Conundrum 25 Anniversary White Blend 2014

Delicious!! This is an incredibly unique wine that runs the gambit of stone fruit flavors without being overtly fruity. If this is available, you should be drinking it! — 9 years ago

Checkmate Winery

Queen's Advantage Chardonnay 2015

An incredibly compelling and age-worthy Chard from Canada’s Okanagan Valley. In an oakier style than I normally prefer but balanced and nicely integrated acidity, salinity and citrus fruit. — 4 years ago

Ceccherini, Shay and 17 others liked this

Knight's Gambit Vineyard

Monticello Chardonnay

Nice floral taste. Dry but not bone dry. Great Chardonnay overall. — 5 years ago

Fossenvue Winery

5 Queen's Castle Seven of Us Series Red 2018

Blend of Cab Franc, Lemberger, and Saperavi. Very unique and delicious. Chillable! — 6 years ago

Paul, Severn and 10 others liked this

Kruger-Rumpf

Spätlese Scheurebe 2017

Delectable Wine
9.2

This smells intensely of sage and sage flowers, along with passion fruit, grapefruit and elder flower. (“I am Scheurebe, hear me roar!”) Given such a resounding opening gambit, the wine proves (relatively!) discreet on the polished palate, turning in a coolingly minty and melony direction while preserving such luscious fruit as well as herbal pungency as the aromas promised. The terrifically-sustained finish is infectiously juicy, exhibiting overt but perfectly-integrated and supportive sweetness. Sage, grapefruit zest and smoky black tea accents serve for invigorating counterpoint. On occasion, the Rumpfs have demonstrated that these vines in the Dautenpflänzer can yield Scheurebe capable of playing in the Pfeffingen or Müller-Catoir league – and this is one of those delicious occasions. (On the heels of this beauty – on November 2, 2018 – I tasted a dry 2018 Scheurebe trocken, from fruit harvested in mid-September, that was already improbably delicious; but the Dautenpflänzer Scheurebe grapes from 2018 had been picked only a few days before I visited!) (David Schildknecht, Vinous, April 2019) — 7 years ago

A. R. Lenoble

Gentilhomme Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne Chardonnay 2006

A weighty and earth-laden wine that ran the gambit. I was taken back by the texture and sense of mineral the wine had. Complex and cerebral — 9 years ago

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Erath

Knight's Gambit Pinot Noir 2012

63% Pommard Estate — 10 years ago

Phipps NBC

Double Crown

GV
9.0

This Phipps brewery Double Crown beer was specially brewed for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee based on a similar recipe for the 1952 Coronation.

Belgian biscuit malt with Ernest and Barbe Rouge hops gives a balanced beer that is slightly hoopy with good malt backnotes.
— 4 years ago

Philip, Sharon and 1 other liked this
Trixie

Trixie

Very regal! 👑

Veuve Fourny & Fils

Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature 1er Cru Champagne Chardonnay

No formal notes, lovely opening gambit with @Aravind A — 4 years ago

Aravind A
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Aravind A

Aravind A Premium Badge

Had to kick it off with champagne. Good richness to counter the high acidity. A lovely btl.
9.2

Irene Alemany

Pas Curtei Penedès 2014

Great wine. Big and powerful, favoring acidity but balanced. Complex with a range of flavor, running the gambit of red and black fruit, some candied, some tart, along with spice, especially black pepper. Crazy value for $19. — 6 years ago

Quintessa

Rutherford Red Blend

Big chewy red much like the red queen's bastard afterbirth.... what I can see in the fire is the smoky merlot characteristic as well as the Cabernet Franc singing throughout the afterlife. Big fruit form the Cabernet grapes are ever present and give the structure. Thank the old gods and new we were able to harvest the cork out of the neck! — 9 years ago

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Marietta Cellars

Christo Lot Number 3 North Coast Syrah Blend

Multi-vintage. BIG wine, very inky. Blueberry, blackberry, black fig, fresh purple flowers, little bit of smoke, graphite, pain grille, lots of spices like allspice, clove, black pepper. Just a touch hot, but nothing that a little chill didn't rectify. Very good, high energy wine despite its dark backdrop. Don't always go for the musical analogies, but this wine reminds me of Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls". — 9 years ago

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