Kath Rt

9.8

seco… tranqui…creo k me puede gustar más desp de la segunda copa jajajajajjaaj (me supo mucho mejor al día siguiente 🤣🤣🤣🤣🌚) ….cada vez k lo pruebo lo amo más💕🤣🥰 — 3 years ago

Rhiannon Roberts

9.6

Love this Gruner! Clean and crisp, smooth finish. — 4 years ago

Barny

8.9

Für das Alter noch immer frisch, sehr elegant — 5 years ago

Barny

8.9

Top PLV und für das Alter und diese Preisklasse noch enorm frisch — 6 years ago

John C

9.5

Great wine and even better consider the price! — 6 years ago

Reena Lalji

9.0

Smooth, full bodied — 6 years ago

Lyn Farmer

9.0

This wine is 50% Syrah, 40% Grenache and 10% Mourvedre. It had plenty of dark and almost smoky plummy fruit yet remains surprisingly elegant. Nice mineral notes, good but not overbearing acidity and a fine hint of garrigue. Lots of class. — 7 years ago

Oliver Meister

9.0

@Max Schau mal die Farbe… 10 Jahr alter Weißwein — 4 years ago

Jenny SnakeEyes

9.1

Actually drinking the red blend, not the Cabernet. Very enjoyable. — 4 years ago

with JimmySnakeEyes

Anne Arbonen

9.0

Very nice syrah, low acidity and sweet, mild taste — 6 years ago

Joe Weinberger

9.3

My favorite of the evening. Loved what the skin contact did for this wine. Clemens Busch dinner w/ Domestique and Williams Corner Wine. — 6 years ago

Kara Kimball

9.4

Satin sheets. — 6 years ago

Conner Esworthy

9.0

Did this as a vertical tasting 2012 Alter Ego, now onto secondary notes of stewed fruits, leather and coffee. Maybe not the case for all 2000s, but would even say this was a tad past it’s peak. — 7 years ago

Jared Sheffield

9.2

What a great find. Forewarning, this is still very tight. Upon opening it was tobacco and smoke. Two hours alter the floral notes are really picking up and the wine is delicious. This could be a monster in a few years. I will have a case soon. — 7 years ago

John Dykstra

9.4

Very different on the nose than the lips. Bouquet was almost floral while the taste was quite spicy. Turning out to be a favorite region for sure — 4 years ago

Stan Marks

9.5

Outstanding Cab!
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Chelsea Partin

9.0

Bold, with a spicy finish. — 4 years ago

Aaron Tan

9.3

Been a fan of this cuvee since it's inception. To me, this is about as close as Aussie riesling gets to its German counterpart. Neither a good or bad thing, but I love that link between two countries I adore in this wine. That said, this was one of the best Aussie rieslings I've had all year.

German inspired methods on Western Australian fruit. From Frankland Estate's website:

All riesling grapes are harvested as cool as possible and pressed immediately, slow press cycles allow for soft and long extraction. Blocks and picks are kept separate and some juice from most blocks is fermented in barrel format for interest and comparison purposes. Picking decisions are made on ripeness and fruitfulness, with the main aim of working with natural balance yet intentionally look for greater ripeness with this wine and as a result greater degree of phenolic influence and texture. Juice is sent to tank to settle overnight (without enzyme or any additions). A cloudy juice is run to a combination of 1000ltr and 500ltr barrels. Fermentation is spontaneous and temperature controlled to some degree but temperature range is generally higher than tank fermentations. Post fermentation barrels are topped and left un-sulphured through to spring time quite often if residual sugars are high fermentation will be left to start again in spring as juice warms. Sulphur will be introduced when a decision is made on the vitality/fruitfulness of the wine and residual sugar is seen to be in balanced with the wine. Wine was left in barrel for 10 months (January).

The resulting wine is textural, spicy, and generous. Doesn't quite have the extract of German rieslings, but there's length, balance, and most importantly, it's uniquely its own wine. I feel that the provenance of the fruit shines through all that winemaking - that crunchy fruit-first with more green apple/citrus than stone fruits, steeliness, and light whiff of smoke/petrol. It's also remarkably clean for a barrel-treated wine (say compared to Koehler-Ruprecht or JB Becker). Enough with the rant because the takeaway is that it's delicious! — 6 years ago

David Symes

9.2

Good after dinner glass — 7 years ago

Ethan Webster

8.9

Checked it's ego at the door. — 8 years ago