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Domaine Sylvain Pataille

Fleur de Pinot Marsannay Pinot Noir Rosé 2020

Serious Rose. Pours clear, dark salmon color. Dried strawberry and saline aromas. Medium plus body and acidity. Wild red berries zap the back sides of your tongue, while minerals zip straight down the middle. Clean lasting finish, repeating the nose and palate, leaving your palate refreshed and ready for another sip. — 3 months ago

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Merryvale Vineyards

Jan Vineyard Zinfandel 2009

This Zin is at it’s peak. From a fellow ZAP volunteer photographer’s vineyard Barry grew great grapes. — 3 years ago

Domaine Antonin Guyon

Les Goudelettes Savigny-les-Beaune Pinot Noir 2015

Domaine Antonin Guyon’s 2015 Savigny-Les-Beaune Les Goudelettes is such a fine yer intense jewel of a wine

Potpourri of dark berries, plum, violets, Chinese five spice & Kretek cigarettes

Crazy juicy zap of raspberry & cranberry mulled with orange peel

Deeeeelish!
— 4 years ago

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Milan Nestarec

Danger 380 Volts Sparkling Blend

Floral, peaches. Zap to the tastebuds — 4 years ago

Wizard Water

Grenache Blanc Piquette With Lemons

Tangy, zippy, crisp, zap! Sparkling spring water with a tiny buzz. Hard to believe this can get me tipsy. Feels like drinking kombucha. I feel healthy AF drinking it! Hopefully good for my gut! Yeah! — 2 years ago

Reichsrat Von Buhl

Bone Dry Rosé Blend 2020

Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the gothest of them all? It’s either me or this wine. In spirit and/or taste. Dark on the outside perfumed inside. Lives up to being bone dry, if bones can live. Smells like raspberries and pomegranate molasses. with a hint of mint. So light in the mouth, which given its color is a surprise. Then again get one of us mildly goths to open up and we crack a smile. The better to show our custom fangs by my darling. Oh yes so on the palate it treads lightly in weight. Underripe cherries and roses and electricity or is that just the friendly acid giving me a love-zap? — 3 years ago

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Trixie

Robert Smith of The Cure is the one of the Gothest!💀🖤
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@Trixie absolutely! ❤️

Sepp und Maria Muster

Opok White Blend 2018

Meyer lemon, apple, and a touch of grass. A zap of acidity giving way to a surprising buttery body. — 4 years ago

Quilceda Creek

Galitzine Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

2018 opened November 2021.

This is a wine that benefits from a long breathing time—but even an hour after decanting this wine stays aloof. It is what it is, and it’s not looking for your friendship. So, this is not a beginners wine. Don’t serve it to the hoi polloi. Hoard it, and reserve it for your pleasure and the pleasure of those who can appreciate it. ;-)

As for my tasting notes… Sage and a bit of eucalyptus on the nose. Intense red fruit on the front that reminds me of ripe red cherries, cassis, and the taste of red lipstick on a sensual kiss. It has an amazingly complex tannic structure. Wait, did I say tannic? I meant it has an amazing Tantric structure! It’s not ploddingly heavy like most of the cabs from Napa. The tannins have a gentle touch, but a lot of underlying muscle that will massage your tongue. The mid pallet is full of fruit and mineral high notes—plus bunch of impressions I can’t describe.It has a long finish that rings like a bell as it fades—and you can still imagine it ringing after the song is gone— but for full disclosure it also yields a sharp zap of bitterness at the end. This is a wine that demands your respect. And it will reject any silly sentimental love notes that you send it.

Frigging awesome wine!

If you’re not on the Quilceda Creek mailing list, get on it! Theres’s a waiting list backlog. I can see why!
— 3 years ago

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Hugh O'Riordan

Hugh O'Riordan

Great review. I buy 2 cases a year
Wulf Losee

Wulf Losee

Hugh: How the hell do you manage to get them to allocate two cases a year for you?! What sort of Paul do you have. I want to be your friend!
Hugh O'Riordan

Hugh O'Riordan

Wulf, Im 100 % Irish? Keep in touch . I’ll buy more. Drinking some now hugh 🇮🇪

Trimbach

Alsace Riesling 2017

If I’d been drinking wine attentively for longer than a year I’d call this my old faithful. Zip/zap fresh squeezed lemon and petrol. — 4 years ago

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Quinta das Arcas

Zap Vinho Verde Loureiro Blend

Absolutely delicious for literally EVERYBODY ... FUN, fun, Fun ...pearl, Apple, mango, watermelon, honey dew and a long mineral finish ?? What is this ??? ... Do serve chilled and enjoy a really FUN wine that will be the soul of any reunion... — 5 years ago