Elaine

9.3

Amazing- great full body and tasty — 5 years ago

Jamie Durfee

9.4

Note the bottle is the 2018 Pinot which was not found in the system here yet.
All their wines are the bomb diggity! — 5 years ago

Joyce Brooks

9.5

Dependable good taste! $13 H-E-B — 7 years ago

Rosa Morriseau

9.2

Wow, incredible “Sangiovese” grape, smooth finish. Bold and silky — 7 years ago

Paul Woolls

9.5

It doesn't get better. — 8 years ago

with Jonathan

K Zuk

9.5

Old school abv of 13% and can go another 20 years no problem — 9 years ago

Michael Storey

10

Medium body, medium dark, medium malt, light yeast, light hop - perfect balance — 10 years ago

Grace Overcast

9.4

Mm mm what a treat. Felt like drinking a fine filtered cup of marigolds and honey. A fancy sip but well worth it. — 10 years ago

Reilly Brock

10

Beautiful. — 11 years ago

Richard Crone

9.1

A 2004! Excellent, medium but long finish! Sagrantino is the Sangiovese of Umbria! — 11 years ago

Adolf Kristjansson

9.1

Smooth, 6 years, Spanish with smooth aftertaste. — 13 years ago

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In my last sighted review of the 2016 Cos d’Estournel, I wrote: "I suspect it will close down for a period in its youth." Perhaps it is already beginning to shut down, because though this wine was deeply impressive, it fell just a notch short of ethereal previous bottles, despite its "pixelated black fruit" on the nose and "sublime balance" on the palate. I tasted the wine twice thereafter, though this time with a 4-6 hour decant, and this revealed the Cos d'Estournel that has amazed since I first tasted it out of barrel. (Neal Martin, Vinous, August 2020)
— 5 years ago

Connor Smith

9.2

With the Wine Blight laying waste to her vineyards, France went from 8:1 exporter in 1870 to 6:1 importer in 1887. Legions of wine farmers faced total financial ruin. With no cure - or even a proper diagnosis - in sight, many saw no option but to flee to lands not yet affected.

The influx of institutional knowledge that flooded into former backwater wine regions like Rioja catapulted them into relevance, and soon matured into a world-class standard. The farmers had found respite, but couldn't run forever. By the time Phylloxera crossed the Pyrenees, however, there would be new ways to fight back.

French botanist Jules-Emile Planchon had a theory. If the blight was caused by a microscopic American insect as he suspected, perhaps grafted European varieties on American rootstock would be resistant. This would be confirmed by Missouri entomologist Charles Riley, and with millions of rootstocks supplied by Texas horticulturalist T.V. Munson, the Wine Blight was soon in remission.

(This is adapted from notes for Le Dû’s Wines ‘History of Wine 1453AD-Present’ seminar, where this wine was poured) — 6 years ago

Ken Frank

9.8

The 96 is just off the chart good right now. Tasted through 6 vintages today working on a dinner for next week and this wine stunned. Near perfection and just entering the drinking window now. If you own this, get one out now! — 8 years ago

Narun P

9.0

58% CS, 33% M, 6% PV, 3% CF
Slightly bricked garnet red, compact rim, more red than purple.

Pretty bouquet - red cherry, dried herbal aromas, leather, tobacco, mineral.

The palate is harmonious. Integrated tannin, med plus acidity, dry, medium bodied. Showing a lot of red fruit character, animalistic, floral. Very classic Margaux-esque character.

This wine is at the perfect drinking spot. No need at all to wait. After a solid month of full bodied, extracted Napa Cab, this is a welcome reprieve! 90. — 8 years ago

Jim Brown

9.8

Among the best we had! Very enjoyable. F&B on 6/17/16 — 9 years ago

Lee Pitofsky

9.3

Paired with Chocolate Soufflé — 10 years ago

Jamey Adams

9.8

Delicious!! — 11 years ago

Pinot Bully

8.9

Opened with Coravin 6 months ago, completed tonight - still tasting elegant. — 11 years ago

Adam Rothschild

9.2

Lovely dessert wine — 12 years ago

S.R.Alexander

9.2

Deep deep wine, and a little hot for me — 5 years ago

Cameron Jones

8.9

Nice Smooth fruit forward little tart. — 6 years ago

B Williams

9.2

Excellent Malbec. Had at Linger Restaurant in Denver, CO. Would buy if I could find it in Alabama. Unfortunately cannot. — 6 years ago

Gavin Baum

9.3

Third time trying this. Tightly coiled and reminiscent of young Meursault on popping the cork, with a certain reductive flintiness to its wonderfully pure Jonagold apple fruit. After being open for a couple days the wine is altogether more expressive, with creme brulee, almond, and bread dough aromas complementing its still vibrant core of orchard fruit and minerality. Strikingly rich and sumptuous for its relatively modest alcohol and lip-smacking acid structure. Given how positively it evolved and unfurled with a few days worth of oxygen, I'd lay this down for at least a couple years. Hats off. — 7 years ago

Patricia Schnitzer

9.2

Feb 11,2017. Dinner w/ J2 and Jack D. Lovely Tuscan blend. Nicely balanced. — 9 years ago

Stanislav Lobanov

9.1

(17/20) Янтарный цвет. В аромате курага, изюм, морёное дерево, йогурт. Высокая кислотность. Долгое карамельное послевкусие. — 9 years ago

Benjamin

9.0

Full bodied, Nice honey smell that follows in mouth, sweet ripe white fruit as we could expect of that kind of dessert wine. Long lasting, full of promises and rich but will be better in a few more years. — 10 years ago

Grant Henry

9.6

Should I have waited? Yes? No? It was the last one of my 6 pack of this vintage. We drank one per year since '09. Happy anniversary to us! — 11 years ago

Craig Warn

9.7

Gift from Amy Jo for birthday. — 11 years ago

Ryan Reeves

8.9

Wonderful Italian blend with great friends. — 12 years ago