Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.2

2019 vintage. Last tasted 12.22.25 (9.2). On the list for $85 and popped for the staff at the end of the night for the usual Saturday Slurp. Medium/medium-heavy body. Spices more of a drive-by vs front and center now. Getting rounder. Getting softer. Tannins dwindling. The ever-present frontal palate richness stretching the legs and corrupting the mid palate now too. Really pleasant food or solo matchup. Harmonious and giving. 6.27.26. — 24 days ago

Johnno Harris

9.3

Year in year out one of the most reliable and gluggable rieslings in this part of the world. Good now. Will be even better in 5+ years. Slurp!! — 3 years ago

Stephen Redenbaugh

9.4

Old Calvados from a very good producer… starting to lighten in color. But intense caramel, butterscotch, and ripe red apples on the nose. Silken smooth and a long warming finish. Dangerously easy to slurp and swallow, swirl, slurp and swallow… repeat. Cold winter evening, roaring fire, 2-4 good friends… and all too soon the bottle is history. Note to self.. always have a backup! — 5 years ago

Alder Yarrow

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9.0

Picked this up for a song a little while back - some library liquidation going on no doubt - and for what I paid, I probably should have bought an entire case. Gorgeous black olive and bacon fat umami going on here along with cassis and blackberry and chopped herbs. Faint, taut tannins hang at the edge of perceptibility. Hints of plum ski. In the finish. Slurp!!!! — 6 years ago

Hampus Bejnö

9.1

Stenfrukt, skarp syra, smörigt och mineraliska utan fat. Slurp! — 7 years ago

Jeffrey Lew

9.8

Total rock star wine. Can’t imagine how good this is going to be in another 5yrs it’s still getting better but I’ll slurp it up right now. — 8 years ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.3

2019 vintage. Last tasted 10.30.24 (9.3). Popped for the staff as part of the usual Saturday Slurp. Previous visit was ridiculously delicious but undisciplined. All over the map and that was much of the charm...that rusticity and authenticity...but at Woodstock with 500K in attendance and the LSD-spiked punchbowl that ambushed The Who still found them nailing their set. Kinda similar to that. Yeah. So tonight's viz finds this bad boy relatively behaved with frontal palate richness and savory chocolate note along with a plushiness that was previously hinted at but unfulfilled. Gaminess gonzo for the most part as this seems to have settled into middle-age. Say it ain't so! Was crazy excellent in the punk rock era. Still excellent in the arena rock era. We'll see what happens in the crooner/standards era. 6.27.26. — 24 days ago

Johnno Harris

9.5

Keeps on getting better. Great little wine. Slurp!! 🍷🍷👍🏽👍🏽 — 3 years ago

Gregory Spock

9.0

Clean as if jumping into a fresh stream. Oyster slurp, lemon, and nice salinity. — 5 years ago

Keaton Kail

9.3

Insanely aromatic, thick nose of chamomile, lanolin and the color spectrum of peaches. On the palate tutti-frutti basket with everything from white cherry to oranges. Thank you to the somms that let me interlope on their blinding session today, and sneak a slurp of this magical stuff. — 6 years ago

Kristin the Wine Girl

9.0

Soft and smokey firepit with razzcherry Sta Rita Hills heat. Smooth and dusty, alluring with ash. Likey likey. Green rhubarb in unbaked pie. Slurp it up. — 7 years ago

Tobin Trevarthen

9.9

Heaven in a bottle. The 1/3 blends of Cab, Can Franc and Merlot arrived at a beautiful juncture of ever evolving tastes and smells. Served with a perfectly grilled porterhouse. The last slurp was just a bowl full of black cherries. #memorymoment — 8 years ago

Hampus Bejnö

8.9

Snustorrt med en syra som skär genom berg. Mineral, vita blommor och lite stenfrukt. Slurp. Tack Sigge & Wilma :-) — 10 years ago

Seth Masterson

9.3

This 21 is really starting to get good. A deeply layered nose of spices and garigue and stewed fruits or maybe it's more fruit leather plus mushroom. It's got all that and more flowing out of the glass.
It sits high on the pallette - meaning you really need to slurp, suck and swish to get everything out of it. Fairly low acids, which I think is good because any more acid would mask the subtle flavors. Maybe a little restrained but it makes you want to come back for more and more.

*Footnote - I 'Coravined' 2 glasses from this bottle then came back 2 weeks later and 😲 did this really come alive! It has an energy and vibrance that wasn't there out of the sealed bottle. — 10 months ago

Ely Cohn

8.9

Aint this an unexpected pretty thing.

Chewy, dense, purple goop - fudgey with syrah like outlines -mencia bones - mix of reds and whites making up remaining 8%.

Lavender, pepper, tar, and blackberry.

Slurp. — 3 years ago

Martin Sher

9.3

There is no wine in the Long Shadows lineup I will not happily slurp. — 5 years ago

Briane Odom

9.3

I’m calling this balanced... I barely know what I’m talking about, but I know what’s good. This have my favorite amount of tannin. It makes me wanna slurp this through my teeth even if that’s rude. — 6 years ago

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Stephane Bardin

9.1

Smooth, fruity but not overpowering. Slurp! — 7 years ago

Kristin the Wine Girl

8.9

Pineapple juice through and through. Malolactic converted sunshine and vanilla glitz in a bottle. Tropical hearts and smiley faces. Like licking an adult pina creamsicle while on pool floaties. Slurp! — 8 years ago

Hampus Bejnö

9.3

Timjan, mandel, bokna äpplen. En så underbart härlig textur. Den där lilla skalbitterheten. Slurp. — 10 years ago