Kieran Roberts

8.9

Not bad but for riserva I would have expected some clearer fruit characters as opposed to the mixed general red fruit present. — 8 years ago

Mirsad Pandzic

9.0

Clear. Deep red. Fruity. Vanilla. Flowers and herbs. Sour cherry. Nice bouquet. Dry. Tannic. — 8 years ago

John McCarroll

Sales Rowan Imports

9.1

Italian table wine: cherries dark fruit and a bit of la dolce vita. Super wonderfun — 8 years ago

KW

9.0

Pfalz Riesling with new oak. Not barrique but 500l barrels.
Apricot, nicely oaked, light pineapple, honeysuckle, lovely acidity with apricot and oak on the palate. — 8 years ago

Maria

9.4

Ok Delectable, this is the second day in a row you don't recognize my wine! Who the f-k is Agostini Petri, can anyone enlighten me? Please. Anyhow in my glass I have a beautiful wine, 1997 Castello Vicchiomaggio La Prima Chianti Classico Riserva, bottled by John Matta. Initially I found myself in Cht9, with dry, sandy tannins but the aftertaste was more like a full-bodied Bordeaux. This is a mature wine, full of dark fruit and cherries, smoked meats, good grip of tannins and acidity that provides a back-bone. Just wish I had lots and lots of bottles in my cellar. Should keep on aging beautifully many more years to come. — 9 years ago

David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.2

Creamy, Lemon, lime, camomile, lanolin, honeyed, sweet nuts, minerals. Good acidity and finish. — 9 years ago

Michael Reidy

8.9

First time trying this grape. Lighter bodied with nice strawberry notes and herbaceous notes. Was great with chocolate fondue. — 9 years ago

Arielle Notterman

9.6

Beautifully balanced Riesling! Peach, pineapple, nectarine, flowers and so much more. — 10 years ago

Noriko Tamaki

8.9

Fruity, low acidity. — 10 years ago

Rebecca Vaccarelli

8.9

8th st wine cellar w/ Lauren and Josh — 10 years ago

Edward

9.5

Apples. Not too sweet. Ding dong. — 8 years ago

Andrew Schirmer

9.0

When you look at a petri dish through a microscope and see the surface teeming with bacterial life. That's what this wine tastes like. So much going on, it is bursting with flavor and texture. Slightly zingy carbonation, green apple, raving acidity. Paradoxically focused, yet all over the place. — 8 years ago

with Alsu

Vitaly Domnenko

9.0

Bm. Tm. Am. Fm. — 8 years ago

David Kline

9.0

Ripe, banana meat yellow foam dissipates quickly to Petri dish mold spots, or forming galaxies. Massive caramel nose, and a sexual sweetness featuring a typical, sweat-funk backside. Her name is Candy. She's a double D (devil dancer). She oozes patchouli, dark brown sugar, brittle, clove, and olive oil-drenched cinnamon toast! There is a resinous character to her slow undulations, a burnt corn tortilla she fans the flames of Gehenna with, while garlands of hop flowers spill crackling ashen leaves from their tight nodes. Strands of minuscule bubbles pour forth, champagne-like from the ruddy amber pit. She's gonna bite you, but what a bite, followed by lingering kisses of a burning cotton candy factory! — 9 years ago

with Courtney

Kieran Roberts

9.0

Rounded oak, fruit still present, very pleasant drinking — 9 years ago

YK Koh

9.5

Bien!! 2009 — 9 years ago

Kathleen Inman

8.9

Dark straw color, rich texture with good acidity. Perfect with Tagliolini Neri with crab and zucchini in Venice! — 10 years ago

Bryan A

9.3

2005 vintage — 10 years ago

romo

9.3

Cloudy with a chance of burg. — 10 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.0

Minerals and flowers. Just what the doctor ordered after a 10-mile hike, out Lyell Canyon, @ 9,000 ft. elevation. — 8 years ago

with William

Alex

8.9

Great bottle. Pepper and cola on the nose. Pepper and cola with good acid on the palate. Would definitely buy if could find it in the US. — 8 years ago

Keith Levenberg

9.4

Loved this. Thank you Dean Gold for a list stocked with fun oddballs like this. Never had a rosé like this before. It has the thirst-quenching crispness and juiciness of a rosé but the fruit flavors and fleshiness of it are more like red wine than pink. Not like a lambrusco or an actual sparkling red though. There is also a strong sensation of crushed rock and not surprisingly it's super-cloudy and constantly changing in the glass. Apparently this has both white grapes and red in the mix. Lots of fun was had imagining the flesh-eating monsters that would evolve and rise up from this if you left it in a petri dish or fed it after midnight. — 8 years ago

Adam Zuckert

8.9

Had two bottles, one kinda shot. Other fun, developed, naturally, with sweet tobacco note. Happy Birthday @rockitlolo ! — 9 years ago

Sukie M

9.0

Present in Venice...local wine! — 9 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Tangerine cream brûlée, pineapple upside down cake and lemon poppyseed muffin snootfull. Merengue textured head that slides off the glass in a bombshell of lemon oil napalm. Cake donut with lemongrass icing that gets tinny and dense as it drops you down the mother shaft of hops! Something cultured and yeasty here right out of Dr. Jekyll's petri samples. It'll change you! But you must hurry...oops today is 420-too? Gorgeous amber full of dinosaur DNA. — 9 years ago

Neringa D

9.0

Light, not too sweet, fragrant. Perfect even for those who are not big fans of dessert wines. — 10 years ago

with Renata

Larry Benowski

9.6

Had with lunch in the estate. — 10 years ago

Tom Moore

8.9

Dusty fruit on night 2 — 10 years ago