Jan de Weerd

9.3

Dark fruit heavily infused with tobacco, leather, and rounded tannins giving it balance and a lingering finish. — 8 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.6

INCREDIBLE!! 💃🏻🕺. So happy. Store a wine for 10 years and the secret revealed. Doesn’t always happen, but here it did! Intense dark cherry, deeply laced with exquisite cigar, earthy minerality. Lead pencil. Yep it’s true, it is there. Still so intense and vibrant. Perfectly made wine. Should give the winemaker a hug! Great experience. The only bad thing is that I had to drink it by myself. My wine partner is in St Luis and experiencing an Opus One from 1982 😳. Wine, what a wonderful thing. — 24 days ago

Jan de Weerd

9.1

We are discovering the intense, flavorful, minerally charged wines of My Etna. Here is an example of an every day entry wine made from the Nerello Mascalese. If you haven’t tried wines from MT Etna yet, no time to waste!!! Check out this story to understand why these wines are so expressive, flavorful and complex. We were on the slopes of Mt Etna in April this year, just four weeks before it erupted…. Again! https://youtu.be/UGzUSwHUpAI?si=lEjtZP84VSwzLISg — a month ago

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Jan de Weerd

8.9

Meh. Super oaky. Couldn’t taste the wine. Not even after 10 years of aging. — 9 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.1

Couldn’t quite feel the love with this wine. Came with quite a bit of fanfare and expectation but remained unbalanced with a sharp green note I don’t care for but my wife loves. All in the eye of the beholder I guess. Tasted young, fresh, minerally and spicy. Not like a GSM I would have expected from Southern Rhone. No earthy undernotes. But, hey, I might be all wrong about this because I have never been there. Maybe that is not a distinct character of the wines from there. — 16 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.3

Nice grippy Brunello with earthy dark fruit and lingering tannins. Balanced and vibrant. — a month ago

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Jan de Weerd

8.0

Don’t remember where or how I got this bottle but I was disappointed. All their signs look good. 2016 was a fantastic year for Chianti, Gran Selezione is top of the heap, but I guess it didn’t come together for this bottle. Super green, single note, tart. Couldn’t even finish it. — a month ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.3

Fantastic Chianti. When you have to fight over the last drop, that’s always a good sign. Hard to pin down, though what stood out, it was certainly balanced, dark fruit vibrancy, but not really complex. Fine polished tannins and uplifting g minerality probably drove us to the next sip. Yeah, great Chianti. Even more intriguing is the story behind this winery. Ever heard of ‘Spaghetti Westerns?’ Well the famous movie director of these films was also at ground level of reinventing and reinvigorating Tuscany as we know it today. here is their story on our blog site https://spokenwines.com/our-blog/from-film-to-vineyard-the-legacy-of-rocca-delle-mac%C3%ACe — 10 days ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.5

Incredible Nerello Mascalese wine from the slopes of Mt Etna. Made with Burgundian precision by Terre Nere. Bursting with vibrant minerality and fresh dark red fruit supported by soft, small grain tannins guiding it to a smooth, lingering finish. Rivaling a Grand Cru from Burgundy. If you haven’t tried a wine from Mt Etna yet, this is the year!!! — a month ago

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Jan de Weerd

9.2

Refreshing Chablis style Chardonnay from ….Idaho! One of if not the oldest vineyard in Idaho producing mineral laden, complex fruit that you find back in the wine. Want to know the story behind this wine? You can find it here: https://youtu.be/3KvwvriU93w?si=yc-eFYXlo6I6ooW1 — a month ago

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