Mike Saviage

9.6

Light gold with a petrol and stone dominated nose... Bright fruit, with citrus, pear and kiwi notes. Floral with white acacia notes too. Incredible power and impact in the mouth. Long finish. Still very youthful. I guessed Coche. A rock star wine just starting out on its tour! — 5 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.4

Medium gold color. Enticing nose. Notes of Meyer lemon, allspice, white stones and white acacia flowers. Rich with lots of fruit and big structure. Acidity is powerful but in balance. Gave this 3 hours of air and it benefitted from the aeration. Some petrol and mineral notes show up later in the night. Great showing. — 6 years ago

Brendan Baker

9.1

Green apple and lemon, acacia, balanced and a nice value — 7 years ago

Cynthia craig

9.3

Beautiful notes of crisp Apple and pear — 7 years ago

Craig Williams

9.5

Larry Frierson brought this wonderful Burg! Floral, mineral and long.
At Acacia House — 8 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

Lemon, lime, crushed rock, chalk, flint & acacia flower. Rich bodied, with nice weight & length. — 8 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.4

This was rich, full bodied showing great intensity & purity. Lemon & grapefruit citrus green apple, acacia flower with wet rock & oyster shell. Precise & mineral driven. — 8 years ago

Brandon Boesch

8.9

So this bottle is much better than previous. Still very hot and fruit forward domination but it actually tastes of Pinot. Cherries, baking spices, vanilla. It’s fine. — 5 years ago

MaJ CappS

8.9

Classic raspberry bramble of a nose.

Light to medium bodied - strawberry jam, a touch of green tea and sarsaparilla. The well integrated acid rear up, and sings it’s way through till the end.
This is a classic wine house, and although it leans a little to the hotel side of the wine world, it’s worth to let sit for a couple of years, and blow off some of that over reaching Cali flavor. — 6 years ago

Adrian Bolboacă

9.3

Dry, a bit licory, with a yellow color. Very much appreciated because of the taste and the dryness. — 7 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.2

Lovely aromas of lemon, citrus, pear, mineral & acacia flower. — 7 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.2

Always a treat! Lemon citrus, stony, mineral, acacia flower with only a hint of reduction with good acidity & balance — 8 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.5

Precise with great purity & energy showing lemon curd, saline, oyster shell & acacia flower. Leaves with a steely, mineral finish & racy acids. — 8 years ago

Greg Ballington

Co-Founder of Millennial Drinkers Wine Blog

9.4

Last of the wines for our blind South African tasting but one of the best dessert wines in the world. Thick golden yellow. Perfumey on the nose with honeysuckle, honey, acacia, white floral notes, orange marmalade, and apricots. Balanced acidity (6.5/10) and full bodied. Thick texture and super rich with apricots, spices and honey. Rounded and long finish. Drink till 2047. (94+) — 8 years ago

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Mike Saviage

9.3

Decided to try a bottle of 02 Leflaive Pucelles, something that has given us controversy in the past with several prior POX bottles before. This starts with an amber gold color and the nose has notes of caramel and a little Sherry. I’m worried. I set it aside in a decanter and go to the other bottles. I come back to it an hour later and the color has lightened, the caramel and Sherry notes are gone... This is a classic case of confusing POX with reduction, as this was likely in a reductive state at first. I’m sure many might have dumped it right away, I’m glad I didn’t... it came back to deliver a nice and suitable experience. The fruit and acidity powered up, with notes of apricot, white flowers, sweet kiwi fruit, white acacia flowers and river stone. It was missing a little in the mid palate, but overall it was a decent wine. — 6 years ago

Eric Guido

9.0

The nose is spicy and intense, while showing all of the textbook nuances of Sauvignon Blanc, displaying gooseberry, grassy sour lime and hints of kiwi, as smoky mineral tones develop in the glass.  It’s wonderfully textural on the palate, both sweet and sour, as the cheeks pucker from zesty citrus-tinged acids, yet there’s a ripeness to the fruit here that creates beautiful contrasts.  The finish is long, perfumed and full of tension, leaving the mouth watering for another sip.  The 2018 G.B. Burlotto Dives is fermented in large acacia wood barrels which gives it so much complexity and presence on the palate. — 6 years ago

Matt Sterr

9.3

Stunningly good cool climate SB. Crystalline and pure, zippy and intense minerality. Great weight, styled like a classic Sancerre or Pouilly Fume. Long elevage. Chestnut and acacia. Vineyards sit on the slopes above apple orchards. Very steep terrain. Phoenollically ripe. Delicious. — 7 years ago

David Koenen

9.3

Oh my. Have got two bottles of this, and just opened the first one. Was always thinking this wine was hard to pair with anything so I kept passing these two bottles. They were just laying there for years and years. Waiting for their moment, which maybe had already passed, I feared. They waited...until today. Popped and poured it a minute ago. This is...sooo good! It has loads of melon and acacia honey in the nose, and the first impression when you taste this is also all kinds of ripe yellow fruits. But then...fresh, mineral tones, pure and clean. And so very vivid! Sweat and sour, a bit of salt in the aftertaste. Freakin’ delicious. — 8 years ago

Allison Serafin

9.3

The perfect wine with salmon. It’s so good. — 8 years ago

Andy McGrath

9.0

Beautiful ruby color. Bright. Black cherry. Vanilla nose. Ripe red fruit. Cherry. Secondary plum and lilac. Great finish. Not too long but noticable adding to the depth and interest. — 9 years ago