Paul Weil

8.9

This is what drew me into the Fresno State wine club to begin with... a perfectly crafted Cabernet engineered to showcase the San Joaquin Valley terroir rather than an attempt to ape the homogenized pseudo-Napa style so beloved by big corporate wineries. It is a big but subtle wine, with creamy mouthfeel and bright cherry and red currant flavors. Bravo to the students for crafting this excellent cocktail quaffer! 😼🍷🎉 — 8 years ago

Erin Pooley

Owner/Winemaker Good Luck Wines

9.0

Kitchy label. Serious wine. Saline. Like it. Very dry. Future for Greco is strong. — 10 years ago

Fernando Marques

10

Grapes: Zibibbo (Moscato d'Alessandria). Trained in the extremely low bush typical on Pantelleria, planted in basins and pruned short. Planting density: 2,500 vines per hectare (1,011 an acre); production of about 4 tons per hectare (1.62 tons an acre). Extremely loose volcanic soil rich in minerals.

Description: The wine displays its extraordinary personality and depth in its bright amber colour. After the first, intense notes of apricot and peach, come sweet sensations of dried fig, honey, herbs and mineral notes. Impressive on the palate with an outstanding complexity due to a fusion of sweetness, tastiness and softness. A prolonged finish.

Curiosity: The name comes from the Arabic term "Son of the Wind" because the wind sweeps constantly around the clusters on Pantelleria. And the island's winds bring with them a profusion of fragrances so intense that you can touch them. First vintage: 1989. Ben Ryé inspired maître chocolatiers Cecilla and Paul De Bondt, who created the "De Bondt Ryé" chocolates: the first is a mixture of figs and almonds steeped in Ben Ryé and encased in a shell of dark chocolate; the second instead has a core of Ben Ryé-flavored gelatin embedded in white chocolate covered in dark chocolate.

2008
The "Son of the Wind" remains true to itself in the 2008 vintage, revealing the extraordinary complexity it has reached in recent years. Regular weather conditions and fine vineyard tending led to an optimal grape harvest.

— 13 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Big warm blueberry, rye bread with caraway, baked brownie, loose cigar tobacco and five spice with sweet smoke. The wine is almost black, concentrated, and star bright. Big coffee on the palate, cloves, black pepper, roasted sesame seeds and ripe black currants in mocha. Really a balancing act, that comes off like an Haut Brion blend. Maybe a touch of Cab Franc? — 9 years ago

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Keith Levenberg

9.0

This is a silkier, more elegant vintage of the Chapelle, at least relative to the 2010, which was really in my zone, as well as the 2009, which I found over-the-top, but in both cases I think there was more stuffing there than here. This would've shown better if I'd opened it with white meat or even fish or something else where a lightweight presence and loose-knit structure is called for. It's an excellent wine in that idiom but lacks some of the solidity and grip it has offered in other years. It's not imbalanced at all, and the trademark stony mineral flavors are still here, it's just a slimmer version of its usual self. — 10 years ago

Ryan Eastman

10

Juicy juice juice on the loose. Delicious is an understatement. — 9 years ago

Christy Frank

9.5

Domaine Lucci Gris Blanc 2015: Pinot Gris. Pinot Grigio. Same grape, right? Yes, but not yes. "Gris" typically indicates a wine made in a fleshier, more complex style than your basic striped down "crisp white wine." And this one is no exception to that loose rule. It's definteily not stipped down version of anything. It's the saignee (bled off) white juice of the crazy pink Gris Gris above, fermented in a combination of ceramic and oak. It's fleshy and textured and almost opulent, but with an underlying minerality that's there if you look for it. Dare we say it's sexy? Yes, we dare. — 10 years ago