Lots of beautiful happenings on a bed of chocolate pudding, raisiny fruit leathery notes and creeping volatile acid for that elevating effect I love.
Soft, plush, chewy, has some weight with zero grip and satin texture.
Cocoa, coffee, cassis, lavender, fruit leather and cedar. Departing breakfast of bacon and blueberry sausage - so long and goodbye. — 2 months ago
Murky and stacked with bramble and minerals in a persistent purple glow.
Cab Franc that doesn't scream Cab Franc. A rocky, chalky wine with some salinity that reminds me more of serious Beaujolais.
Preschool pencil and thick strips of fruit leather with tannins that make you pucker. — 20 days ago
The difference 40 years makes is maybe just a thin wooly blanket.
Pull it back and this thing's full of life - bright, vibrant, gas in the tank.
It’s brighter yellow than tired gold. Theres more fruit than decay. Sour apricots and yellow canned peaches, white popcorn and greasy bacon, and that foggy musk.
Acid rips through and does not give. Barely sweet with the demi-sec tag thats written right there but I'm not buying it.
Tonight this is 40 years old, just gettin' goin, just like me. — 3 months ago
The same Tempier game - deep, textbook, best at cellar temp for nuanced aromas and weighted viscosity.
2018 is losing its fruit, at the end of the window where hints and dried versions of fresh fruit and spices still hang around.
Dried orange peel, grapefruit, peach, and soft red melon and furry raspberry.
— a month ago
Honey nectar where time has carved out concrete smoothed smokey cool aromas of grilled pineapple and canned apricot.
Sweet and weighs like a brick, thick with nuance to sift through. Yellow peach, burnt popcorn, green coriander, lychee last to say goodnight — 3 months ago
Ely Cohn
Rays of unfiltered feral Cali sunshine.
Sweet and sour citrus and toasted coconut with a hazy glow.
Like contest winning lemon meringue pie with a torched top. — 12 days ago