Steinbeck The Crash
Frank Cornelissen
Susucaru Terre Siciliane Nerello Mascalese Rosato 2020
When it’s 72F in early Feb, mosquitos are buzzing and everything is blooming, it’s time to break out a good rosé (and pray for rain). This past week I described Mt Etna wines as having “a smell/taste of sulphur hot springs and wet red River mud—but in a good way!” to two customers (fwiw, one still bought the wine so not a total crash and burn) and this wine has this in spades. A touch a tart red fruit, cinnamon and allspice on the finish. Not a typical rose, nor was I expecting it to be. Like it, but don’t love it. — 2 years ago
Enderle & Moll
Liaison Pinot Noir 2017
Lovely ephemeral nose. Silken gossamer. Wilted roses. Expansive and just beautiful. Cherry. Strawberry. 9.4 almost 9.5 nose. Out of this world. Palate is sweet, silky and so elegant. Lovely sappy cherry fruit on the mid and then they crash like a soft wave on the finish. This is so so pretty. Really wowing me on pop and pour. Fresh so fresh. Everything is in its place. — 3 years ago
Eberle
Wine Bush, Steinbeck & Cocavin Vineyard Zinfandel 2019
Fruit forward, full bodied, delicious — 2 years ago
Quintas do Homem, Lda
Vale do Homem Loureiro
I love this wine. It is perfume in all the right ways—that classic spritz feel Vinho Verde gives really lifts you just far enough from the roses and orange blossoms so you are gliding over the garden but choking in the aromas. And as your air-chariot (like a hoverboard but you get to sit) glides you also get to much some honeydew and all of it feels like how in THINK early morning sunrise dewy gardens should feel. There is also a vanilla bean nature but not like oak, more a body and richness heavy enough to give it gravity, but not so heavy your hoverboard-glider-chariot will crash. — 3 years ago
Château La Lagune
Haut-Médoc Red Bordeaux Blend 2010
“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.” John Steinbeck
Wine - it can take you places. Last night reminiscing about recent Paris travels so I pulled this beaute to enjoy with a friend. @55Seventy
Chateau La Lagune is located in the appellation of Haut-Medoc. This House was classified as a Third Growth in 1855. It was sold to the Frey family in 2000. The winemaker/owner, Caroline Frey, produced her first vintage in 2004. Her wines are described as having finesse, elegance and harmony. The 2010 is a blend of 55% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Petit Verdot.
— 2 years ago
Savina
Terramoll Blanco Viognier Blend
Fresh, minerality, edge of salt. 2019 vintage A delightful lunchtime white drinking in Formentera where it is made while watching the waves crash in in front of Es Calo restaurant — 3 years ago
Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego
Mystery achievement, don’t breathe down my neck, no. Excellent fill. 95% saturated cork. Labels a bit yellowed. Decanted and tasted after 15 mins, 45 mins and 1.5 hours. Big, chunky sed. Funk in the immediately decanted nose that blew off after a couple of decanter swirls. A bit of aged color with noticeable meniscus in the glass. Spearmint and orange peel in the nose. Cinnamon and spicy clove kicked in the back door to crash the party. Remarkable concentration in the nose and taste throughout the 1.5 hours. This had a fantastic, 40+ second finish with plenty of viable tannins still maintaining decorum. So yeah, the mystery…the shoulder vintage label was missing and vintage nowhere to be found on the cork, foil or front/back labels. Came from a top-notch cellar. Based on the yellowing of the label, cork saturation, fill, color/meniscus, flavors concentration/structure, initially thinking it to be either a 1978 or 1985 offering. Going with 1978 based on the obvious/large meniscus, amount of sediment, marvelous concentration for the performance and yellowing of the labels. Regardless, arguably the best Burg I’ve had in the last dozen months and def the best 1er Cru. Whatever vintage it was, has another decade-easy-rocking this hard. 3.20.24. — 3 months ago