Daniel M

8.9

This label cracks me up every single time😃
Violet, cherry, iron, earth. A firework of a nose and no trace of any barnyard funk lately which is good improvement on the same bottles opened one year ago. The palate is well balanced with a crazy fruit, violet exploding here and there, a strong acid frame and some matter, côte du Rhône style. Gentle tannins kick off a very playful finish with violet and cherry and a lot of fun. This wine is made out of grapes grown 10 miles from the house I grew up in near toulouse and it's always a win! (pun intended) — 6 years ago

Darren Stevens

9.2

Tim’s Wine market. $69 Club Wine — 7 years ago

Chris Morphy

9.8

As you swish the wine around and send your nose to the rim of your glass, a hint of smoke alongside a whiff of spice will tingle your olfactory. Now take that glass and touch the wine to your lips and take the smallest sip while breathing through your nose to be hit hard by 2 of your senses. Now your taste buds will get a rush of oak and black cherry that expands the tongue and moistens the cheeks. The wine will slide down your throat coating every inch with a smooth, buttery texture. The alcohol content hitting you in the deep throat resembling a higher than average alcohol content. This wine is extravagant, but if you have too much at once, the tannins will turn you red. This wine is marvellous and the price tag definitely will reflect that. — 7 years ago

Kristel Bush

8.9

Peach notes — 7 years ago

Velma Cooper

9.3

Velma had this 8 years ago

with Justin

Greg Gregory

9.4

This is just beautiful. 1000' above sea level and five miles from the Sonoma Coast. Kurt has really dialed in the Burgundy pedigree here. If you haven't tried his wines yet you should. Impressive. — 9 years ago

Matthias Althoff

9.5

Unbelievably tasteful — 10 years ago

Jacob Riley

9.1

I don't know if this really feels like Miles to me, but don't let that dissuade you. A fun sparkling wine with interesting complexity from a unique area and grapes. Fiano and Aglianico (what?) bring a fruity notes likes peach and maybe even some sour cherry or strawberry? Or is that just my mind thinking about the Aglianico? Some unique herbal notes, perhaps oregano or rosemary, not 'green'. Finishes dry with a polite bit of chalky minerality. This is my kind of bubbles, though I know I'm a heretic when it comes to sparkling. — 10 years ago

Chris Harwick

9.5

Great nose. Medium to full bodied. Many miles left in the tank. — 10 years ago

with Dave

Jakub Słociński

9.1

Bery good one found in Biedronka — 12 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.0

Last bottle, had a bottle about a year ago, aged nicely. Their vineyard is a few miles away from the Pacific Ocean and aged, in French Oak, about 1/3 new, deep ruby with black fruit aromas and earthy floral spice notes. On the palate, soft raspberry, black cherry and blueberry flavors, rich and complex with integrated spice and oak. Smooth tannins with good balance of juicy acidity still has room to age. Lingering mineral finish, an outstanding wine. A real pleasure, wish I had more! — 6 years ago

Ami Utley

9.5

Exactly as described... light AND fruity. Easy to drink. — 7 years ago

Jim Restrepo

9.2

Excellent smooth Finger Lake wine. Smooth aftertaste. Will drink this again. Great by itself — 7 years ago

Josh Thorpe

9.4

Definitely get again!
Great blend — 7 years ago

with Mark and Keith

Sipping Fine Wine

9.0

My last 2011 bottle. The estate of Sette Ponti lies in the heart of the Chianti zone, 15 miles northwest of the city of Arezzo, past the village of San Giustino Valdarno. Crognolo, aged in French Allier barriques, deep red with red fruit aromas and sweet perfumed spice. On the palate raspberry and cherry flavors, gentle spice and soft tannins with great mouthfeel. Good balance, lingering finish ending with some oak and mineral tones. Aged well. — 8 years ago

Mark Oldman

9.4

Domaine #Leflaive Puligny-#Montrachet Les Pucelles '12 – lemon and pear aromas, and a faint peachiness, joined by flint smoke and minerals, with bright, mouthwatering acidity and a miles-long creamy sensation on the finish. — 8 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.1

One of my favorites. Had another bottle of this Pinot Noir (69%) and Chardonnay (31%), blend which spent four years on the yeast. Tiny bubbles with stone fruit aromas and rich baking dough. The palate shows apples and citrus tones with a nutty flavor, time seems to intensify the wine as I had this 6 mos ago. The bubbly had good length on the rich and creamy finish, dry with plenty of yeasty notes. Nice! — 9 years ago

Marc Stubblefield

Wine Sales at Vino Carta and Kogod Wine Merchant

9.3

Original bottling, and worth the time on the cellar. More understated and seamless than it was in its youth, now quietly complex and richly complicated. — 10 years ago

KDouglas

9.0

Just wonderful. Full of flavor of fruits and minerals, w/out out oak or butter. Very drinkable, and makes you think after each mouthful "what new flavor is that"... — 10 years ago

Erich Broksas

Early Mountain Vineyards

9.6

Love this one. Forest floor. 2 miles from the ocean. — 12 years ago

Rickey Allen

10

Favorite white I have found yet. — 13 years ago

John B

9.4

Couple hours in a decanter. Could probably use a few more. But still luscious red fruits and graphite for miles. Really love this wine. — 7 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.8

M’s bday dinner (7/12). Tasted blind. Bright tawny color. Has good weight but suspect it’s older. Exotic powerful nose. Everyone smiles, this is special. Notes of red cherries, Asian spice, rose petals and dark earth. Flamboyant in the mouth. “Amazing” underlined 2x in my notes. Memorable. We started enjoying this after 4 hours of air was given to it and even 3 hours after that this was still singing. Guessed 69 La Tache. This ended up being my favorite wine of the evening. The emotional impact was more than the other 2 slightly older DRCs. There was a long, mixed debate on this though. — 7 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.4

Belle Pente means "beautiful slope", 70 acre hillside vineyard on a historic 1840s farmstead 2 miles east of Carlton in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA. Beautiful nose with ripe berry & floral scents mingling in the glass. Fresh fruit flavors of raspberry & sweet cherry, hints of vanilla oak spice, great balance with vivid acidity. Smooth tannins, lingering finish ending with cedar tones & a nudge of spice. An enjoyable Pinot at great price. Has aging benefits, but why wait. 667 cases, grab all bottles you can find. — 7 years ago

Matt Trader

8.9

More Margaret River tonight - just couldn't get enough. I will say this: particularly, this wine is not for the Barossa fan. It is more of a Crozes Hermitage kinda wine with more acidity, softer and fresher fruit, and floral qualities.

👃damp red fruit, fresh rosemary and basil herbs, anise, red flowers

👅raspberry, black and green peppercorn, herbes de Provence, red apple skin, red plum

Fresher fruit forwardness than Crozes Heritage, but super similar. Margaret River is very French in style. — 8 years ago

DUSTIN SUGASA

9.4

Lots of air miles on this one... — 8 years ago

with Katie

Martin G Rivard

9.8

OMG!! What a sick bottle of wine this is.
Drinks like a Fine French Bordeaux!!!
Forest floor, earth, a little funk on the nose, very well structured and a phenomenal finish. If only I would have bought this for the release price of $69!!
Would have, could have, should have, as they say!! — 9 years ago

with Robert

Michael Descamps

9.6

Wow. Just wow. A near perfect combination of aged tawny port and Bual/Malmsey-style Madeira in this wine, albeit with more acidity. Amazing stuff! — 10 years ago

Heidi Beachner

9.9

Deliciously sweet and naughty! — 12 years ago

Jamie Boynton

9.2

Dry, slight fruit. 100 miles northeast of Naples — 12 years ago