Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

@Delectable Wine this is called Vom Lindenwingert. Thanks!

Nose starts with some reduction but those sweet sweet cherries are underneath. Stunning spice and with some coaxing now I am back in Jenins tasting with Jan Luzi. Gorgeous nose now. Enveloping and complex with great breadth. Fantastic palate with unreal freshness and purity and terrific acid and tannic (elegant) architecture. Dense and juicy with just awesome texture and refinement. My goodness the fruit is so good. Stunning. Fresh. Bursting and super super pure. This is even better than I remember. It’s got perfect balance and vibrates on its own plane. Brilliant wine! Terrific inner mouth aromas and structure to burn. Outrageous length. Wow. — a day ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Outrageous nose of peach, apricot, flowers galore and so perfumed. Elite hand lotion. Yes! Citrus, green tomato and honey. Certifiable freak show. Just glorious. Unreal palate. Such cut and precision and killer acids. Inner mouth florals are stunning and the balance is off the charts. Amazing purity and clarity. I love how the sugars just adds textures and roundness. Brilliant and rocking now but will age 30+. — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

This is such a special Savigny. Stunning nose of dark flowers, dark cherry fruit, gorgeous clear earth and loads of violets. I love the darker fruit profile of this wine. The nose is so fragrant. Just layered and complex but so floral. 9.6 nose. I said what I said. Palate is gorgeous but needs to catch up to the nose which it will and always does. Tannic but sweet, long and lingering and great freshness and the classic darker fruit profile that Buffet always gets from this site. Really fresh and full of energy but man oh man does this need air. Most backwards so far of all the 23 Buffets. I’ll be back. This needed 36 hours or so to come around. It’s elegant, serious and stunning but needs 20 years. 9.3 to 9.4. — 8 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Thanks! Gorgeous nose. Big wafting mid season cherry and some cherry cough drop, some bittersweet Ovaltine, some spice and florals. Really fascinating aroma. So focused and singular. Gorgeous. Great color as well. Palate is so elegant and juicy. Like Bertheau Chambolle. Lacey, elegant and so juicy. Pretty pretty wine. With air this gotten next level elegant and has gotten more body and substantive fruit. Really persistent and impressive. Got sweeter and more de se with air but always nimble. Very good. Maybe a 9.5. After 24 hours the nose is gorgeous and is more of a wet earth type of thing, but lovely sweet cherries and spice. Palate floats and has unreal elegance, freshness and a classically Burgundian styled sweetness and great length. — 2 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Haven’t had in 6 months and it was closed then but wow the nose is wide open now. Gorgeous citrus, apricot, herbs and stones. Really aromatic and very compelling. Palate is very 21 with just “wake you up” acids, a chewy density, and maybe 70% mineral and 30% fruit. So pure and what a finish. This is much more open than in January. Unreal finish. Almost 2 minutes. Wow this is tangy, super juicy and ultra clean. What an amazing finish. Just gorgeous. — 5 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Stunning. What an insane nose. Candied mid to late season cherries, insane spice and that classic stoney Pommard minerality. Unreal concentration but never heavy and so much depth. Waves of fruit crashing on limestone rocks. This is very very exciting wine. Only 595 bottles. Welp! Nose also has some super detailed sweet cocoa and just top top clarity. Wow that palate, those late breaking Pommard tannins and exquisitely formed fruit. This is something else. Let’s see how it performs with air. 9.6 now. Now the next day after 14+ hours open this is singing. Nose has a deep cherry perfume and wonderful spice and brooding Pommard minerals. Terrific aromatic complexity. Palate is just lights out with freshness, deep mid to late season cherry and also some early season as well. Brooding but suave stony Pommard minerality and gorgeous complexity and depth. Exquisite juiciness and balance. Long finish and so well made. Lingers forever. — 9 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

No formal notes but wow. — 3 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Wonderful if a bit closed. No formal notes. — 3 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

This is the best wine William has ever made. I am blown away. Holy shit this is a new level for “The Kid.” Outrageous nose of late season red and black cherry fruit but what really stands out here is the absolute clarity. Wow it smells like God’s jelly donut. Unreal 9.8 almost a 9.9 nose. I am not joking. The depth and purity of the aromas is off the charts. Under all that fruit is stones. Those Pommars stones. Like a Pommard rolling stone. Wow. Just sick. There’s spice and herbals. My goodness this is elite. This is just incredible work. The palate is just a knockout. The ultimate power without weight but also with the ultra concentrated tiny berry intensity that comes from the best grapes on the best bunches on the best vines. Just incredible. Elegance and just incredible power and never never heavy. The tannins are ripe and fierce. Chewy and dense. It’s early but this is ridiculous. 9.7 for now. But it will go up. Oh wow the fruit is so sweet. Extraordinary length and freshness. — 8 days ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Very red fruited nose. Early season cherry, loads of limestone, some smashed violets and really high toned. Palate is juicy with high acid and nice red fruits. A bit terse now but let’s see what air does. Juicy and early season and sour cherries and very very fresh. I like it but it’s not a “crowd pleaser.” I take my words back. Air has done its work. The nose is gorgeous. Big cherries, sour, early season and some mid season with a huge helping of wet earth and rocky limestone. High toned and bright. Palate is gorgeous with sweet/sour early to mid season cherry and some gorgeous texture. Very high acid and real texture. This is everything one wants out of an everyday burgundy. It does need air but it’s worth the wait. Really elegant and terrific linearity and precision. Very fresh and energetic. — 9 days ago