Ron from VA

9.3

***RESERVE*** aged 30months in Fr & Am Oak. This was the first vintage of 3 yr fruit. Dave Collins is a freaking master - one of the East Coasts most prolific winegrowers/vintners! This bottle is DIFFERENT from standard Malbec, and produced from one barrel, IIRC. Hyper concentration with remarkable balance for its Pedigree/Vintage. Meanwhile remaining varietally correct. Opening a special bottle today with charcuterie board and later Mongolian beef over rice. Liquored Black cherries and Anise dance romantical from start to finish. A touch of Smokey Tar on the long finish wrapped in dark Colombian cocoa (75%) — 4 years ago

David Kaplan

9.1

This isn’t a Malbec. But if you’ve ever tasted a blockbuster Fabre-Montmayou Malbec, another great review and 95 points from Decanter, lobbed onto such a modestly priced wine shouldn’t be a big surprise.

And for everyone who hasn’t yet tasted an Hervé Fabre wine, let this dark purple, sun-warmed sweet raspberries and black cherries-infused Cabernet Franc be your introduction to one of the greatest winegrowers in Argentina.

Praised by the judges at the 2020 Decanter World Wine Awards for its “ripe nose with fresh red fruits and lively notes of green vegetables and capsicum,” this is the Fabre wine that walked off with a Gold Medal, and was recently featured by Eric Asimov of the New York Times as one of “20 Wines under $20 That Revive and Restore.” — Moore Brothers Wine Co.
— 4 years ago

Molly Farrar

9.1

Fizzy strawberry rosy candy — 5 years ago

Christian Ingargiola

9.5

Reminiscent of Normandy. Super dry. — 6 years ago

Clare Echterling

10

Tangy, complex, and rich. Guggable. — 6 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.3

Vintage 2016 A winegrowers life is full of challenges. The grapes for this wine were harvested very late, it was meant to become an #eiswein #icewine but there came no frost 🤨 so it became an #auslese. It is a God drink with impeccable balance and a frivolous smell with peach and apricot! #ahr Great effort! — 7 years ago

Mark Flesher

9.8

SMOOTH. This wine is classic Oakville and I guess it should be given that it has a lot of stellar wines included in the Cuvee. This wine has been open for two hours, and needs to really open for another 2-3 hours before I think it will be firing right like it should. After de-waxing and popping the cork, this wine was showing a lot of heated black notes. A little disjointed, but really started to sing after an hour. The blackberry and licorice, black pepper and tobacco notes are very ample. Smooth transition to the middle and finish. Finishes just so damn smooth. Softened tannin, more fruit to the finish actually and just seems like a toastier note on the finish. This wine was incredible. — 7 years ago

with Keith and Shay

Mario Vaillancourt

9.0

Nice Riesling, nice full texture, rich but not too much, acidity is backward, residual sugar feel is low, a bit of evolution though for such a young Riesling. 89-90

Beau Riesling un brin évolué pour son âge, une belle texture pleine et assez riche, acidité en retrait, pas de sensation de sucre résiduel trop élevée, belle longueur, très bien et content de ne pas avoir trop attendu cette bouteille. — 4 years ago

Romain Fitoussi

9.1

A very natural Syrah, by Burgundian winegrowers. Aging for one year in old casks. Crunchy and spicy, with peppery and liquorice flavors. Blindly we think of a high-quality Croze-Hermitage. As is often the case with low-sulfur wines, there is good volume and freshness. An accessible and refined wine. A beautiful domaine whom I discover the different vintages, each more successful than the last.

Une Syrah tres nature, par des vignerons Bourguignons. Élevage d’un an en fût ancien. Croquant et épicé, avec des saveurs poivrées et réglisse. À l’aveugle on pense à un Croze-Hermitage de haute facture. Comme souvent avec les vins peu soufrés, on a beau volume et de la fraîcheur. Un vin accessible et raffiné. Un beau domaine dont je découvre les différentes cuvées, toutes plus réussies les unes que les autres. — 4 years ago

Frank B

9.3

Light body. Nice nose. Good finish. — 5 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.0

The history of the Albrecht family as winegrowers can be traced back to 1425 with Romanu Albrecht, who was established in the town of Thann. Fresh pale yellow with fruit and floral citrus aromas. On the palate sweet stone fruits with lemon citrus flavors, delicate mineral spice, vivid acidity on dry medium finish. Nice! — 6 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.8

