Ron Siegel

9.3

Rich & racy with citrus, orchid fruit, mineral, saline & floral notes — 16 days ago

PM

9.3

Delicious 2017 vintage — 2 months ago

AHF

9.6

Recommend 3-4 hour decant. — 3 months ago

K L

9.1

Good! Total wines Portugal wine. Would get again. Deep fruit but not too dark. Balanced. — 4 months ago

with Matt

John Willison

9.1

Meyer lemon, crushed stone, sweet citrus acidity. — 22 days ago

Sébastien F

9.6

Un pinot carré encore sur du fruit frais dominé par la cerise mais bien fondu dans un bouquet de fruits rouges, puis quelques notes fumées et terreuses.
Epaules larges la trame garde une jolie acidité. — a month ago

Roberto Carli

9.7

what an outstanding experience and without question one of the best wines of the year for me. This is a world class business card of what American oak can do at its best. It starts with a powerful yet elegant knows of dusty cherry, old licorice but mostly gives way to inebriating feeling of grandma‘s old spice cabinet. Something in the nose already tells you that fine fine tans are waiting for you, but the palate is overwhelmingly silky smoothness, possibly the highest combination of intense-yet-silky tannins you can find anywhere, with bright acidity and medium to light body that makes the whole thing dance. I decided to check the producer website and they recommend pairing it with cod with sauce. Luck would have it that I randomly was eating pasta filled with salt cod and tomato sauce. The pairing works well as it further rejuvenates the wine, but I would say it shines at its brightest just by itself, letting those tannins tell the story without any need to curb them down. I’m drinking from Coravin meaning I cannot decant the wine, but even the sediment tastes good. Just like those people who brag about buying burgundy in the 70s, I feel like once the ebbs and flows of trends will shift I will be bragging about buying a 26-year-old monte real gran reserva, kept 24 years at the winery, for 60 bucks, which in San Francisco wouldn’t even pay for the cost of storage  — 3 months ago

Lev Lavrichtchev

8.9

Oct 2024: PnP ready in 10 minutes, smooth classic Rioja, good VFM — 3 months ago

Scott Kahn

9.5

Delightful wine and vintage with deep color and a nose of dark fruit, forest floor and wet granite that truly entertains! Not fruity but with well developed structure in the glass; more tannins than typical of a burgundy because we did not decant the wine in advance and we were drinking a magnum. This wine should be great for another couple of decades! — 2 months ago

with Timothy

Martijn

9.0

80 Chardonnay 20 PN — 3 months ago

with Eric