Tom Garland

9.8

Colgin tasting with Neal Bernardi(COO) and Allison Tauziet(winemaker). Nice three hour tour through the vineyard, cellar, wine making operations, and tasting. Neal and Allison were terrific hosts!

2024 Colgin tank samples
2021 Colgin Tychson Hills
2021 Colgin Cariad
2021 Colgin Estate — 12 days ago

with Brenda

Tom Garland

9.3

Final vintage from the Herb Lamb vineyard.

1 hour decant(lots of sediment). A gorgeous tawny ruby red color. On the nose: nice aeromatic notes of dark red fruit, cassis, mint, loamy soil, cigar ash, and touch of stewed meat. Taste: silky smooth, rich mouthcoating wine with dark red berry/plum, earthy, smoke, mocha, spice, gravel, and a nice dry medium plus finish. YUM! — 3 months ago

with Brenda

Conrad Green

9.1

Quite alcoholic on the nose. Plum and sweet fruit. Slightly toasted notes. Intense and pure. Very good. Unlike the others in this flight — 2 years ago

with Paul and Ara

Peter Hladun

9.3

To say Colgin has a second label is a gross understatement as to how this fun wine delivers! Length, beauty and finesse all wrapped into one. — a month ago

Norman Gennaro

9.6

Gunja says WOTN. I say Colgin. Supper jammy. — 2 months ago

Scott Kahn

9.3

My first Cariad vineyard - a delightful expression of Cabernet in a glass! Graphite, tar, and dark fruit with mature tannic structure - less intense than Colgin’s IX… — 7 months ago

Norman Gennaro

9.6

Inky, dark, rich. I’m saying the Harlan by a mile and then Colgin — 2 years ago

with Mark and Gunja

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.7

I would invite you to find a bottle like this older & well stored 03, “The Sisters. “I would enjoy tasting this blind w/ Napa Cult wines & lovers. Then, watch their eyes open wide when I pulled off the brown bag. Many would call Colgin, Scarecrow, Harlan, Bond & the like etc.. I recently paid $50 for this 2003 at auction. That includes tax & auction fees. For vintage, they would call 10, 13 or 14. This is still youthful. Beautiful M+ somewhat rounded tannins, fruit buffet w/ dark pronounced spice. This has ten years plus left.

The palate is round, plush, phat fruits of; blackberries, black raspberries, plum, dark cherries, strawberries, purple fruits with blueberries. Dark, well pronounced spice, soft baking spices, sweet graphite, soft, fresh, tobacco notes, used leather warm, gray clay, river-stone, mocha, caramel notes, dry crushed rock, limestone marl, some dry top soil, dark, purple red fresh & withering florals, excellent, round acidity and a well made, balanced, beautifully structured and elegant finish that lasts minutes falling on elegant earth & spice.

TRB made wine. Stunning!!!! — a month ago

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9.9

The 2013 IX Estate is a wild, exotic wine. In a sense, it marries the savory aromatic intensity of the Tychson Hill with the fruit richness found in the Cariad. It is another wine that has aged impeccably. There's plenty of mountain tannin and savoriness, along with the underlying structure to age well for many years to come. In a word: magnificent! (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, May 2024)
— 6 months ago

Josh Betz

9.6

Happy Valentines Day! What a great wine to celebrate my love and bride of 25 years — 9 months ago