One of the absolute best white wines I’ve had so far this year to date was this extraordinary Grand Cru Chablis from 2006. I think we caught this wine at the absolute perfect time to drink. Grenouilles is French for frog, more on that below.
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The color on this was perfect, a vibrant light gold and yellow, watery at the rim. The nose was also in perfect condition, notes of flint, crushed oyster shell, a touch of smoke, allied with fresh Asian pear and crisp Fuji apple. The wind absolutely jumped out of the glass, the nose was so pronounced. The palage took it another level up with a perfect expression of what the nose was giving, all the while wrapped up in a perfect medium bodied majorly dense and complex wine. Medium plus acidity and very long on the finish.
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Formed in 1923, la Chablisienne is a co-op winery based of course in Chablis. As I have gone deeper into the rabbit hole of wine I tend to find these amazing co-ops which I wish I could have known about earlier as the wines are so impeccably good and priced so reasonably well. They produce something like 30 different wines off from the Chardonnay grape and all from vineyards within the AOC borders of Chablis.
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The Grenouilles climat is the smallest of the 7 Chablis Grand Cru climat at 9.38 hectares. It has soils that consist of upper and middle layers of Kimmeridgian, alternating with limestone and marl that are studded with fossilised seashells.
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The first vines to grow at the bottom of this hill were close to the River Serein and frogs no doubt came to keep the winegrowers company. — 6 years ago

Matt Lamers

9.0

Great bottle with a very reasonable price point, might become my go to for affordable Chablis — 7 years ago

Mario Vaillancourt

9.0

Flowers, high acidity and more expressive and open than the Clos Marole. 89-90

Floral, expressif, acidité élevée, un fruit plus croquant que le Clos Marole, un peu plus ouvert, bien. 89-90 — 4 years ago

Yi-Fen Li

9.8

Commis bev pairing, aged mineraly oily delicious grüner veltliner (St. Urban, patron saint of winegrowers, on label) paired with hokkaido scallop, sunchoke potage, crab xo sauce, french sorrel — 4 years ago

Courteny Morehouse

9.2

Date drank: November 2019
Year: 2017
Producer: Oyster River Winegrowers
Grape(s): unknown
Region: Maine/East Coast 
Purchased from: Producer 
Distributor/Importer: NA
Natty: yes! No to low sulfites, native yeasts, no interventions. Unfiltered
Notes: Solid table wine, would go great with pizza. Lots of fruit and bright notes, but heft and body as well to stand up to bigger dishes. Grapey american wine taste.  — 5 years ago

Cassandra Caldwell

9.3

Juicy and tannic. Tart cranberry and cherry. Medium body. A little bit of a creamy note leading into soft minerality in the finish. — 6 years ago

with Jeffrey

Sipping Fine Wine

9.0

The history of the Albrecht family as winegrowers can be traced back to 1425 with Romanu Albrecht, who was established in the town of Thann. Nice pale color, fruit and oily citrus aromas. On the palate peach and lime citrus flavors, delicate floral spice, vivid acidity on medium finish. Nice! — 6 years ago

Fredybeans

9.0

Cuvée élevée 36 mois second tirage
Robe orange
Nez verveine herbes aromatiques zeste d agrume
Bouche délicate suave douce pulpeuse avec une expression de croquer dans le raisin finale sur l extrait sec d agrume
Beau vin orange sans alcool écrasant 👍👍 — 6 years ago

with El

Mark Flesher

9.6

Solid wine, and opened in the presence of a 14 Tusk, an 05 Scarecrow, 09 Oakville Winegrowers Cuvee, 88 Dunn, 07 Colgin IX, a 93 Harlan, and an 08 Pritchard Hill Chappellet. I'd say it was probably my 3rd favorite out of those (the 88 Dunn and 09 Oakville Winegrowers being the two Napa Cabs IMO that bested this one). You know you're doing right when a 12 Kapcsandy State Lane is third! This wine has it all going on. Smooth, still slightly youthful fruit sweetness present here. Luscious black fruit on the front and middle with a peppery finish. This wine seemed to be a very approachable drinker even for only six years old. I'd put it at 96 easily but would be interested to see how it would taste if corked and enjoyed tomorrow (service announcement: .it was gone rather fast!). Toasted tannin still present. Wine has incredible structure and depth. — 7 years ago

with Keith