Ericsson

9.7

Mariano García’s final vintage at Vega Sicilia. What a great bottle.

The nose opens with damp forest floor, leather, cedar, and quiet red fruit; subtle, reserved, endlessly composed.

On the palate, it’s silk laid gently over structure: dried cherry, tobacco, graphite, and savory earth carried by fine-grain tannins and measured acidity.

The finish reads like the final lines of a great novel: inevitable, complete, and exactly as it should be. And already, there’s a touch of nostalgia, because I don’t know when I’ll encounter something like this again. — 6 months ago

Anthony Pro

9.0

I haven’t had this wine since the late 2000’s.

As good as I remember it.

#Nostalgia — 4 years ago

Megan Fenlon

9.3

Fell in love with this wine the first time I tasted many years ago. I have been waiting to crack open this 2014 bottle and still love it just as much. Complex, tannic, and has the added benefit of nostalgia! — 5 years ago

Rebecca Cooper-Mullin

8.9

Dark Rosè- pairs well with lemon ricotta pasta and That Thing You Do nostalgia. 🕶 — 5 years ago

Steven

9.1

High acidity notes on the nose. No nostalgia of Napa on first smell. However, smooth, silky and jammy on the tongue. Perfect precursor to a perfect night in south beach with the most perfect gift from above “”My Rib” night. I’m so blessed. — 6 years ago

Daniel M

9.0

Indulging in Nostalgia in a bottle with this beer I used to love while studying in Munich a long time ago. It's still delicious! — 7 years ago

Walker Linares

10

This may be my favorite cab that isn’t aged. There’s definitely some nostalgia as well, but this limited production cab is worth the $. Especially for an anniversary dinner — 8 years ago

Gage Orion

9.0

So good to be drinking this bottle again… the 2014 vintage was what started my obsession with French Bordeaux’s year ago. Glad to report this is still a fantastic bottle! Fruity and well balanced. Tannic and fruity. I just love this wine and will continue buying it, for the price it’s a great R bank Bordeaux. #nostalgia #bordeaux — 2 years ago

Ginny DeLacey

9.4

Nose or Campfire, Sicilian strawberries, marshmallow, nostalgia. Jammy, crunchy, salty, pepper jelly/jolly rancher, five notes in one. Fucking gorgeous. Drank at St. Germain — 3 years ago

with Joseph

Lyndsey Wegner

9.8

Big red fruit, currants, stewed strawberries, so ripe but not overripe, like you put it in a pie, but still has the acid to hold up, cherry, like a chocolate cherry that's articificial but you just love the nostalgia and flavor. A little bit of leather on it but so beautiful. Really loving this wine, it's perfect with a steak and just keeps opening and getting more beautiful with each sip! — 4 years ago

Adam Gregg

9.0

I enjoyed it. Harder to find where I’m located. Opened up to some of the plummy notes I like and tend to look for, more so than your typical st emilion. I’d buy again if the price was right solely because this gives me nostalgia from 2000’s and before pomerols that are my favorite. — 5 years ago

Alex Sopp

9.2

Austin: It arrives mid bubble on the tongue. - Alex: like massage balls for my nostalgia. I can smell my friends but I can’t see them. - Austin: I’m caught peeping at the maiden amidst her chores and sheepishly avert my eyes. - Alex: I do like pińa coladas and getting caught in the rain, thank you. - Austin: left with no shame only a sweet blush — 6 years ago

with Gabriel and Rob

Brian Armenio

9.0

Vietti Barbera was our wedding wine.....therefore, enough said. Delicious entry level Barbera from a legendary, fourth generation Piedmontese wine family. It was fun snagging this to enjoy with family on Labor Day weekend. Nostalgia. Blessed. — 7 years ago

Sterling Marks

9.0

This tastes like the wine I started on at age 21, but not as much residual sugar or candy. Tastes like nostalgia!
— 7 years ago

Christopher Losa

Owner/Wine Director Bar Bambino

10

+.5 for nostalgia and +.5 for 20 year old trebbiano still lovely and kicking. just a glorious wine from a time and winemaker whose likes we won’t be able to relish again. — 2 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.2

Translucent cold brew color, rather pungent citrus and roasted pecan nose. Yum already. Then medium sweet, deeply caramel more pecan on the palate. This wine feels like family and that’s not just my Austin-grandparent-pecan-picking nostalgia. It’s so friendly but capable of throwing you for a loop—how high is that alcohol? (19.5 abv)) but WHAT sort of kernel/nut elements are they and are they STILL judging where I went to school? These pecan-savvy questions fade as elegant smoky elements wave through to tell you it doesn’t matter so long as you graduated. It keeps you on your toes and keeps you looking towards more time together. — 3 years ago

Riccardo L.

8.9

Nostalgia sempre… — 4 years ago

Nolan Berlin

9.0

The ideal vinho verde — 5 years ago

Adriana Fabbro

9.3

Everything about this wine screams uncool in our industry in the present era: high alcohol (14%), heavy extraction, generous use of new oak (presumably), ripe + chewy tannins, flavors that shout rather than whisper and high praise from Robert Parker (cue Elaine or Carlton Banks’ dance moves). Maybe it’s my 90’s nostalgia or maybe I’ve been drinking too much vintage port these days 🤷🏻‍♀️ but it all works beautifully here: intense aromas of licorice, pepper, cedar, black plum, wet tar, dried tobacco, cranberries, cassis, dried violets. And this is only the beginning... A blast of macerated red and black berries on the palate, held together by a solid acid backbone, followed by a long finish laced with black olive, dried tobacco, mocha and mineral. Hedonistic. Three cheers for Alicante Bouschet! — 5 years ago

Moya

9.5

Recovering from a horrendous cold that I’m pretty sure I got from walking the streets of Paris last week, I decided to venture out for a “treat yourself” Monday night dinner back in Chicago.

You know that song lyric that goes, “whatever Lola wants, Lola gets”? Well, not in my case. I did want a French wine solely based on nostalgia, but settled on an Italian in a French restaurant.

With one nostril passage opened, I was able to get a very overpowering bouquet of tar (which by the way has been on my bucket list of aromatics to smell- so happy I can cross that off), earth floor, mushrooms, cedar and a bit of menthol.

Tannins are very much soft and nonexistent in this bottle- full bodied with high acidity. Medium garnet color, which was surprising based on the age. I didn’t find this as complex as some Barolos I’ve had in the past, but still found it very enjoyable. On the palate, a very surprising sweet ripeness of red plum that doesn’t linger long on the tongue. Overall- not bad for a Monday. — 7 years ago