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Le Grand Chardonnay 2019

Nose: elegant. Fresh cut hay. As it opens mountain air.

Palate: seashells. Lemon zest. See t minerals. As it opens gods lemon juice.

Needs air. 44 minutes.

As it opens. Salivatory. So good. So distinctive.

This is an iconic Swiss wine. It’s up there with great burgundies. But so different.

Fass selections.
— 16 days ago

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Le Petit Pinot Blanc Chardonnay 2021

Lyle Fass
9.4

So open and expressive. Unreal nose of hay, wild flowers, herbs and iodine a bit more closed than unique. So intense and bracing with wild flowers, minerals, iodine and green apple grip. ricola, wine version of ricola. Rich, yet grippy! — 5 months ago

Rob, Severn and 6 others liked this

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Le Petit Sauvignon Blanc 2021

Lyle Fass
9.5

Elite nose, florals, unreal herbs, spices, candied like a sauvignon. gooseberry, grapefruit. amazing density, structure, grip, an exercise in terroir. outrageous. The best so far of this bottling. — 5 months ago

Severn, Daniel and 4 others liked this

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L'Unique Pinot Noir 2018

Lyle Fass
9.3

Beautiful nose of earthen scents, mid season cherry fruit, wild flowers, alpine grass and some sort of umami scents. Seems like it has more to give. Palate is fresh as a daisy with crazy energy and superb dark cherry fruit that really sticks to the palate. Terrific finish that clamps down. Awesome. A new value Pinot from Ziereisen’s Swiss project. Deep and ripe tannins and a lovey rusticity as well. Gorgeous minerals awash the finish along with loads of black cherry fruit. This is fantastic wine. Gets very chewy with air. But man the fruit here is extraordinary.

@Delectable Wine made a mistake. This is Riehen L’Unique Pinot Noir. Thanks.
— 3 years ago

Brent, Daniel and 9 others liked this
Severn Goodwin

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Whoa...What is this?
Lyle Fass

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@Severn Goodwin new entry level Swiss Pinot from Riehen (Ziereisen)

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Le Petit Pinot Noir 2018

Needs lots of time, but gorgeous aromatics already. — 2 months ago

Peter, Andrew and 5 others liked this

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Le Grand Pinot Noir 2021

Lyle Fass
9.9

This nose is it. Palate is insane. So perfect. The energy combined with the red fruits, wild flowers, herbs and the most amazing sweet, ripe and red fruited velvet tannins makes this one of the best Pinots of the trip. Potential to be a 10.0 in a decade or sooner. — 5 months ago

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L'Unique Pinot Blanc Chardonnay 2021

Lyle Fass
9.3

Wide open, saline, flowers, minerals and so expressive. Fantastic juiciness and sap. Super mineral and so engaging. Long finish. mineral, energy is off the charts, good dry extract and so so fresh. Sappy and dense but elegant. — 5 months ago

Rob, Severn and 6 others liked this

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Le Grand Sauvignon Blanc 2017

Lyle Fass
10

A perfect bottle of this wine. A true emotional experience. Can go toe to toe with any top white wine in the world. And it’s Sauvignon Blanc! Best bottle ever of this and wine of the trip so far. — 5 months ago

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Lyle Fass

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@Erik Longabardi this is only le grand SB they ever madd but the 21 le petit sB is a knockout
Matthew Cohen

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@Erik Longabardi the chardonnay le grand is insane.
Erik Longabardi

Erik Longabardi

@Matthew Cohen I bet it is! Will lookout for it

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Le Cidre - Riechner Epfel Basel-Stadt 2018

Lyle Fass
9.8

The nose is just the most incredible thing and if the palate wasn’t so delicious I’d be smelling this cider till the pigs come home. It’s smokey. But smokey in a smoked applewood type of way. It’s got green apple, red apple, and the aromas are mostly green and red apple skins and not the flesh. It’s not floral but has that same floral effect a floral red or white wine has in that it’s expansive and has a bouquet but these “floral” aromas are more like leaves. Fresh, gorgeous leaves. It’s so uncanny how complex this nose is. The nose also has hickory and iodine and I yelled out “This!! This is what would happen if you made Puligny Montrachet from apples!” I was so proud of myself. It’s got that Puligny iodine, sweet hazelnut thing and a kind of florality from the combo of apple skins and leaves. It’s just insane. After maybe 25-45 minutes of air this develops some quince, apricots and spice aromas that only add to the allure.

The palate is so juicy. I mean this is juicy and delicious like nothing else. It’s so explosive and just bursting with the purest green and red apple flavors one can imagine. It’s absurd. Nearly religious experience as you cannot comprehend how apples can be fermented into something that is at once contemplative and also insanely delicious. It’s delicious like ice cream you cannot stop eating. There are few wines like this and even fewer beverages. It’s so pure and so refined with just incredible finesse. The palate has these amazing candied apples that I have never experienced before in my life. These candied apples in this cider have to be tasted to be believed. There are also flavors of brioche and sourdough bread. There is a hint of sweetness but it’s like the sweetness one gets when one bites into a ripe, juicy perfect mid season apple. This is so so juicy and so clean. I mean this is as clean as any beverage I have ever had. The finish goes on forever and ever and finished with spice, complexity, green apple skins, green leaves, hazelnuts and iodine. This is absolutely bonkers cider
— 3 months ago

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Erik Longabardi

Erik Longabardi

@Lyle Fass My feelings are the base and foundation of a still cider should be compelling because it will not be hiding behind bubbles. Making sparkling cider is hard to get right with getting the right amount of bubbles but crafting a still cider with the acid, tannins and freshness using uncultivated apples is so damn hard!
Lyle Fass

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@Erik Longabardi sounds like a challenge

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Le Voisin Blaufränkisch 2019

Lyle Fass
9.7

Deep nose with spice and dark flowers. Ripe and deep with insane spices and florals all over the palate that is so clear. So deep and juicy with cola inner mouth aromas and flavors of saturated fruit skins. So looooong. Just stunning. — 5 months ago

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